I got banned from the official forums for posting this message and editing it after it was moderated by the cm:

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I have been following this game for quite some time, hopping it could one day replace Ultima Online. But I came around this strange page while on mmorpg.com's Irth rating: http://ganked.com/

It seems to explain what happened at magic hat since its creation, and it's not nice to read...I'd like to know what everyone here think about it? is this website all lies? I would also like Damian to explain his version of the story if possible...

(hopping this webpage is wrong and this dont start a forum war)

edit: while searching google on this issue I came across a thread from the peoples of runUO (biggest Ultima Online Emulator project I think), they don't seem to like the peoples at magic hat at all: http://www.runuo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61265

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so what you should know ur get ban for post carp like that u don't even know if ture or not u got ban for trolling

He sure does make me wonder his motives.

Goes to Irth Online. Never has posted ever before, and first post is about ganked.com.

Admin comes in and removes the link and warns him.

So he goes in and trys to be deceptive and place links in the thread instead by linking the words post and thread in his post at Irth, thinking people to dumb to realize he did it.

Gets banned.

Comes here and whoa, wow, puts the same thing in the rating here and then Irth forums here.

Amazing.

How do I know what all you did at Irth? Because I am the one that reported your ass there for your original post and then reported it when you tried to be sneaky, like anyone wouldn't notice what you did...

I believe there should be 2 sides of every issue. Here is Damians response to ganked. http://www.gankedlies.com/

The lawyers from MHS made this statement. http://www.irthworlds.com/news_copyright_11172005.aspx

I don't know what really happened with the 2 parties, but that is really the point. I don't know. Neither do you. All I know is it is in the past, who cares now, let us move on and drop it. Does no one any good to keep rehashing same old crap.

That's some interesting background story.  A bunch of friends get together to build a game for fun.  Then two of them get greedy and maneuver the other two out.

That should be the theme of their game.  Quests would include sucking your friends dry.  Combat would allow stabbing in the back.  Full looting, etc.  That would make this game more appealing and it might even save the game from going belly up.  Cuz, as of now, it's pretty bad.  There can't be more than 100 people playing this game, and that's being optimistic.

Tried out their free trial and found out first hand why this game is rated so low.  It is extremely boring.  It's about as much fun as peeling potatoes.

This game isn't even completely working yet.  They've released it last year and there are major bugs all over the game.  NPCs are running in place.  Animals don't walk, they slide around like they have skates on.  You can walk thru horses.  The game hangs and crashes.  The programmers obviously don't know what they're doing, since these major bugs still exist many months after the release date.  Every game has a few insignificant bugs, but these bugs make this game almost unplayable.

These devs cheated their former partners then criticized them for being half-assed programmers.  Well from the looks of this game, these devs must be quarter-assed programmers.