so another forum that i frequent bc it offers dedicated servers for p2p games (cod) head dev made this statement about 2 weeks ago, imagine if obsiv did something like this lol
Hello, community.
Today is a very mad sad day. Why, you would ask? Well, as I am hereby announcing that fourDeltaOne, including its community forums and game services (which include IW4M, IW5M and the friends list support for Operation2) will likely be shut down sometime this season.
Again, you might wonder to yourself, 'why?' I could say it has multiple reasons. Firstly, as some might've seen by my responses to various topics on the forums, the entire community tends to be just completely retarded. Yes, that probably includes you. Secondly, the staff is disorganized, and nothing would be doable to fix this - almost all the good people that were around this community from aIW have gone on to greener pastures now, and the current staff is for the most part the best we can get over here.
As known, any update that changes the current games gets responses like 'why did you release the update?
? the game was fine before!!!!!!111!!!!!!1111', 'our clips dont look elgit anymore this sux you suk and updates suk', 'my game crashes, fix it now or suffer' and 'the game is so bad now that it's modded'.
The latter part even is true. At least 95% of the populated servers running now on IW4M (and a similar sample on IW5M, I'd guess) are running a bad mod (iSnipe/'trickshot'/similar sniper rifle-oriented modifications primarily, but also mods that serve no purpose and are named 'team_deathmatch' for no reason take a part on this), only running a single map/'best maps' (which excludes 40% of the entire game's content) or otherwise configured in a way that, while the majority of the retarded players here seem to like it, forces everyone else to play on these servers too, due to normal servers never getting populated.
In fact, one of ATVI's own game 'environments' has even suffered the same fate: the 2010 title we all call 'T5' is only ever played on 'Nuketown', or with nothing but those @#$% useless sniper rifles. Proper modifications (like the port of the WaW 'Tank War' game mode, for instance) don't even get a chance on the game, and the most playable server ends up being 'knife/crossbow domination'... as even the regular servers don't run anything sensible!
Sadly the community for these games seems to be pretty much dying out, as shown by the people on the newer titles (Operation2 and in part IW5M) clearly showing a lower average intelligence than the already-low average - I'd actually say these games have brought very few to no actual worthwhile additions to the current active community member group. In fact, most of the current group shows 'little to no interest' in the titles provided by the community itself - which makes them highly prone to go elsewhere, and leave us with... nothing?
I want to prevent such a slow death paired with me going crazy... but at the same time I won't want to stop working on my current projects, as there's still a lot of goals to accomplish... even though I'm barely able to complete any of them with my short attention span and the lack of able developers to help out.
We had a few, certainly, but most of them either disappeared, got C&D'd or got angry at the time it took me to deploy updates; none of them ever bothered with any of my main project goals, however.
Anyway, in the best case for you people I'd just leave this community rotting a slow death, not caring about it anymore, except for restarting services, and just focusing development on my future advanced research projects, rather than the currently existing projects.
And, when they are done, the current projects will be shut down, and migrated to any ARP that might be similar. If any(one is still around by then).
Goodbye.
so previously this guy couldve made some money off his technical knowhow, but now lol.
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