Today, we say farewell and give our thanks to the six volunteers who have done an awesome job of supporting HoN, but have ultimately decided to take their leave.
Global Moderator and Game Master ElementUser (Special shoutout for the thousands of bugs you have fixed, and the hundreds of optimizations so that the servers aren't too stressed out)
Moderator Okuu
Senior Game Master Aya
Game Master Crysiz (The entire GM team thanks you for those dota2 keys [COLOR="gray"]though it is IMO still inferior to HoN[/COLOR])
Game Master Coolcollo
Game Master Cptyuyusama
While everyone has their own reasons, the main points have been made clear in unison.
The constant inappropriate S2 rage-bans from in game that fell upon GM and moderator reputation and workload.
Dis-respectfulness towards volunteers from employees on several different occasion. Volunteers are indeed replaceable, but dedicating their time, for free and for the sake of the community is NOT a privilege.
Unless S2 puts a serious amount of investment and effort in remedying these short-sighted flaws, HoN will not succeed in the goal of being a reputable game that is fun and balanced to play, but instead its sole use will be for monetary gain - not for people's enjoyment. It is understandable for a company to be profit oriented, but not to the extreme.
The amount of hypocrisy and double-standards displayed by S2 policies, words and actions, along with intentional ignorance towards presented issues. Lying to your volunteers is probably a bad idea as well.
The seemingly diverging and diminishing lack of efforts towards HoN's future from a longer-term outlook.
But I digress, providing a slew of empty shells of reasons is not the point of the thread. With this recent update, the reign of the first volunteer group has officially ended (at least those that hasn't been hired, thus a short shout out is due.) Special thanks to
Sucker - Though I did not know you that well, thanks for all the work you put into the forums at the beginning of HoN.
Anghkor - I'll always remember ricing SBT apps with you
Sadfish - For always being sad
Nigma - For his wonderful schlong (and comely too)
Warchamp7 - For leading Team Warchamp and droppin G's on DivA
To conclude, this did not happen out of vengeance or spite. There is no hard feelings from any of us towards S2. However, I advise the staff to treat this as a wake-up call, for while the numbers are low, every volunteer that has heard about this has cheered us on, but ultimately decided to remain for a little longer not for the sake of S2, but for the sake of a better community. So to conclude, thank you to everyone who has left today, and thank you to all the volunteers who continue on despite their feelings towards S2, and thank you to the any future volunteers that will carry on the spirit of selflessness.
To any S2 who is affected by this post, you may hate me if you wish, I don't mind.
WPGG s2
This post was edited by ecneB on Feb 7 2012 10:21am