Pokémon World Online

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Pokémon World Online, or PWO, is a beta game similar to that of Pokémon Crater. It was created by Kyrocorp with the first beta release in late december of 2007. PWO utilizes graphics from most of the 3rd generation of the mainstream games.

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When the game had first launched back in December 27, 2007 - it was created and worked on by Kyro, alongside with childhood friend Zammbi. With the first beta release in early January 2008, the team saw their online game prosper. Within the first year, the game was getting nearly 500 connections per day. By the end of the second year, that number doubled. In the later stages of Pokemon World Online - Kyro had left in order to focus on his other projects including Pokemon Battle Arena and Monster Ranch. Zammbi took over as project manager in his place.

On September 26th, 2011, the server experienced unexpected and prolonged downtime due to issues with Paypal. Paypal had frozen Kyro's account (which was used to store PWO's funds) and would not explain the situation when initially asked about the problem. In response to these events, the staff planned on integrating a new, cheaper server to host the game on. In addition, Zambii (the project director of the time) contemplated finding a new payment system in order receive donations to fund the server. He resorted to receiving the donations on his own account for a time.

Creature Concept made during the 2011 downtime. Created by Mantis.
In January of 2011, the game was brought back online. However, after only two weeks of recovering from the previous issue, a Cease and Desist letter was issued by Nintendo to PWO's server host (GoDaddy). Even though Nintendo addressed the C&D letter to the server host and the host was ordered to inform the PWO staff of the C&D letter, the PWO staff were not directly commanded by Nintendo to shut down the game. Because of this, they tried to keep PWO online as much as possible. Meanwhile, they discussed a concept for a new game that would be made from PWO without having any ties to the pokemon franchise. The concept for this new game was later dropped.

Following the C&D order, on 23rd April 2011 it was announced that Pokemon World Online will start up once again alongside CodeCore Entertainment. With Zammbi inactive, Shane and Xanatus assumed the role of project leaders after reviving the project, who decided to host the server in Sweden, due to the copyright laws in the country that are suitable for PWO to be hosted in.

On July 18th, 2011, a newly appointed PWO developer, Zidonuke (promoted July 14, 2011), deleted PWO's data and server-side coding. The issue first started on the IRC, where he was occasionally criticized. Zidonuke, growing frustrated with the community, single handedly enforced a policy that stated any member of the staff caught in the channel would be banned [1]. This was met with much opposition, and subsequently, Zidonuke revoked the statement. In a later attempt to put a stop to the criticism against him (which had then increased due to those actions), Zidonuke temporarily closed the IRC PWO channel. However, the it was quickly reopened after the incident and, as a result of his actions, Zidonuke was banned from the channel. Despite this, Zidonuke continued to communicate with the channel and its users through other means. These were normally tense and unwanted occasions.

The constant, negative communication continued to put a strain between Zidonuke and the community. In one instance, a comprehensive log of a conversation between an admin of the channel, Zukiedo, and Zidonuke was posted on the forums shortly after Zidonuke hacked into the accounts of Vetle, Zammbi, and Xanatus on the IRC network [2]. This action prompted Zidonuke to alter the contents of Zukiedo's thread and ban Zukiedo from the forum. This erupted into a full-scale channel event as several IRC users posted the log as a status update or topic on the forums, after which the statuses were deleted and most users banned. Soon after that,Zidonuke announced that he would delete the game and its database [3] [4]. He then provided images of himself moving the database off the server [5] [6]. In response to the actions that took place, Crenel (Another staff member) created a blog post about the incident, which discussed both Zidonuke's history and the future of Pokémon World Online.

The Game and Forums were restored and fully running by the 15th August 2011. Due to previous events, any user registered had to perform a password reset in order to be able to use PWO services again and a new site and forum theme were made live.

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  1. ↑ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/683/zido.png/
  2. ↑ http://pastebin.com/nEQ1uCcG
  3. ↑ Zidonuke's server message before the deletion
  4. ↑ Zidonuke's chat message before the deletion
  5. ↑ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/846/foxscreen19072011012514.png/
  6. ↑ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/196/foxscreen19072011013742.png/
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