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Sarge Get a bag of popcorn, heat it up come back,you're gonna need it for this post.
I Kinda feel bad that tonight I just now realized Boon deleted me on BF3. I figured the times I were always on and he wasn't was because he wasn't online playing.
Now I hear he deleted not only me but a whole bunch of other guys also that's kinda weird. I never took Boon as the kinda person who would act like that? I always pegged Boon as the more mature person from all the conversations we had in Teamspeak.
We all know how outlandish I can be in the forums with my pikachu pictures and Dan's pics in a speedo but I never thought all the shenanigans would cause enough hate to delete me and ignore me as a friend. Or so I thought.
I guess I feel caught off guard by the sudden realization/piecing together of the past couple weeks of events.
I was excited that everyone was saying that Boon was gonna be attempting to start another EA117 server for the community. I was with Orex at the time when he told me that the server was up so I jumped in immediately to fill the server up and have a great time with all our mates from EA117. It has been almost 3 months since we shut down the server so I got very excited that we would all be playing together again. But then there was a 1000skill player cap.
We all thought that was kinda ok but weird that there would be a skill cap. The next couple days we played on the server and got it started, me and orex would jump in and wait for people to start pouring in and Son would jump in with us and killroy and nighty and we had a blast, or I guess I thought we did. Then a few days pass and we all decide hey lets play some domination, Jim tried to jump in and then he said he got banned. We looked and then there was a 700 skill cap. We were all pretty stunned, didn't exactly understand what was going on. We all kinda figured it was just going to be a temp thing and would see what would happen.
Fast forward to now and I jump into Teamspeak tonight with everyone and trevor is telling me that boon deleted everyone and nightstalker was instigating in some thread Jim made about starting his own server.
I then read the entire thread and piece all the garbage and drama of the past two months together to realize that all the old members of EA117 fragmented from the newer members(or so it appears since they're never on) and now there is this huge divide in the EA117 community because of something as stupid as player skill.
First off, Boon needs to explain this sudden split in personality. I never took you as the kind of guy who would do something so ridiculous as to delete all the non-DC player guys and purposely create a server out of spite against some of us. The skill limit on the server was obviously directed at us. I wont allow you to pussyfoot around that issue and pretend to explain it off as an idea to keep a server stable and populated because at the end of the original EA117's server we established what the problem was.
The solution we all agreed upon from active admins and members was:
1. I found the the fail team balance app that didn't work and removed settings that were bugged/didn't work
2. In order to supplement an app that was intended to balance but, contradictory to that, made teams unbalanced, forced Trevor, jay and Myself to manually balance teams as the games carried on
3. We split ourselves up, though we loved playing with eachother we realized that the majority of the player base was scared off by the overwhelming amount of 117m tags (If you didn't know the story for the reason we made YOLO Squad you now know)
4.Members on their own initiative took to spreading the word about our server to popular sites like Reddit/Facebook/Twitter etc.
But since those who were deleted off your list were also those who had high skill levels, a mere child could see the correlation of the two events.I do take your actions as spiteful, to my surprise, I was in fact one of the individuals who was deleted. I've always played just for fun with members of the EA117 community. We always played together and worked together in Conquest and TDM and to my knowledge never had a problem and we only had fun.
This whole skill limit back and forth talk is a joke. Like I said earlier
TDogFresh wrote:But since those who were deleted off your list were also those who had high skill levels, a mere child could see the correlation of the two events.
It's a spiteful hit towards certain members of the EA117 community. Call it for what it is Boon. Don't hide behind this bullsh** facade, that it's "Muh Money, Muh Rules" we all see it for what it really is. This is your one way to get back at people you now hate/disagree with for the way they play or because of how skilled they are.
I can't believe the lunacy of this whole thing. I thought my jokes and posts of anime crap and Sarges mouth in the forums were the lowest we went as a community. I was proven wrong tonight.
(I feel this needs to be explained for people to understand. The whole anime thing was an Inside joke between me and Dan because he told me his girlfriend liked Naruto and I said I liked it also. He kept calling me pikachu because my last name reminded him that pokemon from the show so we ran with it and had good laughs when people would get confused and weirded out by the anime crap)
I'm sure by the time you get to here in my post you will be thinking, "wow, TDog should have PM'ed Boon instead of making this huge post and causing more drama blah blah"
Sorry this post is where we start the beginning of the end for this crap. I won't stand as member and admin in this community to allow one person to cause such a huge rift in this community by side stepping around the issue in every post for the next month until someone explodes and makes a post as serious as this one.
