Viking Andrew wrote:I’d like to take a moment to clarify a few things on behalf of the team:

Whenever we look at taking action in game, our first focus is to make a change that impacts as small of a player group as possible. It doesn’t matter if it’s a bug, or an art issue, or a problem with a larger feature like the Buddy List - we know any change that’s made to YoWorld on a large scale has a chance to truly, genuinely harm your experience. I hope, at the very least, this can convey that the seriousness of this issue meant we could not stand by idly after we discovered the risk to our community at large.

We cannot fully discuss the details behind the trouble with our Paint Boards, but we can say that the main issue involved the use of uploaded images, violating ToS, and as such, we are required to remove this feature. In disabling them there have been a lot of valid points brought up within the community that should be addressed. Mostly around the way we’ve gone about our current, temporary solution.

Why disable all Paint Boards? The issue we needed to address in Paint Boards required us to disable the feature as the only means of protecting the community. This is due to the way the Paint Boards item works. As an older item, with older code, the solutions we have access to are much more limited.

Can’t we just fix it? Any change we would make to this feature would require a total overhaul of the Paint Board item.

Why didn’t you let me save my work? This is, currently, not how Paint Boards work. While the images are saved locally, any change or update to the Paint Board feature means that any work on the item as it currently exists is lost.

Will I get my images back? We understand how important this feature is to our players and we are actively exploring ways to address this concern.

Our team understands that these items don’t just represent creative fun - they’re an investment you’ve made. We aren’t ready to discuss compensation with the community yet, but we’re absolutely going to find a way to make this right.

The very nature of the item means that the second something was to go wrong, or any fix needed to be made, your work was at risk. Naturally, this wasn’t a problem when the item was working as intended. When things are fine, there’s nothing to worry about.

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.

Our team is extremely aware of the way Paint Boards are used. We know these items are integral to many social events, and have become a key component in your decorating. The art that you’re showing off here is a true testament to that. We also know that these items are key parts of events, trading, conversations between players, and are a staple to allowing you to decorate in creative ways our team can only begin to catch up on. So where does that leave us?

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.

We know you probably have questions, and we’ll be opening up a thread here for you to focus them all in one place.

AsstChief AmmaYFD (127531275) wrote:So you are saying the process is the problem, not an individual or group of people putting inappropriate art on the boards. I am thinking that this being included in a game might also make the owners of the game liable. I know if I tried to copy something that was copywritten and post it in Facebook I would be liable as an individual. Am I making sense here?

iWhimsy (187830285) wrote:Great question as YW left MANY players to speculate and spread it far and loud that this was about sickos involving children that led to this extreme uncalled for action was it sickos or was it the process or was it the politics and Trump art and boards latelyso maybe political motivated and as Ive heard someone had a hissy over Trump art boards and threatened to report just the other day and then voila diasbled a day or two later--- -is it the politics and if not--- is politics freely allowed on here either side or would it be held against players? Im curious and i detest both sides politcally and equally and Im not not a Trump supporter but am curious BVGs stance on politics or political boards on YW and if it led or caused this extreme knee jerk reaction or-- really what what was it and was it all worth causing this commotion and uproar and destruction to so many homes and overall game killing off game plays for some. My whole gaming is destroyed, my tours my themes scenes galleries memorial for my grandson that gave me comfort my huge avatar shop hundreds of stuff for sale on boards alot of work in much down the drains and so much more all the homes purchased for boards wasted looks like cannon balls blew them out its all a sh*t show mess all my scenes rooms--- I cringe at all the destruction and time and work, hell no i will not clean all that mess up would take forever and ever --hundreds of rooms of homes, scenes now whats left for some of us to even do on here ---decorate regurgiated home after home after home some of us needs more substance than just home after home and do our own things. This game for some us were wrapped around in everything we did- with boards. Surely YW had to have known the impacts on themselves this would cause the game resulting in players leaving- many vip subscripts cancelled no yocash deals and or less play overall now.

AsstChief AmmaYFD (127531275) wrote:So you are saying the process is the problem, not an individual or group of people putting inappropriate art on the boards. I am thinking that this being included in a game might also make the owners of the game liable. I know if I tried to copy something that was copywritten and post it in Facebook I would be liable as an individual. Am I making sense here?

