I don’t know why I keep doing this, but I’ve realized that I stretched myself too thin. I thought it would be ok, most of the PFL stuff stays on Monday nites (yeah right), TFTech is a matter of answering a few (*cough*as long as there isn’t a patch*cough*) emails a day, which usually only take a minute or two each, I’d get to updating the page eventually. The TFC Reform page couldn’t be much different, so I can handle that, too. What’s an editorial once in a while?
Well, I’ve realized something. The only reason I installed Half-life on my system the last time I formatted my hard drive was to spectate matches and watch demos for the PFL. I haven’t done a single thing but answer a couple of emails and collect them for TFC Reform so far, and TFTech hasn’t been updated in so long that the copyright notice on the page is 2 years old and most of the links to patches and tweaks are dead.
The game itself doesn’t do much for me any more. A random pub server is a constant reminder of what Valve still needs to fix in this game, since the llamas really love the stupid pet tricks that we call bugs. The pubs I used to frequent, generally filled with well skilled clan level players, tend to bring a share of bunnyhoppers and cheaters. Watching demos on a weekly basis, I can now provide a decent list of problems with the ’fixed’ demo playback in TFC. Well, at least the demos play back.
I sincerely apologize to Slick (Warthog? yeah, and this message is coming to you from Vizeroth, thanks; sorry man, you’re still Slick and I’m still PainKilleR, it’s awefully hard to change these things) and everyone else here for saying I’d do these things when I should’ve known I could not handle them. I apologize even more that you’ll have to read this in the same place that everyone else will.
Starting tomorrow evening, I’m not going to bother answering the emails sent to the tftech and reform addresses. I hate to do that to those people looking for help, but I really can’t stand the questions any more, and I won’t be able to keep up when another patch or two come along and the game generates even more errors, without fixing the old ones. I’ll be filtering through the email at painkiller@planetfortress.com and getting back to anyone that needs any information I may have regarding tftech and TFC Reform until such time as someone sees fit to shut off the email address on planetfortress’ side.
Final notes:
-apologies to Valve, this is the second time I’ve taken a position in which I was given what could have been good connections with you guys to take care of some of the things that’s wrong with your game, and then dropped the ball on my end. I’ll try not to do it again 
-I no longer wish to have anything to do with GSI. They’ve shown to me repeatedly that the communities that form around their sites don’t mean a damned thing to them. If they knew a little more about marketing and public relations they’d be dangerous, but they don’t, so they just come off as what they are: a bunch of people trying to hard and far too often taking the wrong turn and just barely finding their way back.
-And my final apologies: sorry to anyone here at planetfortress that catches hell for this last pair of notes. PF’s been a great place, but GSI’s sucking the soul out of it, just as they did most of the other sites in their network.
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