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Originally Posted by Travler
We are lucky that Jolt still allows this game to run. It does not make much of a profit and the majority of the people working on the game are doing it out of pure love for the game and the community. .
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I think that the fact it doesn't make too much profit is part of the reason that there's so much hate towards Jolt. When Jolt bought PA they made alot of promises based on the belief that they could get the playerbase backup significantly and quickly thus allowing them to make a good profit from it.
Despite the investment initially that didn't happen which meant that alot of the promises never bore fruit as it just wasn't financially viable. If they had been more realistic with their goals they would have probably all been met and we would have all been more satisfied.
The second problem is connected, when the community got annoyed with promises not being met and voiced their concern Jolt decided not to explain themselves. An honest response would have probably gone down well, the response we got were bans on people, requests to the mods to have people censored ect ect as they believed that a forums that seemed completely happy was a better marketing tool than issues being raised and then answered openly and honestly. Their choice seemed to backfire and built up the rep that Jolt are "money grabbers who dont care"