Chill (126579776) wrote:I'm going to try this again, but do it more delicately. I have experience with the threat BVG is mitigating. It is not something they can just "hold off on doing". The international authorities do not care about our precious Yo. They do not care about BVG's business. They are singular in focus and they are ruthless. They will get court orders to seize the physical servers if they have to - effectively shutting down Yo forever in a faster blink than we saw yesterday.

Let me be clear - I HATE WHAT HAPPENED TO US ALL. But understand when I say that the entire existence of Yo was threatened, I'm not blowing smoke up your collective azzes. I've seen it happen in 2 other instances. One of those shut down an entire cell phone system for weeks.

So vent all you want. It won't matter. They can't do anything about it because they literally can't do anything about it. I am proud of them for making the right call and protecting Yo's players. It doesn't feel good, but it was necessary.

Robyn VIP (8132649) wrote:

ChloePumpkin (176209997) wrote:

Robyn VIP (8132649) wrote:Thanks Nami and Rod for explaining, you really opened my eyes. Yes, I would rather save the game.

Same here. I've been wondering if it had something to do with a possible lawsuit. Just looking at some of the pictures posted here, you can see several "characters" that are copyrighted. This whole thing reminds me of the 50 Shades theme, which was suddenly removed with no explanation. I think many of us thought there had been the threat of a lawsuit. The difference is that we had a period to buy the stuff before it disappeared forever. I still have a storage house full of the stuff.

I think it's terribly sad that people have lost so much of their beautiful work. I feel especially sad for those that lost ones that had sentimental feelings attached to them. They can never be replaced. But the bottom line is that I want to see the game saved. And not to sound like Pollyanna, but I truly believe that the Vikings feel terrible about this but are doing what needs to be done.

I whole heartedly agree with you ChloePumpkin, nice to see you!

Gothicka (187898876) wrote:I can't imagine it is BVG's intention to alienate their player base. After having a long discussion with my husband and some back and forth about what's going on in the tech world with other games recently, this may not be an area they have a choice in if things are uploaded to their server. Obviously we use sites to host the images, but the images do get uploaded to YW. If the server isn't being moderated....well, this kind of thing happens. I don't want to speculate because they haven't given us any other details, but I can only imagine it is a serious issue to anger this many players.

I only wish BVG would have reacted differently - given us a heads up - hey, we're wiping the servers. You won't have access to the boards. Obviously it may not have simply been an option. I guess I've gone from angry to processing the change to being a devil's advocate. I'm so sorry to all who are affected. I'm also feeling the wrath..but being a little more understanding on my end.

Opposite Tables (108690404) wrote:

Chill (126579776) wrote:I'm going to try this again, but do it more delicately. I have experience with the threat BVG is mitigating. It is not something they can just "hold off on doing". The international authorities do not care about our precious Yo. They do not care about BVG's business. They are singular in focus and they are ruthless. They will get court orders to seize the physical servers if they have to - effectively shutting down Yo forever in a faster blink than we saw yesterday.

Let me be clear - I HATE WHAT HAPPENED TO US ALL. But understand when I say that the entire existence of Yo was threatened, I'm not blowing smoke up your collective azzes. I've seen it happen in 2 other instances. One of those shut down an entire cell phone system for weeks.

So vent all you want. It won't matter. They can't do anything about it because they literally can't do anything about it. I am proud of them for making the right call and protecting Yo's players. It doesn't feel good, but it was necessary.

Chill.... as long as BVG in not being transparent why this was done, your comments are only speculation and just your opinion. Because you claim you have experience, unless you work for BVG ,means nothing as every situation is different., . Many other people here with computer experience, etc.... are saying other less drastic measures could have been taken without risking the game... I seen players during Zynga times do all kinds of crazy things,,they never removed the boards ....Have a nice day

Are you trying to say those with all the 'billions' are doing something? You may be right on the M NEY! I certainly do understand because these people(?) don't want anyone sharing anything. I do hope others understand what is happening in this world and that it has nothing to do with our game but only messaging. It is their need to control as they see fit. Please reeaad into this. They can do much more than take out a game. Think of things that have and are happening or happening again........... and it might be good to get off some social-multimedia too, I'm not certain who or what is trustworthy to be honest.
God Bless ALL of us.

Amy Pond (117302962) wrote:IF lawsuit WAS the reason, I fail to see how removing those who have passed photos on paint boards or those who manually draw on them could fit the ''lawsuit'' How is it that my many pictures of dr who character still exist on fb IF it was a lawsuit issue, surely FB would be under the same scrutiny ? How is flicker or photobucket somehow avoiding a ''lawsuit. No don't believe it.

