Your cynicism is interesting. I have no intention of donating anything anyway but before CN I was playing another game where I did spend some money to gain playing pieces. I haven't played it for a month or so, and I don't regret the money I spent as I didn't spend all that much. I enjoyed the game, but at the moment I have some obligations to carry out instead ie. I need to finish a mod I promised people 6 months ago. Sorry, not a SE mod.
Anyway what I do have to say is that I can't play CN today because the admin has closed it while he deals with some problems. I can understand this under the conditions he mentions, however, and I feel slightly guilty about this, I am paranoid and a cynic, so when he states that his wife has just happened to also have a child right at the same time I start getting suspicious. Has he made this up as an excuse while he messes with things as you seem to imply?. Play on peoples guilt so that if he reboots the game people won't want to be critical. Perhaps I am just too cynical to accept such things at face value
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