Codemallet to Cease Spark Development Posted by: Patabugen on 16th October 2007Remote Says:
Development for the new gaming portal has ceased. This is basically because of financial reasons.
Cumulatively the games are in debt a couple thousand dollars (mostly because of chargebacks, but also because of expensive hosting costs). The reason chargebacks have such an impact is that each one I get, the credit card companies take back all of the money, but then also bill me $15 out of my own pocket per transaction (usually there's several).
People seem to be under the impression that I make money running this stuff. The fact is that has never been the case. It is extremely expensive to maintain an online presence, both in dollars and in time. Being a full time college student, I simply cannot afford to do it anymore.
If there's someone out there with enough money to sponsor the development of this stuff I'd much rather do that than have to work some dead-end college job, but it's pretty unlikely this could happen.
Thanks to everyone who has supported the games over the years. You have kept it afloat for this long, and we gave it a great shot.
Source: www.looble.com/bcc/
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