@Michawl
Thanks, but to clarify, and I hope I won't loose your respect. I want to be honest about this. Erik's strength is not in dealing with people(as you might have noticed...), but he is good when it comes to developing.
This was a difficult period for the three of us (Znote, Marcus (Erik) and Amoaz).
For those of you who are curious about his name: Erik is his middle name, Marcus is his first. Back then he wasn't comfortable using his first name. Just as I am still not comfortable using my real name everywhere on the internet.
I did pay Amoaz 20 EUR that I had earned from my contributions to the server, so he could help me in regards to the security, and I appreciated his work, and taught alot from him.
Personally I cannot remember any financial disputes or agreement between Amoaz and Erik before the server went down.
But I do remember that I told Amoaz that his continued effort in the MasterCores project could(maybe even would?) eventually lead to him earning more money, potentially alot.
Same goes for myself, its obvious when a server becomes so big and popular, there is potentially money involved in it. And since I joined the project earlier, I did get some money, so why would I think otherwise?
So I think Amoaz had in his mind to earn more than 20 EUR from the project, but with the server abruptly going down the chance of earning anything down the road got pretty slim.
I can understand his frustration, which is pretty obvious from that blog. But as far as I know nothing was promised, but our dreams of living of OT for sure was crushed. And Amoaz probably got the least out of it.
I think I am to blame for giving Amoaz his expectations.
As for the 500 EUR story, I cannot remember that he demanded it. The photo provided says that I agree to a 500 eur plan to pay him with our profits after server expenses, so he didnt feel that we stealed the server or demand it for free.
Regardless, he sent me the source code for free when he was able to read the message, which was about a week later.
Considering this is over 5 years ago, my memmory is a bit shady when it comes to these details, but I can confirm that I got it for free.
As for the database, I never got it. Erik was struck out of fear from the fake emails and wiped the dedicated server.
This is all internal drama from a long past, I don't think this is anything that you as players need to worry about. I hope that over the years all three of us have gotten more mature and responsible.
I have high hopes for this project, and looking forward to see how it becomes. Maybe it will flop, but I will do my best for it to become great.