like it or not,believe it or not facts are facts
Facts? Please.
If it was really ONLY about the money (and nothing else) the announcement would have been totally different. Something along the lines "Dear EB users, we can't make enough money to support the bot with the current payment form, so we're introducing monthly subscriptions". Or the payment would have been just increased/changed without any announcement at all. That's what Bossland does all the time.
And IF that wouldn't work you could say, yes, we tried, but the bot is financially unsustainable. THEN it might have been really about the "financial problems".
But... waiting 1.5 months (and making users wait + teasing users with upcoming "improved" features), saying that "it's taking so long because we want to radically improve the bot" then releasing a working version and THEN just SUDDENLY realizing than "oh, we're having financial difficulties, this is unsustainable". It's not just implausible, it's simply ridiculous.
I'm 99% sure, there's more to this story and you're not telling it to us. And it's the lack of this "untold part of the story", which makes the whole explanation look so lame.
Sorry, but you should have come up with a more plausible excuse. I know that the devs do not hold us, common users, in high esteem, but common. If you are expecting us to believe in this announcement you might just as well expect us to believe in Santa.
I know that you could have done it without any explanation at all (some people here might disagree with me) and Bossland might have just shut the bot down and ban everyone who tries to voice the discontent. It's your product and your forum, you're the owners. And it could have been done without providing any refund/ bot key change.
Personally i'm not mad (because i was expecting it and even wrote the possible shutdown of the project before). It's just the explanation looks really lame. And as far as I can see - not only to me.
