to my freinds and the community:

I plan on quitting along with the past (AND F-ING AMAZING) staff. If Bedouin doesn’t sell the game within the next month and a half then I will be saying my goodbyes.
I want to say THANK YOU FOR BEING SUCH AN AMAZING COMMUNITY OVER THE TIME I HAVE BEEN HERE. 

THANK YOU.

I will miss this community -(if Bedouin messes up MORE)- SO MUCH, for the past year you guys have been there and been amazing.

Last year I had a lot of mental health problems but playing this game has helped ALOT, not just because horses are the best thing ever, but because you guys are too. And I will never be able to sum it up, or say it enough, but, I wanna say it again for emphasis.

 THANK YOU
 

To Bedouin:  

Wow Bed. You just lost your entire community because you didn’t care enough to even log on and help the people putting in FREE WORK into YOUR game! They didn’t deserve this, and you didn't deserve them. Unsubscribed, hated, and trust lost. The ONLY TWO REASONS that I might stay are: this community, and, to support Thunder and Brumby. I have put over a year, and SO. MANY. FREAKING. HOURS. INTO THIS GAME! For it to go to waste. All of Curly’s and Roze’s work, wasted. Gone. Because Bed, simply, didn’t. Care. 

Sell the game Bedouin. The entire community wants it, if you really care about your game, your community, SELL. THE. GAME.

It’s the only way forward, face it if you continue, the community will leave, gone forever. If you sell the game, it could thrive again. So again. IF YOU CARE, SELL THE GAME!

Regardless of real failures in our friends lives, hopefully we are all caring people who can turn around all of the hating in the world to a better place where grace is given and humans are valued in spite of their real failures and our real hurts. The only hope for the world is for us all to choose to love and forgive and to be the first 1 courageous enough to work for peace. Bring hope to the world🌎 

Happy to hear that you will continue working on HF! So excited to see the changes and bug fixes sure to come. 

Oh naive children. Dont be too excited. It wont last. 

Taking peoples' money when you know you're not going to do what you said is fraud.

As a player that joined less than a week ago, literally a day before this all dropped… I can't begin to explain how disappointing it is. The bones and foundation of this game ( and focus on narrative alongside sim elements) is really special. 

There is something great here but part of what makes it great is the extremely kind and patient community that this game has. I have played so many games in my time and I have never met a player base that is so respectful, patient, and kind. 

But the disrespect towards staff and to the player bases's dedication is extremely disappointing. In its current management I can not reccomend this game to anyone. Any dev should understand that this dedicated of a player base is what makes a game valuable and to throw that away to focus on 6 other projects (???) …. It's disrespectful to the time and money the community has put in. 

Please sell this game or prioritize your time properly (in the long term not just a few months!) to give this game the support it deserves or else it will slowly die and in a few months it will be bled completely dry of any playerbase.

This is so very disappointing. Having been a player since well before Eqc became HoFa, it is absolutely gutting to see Curly, Roze, and ERA go. Having worked as a volunteer for this site myself, I have nothing but positive things to say regarding working with all three.

Bed, I do hope you reconsider your decision not to sell HoFa to Curly and team. There really is no excuse to say you can’t justify selling the site with bugs when there was an open offer to purchase it ‘as is’ by a team your player base is already familiar with and trust. I get that HoFa is your baby and it is hard to let go, but please do right not only by your player base, but also the game as a whole. There is so much potential. Don’t kill your loyal long-time community by being selfish when you know you won’t have the time and energy to fully devote yourself to this community- which is a full time job in itself.

I am not going to quite yet, having so many years invested into this game. I will be freezing my account and taking a step away though until this is resolved. Hopefully with the right decision being made, which prioritizes the players and long term health of the game over personal attachment. 

As someone who cannot be on this game as often as I used to with my own growing business and starting another one, I'm beyond disappointed. Bed, do you still believe you can handle everything in your personal life/work, including this game? 

3 staff members walked out. Half, if not most, of the players are outraged. This is YOUR fault. 100%. You knew this game needed your attention. You left it to your staff, who tried to get your attention. They asked for YOUR help to continue development, and instead, left them to rot in the chaos you created.

I have since canceled my subscription, and my account is still frozen. I hope that you will do the right thing for HoFa, its community, and the staff who truly care, and sell or give the game to Curly, Roza, and ERA. Waiting until the game is “stable” is your excuse to keep the game (and the profit) in your pocket. 

DO THE RIGHT THING.

What a slap in the face, Bed. Not just to ERA, Curly, and Roze, but to the game and its community as a whole. Everyone (staff or not), put their time, effort, and money into this game just to be ignored and disappeared upon. The staff had every right to leave based on the way you’ve treated them. Of course, life happens, and that’s totally out of control for ANYONE. But not even looking at your staff’s messages, not acknowledging the care and thought they put into the game, is just disgusting and feels like a slap in the face. And then when you do finally ‘apologize’, you still refuse to take accountability and only say how you’ve been ‘busy’, etc. You wouldn’t make a statement if you were still getting money and time from the community, would you? Only when your financial support is cut off and when you lose staff do you even TRY to make things right.

I think that the only way to save this game is to sell it, but even then I think the stain you’ve left will remain forever. I truly hope that the old staff team is being treated better, wherever they may be. You’ve lost the trust, love, and compassion your community once had for the game, Bed. I hope you’re happy.

And to the remaining artists on the team, great job for all you do. We see you! 💞