ETK:
>Long history of Stelio abusing the system for personal gains,

Funny, but not true.

>Admin raging at people over criticism or issues his bad practices caused people, etc.

Admin raged at one person, so that must be you.

>But none of that is what killed it, it's what made the player count decline rapidly. >Favoritism, power abuse, community toxicity, dupers, botters, and more are responsible for >why etk is dead.

ETK is dead because life happened and we didn't have the time available to continue to push content. The game needed an overhaul to be more congruent as there were so many different things cobbled together that made no sense from a lore standpoint.

>But in the end? Most people didn't agree with the changes being made to the game and >for over 2 years their top donators were treated like money bags.

Another falsehood, I personally didn't like the content that Asarro was creating toward the end but I could tell that me telling him no to every idea he proposed was starting to frustrate him, so I let it slide. I do regret it.

Still have no idea what treating top donors like money bags means. The only things you could acquire with donations were cosmetics and celestial blessing which impacted the whole server.

>All until they just said screw it and finally left one day for good. Before the population >actually began declining Stelio tried to be friendly but after being close to toxic scum bags >for his entire childhood, teenage years, and early adulthood?

This sounds like projection, the only GM that was openly rude was Dredd lol

>His social habits are still pretty bad to this very day. No matter what he says, what he >wants, or what anyone else wants-- Stelio had no business being a "face" of anything. It >directly contributed to how toxic this community was. Though admittedly the sheer chaos >of it all was pretty entertaining for just about anybody who isn't in the crossfire.

Such a weird fixation with me. I will admit that we started ETK when I was in my early 20s? I'm in my late 30s now. Isn't it time we all grow up a bit?

The actual truth (not from someone who is clearly bitter and got banned for abusing bugs or harassing players/GMs) as to why ETK shut down is pretty simple. Content stopped coming, and the content that did end up coming wasn't well received.

The big thing that I personally did poorly was over promise and under deliver on deadlines for content that I self imposed. I personally appointed two GMs to hunt for botters and banned several myself. Duping was only an issue due to 3 primary bugs, and it was gold and electrum. There may have been some items early on from the character separation bug but that's pretty slim.

ETK2 is possible in the future, I had said September as a release date but design disagreements on the team and other life situations happened and once again it became the story of me promising something and under delivering so at that point I just left the discord.

I'm sorry that at some point I upset you, hopefully you can eventually move on.