Hello Lorfolk. I understand that the silence has caused a lot of upset and concern about the future of Lorwolf, I wanted to pop in to assure you all that chapter 2 development is still ongoing, albeit at a slower pace as our team has shrunk over the past few months. The radio silence is entirely my fault, and I would ask that you not target other members of our team about development questions or concerns. The rest of the team is made up of our amazing moderators and artists, who are not privy to any of our developmental plans. As of now, it is my goal to remain quiet whilst I focus on the development side of things. These past few months I have spent painting all of the new campaign backgrounds, which I’m pleased to say are finally finished. I understand that this has caused a lot of upset and concern amongst our players, and I have no excuse for this other than to say I am human and it is hard for me to find the motivation to respond to users while faced with constant negativity and attacks on my character, not just through the forums but support tickets and other means. Many have accused us of being a greedy corporation, when it is literally just my husband and I and our love for indie game dev. Lorwolf has never been about money, we do not earn enough through Lorwolf to support ourselves financially, most of any money made going directly back into the art assets, site hosting and upkeep. We started this little indie company because it was our dream to build something like this together and hopefully spread some joy in our little corner of the petsite world. Again, I am very sorry if I have let some of our community down. I am doing my best and will continue to do so. To those of you who have supported us through the years I am eternally grateful.

Moonsblessings,

Alaunis

As someone who has a very avoidant personality, I do understand how the negativity can make it difficult to be present. But I'm sorry this isn't a good look to phrase it the way you did.

The way this is phrased makes it sound like it's the players who are expressing their upset and frustration over the continued lack of communication is who is at fault that you're not more open to communication. I'm sorry but I really feel that the overall playerbase has been extremely generous and forgiving when it comes to the communication issues, and the pleasantries and kind words don't seem to doing much. We only get a response when people start to get upset and make topics and complain. This happened the first time you went silent, and it happened again.

Please, please, please. Consider that players would not be upset, would not be trying to post on your Kickstarter, would not be reaching out to other members of staff if you simply didn't get the site to this state in the first place. If you just kept talking to the players, even if things weren't ready to be released or were going to be delayed, we probably wouldn't be here!

There are small sites that function with a very small community of people but those people stick around because the devs are still communicating. Lorwolf could have that small group of people willing to wait as long as it takes to put out content but YOU have to be responsible and give your players the communication that they deserve.

It happens. People get it. And I imagine it's hard to feel like sharing stuff when you also want to keep it a surprise. If it helps, I don't think most people want any big updates all the time or anything. We just wanna know you guys are still there and alive, working on things, keeping your heads above water, all that. And that you care about making this game the best it can be. A little slowness isn't a big deal, as long as we're sure the site is still being cared for. That's the main concern. We don't want this site to die any more than you do.

I think the biggest concerns would be alleviated if you could find just a few minutes here and there to acknowledge bugs and other issues. Just to show you care, you listen, and you see that people are having problems. I know you can't get out fixes for most things immediately. It's rough! But the reasonable people aren't asking for that. We just wanna know you saw it and will try to get to fixing it when you can.

I don't know if any of that will help. But I hope you guys can remember to take a breather when you need it, and try to not take all the over the top nonsense too seriously. A lot of us are frustrated, but we don't hate you. Or we'd be gone. Keep taking care of yourselves. Keep up your steady progress. It'll get easier. Good luck.

Criticism can be really, really hard to deal with. So I will not offer any in this post.