Hello members of the MCForge Community,

Today, I announce that we have learned more about what happened the evening of Tuesday, January 24, 2011.

It appears that JacktheKat9 of MCStorm and Former ForgeWare Inc. Chief Legal Officer The_Legacy spent days upon days speaking with our good friends, MCForge Head Web Developer, 501st_Commander, ForgeWare Inc. Head Web Developer Soccer101nic, and ForgeWare Inc. Head Developer, GamezGalaxy. They convinced them there was no hope in ForgeWare, which is not the case, and discouraged them.

Then the whole explosion happened. We all had been having bad days before the whole meltdown that night, 501st included. He was dealing with his family yelling at him the whole day, and was dealing with stress the whole day. We all know that when we are extremely pressured we sometimes do things without thinking, that we regret doing later.

JacktheKat9 and The_Legacy managed to extract some information for an admin account utilized to import the forums posts and users from PhpBB to MyBB, named "MyAdmin", playing off the stress 501 was dealing with to make him, without thinking of the consequences, give out the password. JacktheKat9 and The_Legacy used this account to delete most of the information on the MCForge Forums, as well as all news posts. They also banned Dmitchell94, myself, and 501st_Commander.

Today, I recieved logs from JacktheKat9 that indicated that Jack intended to use the threat of telling ForgeWare Inc. Administration Staff what happened, with the intentions of coercing 501st_Commander to leave MCForge. You can see the skype logs here.

501st_Commander was left with an extreme feeling of guilt after what happened on Tuesday and he decided to tell the ForgeWare Inc. Administration team what happened, before JacktheKat9 got the chance. We have forgiven 501st_Commander for his actions.

However, we have NOT forgiven JacktheKat9 and The_Legacy for what they have done. I post this here with the intention of telling the world what they have done, and to completely ruin their plan of blackmailing 501st_Commander. Do not take any anger you may have out on 501st_Commander, instead take it out on JacktheKat9 and The_Legacy.

MCStorm appears to have been a motivating reason for these attacks. We are not sure if MCStorm was responsible, and hope that we can maintain a cordial relationship with the server software.

We at ForgeWare will take a week long break from development to brainstorm, to recover from the events of the past week, and to regroup. We are not collapsing.

-EricKilla

Chief Development Officer