Good day, gamerfriends. Amidst all the celebration and joy that’s going on this week for OMGeek’s 1-year anniversary, I have some slightly sobering news: we have decided to stop hosting Minecraft for now. It wasn’t an easy decision to make, because deep down I’ve kept my happy memories of Minecrafting with the community, and somehow entertained the idea of getting back to it “someday”. The reality is that we’re paying for a server that isn’t getting enough attention and support. Hey, there are so many other games that we want to play, and there are only enough hours in a day, and there’s only one of each of us!
The money we will save from stopping the service will go into our long-term community and server goals, which I will share in a post that will go up later this week. I just want to make it clear that we have the best interests of the OMGeek community in mind, and that the goals we have set will further our vision of providing a warm and friendly haven in Southeast Asia for mature people who play all sorts of games.
The Minecraft server will be going down after September 20, 2012, which is, well, tomorrow. Nothing is permanent, so if the demand becomes high enough, we don’t see any problem in bringing it back. For now, though, I guess this is goodbye, thanks for the memories, and we’ll always have the grave of Psycrow’s cat to remember.
Although I initially came here to play Minecraft, I got so much more out of the community that I got a little side tracked with other community titles like ArmA and now Guild Wars 2. It’s sad to see our little town hall disappear though, and that rail track Desmond and I built encircling the hall and warehouse, linking the other players outposts to the main area as well. Fong’s KFC factory and observatory, how the town hall area became a snow biome overnight, and of course Psycrow’s cat’s grave are good memories of what makes this community awesome. Here’s to hoping it’ll be brought back some day!
EDIT: If you guys do decide to bring it back, look into a tekkit server, that might garner more interest than vanilla. Although it isn’t a vanilla experience, players can still play any way they want, be it industrialcraft, redpower2, buildcraft or good ol vanilla.
OMG my cat! Whoever screw my cat’s grave, He will hunt you to death! I’m going to miss our server. yeah our community is getting bigger and bigger. it’s not a bad idea but yeah. a lot of games got released this year. Damn I haven’t finished my house yet XD!
One day we shall make happy memories in Minecraft again!
Our community isn’t that big yet to keep other servers active at the moment 8(
Can I have the world map data for memento’s sake?
Minecraft is back! Closing thread.
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It’s sad to see our little town hall disappear though, and that rail track Desmond and I built encircling the hall and warehouse, linking the other players outposts to the main area as well. Fong’s KFC factory and observatory, how the town hall area became a snow biome overnight, and of course Psycrow’s cat’s grave are good memories of what makes this community awesome. Here’s to hoping it’ll be brought back some day!
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So many memories! I enjoyed that twisty turny minecart ride, and I remember going on an egg raid in Fong’s secret underground chicken cloning vat lab while he wasn’t around. Good times, guys.