Hi everyone, it is my painful duty to have to inform you all that for the last month, I have been stalked both on Skype and on Survive the wild by one of the admins of said game, Walter Van Wyck. This all started when I was trying to get a friend away from him, and led to him stalking us both and being very abusive towards us, but then denying it to the other, for example he'd tell my friend she was worth nothing, then tell me he hadn't said any such thing, even though I have the evidence my friend sent me to prove he was lying. He's also been very abusive when my friend and I did work with him on his podcasts at blindaccess.org, not in the actual podcasts themselves, but in terms of if my friend and I dared to suggest anything to improve the podcasts, we were basically told to do things his way. He also slated 2 of the people who gave me the inspiration to podcast, saying he was far better, which I thought was a totally wrong, and b childish.
Now the reason I'm telling the community all this, is because last night my friend down in England opened an account in stw and began playing, but then out of the blue, she had Walter grilling her, thinking she was me with another account. She skyped me and asked if I knew walter and told me he'd been very abusive towards her, so now my main concerne is that other girls might receive the same treatement as myself and my friends have done at Walter's hands.
Finally, I'd like to tell you that I did report this to Sam, the developer of Survive the Wild, but other than saying he'd talk to Walter, Sam has done nothing, so Walter is still free to abuse his admin position by threatening me and my friends with checking up on us.
Just be careful when playing Survive the Wild everyone, it's a great game, and it's just such a pitty people like him are left to get away with verble bullying and emotional blackmail. I'm not saying don't play, I only want people to feel safe playing and to know what I've had to go through and to avoid this guy at all costs.
I shall be posting this to audiogames.net with the permission of the admins there. I thank you all for reading, and can only hope action will be taken at some stage to prove that I'm speaking nothing but the truth.
From Lori.