Project Gorgon dev addresses moderator blowup, says only two players were banned

Project Gorgon’s team has responded after a moderator dispute on Discord and in-game chat spilled onto Reddit this week. The argument started around familiar player concerns over server population and whether the Miraverre server would be merged, then escalated after moderator Jackencola told one player to “go play another game” if they weren’t comfortable with the team’s stance.

Studio co-founder Eric Heimburg later said the moderator’s messaging was “unprofessional during a heated moment” and that the team is reviewing what happened. In follow-up messages shared on the game’s Discord, Heimburg also pushed back on claims of mass bans, saying only two players were banned for 180 days and that several others were temporarily muted in chat. According to the Discord statement, employees, not volunteer moderators, handle bans longer than three hours.

A lot of the backlash centered on clips and screenshots posted to Reddit, but the full exchange appears to have involved a longer back-and-forth over server population, moderation, and players needling staff after the initial comment. Heimburg said the team doesn’t plan to keep debating the incident publicly while the review is ongoing.

The server question itself isn’t new. Project Gorgon’s developers have been saying for months that they aren’t planning merges right now, and that answer doesn’t appear to have changed. That’s what kicked off the latest round of arguments in the first place.

Project Gorgon, for anyone who hasn’t kept up with it lately, is the long-running indie MMORPG from Elder Game that’s still in early access on PC. The game has a small but dedicated playerbase, which also means moderation flare-ups and population worries can get loud fast when they hit community spaces.

For now, the main confirmed points are pretty simple: the team says Jackencola’s response crossed a line, only two bans were issued in this incident, and a broader review is still underway. One of the Reddit threads that helped spread the dispute is here, though some of the surrounding context remains disputed.