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Or they are done with the hostile environment...
It's possible. But is the forum became very unfriendly for them? Because most of the comments that I've read before was seem to be favoring with Owl. In fact, I did not saw any post that were against them. Perhaps the forum just became "hostile" for them when issues popped up.
Good news that there is a recent resolved case, because of that, I am seeing light that they could be genuine from the reason they told us why they were leaving for a while.
We have had one of two cases in the past against the owl casino and it team, and they have failed to respond to that up till the moment they locked their ANN thread, there was no response to the complaints.
-Their silence and exit from the thread look suspicious and as a reputable casino that hard everything going for them in the last year, I don't think this is the best possible approach to things.
Maybe they decided to follow the 1xBit example... not responding to complaints and pretending nothing happened.
Forum is not friendly/unfriendly, we judge by our experience, and each of us is (or should be) free to share experience after trying some casino (positive or negative). I guess some remarks are worth gold, experienced gamblers can give insight into what is good/bad, and how to improve some features. In a way, they were getting free advice about improving their casino, and I guess we all know that business advice can cost a lot...
In the end, I think they made a wrong move... but time will tell if am I right about that.