by Junkyardboy » Tue Feb 25, 2014 4:23 pm
I honestly understand both sides of the story. I know exactly where PACO is coming from, but I can relate a little to PUN. No one is truly to be blamed other than yourself.
PACO took the initiative to start globalunreal without anyone's help(the idea and concept, he did have a lot of people in the community that helped him form globalunreal) and even before he became headadmin. If you play and love the game as much as PACO did and have a passion to compete, I'm sure one could step up and take the community to several more seasons and tournaments.
I know where Pun is coming from and I've been there...trust me, it sucks sitting at 8/10 and not having the activity to fill up a pug. I've been around for years and seen the community and pugs go down to just 1 pug per day...in the tdmpickups community, 1 pug a week if that.
I've learned a long time ago to cope with pugs not filling and simply joining a pub server and finding my enjoyment for the game just on the pub server. A lot of pug players go there, I feel like Pun, you should look into joining a pub while you wait to see if a pug fill up. In fact, if you see someone in that pub, try and bring them on to teamspeak and irc to help fill that pug. Someone's gotta play the headhunter role and recruit new players. We can't just be fed dinner on a plate...you gotta go hunting a little. That's exactly where PACO came from...
The one thing I see, that some people may not is that both PUN & PACO had*have similar goals..wanting pug channel to be active and new players to join in on the community, but it's obvious and clear that PACO ran out of fire, stream and passion due to many reasons...Pun just pointed the finger at PACO because he was used to having dinner served right on a plate, which makes sense..if as a kid your parents stopped putting dinner on the table, your first reaction is to blame them for no dinner. But we are all grown adults and all capable of doing something good for the community. Because of alll the bitching all the players have done, We alienated the shit outta of our admins and treated them like shit and this is the end result.
All I know is, if you enjoy the game(which all of you still do since you still place), pug up and play when you can. If a pug is not starting, join a pub server while you wait for the pug to fill. And if you truly love the game and want it to florish, you gotta farm up some new players on the pubs and be easy and nice to them when they join. The number of negativity towards bluntz and dabz(both new players to my understanding) is surreal, i'm surprised they are still pugging with all the hate towards them when in fact they help fill half of the pugs we have today.
If anyone remembers explotus, he was "noob" when he first started and a lot of players hated on him or hated being stuck on his team. But he honestly helped fill every single pug back before globalgamers even started, and with a little bit of time, he became a decent flag runner...same goes for b0w0w too for anyone that remembers. I remember back when bowow didn't even know english and kappa had to translate to him. look at him now!
Anyways...im ranting, i don't know where i'm going, but w/e...that's my 2 cents.