@450, unless you can come up with something original, do not make a new game if you are planning to release it. I would say that multiple people told you this would eventually happen, but I am sure you already know that.
Myself, I am extremely neutral at this point. I will not pay or donate to this because there is nothing encouraging me to do so. I am sorry.

So it goes on I see. Let me just let all of you know that I left the project because I will not develop and work all day for a community who complains endlessly.
I won't complain about it, so I left the project knowing that if I were to bring up points, most of the forum would sit here and go on and on and on about how we don't deserve this, or that.
Aside from TK, when have I left or pulled back any of my projects? Please give examples other than TK as the code to that was leaked anyway.
I'm ready and listening.
As far as I know, I have never discontinued any games on my website. If they go silent for a few months, you automaticly asume they're discontinued

I agree with 456 here. You chose to help. You chose to get involved. You signed up to develop this project. It is your fault. Stop shifting the blame to the community and own up to it. You won't develop anymore games for us? Why did you offer to help then? If we are so terrible and do nothing but complain, why did you offer your services to this project?
A project does not have to be discontinued in order to be flagged as such. BM, for example, costed people $5 and was suddenly made free. I believe that is called discontinuation? SBP was abandoned, pure and simple. Perilous Marathon, though not abandoned, partially experienced the same treatment as BM in regards to those who paid for the Mac version. Just because you did not discontinue projects does not mean you failed to provide sufficient customer services.
Point is, it is not the fault of the community and that you are responsible for your own actions.

At post 557,
Balloon master has received updates after the game going free.
Perilous Marathon costs money to develop for Mac, and as someone who does nothave a job, I'm not ready to spend $100 yearly to support audiogames that contribute very little income.
Aside from that, I need a Mac computer to compile the .app files, and currently that machine is broken and need to take it to the apple store which is about an hour away from me.
SBP wasn't my project, and the main developer wanted to move on to bigger and better things. I can't say I blame them either.

Yeah, make sure you tell us 50 more times that we actually can't code and then ask for respect? Nice try. Well, at least one person who posted here amerikranian knows how to code, and there are probably way more. But is that really relevant? I am not talking about his coding stile, he might be the best coder in the world, we are all talking about his attitude of constantly abandoning things and blaming others for that. Nothing to do with the fact we can or can't code a game. Also, I am really sorry for the way you feel. Personally, I didn't put all that much blame onto you, other than the fact you rushed the release, but that's a mistake people often make and isn't something that would make me instantly lose all the respect for you. Rather, all this stupidity you guys can't even code is really becoming annoying. At the end of the day, you are completely right, you don't owe us anything, but you released a game and you are making a name for yourself. Whether it will be positive or negative depends completely on your actions. You don't owe anyone to release an update in one week, and in fact I don't complain about the time all that much. If you look at my posts, I have clearly said you should just take a break for a while  and come back to coding this project once you feel you are ready. Time is not the issue here, rather the fact of oh well a few major issues came up so let's abandon the project and say everyone was so ungrateful. Well, no, that's not true. Why do you expect people to be like oh this game is great, except there's one little problem, we have huge lag, but the rest of it works fine. Ping time is such a huge factor in a realtime action multy player game. If I can't have good speed, I can't play. If 50 people can't play, they have the right to complain, in a similar way you have all the right to ignore them as this is as you have said a free game. But now, there's another part. You are asking for donations. As soon as you go into the field of asking for money, you have to realize that most people probably won't donate to a game they can't even properly play yet. So it's too early for that. I get it, server costs and all the other things you have to cover, which is why I said probably take the game down for a while and come back once everything is sorted out as best as you can.
Whatever you do though, good luck as this thing certanily has great potential to grow.

Just to clear a few things up, I didn't know Ivan would walk out when he did. That was completely unplanned. Again, I don't blame him for it in the slightest, just thought I'd clear that up before I continue.
I of course knew of my own busy schedule. The problem lay in the fact that we just didn't have any idea just how bad the lag would get. My original plan was to release it, use the few days I had at home to fix anything that might have needed fixing, then let the bug reports / ideas roll in while I was away. Of course, since the game was very much unplayable at time of launch Ivan ended up having to work overtime trying to fix it whilst keeping up with the demands of the players.
Feature wise, I think it was pretty much ready. The  problem lay pretty much entirely on the lag. Were it not for that, this would have probably turned out pretty much ok. The lag was what fucked us up from the beginning. We just didn't prepare enough. I think the blame lies mostly on me here, honestly. Truth be told, I was just very excited to get the thing out the door that I looked past some of the potential issues, although not completely for lack of testing though of course lakc of testers was also a problem.

at559, hmm: intresting answer
I think bb devs, you should add multy server hosting, to let people host they servers if you don't want to work on it