Stormy Amphitrite (186654727) wrote:

iWhimsy (187830285) wrote:Great question as YW left MANY players to speculate and spread it far and loud that this was about sickos involving children that led to this extreme uncalled for action was it sickos or was it the process or was it the politics and Trump art and boards latelyso maybe political motivated and as Ive heard someone had a hissy over Trump art boards and threatened to report just the other day and then voila diasbled a day or two later--- -is it the politics and if not--- is politics freely allowed on here either side or would it be held against players? Im curious and i detest both sides politcally and equally and Im not not a Trump supporter but am curious BVGs stance on politics or political boards on YW and if it led or caused this extreme knee jerk reaction or-- really what what was it and was it all worth causing this commotion and uproar and destruction to so many homes and overall game killing off game plays for some. My whole gaming is destroyed, my tours my themes scenes galleries memorial for my grandson that gave me comfort my huge avatar shop hundreds of stuff for sale on boards alot of work in much down the drains and so much more all the homes purchased for boards wasted looks like cannon balls blew them out its all a sh*t show mess all my scenes rooms--- I cringe at all the destruction and time and work, hell no i will not clean all that mess up would take forever and ever --hundreds of rooms of homes, scenes now whats left for some of us to even do on here ---decorate regurgiated home after home after home some of us needs more substance than just home after home and do our own things. This game for some us were wrapped around in everything we did- with boards. Surely YW had to have known the impacts on themselves this would cause the game resulting in players leaving- many vip subscripts cancelled no yocash deals and or less play overall now.

AsstChief AmmaYFD (127531275) wrote:So you are saying the process is the problem, not an individual or group of people putting inappropriate art on the boards. I am thinking that this being included in a game might also make the owners of the game liable. I know if I tried to copy something that was copywritten and post it in Facebook I would be liable as an individual. Am I making sense here?

political statements would not be such a concern to cause this--it is likely an immediate cease and desist, if that is the appropriate term to use here (which would involve the medium used to create the material in question; and bvg can't inspect every account if that was even an option), related to a serious lawsuit or breaking a federal law imo

iWhimsy (187830285) wrote:Sadly political statements have gotten people silenced all over the place groups even for a few years so it was a genuine question for BVG to clarify if maybe was the issue even if it was not if its an issue overall and politics allowed or would it be held against players players need to know the rules so not to break them. Guess it dont really matter now though boards disabled work detsroyed Trump boards were the least of the worries from all that destruction conducted and circus show mess left for us players. . Well it better have been something so serious this extrem action--- to have done this ---because if it wasnt -- then Houston we have a real problem here.

Stormy Amphitrite (186654727) wrote:

iWhimsy (187830285) wrote:Great question as YW left MANY players to speculate and spread it far and loud that this was about sickos involving children that led to this extreme uncalled for action was it sickos or was it the process or was it the politics and Trump art and boards latelyso maybe political motivated and as Ive heard someone had a hissy over Trump art boards and threatened to report just the other day and then voila diasbled a day or two later--- -is it the politics and if not--- is politics freely allowed on here either side or would it be held against players? Im curious and i detest both sides politcally and equally and Im not not a Trump supporter but am curious BVGs stance on politics or political boards on YW and if it led or caused this extreme knee jerk reaction or-- really what what was it and was it all worth causing this commotion and uproar and destruction to so many homes and overall game killing off game plays for some. My whole gaming is destroyed, my tours my themes scenes galleries memorial for my grandson that gave me comfort my huge avatar shop hundreds of stuff for sale on boards alot of work in much down the drains and so much more all the homes purchased for boards wasted looks like cannon balls blew them out its all a sh*t show mess all my scenes rooms--- I cringe at all the destruction and time and work, hell no i will not clean all that mess up would take forever and ever --hundreds of rooms of homes, scenes now whats left for some of us to even do on here ---decorate regurgiated home after home after home some of us needs more substance than just home after home and do our own things. This game for some us were wrapped around in everything we did- with boards. Surely YW had to have known the impacts on themselves this would cause the game resulting in players leaving- many vip subscripts cancelled no yocash deals and or less play overall now.

AsstChief AmmaYFD (127531275) wrote:So you are saying the process is the problem, not an individual or group of people putting inappropriate art on the boards. I am thinking that this being included in a game might also make the owners of the game liable. I know if I tried to copy something that was copywritten and post it in Facebook I would be liable as an individual. Am I making sense here?

political statements would not be such a concern to cause this--it is likely an immediate cease and desist, if that is the appropriate term to use here (which would involve the medium used to create the material in question; and bvg can't inspect every account if that was even an option), related to a serious lawsuit or breaking a federal law imo

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Stormy Amphitrite (186654727) wrote:

iWhimsy (187830285) wrote:Sadly political statements have gotten people silenced all over the place groups even for a few years so it was a genuine question for BVG to clarify if maybe was the issue even if it was not if its an issue overall and politics allowed or would it be held against players players need to know the rules so not to break them. Guess it dont really matter now though boards disabled work detsroyed Trump boards were the least of the worries from all that destruction conducted and circus show mess left for us players. . Well it better have been something so serious this extrem action--- to have done this ---because if it wasnt -- then Houston we have a real problem here.

