
What happened?
We are sorry to the ones who looked forward to seeing this and testing this project, but the hiatus is in place due to an awful discussion that happened in the IE's Italian Community (gaming side), where particular toxic elements deeply wounded psychologically both Starlight's Team Leader and most of the team members, and treated the whole issue in a light way, without considering how other may feel or react to the situation.
As a result, false rumours about Starlight's Team are now spreading in the IE's Italian Community thanks to those elements who were supposed to help Starlight's growth and development, by accusing us of being homophobic, racist, ignorant, cowards, fakers, victims and unexperienced in some (if not all) possible areas, but in this case management skills.
In our defence, Starlight's Team declares that we may be inexperienced in the cited area and others but that's how people learn from their mistakes and gain experience. We accept other people's advice and take them seriously but before applying it, we always try to choose what we think may be good for both who directs and moderates and the people involved under them democratically. Either way, consequences are bound to happen anyway, nothing can be perfect and someone still may get hurt by this decision.
Because of one particular individual, choices made and words said out of pride got things complicated and affected the original plan, which lead to the final decision in a rather drastic measure we didn't want to take in the first place, and the ones responsible know this.
In the end, because they weren't ok with that particular last resort plan, discussions were initially made in their favour but nothing was 100% confirmed. They got angry, impatience declined a fair "truce plan", and started arguing about how they unfairly didn't get what they wanted to fulfil their own plan, which wasn't really helping the situation.
And this is how we got blamed for the only pacific and safest decision, which went downhill anyway because of their stubbornness and harsh words towards us. They hid partial details of the situation to whoever heard and asked about the issue, and we got blamed by those very same followers of his even for things we didn't do.
Regardless of which of those toxic elements feels that they helped Starlight's Team Leader and team members with the issue that escalated during a delicate situation, we are sorry to say that they are indeed and unfortunately at fault more than us for not being enough considerate for the wellbeing of the team and the users involved.
What will happen to Starlight? Is the project cancelled?
We once again apologise for the inconvenience, but do please continue to follow us.
The project is not cancelled.
The drama did affect us deeply almost to the verge of hating IE's Italian Community, but not the global IE Community.
Please, do not expect any update soon because we all decided to take a long hiatus that could last 2-3 years, but that doesn't mean we're not at work. We may restart working on Starlight right after Christmas 2022, but no updates will be released.
Please, do rest assured, because, after the psychological recovery, you may probably start receiving quite frequent updates by email even before the stated period of a 2-3 years hiatus, so please, do stay and wait for us.
We will only leave the Plot, Sign Up (down below) and Contact pages available for the public, and because of the events that happened, we will also make available only the English version of the website. All other pages will remain hidden until further notice.
Also, the IE Starlight Visual Novel game may be released mainly in English, but if you want to help us with the translation into other languages like Spanish, Portuguese, Deutch, and/or French, please feel free to fill in the Contact form. We will get in touch with you as soon as possible, and let you know further details.
We will NOT translate nor release the game in Italian as it was meant to be, and during the release stage, we may take precautions to not let the cited toxic individuals have access to the game unless proper and genuine apologies are made.
Thank you for reading, and have a nice day!
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