right, this gunna be a long post, so hold on tight fokes. hope you have at least 5-10 minutes to spare to listen to the thoughts of this totally insignificant dude living in a seviourly populated part of the world posting on this humble place known as the audiogames forom where we like(or aim and try) to discuss, well? audiogames.
See, the thing is. coding isn't all that matters. and i'm not talking from a technological perspective. i mean, well let me rephraize. development isn't everything. it is just a faize;all be it a very big one. After the project is done and ready for release as per the developer, there is much to be done. There is the testing phaize; the bug fixing phaize. And no, i certainly am not referring to the fixing after-release. pre-release, you need a group of trusted poeple, who you know can have an openn mind, and give an unbiost feedback on the product you are offering and have the skills, patienc, tallent and hopefully experience to do so. In your case, that wasn't a small group of friends, which like i said isn't really easy to arrange especially with 1 or two people working alone, but the community at large, itself. which is one way to do it and that is totally fine.
However, like i said when it is one individual or just a few individuals, the pressure increases. especially if you are asking for feedback from a community at large. The world's full of good as well as bad people as i'm sure as you're aware, but its not split into as such and cannot be generalised. there are good people who might put their points across in a way that might offend/hurt the producer;others might just spew unconstructive bullshit just for kicks whilst some may not care about anything but the game itself. Its quite diverce, you see. It all depends on the mindset of hte dev himself, the key, in my case it to keep a level-head, stay calm, and try to take things in a good way. Yes, i understand that this cannot be the easiest job many times, but like i said it is necessary. Sure you have expectations from the community, such as they understanding your lack of resources (be it human or otherwise) and they having the decency to respect and understand that. But Like i said, the world isn't a bed of flowers; but certainly not one of thorns either. If you are entrusting them to get something done for you they should have the curtesy to try to at least put their points across in a half decent manner and respect the work that has gone into it. However, some might not. or some might, and it may not seem so. Like i said, its all about how you make yourself accept what you see. This, like i said is why a group of people turns out to be really handy in these cases. Its how big companies function. When its just you, and perhaps a cupple of your friends the similar mindsets/openians may be a hindrance. Sometimes you need a diverce group of people to be working alongside you, not just for the sake of ideas and the project itself; but also in these cases. To pull you up when everything seems lost. When you might be feeling hopeless, and and the other person might not, hope you get my point. But it is  understandable that you may not be fortunate enough to enjoy that kind of luxxery(me being there so i understand, still am sometimes), and like i said above you are right to have certain expectations from the community. but this is a community. There will be people who will not what you expect from them; or  be decent individuals at least. The key, like i said is to hae control on your mind and body. control your immotions. Sure you have to let the community influence you, but only in the ways that matter in the longrun. They give feedback, you have to accept that, no matter how harsh that is and try to take it in a possitive way and move on. Lotus grows in muddy water, doesn't it? Mushroom, (something that i love by the way) is a fungi. So dont worry, have faith on yourself try to be rational and practical and try to keep a level head. meditatoin helps a lot, at least in my experience.
@ivan
while your reasions of doing what you did are quite understandable and rational, i would love if you give this a thought (this plus my above post)
As i previously stated, producing something a project does not just mean developing it. As a co-dev you have responsibilities. And not the just the working hard part(which i've hurd you've been doing pritty well in yorur time as part of this project so hats off) but before you sign up. You have to think about the duties that you will be handed. responsibilities. The work and time to be devoted. It is basically a commitment that you are making. And whilst like i said its perfectly vallid to back out when you know youv'e had enough i just think you should give more thought to those kindof things next time you decide to help somebody with their project. Its not just you when you are in, you see. you are a group. And when you leave, a big amount of workload may be handed down to the other person/persons especially if the gorup is small. Although the work might not be anything they've not delt with before, it may seem a lot if they are used of a proper work division and being actaully comfortable with what and how much they contribute, time and effort wise.
Like  i said, keeping a level head is very important. This applies for taking big steps such as this, as well as releasing a project. you godda stay calm, keep a clear head, think then when you really think you are ready, go ahead and do it. dont just charge into the fire because of excitement/temperarry inspiration which may die down. Be like water. Flow constantly. Not fire. Which starts up, and dies out. I know i'm putting really big points and thoughts across and everybody would be thinking, haha this guy, trying to be a yogi and giving all  these preechings and whatnot. But trust me. these are facts of life and the sooner you come to terms to them the better. I myself took quite a while but i'm Happy that i did. So yeah, i know i've said this a lot, but its all about the mind. Critisisms will come. Think of  a youtuber, especially in the early days of his currior. How much critisism and hate comments they'd get, that's mainstream community, much much bigger than our humble little ag community, haha.
And think about my point on thinking before taking important steps/leeps in your life this way:
Imagine a guy, working tireless at work. After a long, long time, gets a bonus and holidays where he can spemd some time to himself, or with his friends/family on a holiday somewhere. He's all excited and happy and packing things. However, he's so happy and daydreeming about his plans so much that he forgets to pack half the things he'd want then when he gets there, it'd all be ruenned. There's a time and place afor everything. Like, i try to keep a level head and try to be strict with myself while packing in this case, then once i'm all done and e.g. in the car, then i dreem and talk about my plans and ideas with peeps like, all the way to the place lol.
Anywyas, that's all for this extremely long and boring post, hope somebody benefits from it.

I have to agree with HM here. Why is everyone insistent on multiple servers to divide up the player base? We're not Overwatch or COD, the number of people usually playing at a time can be counted via a combined effort of all one's fingers and toes. Also, we've had times with RTR were no one could really play anything as none of the servers worked. Going full multi-server would just result in a headache again, unless a solution can be found for a main server. And maybe when the population picks up, think of either multi-server support or another suggestion earlier stated, along one to make private lobbies with friends for private matches for practice.

haily what about going far away from this comunity and forum?
well i just adviced for you, if you can not do coding, you have problems, education, etc, and you are tired from this people, what about staying far away some time? sorry if it was offensive.

tbh, i check it when i have nothing better to do too, that is to say, the drama/flamewar topics, others i usually look at, such as valueable quality content in new releases, some nice topics in OT, general games, dev room, etc. should start posting more frequently though, get lazy i guess. but with the ones where a lot of drama and personal attacks are involved i just, pass. like, its not really wirth it telling anything to this people at this point imo. like i said, i do read them once in a blue moon but posting according to me, isn't wirth it. no point telling those people anything, when clearly they have shown that things as harsh as ban(currently the strictest punishment offerred on this forom) will not stop them. heh
Uh, wait is strictest a word even? i dont think so...