Game Over - It’s time for us to move on.
TwifySoft was founded in late 2008 by Richey, Vanderlay and Mark, with the server SoftCores. At the time, reaching over 300 players online on SoftCores was an incredible milestone, and we expanded by launching IceChaw, which was just as successful. We launched ThunderFall and WarCore in early 2009, which didn’t last for long, and Hani joined the team.
A couple of months later Feloth was brought on to the team, who had built TwifBeef (a statistics fansite), to work with us as a web designer. Vanderlay was let go from the team due to inactivity, which didn’t align well with our future plans. We launched TwinForce in mid 2009. Richey left the team, as he moved to USA to study. TwinForce began a downwards trend, and was eventually closed down in early 2010.
We launched MoonHawk in 2010, a server with quite similar configuration as SoftCores. Conflicts arose within the team, and we parted ways with Feloth. MoonHawk lasted for three months, and at this point it was apparent to us that there was no way we could manage three servers at once.
In 2012, plans for a new era of TwifySoft emerged. It wasn’t going to be another third server this time. We were going to shut down SoftCores and launch its successor, ShadowCores. We turned TwifySoft from a hobby into a business. Despite ShadowCores not reaching more than 40 players online on its first day, we kept working on it, so much that we made 21 updates in June 2012, and over 50 updates in total throughout 2012. The road to success has been paved by a lot of hard work, we reached 1000 players online in October 2012; 1500 in January 2013; 2000 in August 2013. This could have kept going, but the end of 2013 was a turning point for several reasons.
We’ve dealt with mountains of technical issues. We’ve dealt with countless DDoS attacks. We’ve dealt with the ungrateful part of the community. We’ve undoubtedly provided a high quality support service, both from ourselves through e-mail, but also from the voluntary tutors who have been available through the Help chat in-game.
We’ve communicated the current situation multiple times on the forums, so this may not come as a surprise to you. On January 21st 2016, ShadowCores and LunarForce will be shutting down. TwifySoft has sponsored both OTLand and the development of The Forgotten Server 1.0, which has ensured that there are other great servers that you can play on.
Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to thank the people who have been important to us during this journey. Thanks to - Kornholi (GM Korn), Dalkon, Hector (GM Eddy), David (GM Vinnie), Siramix, Dyablo, and of course all you, our players. This would not have been possible without you, thank you for being a part of our community.
All the best,
Mark & Hani