It's with the greatest regret that I tell you this. The owner, Wownofaith, has infringed on our longstanding agreement not to take money from the server but more importantly he has lied about it. This has been going on for a long time. When Mill3n was an admin and proposed adverts, wow often (not always) turned them down even though we should have had lots of money in the loyaltyscape paypal account to cover it. Only Wownofaith has access to the paypal account and he would tell us how much we had. Our payment agreement was that I'd get 50% of the profits and the rest goes back into the server for running costs and marketing. In total I received $1379 since I started developing in May 2018. I was under the impression that we weren't making very much money, so many months ago I told wow not to bother paying me since I thought the money would be needed more for the server. On average I was making the equivalent of $1-2 / hr of time developing so it wasn't a hard decision. The last payment I received was August 2nd 2019, a full year ago. I even went to the point of just paying external developers and advertisers with my own money (likely wow would have paid them if I asked though which did happen a few times when my paypal account wasn't unable to send them money). Wownofaith handles all the financials, he owns the paypal account, pays for the vps the server runs on, and codes and pays for the website using the donations. He has said many times that he doesn't take money from the server.
Here is the discussions after I asked about receiving 50% again on April 23rd.
Back in January when I first noticed something wasn't adding up. So I made a program to add up all the donated amounts of all the accounts and removed all the youtubers, and spawned donations.
At that point I should have realized but it was simpler for me to lie to myself and pretend it wasn't happening because I didn't want to believe that Wownofaith would do that.
This week I have found a paypal log file of all the donations since January 2019 when Wownofaith switched from everythingrs donation system (3rd party) to one hosted on our own site that was bought for $15 or so. I made another program to calculate the total revenue in donations. We lost $250 in chargebacks and received $12506.89 in total, that's with transaction fees removed.
As of 8/3/2020:
JANUARY 2019: $171.99
FEBRUARY 2019: $416.57
MARCH 2019: $509.31
APRIL 2019: $336.13
MAY 2019: $204.98
JUNE 2019: $95.30
JULY 2019: $0.00
AUGUST 2019: $479.36
SEPTEMBER 2019: $255.87
OCTOBER 2019: $1073.40
NOVEMBER 2019: $745.56
DECEMBER 2019: $667.45
JANUARY 2020: $1410.01
FEBRUARY 2020: $1446.37
MARCH 2020: $1078.55
APRIL 2020: $1737.73
MAY 2020: $797.68
JUNE 2020: $173.28
JULY 2020: $600.18
AUGUST 2020: $57.17
total revenue: $12506.89 - $250 = $12256.89
Our running costs have varied from $30-$100 per month and we spend very little on ads.
Where we go from this point is hard to say. The server will continue to run. I have removed Wownofaith from the GitHub and removed the source code on the vps. There is a server jar file to run the server still. Wownofaith probably has a backup source which will be difficult to get running again. I will not continue to develop the server while others profit off of it unfairly. I will start developing again once Wownofaith is able to pay me back 50% of the donations from April and continues paying 50% onwards and sends me monthly statements of the finances and withdraws no more than 20% of profits made for himself.
