He demodded everybody.

Yeah, and that's meant to be temporary. I thought it was great timing personally, I have a bunch of projects due this week. I can still do stuff around the game making section without being a mod too.

I guess I'm too laidback or something as change like this rarely bothers me. Hopefully this version of the site will be able to stay up and be active for a while.

I'm with ASE and others, stop the bitching, seriously. Drule is probably the best choice for admin right now, he's motivated and getting things done and that's exactly what GW needs now, without all the bureaucracy. Before I quit my job as an admin, the main problem was that we wanted GW to be more than it probably could, there were no one who could make it work (or had the time to) plus there was just too much talking and not much got done. The blog we had up in 2008 was a step in the right direction but admittedly, it didn't work out that well for two reasons. One, we didn't have any quality control for it and it's true that there were some pretty bad articles there. I was actually hoping that people would have posted more articles like freeware fridays, maybe done some album reviews or just, you know, written articles or posted news about interesting new releases, be it albums, games or movies, whatever. It would have been fine to just get some discussion going with news instead of only writing long articles. And that brings me to my second reason, which would be the lack of communication and motivation on the administration's part. I feel that the mentality we had was that we wanted to get a temp blog running and then we'd just let it be, let staffers work on content and hopefully focus on GW6. However, that was wrong, and we should have communicated more with staff, actively improved the blog and not just almost completely ignored it like we did. Saying that we wanted to focus on GW6 would be an excuse because it wasn't just that. I know that part of the reason was that we just didn't have enough time and motivation to really put our all into improving GW. We spent too much time arguing and talking about useless shit on the forums instead of focusing on what really mattered.

I resigned because I felt that I didn't want to spend the little free time I have nowadays on GW. The lack of motivation came from the lack of time and when I realized it wouldn't change, that I wouldn't REALLY get things done, I quit. Now, what comes to Mateui, I have to say he should have done the same thing long time ago. He cares for the site, I do too, and he wants to see the community do well again but the simple fact is that he's way too inactive, way too unmotivated to be an admin. I'm sure Mateui believes he's motivated, I think I am too, but when you look at how GW has deteriorated in the past years, how the community has grown smaller and maybe even more indifferent, you have to accept the facts. If we REALLY wanted to get things done, we would have. If we REALLY put our effort into it, GW wouldn't be facing the situation it is facing now, we would have gotten over our unrealistic plans for GW6, we would have realized that blaming everything on a lack of coder or code not getting done is also our fault because we didn't do anything about it. We just waited. Of course, looking back when I was still an admin, I still think there were other factors and sometimes the community really didn't help at all. So much complaining about the smallest things, so much pointless arguing and too much spending time in the site feedback to shut people up. And if you didn't do that, the next moment you'd be hearing comments that admins don't ever read site feedback or listen to members and blah blah blah.

But anyway, my point is that I greatly care about GW and if I ever get the time, I wish to make it a better place and help out somehow but it's the right decision to step down when you simply don't or can't get things done. I was in army, got a job, started studying in university and work at the same time and I also want to hang out with my friends among other stuff so it was obvious I couldn't provide what GW needed. Drule on the other hand is getting shit done, works hard and doesn't worry about what others might think and just does what he thinks needs to be done. He could and probably should have sent Mateui a PM since deadmining someone with equal status just like that isn't right (especially when you're a new admin) but that wouldn't have changed the outcome.

I look forward to the new blog and I also agree that leaving behind game development would be a wrong move. There's still interest on GW and anyone who doesn't realize that is dumb. There's still a fair amount of people here who work on their own games and even those who haved moved on have interest in game development. I like checking out other people's games, I read about new indie games and it's the same for many others, gaming is a pretty big thing here on GW. What ASE said is right, we just need to branch out more and hopefully the blog will work out this time around. I'm not sure what Drule and ASE have in mind but I think it'd be great if the blog wasn't just about game development, indie games (or gaming in general) and creative content by our users but also about music, art, politics, interesting shiz and such in general. But we'll see, so everyone stop whining and just wait and see. This is what GW needs.

Also I like the new compact forums, good job with that.

No complaints from me, but I sure hope that we don't see "here is <name of country>, let me tell you about it!" articles again.

yeah i know, this is exactly what i mean. okay, articles like that probably were interesting to some but yeah, i wouldn't want to see stuff like that on the blog again.