A quick update for the people who don't use Twitter/X.com and still wonder what is going on

I will try to make this post as short as possible (more will follow when the time comes). No, MagiPack Games is not dead. Instead it is being resurrected behind the scenes.

Back in late September 2024 my (main) mediafire account got taken down for 2 reasons:

- Bill Birnie

- Random reddit idiots who posted my mediafire links which resulted in automated bots DMCAing the links to mediafire and after multiple notices the account got suspended (I see that you sincerely tried to help other clueless people but that was not the proper way to do so)

After that event took place, we formed a small collective in our Discord server and managed to upload the whole MPG library to my Archive.org account, that is, after multiple trial & errors, and then the Internet Archive (IA) went down for almost a month.

At that very same time I was renovating my bathroom from the ground up and one of my friends joked that during the tube replacement process I accidentally cut IA's optic fibers 😂 (obviously not true), and I had little to no time to work on this project.

Fast forward to November 2024, I was looking for a reliable file hoster but none of it could be found (well, there is one but it's exclusive for dudes like FitGirl, DODI, and the etc.). The pricing was okay for me but, after thinking a bit further, I saw that this was not viable for several reasons and it would be a waste of time for me personally in the long run.

Then... I thought, why not make the files bulletproof? What? How? By using BitTorrent (What are you going to do now Billy, take down the whole Internet because of that?). Experimented a little bit with a few repacks and it worked quite good. Then on December 8th, 2024 I acquired a seedbox with a 20G pipe. And so I began working on replacing all traditional download links with magnets. It worked unbelievably well, until....

Until it was time to move on from Google's Blogger to something better.

And that better is WordPress. MagiPack Games 2.0

On December 31st, 2024, the decision was made. On January 1st, 2025 I began this massive work & effort. I am rebuilding the site from scratch, no lazy Blogger backup imports.

- 1000% Magnet links
- No more stupid link separations (to avoid automated DMCA robocops & androids)
- No ads (donations accepted - crypto, BuyMeACoffee and some others but no PayPal for security reasons)
- More clean, lean & responsive
- Working on some new additions as a MPG 2.0 welcome bonus (won't be many, nothing special or exciting)

As of today, January 26th, 2025 there are 250 posts left to be made (which should take less than a week). The new site is currently being worked on locally on XAMPP (no place like home sweet home 127.0.0.1) and it should be ready and live on a new host in about 3 weeks from now. There is still lots of work to be done including QA testing of some sort (checking myself of the work I've done so far after it is done) and this current post will most probably be copy/pasted into the new site and expanded on in more detail.

Stay tuned! See ya soon again 💪