The EA117 community comes first. i feel this has been forgotten by a lot of people. My whole pretext for even getting involved in this community was the sight of level headed admins, individuals who were active and encouraging. I always took it to heart from the conversations I had with Dan from the begging the importance of the idea of a gaming community like this. This was the first place I had ever felt like I was apart of something great in the realm of online gaming.
I feel like im so misunderstood by everyone here, that I need to get this off my chest and maybe Boon will come back and get set back into reality. Unfortunately, for most of the newer guys they don't know how the BF3 server even got its start and how hard we had worked to make it what it was up until the end of last year.
I was clueless to everything and anything about BF3 when I first started playing. I stumbled into the EA117 server accidentally from a random matchmaking que and was met by 5 other guys. The first set of the goofiest characters I thought I could ever meet in an online game. Tim, Jack, Nick,Shane and Dan. As soon as i loaded in I was bombarded with messages "YO TDAWGGGGG JOIN US IN TEAMSPEAK MAN" "YO GO TO OUR WEBSITE AND SIGN UP!!" "STICK AROUND PEOPLE WILL JOIN SOON!!"
I was so confused I had no clue what was going on. I spawned in after I read the messages and was like well they seem confident and I got nothing better to do so i'll play for a bit. BOOM lvl 1 TDOG first thing to ever happen to me in the game was to get knifed by Dan. (You all now know why I hate getting knifed, YOU RUINED IT FOR ME DAN!!!)
Boy o' boy was I mad, I came into the game thinking I was hot sh** from my days of playing cod4 on pc, I was wrong. For some insane reason I stayed on that server though, killed over and over by everyone, I was everyones play toy in the server.
I then became curious as to all the hype of the website and gave it a look, thought it was pretty neat and made an account, I jumped into teamspeak with everyone and was soooooo scared. I was so afraid to say anything thinking that I would get banned/kicked or ignored. When everyone saw me join it was the complete opposite. everyone was like ITS TDOGGGGGGGG WE FINALLY GOT HIM TO JOIN!!!! I was taken back at all the enthusiasm for some random guy like me. I really didn't say much and tried to learn everyones voices. They all added me and I joined everyday and played with them starting the server and getting owned over and over by everyone.
Everyone was so friendly to me I really couldn't believe it. I became a real regular guy around the teamspeak, I never had the 117m tag on at first because I thought you had to be told you could wear the tags. When Dan asked me in ts one day why I never had the tags on I told him that, everyone laughed at me. Lots of hoots from Jack and Nick having a good chuckle about what I said and they all laughed and told me to put it on.
Eventually me and Trevor became real good friends as regulars on the server. Dan felt the need for new admin and started a thread for recruiting a new admin. I wanted to apply really bad but felt that I wasn't apart of the community long enough to even be considered if I even applied. Trev filled it out and was voted in and became the first non-DC BF3 admin. I was really happy that they accepted Trev as an admin but was also really surprised that they would even consider someone who wasn't from DC. A couple weeks went by and I was talking to Trev about it, Dan heard me and told me he was surprised I didn't apply and that I didn't because I figured I would get shot down because I wasn't a player from DC. Dan encouraged me to fill it out and so I did. To my surprise they voted me in and after a month trial they welcomed me in! (after a really dirty prank in the private channel(you know what im talking about Dan) on ts which made me almost cry!!)
I have spent a year and a half here with everyone in the EA117 community. I remember encouraging Jay and Mikey to join teamspeak with all of us and all the others along the way. Hearing all the great stories from Jack after a couple bottles of whiskey. Dan's stories of preparing to become a police officer. Nick, they guy who I thought cut fancy bushes for a living in England!!!!!! Shane the crazy sniper who I would always hang with in the mountains of caspian border! Tim's unbelievable stories of climbing rocks with jeeps CLIMBING ROCKS WITH JEEPS!!! HE EVEN HACKS IN REAL LIFE SOMEONE BAN TIM NOWWWWW!!!!
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With all these great memories I can't believe we have actually fallen this low. I feel bad now sounding mean somewhere up there in this huge ball of text but this post is about how much this community matters to me and how much I think people take for granted or act towards me, even jokingly. How much it hurt me to learn how little Boon cared for me. I thought we were friends but I learned that our friendship was so shallow that something as stupid as skill level would end that friendship.
I hope you can shed some light on this madness.
Sorry if you ran out of popcorn Sarge, if you even made it this far lol.
Microsoft Word2010 says I typed 2100 words for this and I still haven't typed my 500 word movie review of Braveheart.