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Here's a bit of my Story:
I've started OHOL back in August 2018(before it even came out on steam) and instantly fell in love with this game. I took a break from the game during the time of COVID, but in 2024, I saw the game on my desktop and I wondered, how is this game now? I booted it up for the first time in a while I found a fun game to be addicted to again. Building rockets, fishing, learning the new mechanics that I've missed out on. I fell in love with this game once more, and took a small break towards the end of 2024.
Fast forward to May 2025. Summer rolled around and I had too much free time. This time, a person I've met in game asked me to rejoin the discord, so I did. It exposed me to a new side of OHOL which I've never interacted with. It was fresh and entertaining but sadly this play through experience felt different.
This third run through of the game, I've noticed that my presence in both the discord and game was being surveilled. Everyone talked about the website OHOLCurse and tracking accounts which felt odd to me, but I guess that's part of the new meta of gameplay.
Since the end of the Forgive Exploit, I've been reflecting on the current state of the game. The patching of the forgive exploit finally allowed more breathing room to all users since every account could no longer be scraped in real time. The forgive exploit provided a watershed moment in timeline of OHOL in which the OHOL of old no longer exists and brings us what I would like to call NewHOL (There are better names, but I saw this floating on the discord and I like it).
I haven't realized until recently, but NewHOL is not OHOL. They've coated the new methods of tracking accounts with a fresh coat of cheep paint, but over these last couple of months, the paint has been chipping away. OHOL is no longer a the community driven game that it once was. It is now a curated gaming experience and we have to live with that.
Maybe it changes, maybe it doesn't who really knows. We will see in 10 years when we see who ends up running the game...
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