Hello, I'm Ayami, Ex-Content Developer for a little over a year on the OathRO server, I felt the need to come here publicly to put my vision of everything I've experienced and seen on OathRO.
I joined the Oath staff just a few months after its creation (two or three months) and was there until the end. There I met the admin called "Oathkeeper".
His server had good class modifications and apparently a good future, so I got excited, over the months I created not only a remake of Payon but a complete dungeon and lots of other fun content (
https://www.artstation.com/gm_ayami) I was so excited that I even delayed my 2022 studies, all for the server. I also created a good atmosphere in the discord with a lots of useful bots and suggestions on how to keep it going, but as time went by some problems arose...
Oath acted a bit strange sometimes, of course, he had work and many other things besides the server but I realized that he just... He did not care about people being extremely toxic both in-game and in the discord, I will not put private DMs here because I think it is a low blow but I found it strange, we had no rules that stop you to be a total idiot, many blamed the CMs for not doing anything but they were following the rules created by Oathkeeper himself.
The weirdest thing about this was when (after weeks of work) Sairek (one of our CMs) created and sent to Oath many new rules, finally rules that we can clean our community from rotten oranges and all that but... Oath just stopped half way through, for weeks, even if you are busy you are a server admin, you could have an hour or two to review something your own CM spent so much time creating.
Then the bad community started to get more and more out of control with the lack of rules, I was threatened by a player, they threatened my family, revealed where I live and everything. Not only me but many of the staff received these threats. The rotten oranges were feeling totally free to play with Oath's weak fist in this matter.
I often stood side by Oath, I was tired of the rotten oranges and wanted to change that, I saw that my admin was more and more tired and afraid that he would just give up one day and that day really came and went yesterday...
But it didn't go the way that I wanted
In secret Oath created an edited wizz, he infiltrated a guild posing as a conventional player and played the woe with his wizz, obviously with the edited wizz he was much more powerful than everyone else. Obviously this raised eyebrows so one of our Devs caught him in the act, I felt ashamed, how could someone get to that point? But I understood Oath's side, he seemed so desperate to leave the server that maybe in a crazy thought he just did all that s***, betraying his community and his own staff.
But I was confident, I made a long LONG announcement (
https://discord.com/channels/876676924687155210/884720756930535445/1050448502125232199) Saying and making clear this whole problem with rotten oranges, the departure of Oath and that he would no longer be our admin, even if he was tired, nothing justified it and I made it clear that we would try to fix it, even with such a hard low blow, even so I wanted to stay positive, I could have a new page to change all that and finally completely improve the weak sides of our server
But nothing could have prepared me for what was to come today, Oathkeeper just go into our server's root machine and wiped it all out... Even though he said he'd never come back and wished us luck. In the end the server that me, Dast and all the other staff dedicated a whole year to just... go. A server that most of us worked on for free, just for love.
Many will say that all this is just a way to hide corruption or just excuses but know that I don't care about you, I feel sad, I feel betrayed, all the good people who spent HUNDREDS OF HOURS on this server, all the screenshots of cute or powerful characters, all gone... I don't know who to believe anymore, I loved the people on this server, I trusted Oath, today is a terrible day for me.
