As of September 23rd

Donations for maintaining HOP have been steady and there are plenty of funds for several months thanks to the very kind hearts and hands of the HOP community!

As many of you can see, player base has dropped dramatically over the last 40 days. The main reason behind this has been the return to school for elementary school, high school, and University Fall term.
The other main reasons have been the influx of too many new maps and not enough interest to learn them, as well as new games that have come out drawing players to other genres of gaming.

I feel players will return again within about 20 days as we approach certain periods in the school semester and the newness of recently released games will wan.


Again, donations are most likely not needed for some time due to the donation base our account has at the moment.
However, you can click this link to make a payment through paypal directly to our serverhost to ensure the continuation of HOP beyond this little bump in player activity.
This will directly fund HOP without redirect by a third party.
Server Donation Center and HOP Server Account

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January Server Fees

Hello everyone. I'd like to thank everyone for continuing to play on HOUSE OF PAIN and being a part of this community. Due to events in recent months I've had difficulties in continuing to fund the server and forums, though where I was lacking in abiity others have stepped up to assist. The costs for December were paid for entirely by donations from thoughtful members of this community, and now the costs for the server to see another month (January) has also been paid for. I would like to thank each and every person that has donated to help keep HOP from disappearing for a month or two until I am sorted and able to return once again. We are now going on well over 2 years of continuous service and up time of HOP for the gamers that enjoy playing here. I hope there will not be a break in this record of a month coming where HOP will not be here for gamers to enjoy. There is currently a single digit amount available from donations to go toward the cost of the server for February. Every bit of every donation has always and will continue to go toward keeping the server running as best as it possibly can. I know we've had a few hiccups in the last few weeks and the server has been a bit flakey, but I hope all will be sorted soon. With website costs for renewal of the domain and hosting coming in February I hope to make a return to stable times before that time comes. Thank you for being part of this community and I sincerely miss playing games on HOP with all of you. Have a great holiday season! /SS/StinVec  Posted by StinVec on December 26 2007 01:13:52 10 Comments · 321 Reads