Hello everyone! I’m here to make the most important announcement we ever had on WUWA: we are shutting down our Minecraft server

If you don’t have time to read all of this, just scroll down for the TL;DR

I’m going to give you all a little context on why I want to do this:

In the beginning I (betreisru) had a lot of big ideas for WUWA. I wanted to do so many things for everyone, but when everything started happening I realized that this wouldn't be possible, there were very few people for something so big.

And so I tried to bring people to help (staff) in a very desperate decision, managing a full server with no planning is a death wish and very detrimental for your mental health. Even with that, I couldn’t communicate well with the staff (and I’m very sorry for that T.T), because I was not mentally well at all.

And then the worst happened, Bell/Katsuhira (not me) could no longer pay for the server, and while me, Goma and Lu were in despair like desperate ducklings without a mom, the server closed and then we saw that the entire map was deleted. It was very sad to see all this happen, and I personally felt reeeeeeally bad. We tried to come up with more ideas for WUWA 2015 with the new admins (great ideas by the way, thank you all for your help!), but there was still something that bothered us deep down.

Out of desperation, we opened the server again with the donations we had. We had already noticed this before, but after opening it was clearer than before that WUWA was no longer the same, people were no longer interested for various reasons that I think everyone here might know, but here are some in my mind:

My intentions with WUWA have always been very genuine, to do something that would be fun with my friends (Lu and Goma) so that it then creates a cool and fun experience for the players (you!):

Lu is always doing a really cool and incredible quality with her songs and videos, as well as Goma who helps with a lot of things and saves us when it comes to programming. Without these two there at the beginning, WUWA certainly wouldn't have even continued and I'm really grateful for them, not exactly for keeping WUWA alive, but for us doing something and committing to something that makes us happy! And it seems that this happiness started to disappear for me, I was always very nervous and unwell, trying to meet impossible deadlines so as not to lose people's interest, at the same time I deal with a lot in my personal life, and I don't think this is the best for me, nor for anyone who wants to help us.

So, my intention today is to do things more calmly, more carefully, doing the best I can to make it a pleasant experience for me and for future players who join.

I know this could make the situation worse with the old players, and it makes me very sad, but I feel like it's the best thing to do, I don't want to deliver something that I had to do in a rush and be anxious about it the whole time :-((((

Now, about the WUWA experience: for me, WUWA in the beginning was supposed to be a closed story told during the server's gameplay, it was supposed to have a beginning, middle and end.

My goal now is to still do this, but now knowing how a server with relatively many people works, I hope to plan and have realistic and healthy goals for everyone who wants to help

I was the one who wrote WUWA’s story, unfortunately I wasn't able to tell even 10% of it, so my biggest wish is to be able to tell it to you, especially with the admins so we can make a really cool experience for all of us and all the players who one day they will be able to play!

So in the end it will end up not being a story that I made, but something that collectively we will agree on to reach a consensus with everyone's tastes!!! Basically a ~ collective project ~ :sunglasses:

I know that everyone who is an administrator or a staff member are people who really like WUWA and the experience it was, I think it's a bit overly sentimental to say (and also cliché) but basically if it weren't for any of you this entire project would be deader than ever.

I just want WUWA to be something that makes everyone who wants to help us proud.

And I say the same to you players, I know the situation is complicated but thank you so much for playing with us since the start, seeing your interest was what made me really happy . I did everything wrong from the beginning and I would like the chance to make amends and make the experience twice as good!!!!!!!

HERE IS THE TL;DR!

We are going to close our Minecraft server and rethink it with a better mind, because it was very clear that interest on it dropped, and it’s our fault, the reopening was very rushed and we didn’t do much in this period of time (sorry…)

We are going to take a little break before starting brainstorming, it will take some time before reopening the server (we are talking months…), hopefully we will meet you again when the server reopens with (hopefully) more content, just like the old server (and maybe even better)!

In the meantime, here’s what we are thinking of (no promises!) for the next WUWA season(™):

After our break, we are thinking of making a semi-weekly post about our progress on the server, just like a devlog, so look out for an announcement on that in the future! We are still keeping the Discord server open, so feel free to stay there and talk with us!

So I would like to know your opinions on all this, do you have any suggestions or questions?


You are 100% free to say your genuine opinions, I’m Mr. Communication (or I try my best to be) so don’t worry! Please say what you think on #general, or if you’re shy or anything u can create a ticket or dm me on Discord (betreisru), or if u have nothing to say just punch that like button and subscribe (or dislike idk).

Thank you very much for everything, and sorry for the long text. I try to write these long texts to see if I can explain things better and I end up being very paranoid about it sounding empty, so please know that I wrote everything in a very genuine way ;_;

Hopefully we will all meet again in the future, see you then!



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