Oh my...
Someone, I think it was Olaf, asked very early on in this thread, why no one was bothering to post in this thread. The reason to me, seems obvious. The community is disillusion, and has been disillusioned with ST for a very long time. Ever since ST took over control of TS there has been bad decision after bad decision that has systematically worked to kill our beloved game.
You clearly weren't around back in days when EA were running the servers, you would realise that Strike team pretty much saved the game from death back then, when cheating was totally out of control, and the lobbys filled with script kiddies that would DDOS you offline, autostart your games constantly, and even knock the server offline completely with lobby bots from hacked serials.
Problem is, newbies like you dont realise how good you have it nowadays with Strike team compared to times before they took over.
You only seem to want to focus on the negative things ST have done, rather than all the positive, that says a lot about your character.
I know Frz and I don't exactly see eye to eye on most things, but he does make a valid point when he talks about ST's constant efforts to break apart to TS community.
Breaking apart the TS community? Do you even think about what you are going to type before typing it?
There has been no bigger attempt to break apart the community than what you guys with your little project site and TS server did, trying to poach members from this site, spamming the lobbys with adverts for your server, and trying to convince people on XWIS to go to your server, that is exactly what breaking apart a community is.
You say you will give us a TS mod; we put forward suggestions for a TS mod; you don't install a TS mod.
We couldnt find a suitable person, who did you put forward, Ray, Chris and Whitetib?
Yeh Ray bailed on TS as soon as SC2 came out, Chris is proving to be emotionally unstable and very immature when he cannot get his own way, not exactly the type of guy suitable for this position, and Whitetib has proven to be exactly what i said he always was, a forum troll.
As soon as his forum powers were gone, so was he, he couldnt care less about TS the game, he just enjoyed the drama of the community, as long as he had some control.
You are welcome to make some more suggestions for TS mod, you can suggest a zillion people, but if those zillion people dont qualify, then guesss what?
They wont be getting the job.
This is just one example of many. This whole situation has been one blunder after another. Perhaps the biggest blunder of all has been ST's ignorance of the TS community. ST just don't know how to manage people. I know Betz can sound convincing sometimes - he has a great talent for sophistry and rhetoric - but you need to realise he does not speak for the majority of TS players. In fact betz has been one of the most negative influences on the community in 11 years of gaming.
If i've done something wrong, or against the rules of the strike team forum, please feel free to report it.
This is a discussion forum, so that's what im doing,
I know its hard when your project fails, and so you look for someone to blame,
but the sensible thing to do would be to try to understand the reasons why your project failed, and learn from them.
You need to look at where you went wrong, and stop trying to blame other people for your own failures, thats the only way you will grow as a person.
You know, I would put myself forward for the role of TS mod. I know a lot of people asked me to do it. In fact I would have done it a couple of years ago. I'm more than qualified for the job. I even work in the games industry.
You have barely been active on your own project site, right?
Something you have alluded to numerous times, so how could you expect to be active here daily resolving reports?
Exactly, you couldn't, hence why you are not suitable.
Plus, I think you get too emotional over this stuff, you need stable people in these positions.
Like Bil is a robot, that guys a rock, you dont see him making "im leaving forever" or "**** st" threads, the dude is just a trooper who cracks on with the job fairly, but the problem is hes never active because hes got a job in the real world. But you need people like him in these positions.
The thing is I hate to say it, but I've moved on now. I've had enough of all the bitching and sniping. I've had enough of betzeug and his personality disorder. Most of all I have to say I've had enough of ST and their poor community management.
I hope you learn this sooner rather than later in your life, but actions speak louder than words,
the sentence above you talk about having moved on and had enough of all the bitching and sniping, yet in the very next sentence you do exactly that.
Nobody has attacked you in this thread, yet here you are taking shots at others, "bitching an sniping".
So you can talk all you like about having moved on and being done with it, but clearly you aren't.
It's been a great decade, I say that now. This game means more to me than perhaps even I give it credit for. I've literally turned from a spotty 14 year old into a 25 year old man in the time I've been playing this game. Strange to think how important this game has been in my life. I've met some great people in my time playing TS - Chris and Sean being two of the most decent, honest guys I've met - but with the administration as it is, literally allowing the community to die a slow death, it is with a heavy heart that I have to agree with Chris. There's no hope for TS any more. GG all.
More like GG your project site, and GG your attempt to hijack the community from ST.
Edited by Farang, 29 January 2011 - 04:00 PM.
