Statement

Ever since we publicly showed our stats and how popular our game is (https://twitter.com/_CPOnline/status/1117490279374905345), we have noticed competitor servers began using nasty tactics in order to try sabotage our success and steal users for their own servers. This includes spreading false information about our staff, DDoS attempts on our game, trying to infiltrate our staff team, advertising their server on our game/Discord server, and much more.

However, one thing we noticed was other servers copying from us, and this has been going on for a while. Here on Club Penguin Online we are blessed to have the most talented developer in the CPPS community - Timmy/Huey. Many of you may not be familiar with how CPPSes are run, but coding and code is a huge part of it (obviously), and we have the best developer in the community as an admin, which is part of our success of being the biggest CPPS. Many other private servers use public code to run their servers, but on CPO we have our own source and we use our own methods in running our CPPS, and as I said before, is part of the reason of our huge success.

At the start of 2019 we promoted our designer, Jonas, to head designer and began renovating CPO. We changed our website, began working on Twitter art and adding little custom stuff one step at a time. We focused more on parties and making our game more presentable, which in turn made our user count increase incredibly over the past months.

Although things were going good for us, we did notice other servers (notably "SuperCPPS" and "Club Penguin Brasil") began stealing from us, whether it be completely ripping off our website design, or stealing Timmy's API (specially made for Club Penguin Online). I will post all evidence I have in the #evidence section. We were aware that these servers were stealing our work and our code, however we decided not to be public with it and handle it professionally by calling out their admins on Discord in direct messages. They, however, did not care and carried on doing this. Again, we decided to be professional about the issue and not make it public.

Last year we made an Marvel Takeover party to celebrate the release of Avengers Infinity War. The party was a success, users were happy, but this year we wanted it to be bigger. That's when I began rounding up all our designers and began planning the party. We officially began planning the party since early April. Around this time, as some of you may remember, I publicly asked people to join the designers team as Jonas would not be able to completely the entire party by himself. All of a sudden I began getting DMs from designers from the CPPS "SuperCPPS". They said they were interested in becoming designers for Club Penguin Online. This was perfect for us, so I accepted them. Around 3 - 5 designers from SuperCPPS joined our designer team.

I made a spreadsheet explaining what people had to do and who had to do what. Jonas was in charge of designing the interface and the rooms. All the new SuperCPPS designers had to do was design the items for the Avengers and the Black Order. Now, this itself was difficult because of the language barricade between us, but Huey and I began to notice that these new designers weren't really doing ANYTHING. We would question them time and time again about how far they've done the items (keep in mind their ONLY job was to design the items). They told us they were working on it. We trusted them and that was that. Then around 2 weeks ago I began to hype the Endgame party, as this was going to be our best party yet. Again, we asked the SuperCPPS designers (who joined us) if they were ready. That's when the excuses and stories began to happen. One said his Flash broke and he lost all his work, another said he decided he was too busy to complete anything, another made an excuse that he decided to stay at SuperCPPS.

When Huey and I heard all this we were mad and very suspicious. All these designers from SuperCPPS joined our team as designers, yet made NOTHING and LIED to us about it. Jonas was already working on everything else, we didn't want to overwork him to make the items. This is when Huey found out that these designers were still working on SuperCPPS, and then we discovered that Samu (the owner of SuperCPPS) sent his designers to join our team to SABOTAGE our Endgame party. As you can expect, we were mad. The party was supposed to release in a week and we did not have items made in time. We also didn't want to delay the party because Jonas was already struggling to make the rooms, the interface, and literally everything else. We were stuck and had no other professional designers to help us - so we "stole" some items from SuperCPPS.

Yes, it may seem unethical, and it wasn't something we wanted to do, but in a way Samu himself caused it by purposely sabotaging our Marvel Endgame party by sending his designers to join our team as double agents to try delay our party. If none of those designers joined our team then we would've released the Endgame party in June so Jonas can have more time to work on it, however we thought with the new SuperCPPS designers who joined our team we would get the work done in time, which was not the case.

What bothers me the most about this situation is that SuperCPPS and other people from different CPPS communities keep making up lies and blowing certain situations out of proportion in order to try ruin our success and steal users. I'll like to remind them that their servers aren't perfect either, and that instead of continually harassing people who enjoy playing Club Penguin Online, instead of being jealous and nasty towards our playerbase, perhaps you should focus on your own game and you can maybe get the success we have. SuperCPPS is not innocent in this situation either, as this was a direct result from them trying to sabotage our party by sending in 'double agents' to delay our party due to their jealousy. SuperCPPS stole our code and more from us in the past but we kept quiet about it, and now they're trying to claim our entire party is 'stolen' due to a few items - which is absolutely FALSE.

I will like to end this by saying a huge thank you to Jonas and Huey. The map, interface, code, rooms were COMPLETELY made by Jonas, and he did an amazing job on those. He would've made amazing items as well if he had the time and if SuperCPPS didn't send false designers to join our team to delay and sabotage our party.