I bumped the topic for this but... Hacks? Ognik? Seriously i heard about the ban storm.
In short, Mac's wife (Mistaria) can't take criticism and uses her husband to do her dirty work. Technically I (and some others) shouldn't be banned. There was a group of us, one of us said something, and we all received the boot.
This isn't the first time she's done this; a large portion of my friends were banned in the
same way for the
same reason. I'm glad there's going to be private servers so I don't have to live under the iron fist of the current mods.
In other news...
We passed $60,000 2 days ago. The beach will be expanded to include islands to explore, things to find on the beach and driveable boats. Not too interesting as of right now but I'm sure it will be interesting once it's actually implemented.
As for the next demo update, there has been no word on development. What I DO know is they're currently working on getting the alpha integrated into Steamworks, where they will be using it to deliver updates.