Jaruku and I thought we need to say something about our ages ( Laki’anay, Giloto, Argosy and Cholonay ) which have been mentioned here. It's a shame for us to see that more time has been spent on this forum over a controversy than on players enjoying the ages.
Neither Jaruku or I are involved in or agree with the fighting between the two sides, and it's a shame it had to happen. It's our opinion that rather than bringing up old controversy we should be trying to promote the game by doing what's best for the game. We didn't start out in the UAM to cause any controversy or hard feelings.
Before going to the UAM we asked if we could get our ages on Deep Island and test them before release but were told that the Deep Island shard couldn't prevent others from seeing the ages once they were added to the shard. We then tried to create our own privet test shard without success. One of the people in our group ( Teodori ) contacted Dustin and asked if there was a way we would be able to do our testing in the UAM. Dustin said he would set it up so we could test in private, which he did. He was very helpful in getting the ages tested.
At the time none of us were aware of the UAM allowing people to download Complete Chronicles along with the UAM shard, however, that is a legal issue between Cyan and Dustin, ( a simple Cease and Desist order ) we have no power to change that one way or the other. All of the people involved in our group had legal copies of Complete Chronicles and therefore legally downloaded the UAM shard.
I think I can speak for everyone involved in the making of our four ages that none of us had any intention of causing any problems, our only intention was to let the players have some fun, and we all hope they did.
We hope, with all sincerity, that nothing said here is taken the wrong way, this is just our opinion and explanation of what happened from our point of view.
rocketdog