Announcement

[labyrinmods]

Labyrinthum will remain open. The mod team has handed over the keys, and there will be an announcement shortly. This post will remain for transparency.

Thank you for your patience.

Hey, everybody. Yon here again.

I have a painful announcement, and I’m going to start us off with that because it will pertain to the most people: Effective immediately, we’re closing Labyrinthum. No further applications will be processed, and we thank those players who had applied into the game. I’m sorry you didn’t get the chance to play.

With that out of the way, I want to offer an apology. Recently, I engaged with some criticism on the FAQ. If you weren’t aware of this thread, you are now; I’m not proud of it. I handled it very poorly. What I said was true; My actions were never motivated by favoritism and I wasn’t trying to blindside anybody. I only told the player about the upcoming network disruption because it was relevant to her long-term ongoing player plot, and I expressed this in a plurk rather than a private message specifically because it wasn’t meant to be a secret.

But… I communicated next to none of that to the concerned players. I made no attempt to explain or reach an understanding with them. I reacted dismissively and combatively, because I knew they’d misread my intentions, and I was too indignant to consider that they didn't. I gave them no reason whatsoever to trust in my honesty.

It was not, to say the least, a persuasive response from me.

I originally intended to apologize just for that. I was busy over the past week for personal reasons, and during that week, more issues have come to light, issues I hadn’t even been aware of. I won’t make excuses or explanations here; the short version is that there was a lot of hostility toward the mods (even some former mods) due to recent setting changes and rules clarifications. I hadn’t realized the extent of the hostility until today.

It’s become obvious that there’s a rift between the players and the mods that I hadn’t even seen, and I’m sincerely sorry for that as well. It’s clear that this mod team isn’t able to deliver the game that the players deserve, and our attempts to course-correct have only made things worse in the eyes of players.

I once told another mod team who refused to accept fault for the state of their game that they should have put down the shovel and stopped digging themselves deeper. We do not want to drag Labyrinthum to that same depth, and so we’re closing the game.

We thank you for giving us a chance, we thank Ashu and Caps for creating the game and leaving it in our hands, and we're sorry we couldn't see it through correctly.

Comments

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[devilishkouhai]

Would you perhaps let others step in to handle things moving forward? There were voices of people saying they were willing; I would hate to see something everyone here is passionate about fall apart and come undone!

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[detective_xiaobao]

Please don't just close the game so abruptly. This is so jarring and confusing-- I had thought the issues were being worked out, and suddenly the game is being shuttered? If you don't think you can do the game justice, then please look to the playerbase for people willing to run it instead.

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[belheir]

Basically agreeing with this here. I've seen evidence that there are players who would love to step up and take over, and see no reason to close it because you're the ones who messed up.

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[placation]

+1, there are many people who would happily take over - to at least give everyone a proper endgame if nothing else. A sudden closure while things were being actively resolved is wild.

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[el5n]

adding my +1 to the chorus, if there are people who expressed interest in running it might as well let them take a shot?

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[magusrobin]

Adding a +1 for this as well

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[hakkidoto]

I just got here, but yeah, +1

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[photographists]

A lot of people have invested a lot of time in building CR and enjoying themselves with the game. Let someone who loves the game and is willing to devote time and energy into it mod it, please.

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[heir_conditioned]

Yon, dude, people make mistakes. You made a mistake, admitted it, and to me that's a pretty big thing to be able to admit that even though I can understand from both sides. In my experience, this exchange is not you at an all-the-time. If it is? Then man you pulled the wool over my eyes lol! Derpy attempts at joviality aside... Whatever is going on is capable of cooling off and if you want to step down or anyone else does, I think that is perfectly fine. Your comfort and that is important. As a person who sees you (and a few others on your team) as a friendly, that's how I feel about it.

As a player... The decision I can't personally take as anything but kind of semi-insulting in a way that I don't think you, or anyone on the mod team intended is the sudden closing without looking for people to take over. There are people here with the time, the effort and knowledge that could have or at least could've tried. I am not one of those people aside if you need lists or spreadsheets that are overcomplicated and unnecessarily full of statistics.

I think maybe take some time to dwell on it, and read the supportive messages. If the decision is to hardline the game still, then thank you for the opportunity to actually be here, good to be in a game with all of you when we were able to play together.

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[waterfawn]

This is happening quickly enough for metaphorical whiplash. There's no shame in stepping away from something you're not enjoying, but to close the game entirely out of the blue seems like such a knee jerk of a reaction.

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[devilishkouhai]

Please give the game to someone else, the amount of people here that have put in hours of their time. Happily enjoying their hobby only to have it swept away - is not how this should have come about nor should be how this ends.

So many people here will be unable to continue CR either because characters are already applied elsewhere or because games are completely full. No one wants this outcome. This is completely faulting the players when they themselves have done nothing. So please consider reaching out to someone that you feel is trusted enough to pass the game over to.

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[valsharess]

At the very least I think that the players deserve an End Event of some sort.

If you are resolved on this course of action, there should be a sense of closure. Like perhaps a write-up on how everyone returns to their world; the abruptness of it and the fact that the game closed after a year and three quarters, there should be something for the players who have been here for a long time.

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[valsharess]

sorry, this is Essek-Mun

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[hakkidoto]

I'm like super new (literally just got accepted last night) but this feels like an overreaction? If you're not feeling like you want to or are capable of continuing, fair play, do what you gotta do for you, but there should be some kinda attempt to hand-off or wind this down.

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[softshoes]

to this and all earlier sentiments

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[helping_hands]

I feel completely in the dark about this. This is devastating... I knew there were some issues between some players and the mods due to the changes being made but please consider that there are people playing in this game who were also happy to go along with said changes.

Please don't punish all of us who love playing here, who have amazing cr and are able to play with so many talented rpers because of something we were not part of.

I ask you to listen to the people asking to help. At the very least, please keep it open as a sandbox until you can sort out new mods. I'm so sad that all my thread and cr building has just been pulled out from under me, it feels so sudden and I really hope you reconsider.

Please.

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[nothing_can_stop_me]

What?! No, give the game to players! There is still so much to do and just shutting it down like this is ridiculous!

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[callofbeauty]

Joining in on the “please hand the game off” team. If you don’t want to deal with the logistics of that, I’d volunteer to do that much.

I’m one of the older players, and I haven’t been involved in any of the drama going around. I would be more than happy to handle screening mod applications and transfer things if you’d be willing to hand off the game. That way you guys can step back and do what you need, and we still get to enjoy the game we all love.

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[bountyfull]

I am willing/want to to come back to Labyrinthum and mod the game. I've expressed this on plurk, and I wanted to express that here too.

I have already contacted the mod team. I care a lot about Labyrinthum, the setting and players, as well as the stories people are working on. I would really appreciate the chance.

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[whose_son_am_i]

I hope you are given that chance Ryn. Thank you for your willingness too. It is appreciated.

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[heir_conditioned]

Saw the news on plurk. Thanks Ryn.

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[jetaivu]

I'm one of the people who applied and, personally, this all reads like a weird, rash, knee-jerk thing.

On plurk and in this thread I see a lot of people who love the game and want to take it off your hands. Do yourself a favor and listen to your players regarding all of this.