BsZ Tee (2459101) wrote:

Technical or Security Concerns:

Exploits or Hacks: The whiteboard feature might have had vulnerabilities that were being exploited, posing a risk to the game's security and integrity.

This has been my suspicion with the updated info Adam posted. They went on a huge banning spree and I have a feeling someone found a back door way into BVG or was trying and they figured out it was through the Paint Boards. For them to have no choice but to zap them fast this is more then pictures being posted on them. That has gone on since waaaay back with the frames. This was more than someone posting nasty pictures on them.

It's this sentence that makes me thin that

With this particular discovery of a ToS violating complication in Paint Boards action needed to be swiftly taken, which meant that the underlying issue within Paint Boards arrived much sooner than we expected.

Skeet (13722418) wrote:

BsZ Tee (2459101) wrote:

Technical or Security Concerns:

Exploits or Hacks: The whiteboard feature might have had vulnerabilities that were being exploited, posing a risk to the game's security and integrity.

This has been my suspicion with the updated info Adam posted. They went on a huge banning spree and I have a feeling someone found a back door way into BVG or was trying and they figured out it was through the Paint Boards. For them to have no choice but to zap them fast this is more then pictures being posted on them. That has gone on since waaaay back with the frames. This was more than someone posting nasty pictures on them.

It's this sentence that makes me thin that

With this particular discovery of a ToS violating complication in Paint Boards action needed to be swiftly taken, which meant that the underlying issue within Paint Boards arrived much sooner than we expected.

I wish BVG would explain this better and update this forum. Many still are not on discord.

With this particular discovery of a ToS violating complication in Paint Boards action needed to be swiftly taken, which meant that the underlying issue within Paint Boards arrived much sooner than we expected.

someome violated TOS-so in the TOS you post what will be done-something major happened as you needed to swiftly take action without any warning to your players-who do matter???[/color]

Our team is extremely aware of the way Paint Boards are used.
if this is the case then you were aware of what was happening,so why the swift action? remove ban player and remove their content not ours

Our team is working on a solution for this particular issue. This situation involving Paint Boards is complicated, but we have a lot of faith in our team’s ability to resolve this issue.

Mr 0utrag3ous (103378167) wrote:
pitty excuses

Viking Andrew wrote:

Mir (102794171) wrote:No disrespect meant to you at all Viking Andrew, or a few other Vikings I've had the pleasure of conversing with.
This is the end for me.
Rooms I made that included paintboards were for one of two reasons.

1. It was a memorial room I made for a friend that used to play this game who died years ago. That room and the ability to still be able to visit her and leave her a message even though I know she'll never read them, meant a lot to me.

2. It was a room from a movie that captured me and the ability to recreate it on another platform was really inspirational for me. I made that room in here then painted it on canvas for my niece who loves the movie.

I'm done.
Regardless of what BVG reasons are. Once again, you ignored what the outcome might cause for the most important people who keep your game going.

Reading stories like this breaks my heart.

I am so terribly sorry. I wish we had some way to avoid putting YoFans through this, and I hope that, in time, we can earn back your support.

Demona (6814674) wrote:

tommy (146736020) wrote:Maybe to many yo's used paintboards to push back against the woke, dei, lgbtqxyz ++ culture that yo workers have been promoting. I don't have problem with that culture, I just haven't bought the offerings. BUT HAVE BOUGHT A LOT OF PAINT BOARDS,modular rooms, and avenues, to make travels easier in my over 2000 homes, aves and modular rooms ( road signs, billboards, connection homes, and homes created by me). This is an extream reaction if I got this right. I'll give is a bit of time to see how this plays out, been on yo since '09... but his might be the end of the road.

Ya know tommy, there was no reason to bring up you're obvious distain for a whole section of human beings other than to tell us you're a bigot. It's not relevant to the issue at hand - BVG's decision to disable, erase, and remove Paint Boards.
her
Not every thing in this world is about you or even for you, Snowflake.

Stormy Amphitrite (186654727) wrote:

BsZ Tee (2459101) wrote:

Technical or Security Concerns:

Exploits or Hacks: The whiteboard feature might have had vulnerabilities that were being exploited, posing a risk to the game's security and integrity.

This has been my suspicion with the updated info Adam posted. They went on a huge banning spree and I have a feeling someone found a back door way into BVG or was trying and they figured out it was through the Paint Boards. For them to have no choice but to zap them fast this is more then pictures being posted on them. That has gone on since waaaay back with the frames. This was more than someone posting nasty pictures on them.

It's this sentence that makes me thin that

With this particular discovery of a ToS violating complication in Paint Boards action needed to be swiftly taken, which meant that the underlying issue within Paint Boards arrived much sooner than we expected.

well it could have been pics--i can think anything of a nonconsensual or unable to consent would also cause this.