For the love or god, online gaming and rodents. I can not believe what I just spent over an hour reading. It is like I slipped and hit my head while getting in the Hot Tub Time Machine.
Way back in Jan of 2006 I read the exact thing that was the original post of this thread and from that I moved forward without asking questions about anything. I used my own common sense and the simplicity of this structure laid out for me by those who had been involved in building online gaming clans with pretty good success to that point.
There wasn't a need to question it, flip it around or make up crap that wasn't written in it.
What is there is clear as day however, there were always these pesky rodents that just never got it.
Fast forward in time to well, 8 years later and sure enough, the stupidity continues.
Having had this same dumbass argument with other rodents along my many years in and around online gaming I can tell you it surely is a waste of time as it falls on deaf ears which sit on an idiots head with no brains.
What these rodents and other yucky forms of life always fail to realize, It's just a forum on a website based around online gaming. We are not talking about national healthcare laws or some other massively world effecting issue.
And for those that get their panties in a bind about the rules maybe changing or there being unwritten rules of some kind. Realize, if a group of people wish to create a site and post stuff on it and change the rules to suit their needs, so what. Guess who pays the bills for the community?
Not the rodents.
The generous smart folks which give their money and time to provide an enjoyable environment for gamers to be together and have fun are the ones that pay the bills. They have the final say no matter what and you don't have to like it nor stick around. Your opinion or so-called helpful suggestions for improvements are not wanted unless asked for.
My goodness, I can't believe this same stupid argument still lives on.
Who the hell cares if XG makes money or not.
I left this great community, one that I was honored to be in and know I was a huge part of building for many reasons. While I was already set on walking away one of those reasons was in fact to make money working online. Specifically building a website for gamers that was a bit more of a blend of facebook and a blog.
Of course, that failed big time because of the ridiculousness of the idea that you could somehow create something new and exciting while trying to work with and make other people happy that didn't have the same agenda.
When you have multiple people involved in the decision making it is very hard to always keep it focused on the primary goal. Of course, you also have to make sure that those people actually have the same goal in mind. That's where most people that move on from XG fail.
They think they are smarter than what is right in front of them so they first start with giving advice or suggestions on how things should be different. I am not talking about positive suggestions or offering up a new way of doing something that others may not know about.
I am talking about the pointing out of what is already in place in a negative way or attacking what is there as if to say, hey you all did this stuff wrong it should be done this way.
Seriously?
XG has been around for a long damn time.
Do they have some fancy social networking site which gets millions of visitors per day?
Nope.
Does the site have tons of interactive media rich content on it?
Nope.
Do you see XG's name out there at MLG events?
Nope.
Are they some feared clan when they go into matches?
Not really but they should be because I can tell you from experience of many years in XG, you didn't beat XG often. Especially when coming up against a core group of the leaders who had played together so many times they could go into a game, not speak a word about the game they were in and still win overwhelmingly because they knew what everyone else was going to do and could play off that.
Where am I going with all this, simple.
The original friends that were gaming together all had the same goal.
Get online and play games together. Then invite others to join in so they could have more people like them to play games with.
It wasn't build an online gaming community and get rich.
If they did get rich from it, good for them. They came up with something and found a way to make money at it.
At the end of the day folks, XG works because it had a solid foundation of like minded people running it. Those people then recruited more of the same and over time the community has remained one of the strongest online gaming communities there is.
As I said, NO it's not an OPTIC or some other slightly more well known name which is out there in the limelight but it is for sure a place that many games call home when they get online to game. You know that normal average gamer looking to get online with good people and play games in a simple, safe, enjoyable and fun environment.
At the end of the day, that's what it's suppose to be about.
Ok, I guess my first official post after nothing for 4 years has been long enough.
You may no go back to what you were doing. Hopefully it was having fun with your friends while gaming.
Good Game and goodnight!
