- Aug 21, 2017
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An open letter to the Witch Trainer Silver community
This letter is about a change in leadership for Silver and the current situation about the project.
A bit more than a year ago, Mo took over a dead project (4 Houses & Silver), having worked on it himself for a while.
Initially he worked towards adding small sized content to the Silver mod, just by himself with the support of his Patreon.
Soggy then helped as a dedicated artist for the project and soon after I (MadMerlin), Asease1 and Johnny joined, also a couple more that were part of Silver before (Dosto), came back and contributed again.
What we had now was a team of modders that worked on the mod for free, that contributed their free time to a game they liked, while the Patreon support was largely utilized for commissions and new art.
This was all perfectly fine until a shift happened around six months ago where Mo would communicate with us less and less. Work on his own content in private, while the team worked on theirs simultaneously.
His last public Patreon post was more than four months ago (early September) for v1.33c.
You might've noticed we've added content and updates since then, yet it wasn't posted on pastebin or Mo's Patreon.
At this point it had gotten worse where Mo had stopped communicating with us all together, with the exception of Soggy.
Still Soggy was asked to draw new art for Silver, and that made it into the game eventually, but no where near enough the current figures from Patreon support.
It's been early November since Soggy last heard from Mo.
We've seen some activity since then, with him adding some writing to the github, but he hasn't commissioned anything or communicated with us.
Right now we are in a situation where we feel like changes has to be made, fast. Both for our fans, supporters and ourselves. Letting thing keep going as is would not only be unfair to you, but also to us.
We have discussed the situation with the whole team many times over the past few months and got to an agreement that it would be best if somebody else would be in charge of not only the Patreon, but also Discord, Twitter,...
We feel like the main purpose is to keep the whole team informed and on the same page when it comes to development, commissions and so on so me (Merlin) and Soggy, as our lead artist will be in charge of these platforms.
Now we can't simply take over Mo's private Patreon and Discord ownership transferal is tricky.
We can only ask that, if you want to keep supporting Witch Trainer Silver, our new Patreon is going to be the one that will support the project:
We'll be able to provide more consistent content, previews and art updates. And in time things like tier rewards for people to be able to influense the content directly.
We'll also post regular updates on our Twitter page and our new Discord as always.
You can expect news about any and all project we are working on in the following months.
TeamSilver
This letter is about a change in leadership for Silver and the current situation about the project.
A bit more than a year ago, Mo took over a dead project (4 Houses & Silver), having worked on it himself for a while.
Initially he worked towards adding small sized content to the Silver mod, just by himself with the support of his Patreon.
Soggy then helped as a dedicated artist for the project and soon after I (MadMerlin), Asease1 and Johnny joined, also a couple more that were part of Silver before (Dosto), came back and contributed again.
What we had now was a team of modders that worked on the mod for free, that contributed their free time to a game they liked, while the Patreon support was largely utilized for commissions and new art.
This was all perfectly fine until a shift happened around six months ago where Mo would communicate with us less and less. Work on his own content in private, while the team worked on theirs simultaneously.
His last public Patreon post was more than four months ago (early September) for v1.33c.
You might've noticed we've added content and updates since then, yet it wasn't posted on pastebin or Mo's Patreon.
At this point it had gotten worse where Mo had stopped communicating with us all together, with the exception of Soggy.
Still Soggy was asked to draw new art for Silver, and that made it into the game eventually, but no where near enough the current figures from Patreon support.
It's been early November since Soggy last heard from Mo.
We've seen some activity since then, with him adding some writing to the github, but he hasn't commissioned anything or communicated with us.
Right now we are in a situation where we feel like changes has to be made, fast. Both for our fans, supporters and ourselves. Letting thing keep going as is would not only be unfair to you, but also to us.
We have discussed the situation with the whole team many times over the past few months and got to an agreement that it would be best if somebody else would be in charge of not only the Patreon, but also Discord, Twitter,...
We feel like the main purpose is to keep the whole team informed and on the same page when it comes to development, commissions and so on so me (Merlin) and Soggy, as our lead artist will be in charge of these platforms.
Now we can't simply take over Mo's private Patreon and Discord ownership transferal is tricky.
We can only ask that, if you want to keep supporting Witch Trainer Silver, our new Patreon is going to be the one that will support the project:
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We'll be able to provide more consistent content, previews and art updates. And in time things like tier rewards for people to be able to influense the content directly.
We'll also post regular updates on our Twitter page and our new Discord as always.
You can expect news about any and all project we are working on in the following months.
TeamSilver