Stormy Amphitrite (186654727) wrote:

iWhimsy (187830285) wrote:Great question as YW left MANY players to speculate and spread it far and loud that this was about sickos involving children that led to this extreme uncalled for action was it sickos or was it the process or was it the politics and Trump art and boards latelyso maybe political motivated and as Ive heard someone had a hissy over Trump art boards and threatened to report just the other day and then voila diasbled a day or two later--- -is it the politics and if not--- is politics freely allowed on here either side or would it be held against players? Im curious and i detest both sides politcally and equally and Im not not a Trump supporter but am curious BVGs stance on politics or political boards on YW and if it led or caused this extreme knee jerk reaction or-- really what what was it and was it all worth causing this commotion and uproar and destruction to so many homes and overall game killing off game plays for some. My whole gaming is destroyed, my tours my themes scenes galleries memorial for my grandson that gave me comfort my huge avatar shop hundreds of stuff for sale on boards alot of work in much down the drains and so much more all the homes purchased for boards wasted looks like cannon balls blew them out its all a sh*t show mess all my scenes rooms--- I cringe at all the destruction and time and work, hell no i will not clean all that mess up would take forever and ever --hundreds of rooms of homes, scenes now whats left for some of us to even do on here ---decorate regurgiated home after home after home some of us needs more substance than just home after home and do our own things. This game for some us were wrapped around in everything we did- with boards. Surely YW had to have known the impacts on themselves this would cause the game resulting in players leaving- many vip subscripts cancelled no yocash deals and or less play overall now.

AsstChief AmmaYFD (127531275) wrote:So you are saying the process is the problem, not an individual or group of people putting inappropriate art on the boards. I am thinking that this being included in a game might also make the owners of the game liable. I know if I tried to copy something that was copywritten and post it in Facebook I would be liable as an individual. Am I making sense here?

political statements would not be such a concern to cause this--it is likely an immediate cease and desist, if that is the appropriate term to use here (which would involve the medium used to create the material in question; and bvg can't inspect every account if that was even an option), related to a serious lawsuit or breaking a federal law imo

Even if BVG decided the political controversies and complaints from players regarding were getting to be too much of a headache to keep supporting the PBs, I doubt they would do such a complete adn abrupt disabling of all boards on all accounts. They would have been giving warning well ahead of time for peeps to save things and come up with a plan for reimbursements as well. Even the language explaining the action taken suggests some outside legal force upon BVG and immediate compliance required.

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.

Viking Andrew wrote:I’d like to take a moment to clarify a few things on behalf of the team:

Whenever we look at taking action in game, our first focus is to make a change that impacts as small of a player group as possible. It doesn’t matter if it’s a bug, or an art issue, or a problem with a larger feature like the Buddy List - we know any change that’s made to YoWorld on a large scale has a chance to truly, genuinely harm your experience. I hope, at the very least, this can convey that the seriousness of this issue meant we could not stand by idly after we discovered the risk to our community at large.

We cannot fully discuss the details behind the trouble with our Paint Boards, but we can say that the main issue involved the use of uploaded images, violating ToS, and as such, we are required to remove this feature. In disabling them there have been a lot of valid points brought up within the community that should be addressed. Mostly around the way we’ve gone about our current, temporary solution.

Why disable all Paint Boards? The issue we needed to address in Paint Boards required us to disable the feature as the only means of protecting the community. This is due to the way the Paint Boards item works. As an older item, with older code, the solutions we have access to are much more limited.

Can’t we just fix it? Any change we would make to this feature would require a total overhaul of the Paint Board item.

Why didn’t you let me save my work? This is, currently, not how Paint Boards work. While the images are saved locally, any change or update to the Paint Board feature means that any work on the item as it currently exists is lost.

Will I get my images back? We understand how important this feature is to our players and we are actively exploring ways to address this concern.

Our team understands that these items don’t just represent creative fun - they’re an investment you’ve made. We aren’t ready to discuss compensation with the community yet, but we’re absolutely going to find a way to make this right.

The very nature of the item means that the second something was to go wrong, or any fix needed to be made, your work was at risk. Naturally, this wasn’t a problem when the item was working as intended. When things are fine, there’s nothing to worry about.

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.

Our team is extremely aware of the way Paint Boards are used. We know these items are integral to many social events, and have become a key component in your decorating. The art that you’re showing off here is a true testament to that. We also know that these items are key parts of events, trading, conversations between players, and are a staple to allowing you to decorate in creative ways our team can only begin to catch up on. So where does that leave us?

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.

We know you probably have questions, and we’ll be opening up a thread here for you to focus them all in one place.

Amy Pond (117302962) wrote:I don't care about compensation yc or otherwise, I just want the hours and hours and days and weeks and months of work replaced !