There seems to be a few ppl saying "Why ban him now?", "hes been quiet for ages". Yeah he has, until Saturday night, why he was quiet until then I will let ppl draw their own conclusions but it was his action Saturday night that were the final straw for me.
Ok so he and the rest of >ION< had fair reason to be pissed Saturday night, we messed em around. I'm not gonna get into any possible justification for that, if any valid one exists or not, since that is another agrument. I fully expected and accept the crap that ensued, Gazzy said in his statement that he thinks I portray -=]NRG[=- as "whiter than white", not at all. For the most part as a clan we are as bad as any other out there, things were so bad I virtually left a couple of weeks ago, there are posts on the private forum to this effect which I'm sure Martz will be happy to confirm. But like I said this isn't about which clan is the worst or whatever, this is about me and Gazzy.
Now like I said I could understand shit directed at us from >ION< on Saturday night, or for that matter on a number of other occasions, but it isn't about that. Gazzy took it to a whole other level. Flaming, saying you suck as a UT player, saying your lame for stalling cos you aint got a team, is all unfortunately an accepted part of the game
Hell I could listen to Gazzy telling me how much I suck all day long, most of my clan m8s do
If it makes him feel better I'll happily except he's a better player than me, that I am never gonna deny. But Gazzy makes it personal, and it is that which pissed me off, it's not just me he's done it to either, but this arguement is simply between him and me. Now I deleted all his posts when I banned his account and in heinsight that was a bad idea since it deleted the post he made on Saturday night, which along with turning on my g/f was the final straw for me. I think Pika said it best in that thread tho, something along the lines of "I don't post here much, but you need telling that you are way outa line". The statement that I had in someway managed to convince or conn my friends into buying that tankard for me was beyond belief. His whole post was an attempt to make a mockery of the thank you thread I posted a while back, and I've got to ask why? Not once in that thread did I even remotely flame or attack anyone, it was a thank you to my friends, pure and simple, nothing more. But Gazzy felt he had to make a mockery of that, totally unprovoked, totally unrelated to any battles between -=]NRG[=- & >ION< and he chose to use it to attack me on a personal level, trying to make me out to be something I in no way am and to make a mockery of my friends. In addition to this knowing that I would just ignore him on ICQ he decides to try and get at me through my g/f, who of you here would stand for some1 giving shit to your partner?
So there's my justification, if any where needed. And like Eq said in the other thread, it isn't if he hasn't been warned and even given lighter punishments in the past, but he just keeps coming back. This may appear to have come from no where, but it hasn't.
In closing I'd just like to comment on a few things from Gazzy's statement:
Sheer Ego - I mean let's face it, surely it must be a bit of an egobooster to have hundreds of people constantly kissing your backside, whilst at the same time having the power to just drop the whole thing, or just their side of it.
Hi Kettle, my name is Gazzy, your black. I can't beleive you of all the people in this entire world are accusing me of being of being on an ego trip, why I can't beleive it I don't know, you never cease to amaze me. But lets just assume your correct, lets assume I do everything I do, cos I like a good arse kissing. So what? If what I do is constructive and for the benefit of many people, does my reasons for doing it even matter at all? So long as what I do is in the interests and benefit of everyone, then my motives are irrelevant, and if what I do isn't in the interests or for the benefit of anyone in particular then no one, I mean NO ONE, is forced to have anything to do with me, or anything I do.
Money - Phear was originally trying to make UTAssault a long-term money spinner, either from the work itself or picking up a job like Eavy did. Since it hasn't worked out that way, UT 2003 Assault mod or whatever it is, is his second attempt at it.
Your partly right, although only a small part. I initally started the league simply to give -=]NRG[=- and organised enviroment in which to play matches. Back then we played the odd match often on public servers and the whole thing was simply an unorganised mess. I wasn't the only one who had the idea of starting a league, I was just the first person to do it. Things just progressed from there to where they are today. With the league, the main site, LeagueAS or anything I never expected to get any money from them, to have expected to get any money from them would have been rediculous. Now with the mod we are working on with UT2003, I am in part hoping to start on a path towards earning a living from being a games programmer. I don't in any way expect our mod to earn any money, but I would like it to lead to something that might or maybe a career in games programming at some point. Are you gonna begrudge me my ambitions too?
Firstly, and on the same wavelength as Phear claims to be, why should we contribute anything when we get slagged off, nickfaked, flamed the lot, ALL the time by the people we'd be supposedly helping in the community?
I'm not asking you to contribute anything, and I have never asked anyone to contribute anything. All I have ever asked is be grateful for what I and others do, or don't do or say anything at all. You chose to attack me, I chose not to do anything for you anymore.
People flamed Eavy for "running away" once he went back to Epic and ditched the AssaultBonusPack. Why don't people flame Phear yet? Because he hasn't had the opportunity to run away yet, and that's the subtle but important difference.
I don't remember Eavy being flammed for running away? And if anyone did they were out of order. Eavy wen't cos he wasn't interested in Assault anymore, i'm still here because I am still interested, although that interest is disappearing fast atm. I haven't had the opportunity to run away? What opportunity do I need? I could shut of utassault.net, the league and anything else I've done in less than 1 minute from now and be gone forever, there is absolutely nothing stopping me.
Phear stepped down as a League Admin. It's for this reason that I and most other IONers in a personal context don't recognise the ban as "legal".
So if I did decide to shut it all down, would you not percieve that as legal either?