Hey patrons,
This is something that’s hard to talk about, especially with you guys—our patrons, who support us by donating to us for the mod and server. After thinking and talking about it for a long time, Jim and I will be cancelling contagion (just to be clear, we WILL continue work on vmw).
Asides from all the technical and circumstantial reasons (including map building, development, etc.) our reasons for cancelling contagion are personal. As of right now we’ve had an assembled plan for making the server, however—the implications and responsibilities for releasing and managing the server all things neither Jim nor I want to deal with. If we make the server, we also have to release it and maintain it—which is a whole journey, a special kind of hell in of itself, that is just too much for both Jim and I. For example, Jim has other things he needs to tend to in his life, including University and other ventures he wants to get into; and contagion is essentially a long term contract that holds him back. As for me, contagion would extend my development time regarding the Minecraft modding scene, which is something I want to avoid for personal reasons.
Instead of working part time on 2 projects, contagion and vmw, we’ll focus purely on vmw instead—a project Jim and I can actually commit to—and finish it to be the best it can be (which is something we can confidently achieve). Furthermore, in light of contagion being cancelled, Jim and I also thought of potentially releasing small servers—for example, an SMP server, or some kind of tdm event server, etc..
We know this is a big decision that has negative impacts and implications, so Jim and I are ready to hold conversations with all the patrons in the VIP chats—#Vip chat. If you want to talk about all of this with us in further detail, please free. We know this news probably disappoints a number of you, and for that we deeply apologize. We don’t have any excuses.