Hello smile,
Thanks for your comment, but I must clarify some important points you misunderstood.
At no point did we pay after the work was done. Forcecat (Yura/Grendel or other names) was always paid in advance, either weekly or per task. And that’s exactly what caused the biggest damage in the end — we fully paid for the server source and custom systems, and he never delivered them. After receiving the payment, he disappeared, blocked everyone involved in our project and deleted all chats.
Arthur has always been an honest and generous person. At one point, Forcecat told us he was struggling with jaw and dental issues — Arthur gave him extra money just to help, even though that was not part of the deal. Throughout the weekly payments, Forcecat often received additional bonuses, even when he was inactive for long periods. We trusted him and we supported him.
But later, when he started asking for large sums and offering new systems and solutions, we continued to trust him and paid again — and then he vanished.
We found him here at MMO-Dev because he is already banned on other major forums, and the name “Forcecat” is now well known and associated with shady behavior.
Please don’t misunderstand the situation. This is not about post-payment or broken promises on our side — it's about being scammed after fulfilling every obligation on ours.
I honestly don’t understand why so many people are here defending this person. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I know we won’t get our money back, but my goal is to prevent others from falling into the same trap. This wasn’t just a minor loss — it was extremely frustrating and damaging.
We spent over a year waiting for him to finish configurations and prepare a project that was ultimately thrown in the trash. A huge amount of money was invested, but even more valuable than that — we lost time.
It’s really sad to see some people trying to paint us as the bad guys, when we have all the proof that we negotiated directly with him and he never delivered the sources or configuration packs we paid for.
Now that we finally found him, suddenly a bunch of "devil's advocates" show up to protect him. Are you his friends? What if you were in our position?
Are there really that many scammers still active in this scene?
If he lived in Brazil, we would have already put this criminal in jail.
Thank you for your message and for confirming what we sadly discovered too late.
Yes, we see that this person has a long history of bad behavior and bans in several L2 communities. Unfortunately, we didn’t know about all of this before making the deal. We trusted him because he seemed professional at first and was active in some forums.
You are absolutely right — if we had done deeper research, maybe this could have been avoided. But now that it happened, we want to make sure others don’t go through the same thing.
It’s really shocking to see the kind of messages he wrote against Russian people. That’s unacceptable and disgusting. We had no idea he held such hateful views.
Again, thank you for bringing more facts. I hope the moderators take this seriously and ban him from this forum as well.
