I've heard from Alexander Vikulin at VOG, as well. I will post an excerpt as it was a lengthy and very informative email.
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"Thank you. The positive feedback that we are getting from Blocktionary players really helps to boost motivation to release it as soon as possible. The players should realize that advertisement brings almost no revenue these days. We tried it and we were generating something like $100-$200 per month from ads. Now situation at the ads market is even worse. It's clear that we cannot run the site on such money. We pay a minimum of $750 per month for server co-location at a fast Internet Data Center. And we have to feed our families too. 300 paid members per year is a minimum number that may justify investment of time and money in developing Blocktionary by us." "I'd appreciate if Blocktionary community really brainstormed the issue taking in account any and all possible options that they'd wish to see in the VOG game. It would be easier and faster to program it if we had all game features and options clear before the first line of code is written. And I believe it would be good to move the game at a new level by adding features that players wanted, but didn't have at playlink."
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He has also asked Ergo and I to design the board! They already have ideas on the configuration and have sent all those details to us as well. The name they are considering for the game is "vocabulous", but they loved Dementia's idea for a "name the game" contest. They also suggested a contest for designing the icon as well. We will add a special page for each contest to my website this weekend, so we're off and running!!! Not only will we be playing block soon, but we can all work together in the meantime to make it something we can all be proud of.