Important Help me bring XPOFF into the modern esports world

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Celax said:
From my interaction with him, McConnell was a really nice guy. If anything, could be beneficial.
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I know, but it’s more of the yin/yang relationship I’m pointing at.
 
Welcome back. Look forward to your new ideas and (hopefully positive) additions/changes!
 
Swoops said:
Welcome back!







Congrats on everything you've accomplished. Over the years it's sounded like you worked really hard for it, and following your dreams like this is always a tough risk to take. Honestly really happy for you that it paid off.

Having seen your wild imagination in action, I find it hard to believe that any achievement could surpass it. It always seemed like your best and worst quality. I'd never want to ask you to give it up, but I hope you can reign it in a bit when it comes to this site and community. It makes you who you are - and that's great - but it also led you to make some questionable decisions as the owner of TI/xpoff.

It felt like the site was constantly pulled in different directions on your whims. When one thing didn't work out, it'd lead to a complete 180 in the other direction. From a complete ban and blacklist of private servers, to going all in on an official one, to the aftermath of that official server, whatever it was. Moderation policies were rewritten with overreactions. Dreams concerning the Twink Cup making it big, the XPOff league, and the other big esports thing that I'm forgetting the name of. Giving the keys to some questionable people because you were enamored with their and your grand plans. I think the entire mod staff was removed at some point, when it was filled with some of the most reasonable people that have ever been a part of this site.

That being said, you deserve the benefit of the doubt. You always had good intentions, and always cared about the community. A lot of your decisions seemed to come about because this site was your (attempted) main source of income. Now that you have a thriving esports career, hopefully you can keep your expectations a bit more in check. At the end of the day, twinking is a niche playstyle in a 15 year old game. It's fun, there's definitely potential for growth and we've all stuck around for a reason, but it can only go so far.

This place won't go anywhere without the people here right now. Coming in with a purge in the name of mainstream support from Blizzard and other organizations won't do anything but alienate the existing community. Maybe things are different this time, and your connections will help big plans actually come to fruition. Unfortunately, nothing from your past leadership of the site gives us has any reason to believe that'll happen.

Start small and keep reasonable expectations, especially since you're essentially working four jobs right now. Money and mainstream support doesn't magically create functioning esports scenes, growth needs to happen organically. Won't happen without the current and past community, and it'll be a tough sell getting them on your side if you don't try to earn their trust first.
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This is probably the most level-headed and constructive post anyone will say. With that being said, I'm sorry you spent so much time typing this up swoops as it'll fall on deaf ears.

The numerous bans already, complete restructure of mods (when the current team was doing pretty well), and 1st true change being to bring back arguably the most hated feature by everyone but those that care about traffic show that absolutely nothing will be different this time.

Dictatorship built on control and mood swings.
 
Lil said:
This is probably the most level-headed and constructive post anyone will say. With that being said, I'm sorry you spent so much time typing this up swoops as it'll fall on deaf ears.

The numerous bans already, complete restructure of mods (when the current team was doing pretty well), and 1st true change being to bring back arguably the most hated feature by everyone but those that care about traffic show that absolutely nothing will be different this time.

Dictatorship built on control and mood swings.
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Rest assured everything that has been done so far has been apart of a plan which has been being developed for the past six months.

Things will smooth over, lots of amazing things in the works for XPOFF!
 
Dorigon said:
Where is Myrm?
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So many people getting their account banned already. This is so sad to see.
 
If this is for real, I'm really excited and hopeful. Will be very interesting to see what you can bring to the table. Twinking have been crazy depressing lately, more than ever imo. Not just because of the game but many of the ppl in it. Just look at the responses in here.

I'm well aware of the fact that you werent the most liked person but it's not like this kind of behavior is directed to you only. Any changes that can fix that I welcome warmly.

I'm glad that you are back and I don't give a fuk about what ppl think about it. If 10% of what you are saying is true it will help alot more than anything else that has happened lately which is just toxic ppl growing in size and poison.
 
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