Good afternoon, everyone,
I wanted to take the time today to explain exactly what has been going on between the development team of Feranix and the owner of Tremder.
About a week ago, Tremder’s owner posted information that we believed to be insensitive regarding the personal life of one of her former employees. While the information in this post was a matter of public record, we still believed that it was posted in extremely poor taste and without considering the sort of damage it could do to the former employee’s online professional persona. This information has since been removed from Tremder’s pages.
As some of you may know, our Artistic Admin, Miss Hades, was head artist for both Feranix and Tremder. For personal reasons and to devote more time to Feranix, she stepped down from Head Artist of Tremder. About two weeks ago, the owner of Tremder essentially fired Miss Hades for not turning in art on time, despite Miss Hades providing reasons behind her slowness. The manner in which Miss Hades was let go came off as extremely unprofessional to the Feranix team and inconsiderate towards Miss Hades herself but that is her story to tell, not mine. Miss Hades has agreed to provide screenshots of her stepping down if desired.
Due to these events, as well as some others, Finn and I, as Feranix’s owners, made the decision to cut our professional and personal relationships with Tremder’s owner. This was not done out or malice or spite but in agreement to protect the reputation of our own simulation game. We believe that Tremder’s owner’s behavior and association with us would cast an ill-light upon Feranix, something we do not desire.
Upon agreement of Finn, Miss Hades, and myself, we refunded Tremder’s owner the money she used to purchase an alpha account with Feranix. She paid $25 to Feranix to purchase it; Paypal took a small fee of less than $2 out. We returned $25 to her, minus the less tha $2 fee that Paypal takes. Feranix has screenshots to prove this was done and will gladly show them upon request. Some information in the screenshot has been blacked out to protect the privacy of Tremder’s owner.
The reason why we split with Tremder was posted in our public Discord server to allow our supporters there to see it. We decided against posting it on our social media pages so as not to further bleed drama out. However, it is my belief that it needs to be posted now.
Earlier this afternoon, Finn and I were alerted of Tremder’s owner discussing, without mentioning, Feranix and the development team in their public server. One of our Administrators and Artists, Nameria, volunteered to go into Tremder’s server to speak to their memberbase at large and explain. Finn and I gave our permission and screenshots of that conversation can be provided upon request. During this conversation, Miss Hades’s name was specifically stated by Tremder’s owner in regards to her being let go from Tremder. Otherwise, neither Feranix nor Finn or myself were mentioned specifically by Tremder’s owner.
I want to make it exceptionally clear that the Feranix development team as a whole holds no ill-will towards Tremder or its owner. We wish Tremder and its development team all the luck in the world regarding launching. However, we will not tolerate their owner to slander us, even without outright naming us, in their public server. We, Finn, Miss Hades, and myself, did what we did in order to protect Feranix and Feranix’s reputation going forward. We believed it necessary for the well-being of our website as a whole and are posting this now to allow our supporters and userbase to understand our side of the story.
If you have any questions, you are free to come to myself, Miss Hades, or Finn on Discord or send us a PM here.
We apologize for the inconvenience as well as the drama and thank you for your time.
