Tainted WoW

As some of you now know, thanks only to people who cant keep their traps shut until we publicly announce it, things are going to be changing DRASTICALLY...

To make a long story short, TaintedWoW has been "malfunctioning" for quite a while now, and I personally consider it to be in a perpetual "stagnating" state...

Since Ownership has now passed hands, I am going to do what I have wanted to do for a while now, get rid of all the corruption, favoritism, and overall trash that has completely polluted our once great community...


The "plan" I have to do this will more then likely kill the server as it is, but, AS IT IS, the server was already set down the path to be killed in the next few months anyway... With this decision that I am forced to make, I am hoping to "stop" abruptly with enough time (read: donations to afford) left to start anew and change our tattered sails out for those with no hole!

Point: on June 19th, 2011, I plan on pulling the plug for what is currently known as TaintedWoW, in other words: TaintedWoW will CEASE to EXIST, in its ENTIRETY.

Now I already consider TaintedWoW to be a "dead" endeavor, with enough bad reputation to go around, issues with staff (read: most of the "problem" staff has been removed, but this extends to the start of the server, and in all reality up to a few days ago, I have balanced the staff we currently have on hand, weighted their worth, trust-ability, and desire to continue, and will be inviting them all to my new project), issues with "troll" players, issues with marketing on "top100" sites, and many other things that I dont care to mention, so I will consider this a challenge to RISE above and start anew and hopefully filter out the riff-raff to prevent the issues that have plagued TaintedWoW for quite some time now!



Important INFO:

Players: reading the above will obliviously piss you off, or make you sad or even leave, of these simple facts, I have NO DOUBT WHAT-SO-EVER. However, as has been pointed out to me (and I have pointed out before) we have a good "core" group of about 40~ players who have stayed loyal here, sadly however, servers dont run on loyalty alone. That doesn't mean that I don't want to try to negotiate something with those who still play here often enough to be satisfied with this massive change thats about to take place. I know SOME of you have worked hard on your characters, those are the core players I want to speak with, and work something out to appease you upon the opening of my own "brand" of Private Server

Donators: anyone who has donated to TAINTED WOW (not the numerous fraudsters who have polluted our servers, or people who have donated elseware only to expect their donations to transfer over), will have their donations credited to the new project IN ADDITION to whatever deal is reached with those players who have NOT donated (IE: the regular players as mentioned above).

New setup:
7~ realms, this sounds like alot, but for what I am trying to accomplish, this should work out perfectly (and considering the overlay, it will practically function as 3 servers for those managing the back-end).
Over the next few days, I will post more details on the new setup, rules, and overall direction we are going to try to go (where no man has gone before! -probably not, but as humans we always hope), but I am putting this as a precursor as to what is to come to help you make the decision that you as a player will need to make.

ALT INFO: under this new setup, since we have been on rocky ground, we will branch out alternate games to alternate groups (we already have people lined up for other game servers willing to pay that would stabilize our monthly income vs dues), this really doesn't concern those who primarily play wow, but it should be noted that, as stability is reached, I will be attempting to do prizes for players, and spending any overage on marketing to further increase the population of the servers



This is alot to take in, and because I wrote, then trashed, then wrote this a good 15~ times, never to my satisfaction, this is the thrown together edition where i threw out the really detailed, or the really undetailed versions, and attempted to write from a NO NONSENSE, straight off the thought process point of view, as such, a re-read and questions are obliviously required to acquire a full understanding of what is going on and how things will continue.

Tomorrow evening (Sunday, June 12th, 2011) around 3-4PM CST, I plan on hosting an "open thought" discussion on our Ventrilo, anyone (those not banned at least) is welcome to join. Please note however, since I know it will come up, that unless someone has an ABSURD amount of funds to donate to pay for the next year of the server (which is expensive, and totally improbable) I see no way out of this situation, and back onto a stable course, our ship is taking on water, and we are sinking... we either jump to the pearly new ship next to us, or sink slowly with our current one (well thats not really a choice at all!)

End: Before you make "rash" decisions, please join us in the "open thought" discussion on Ventrilo, we really want you to understand where we are coming from, and what we are going to try be accomplishing, as well as hear thoughts and idea's you might have however insignificant, to help with this renewal of life.



Also, my random bit for the post: BACON...