SidewinderX
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Letter to the Community
5/09/04
David “SidewinderX” Petkofsky
Hello,
Some of you may know me, some of you may not. I am David “SidewinderX” Petkofsky. I am a staff member at Halflife2.Net. I also lead the mod Cold War: Melting Point. I'd just like to preface this by saying that I am posting this in the Halflife2.net forums, the Half Life Radio Forums, and the HL2World Forums.
I have been an active member of this community since May of 2003, right after I got my issue of PCGamer that broke the story on Half-Life 2 for me. I have been in and out of every part of this community since. What is happening now is horrible. What I am talking about is the abuse, the insulting, everything that is going on between the various sites of this community.
I'd like to say this now. We are fans of a game. Period. We all are looking forward to the same game. We are members of different sites. Some of these sites have different opinions about how to handle certain things, such as the stolen files. Whatever. Why is there this constant bickering between sites? Why are people so... so hateful towards one another? This fighting is childish.
I'm not pointing fingers at anyone or any site here. All parties share the blame. Regardless of what you might say, each site has been in the wrong before, and has acted immaturely in handling it. And I'm not saying I'm innocent either. I've definitely done immature things in these “site wars.” But it should stop. Yes, xxx lied about that. Or yyy has done that. So what? Why make a big deal of it? We are all looking forward to the same game! Some are excited about the mods, some are excited about the single player, some just want to look at Alyx! GREAT! There are, and there always will be, many different sites for this game. But can these sites just be that? Different sites? People can get a second or different opinion at these sites, or talk to other people at these sites. Why can't that be all?
So here is the proposal I make now. Each site, each moderator, each admin, each member, say, “Ok. XXX site did this immature thing. ZZZ site lied about this. YYY Site has this policy I don't like. So what. From now on, I'll just goto the site of my choice, or even all of them. Post in those forums, talk, teach, learn, laugh, whatever. I don't care what this other site's admin said about this site a week ago, I'm a gamer, this is my community. Let me enjoy it.”
We're not competing for some million dollar “Best HL2 Site Award.” We don't have to act like we are.
I hope that all of you read this, and possibly respond. Remember, we're gamers. This is about a game.
Thank You,
David “SidewinderX” Petkofsky
5/09/04
David “SidewinderX” Petkofsky
Hello,
Some of you may know me, some of you may not. I am David “SidewinderX” Petkofsky. I am a staff member at Halflife2.Net. I also lead the mod Cold War: Melting Point. I'd just like to preface this by saying that I am posting this in the Halflife2.net forums, the Half Life Radio Forums, and the HL2World Forums.
I have been an active member of this community since May of 2003, right after I got my issue of PCGamer that broke the story on Half-Life 2 for me. I have been in and out of every part of this community since. What is happening now is horrible. What I am talking about is the abuse, the insulting, everything that is going on between the various sites of this community.
I'd like to say this now. We are fans of a game. Period. We all are looking forward to the same game. We are members of different sites. Some of these sites have different opinions about how to handle certain things, such as the stolen files. Whatever. Why is there this constant bickering between sites? Why are people so... so hateful towards one another? This fighting is childish.
I'm not pointing fingers at anyone or any site here. All parties share the blame. Regardless of what you might say, each site has been in the wrong before, and has acted immaturely in handling it. And I'm not saying I'm innocent either. I've definitely done immature things in these “site wars.” But it should stop. Yes, xxx lied about that. Or yyy has done that. So what? Why make a big deal of it? We are all looking forward to the same game! Some are excited about the mods, some are excited about the single player, some just want to look at Alyx! GREAT! There are, and there always will be, many different sites for this game. But can these sites just be that? Different sites? People can get a second or different opinion at these sites, or talk to other people at these sites. Why can't that be all?
So here is the proposal I make now. Each site, each moderator, each admin, each member, say, “Ok. XXX site did this immature thing. ZZZ site lied about this. YYY Site has this policy I don't like. So what. From now on, I'll just goto the site of my choice, or even all of them. Post in those forums, talk, teach, learn, laugh, whatever. I don't care what this other site's admin said about this site a week ago, I'm a gamer, this is my community. Let me enjoy it.”
We're not competing for some million dollar “Best HL2 Site Award.” We don't have to act like we are.
I hope that all of you read this, and possibly respond. Remember, we're gamers. This is about a game.
Thank You,
David “SidewinderX” Petkofsky
