Wow!
I stop paying attention for a few months, and BAM the whole place goes crazy...
While you all have found out about this in April, I just came across it all
today... Holy Cow!
I'm still reading the various Massively articles on it, and whatnot -- it's gonna take a bit to process, and I confess to feeling all the emotional roller-coaster stuff that everyone else felt.
In some ways, I can sympathize with Eliot's viewpoint in his article -- heck I have chatted with Leandro (in CoH, and in TR) in the past, and I even posted in that "On private servers" thread,
4 years ago, so to read all this now, is a complete shock to me... As I try wrapping my head around the "what, and for how long" this was all buried, while so much other stuff was going
on concurrently, in parallel, comes with a distinct sense of the surreal for me.
Now don't get me wrong -- I'm NOT sharpening any pitchforks or anything like that. As a former software developer myself, I completely understand much of rationale that kept this whole thing
underground, but I can certainly see how the
reveal had the effect it did. I'm feeling a bunch of it now, myself.
Otoh, that's all Old News to you guys, so back to the practical
![Wink ;)](/forum/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
I guess I need to figure out how to get back on board these days.
![Grin ;D](/forum/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
Thanks Tony, for this update post -- it's a great point of clarity, and much appreciated. Hopefully, I'll get to see some of you folks online once again soonish!
Regards,
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