I often wonder what happened to many of the late and greats from days gone by,
In general, most of them used Fh2 to buff their credentials and the moment that paycheques start to roll in they generally fucked right off from ever seeing us again. Personally, I miss their participation alot, as there used to be a time when we as the playerbase could actually interact with the creator's in the environments that they created.
In days gone by, it was not uncommon to face off against Dev squads. Hell, even Lobo used to visit WOLF (during NA hours) and there was, in general, a much greater sense of camarederie than exists today.
don't worry about it...
believe me when I say that many of us have worried about this. To this day, I still remember the last time I saw RAD online and it was shortly before his passing. He briefly joined us online, reminisced about past development, (in particular how RAD and CTZ spent shitloads of time just trying to get the BF2 mod editor to work) He finally said his goodbye, encouraged us to keep playing this wicked mod and...
A couple days later, he was dead, and we only found out because his sister saw fit to google us down and report the sad news of his passage.
Personally, after developing strong relationsships to some of these people, I see it as a slap in the face, the way that retired-Dev's are sort of pushed to the margins and not properly celebrated. For a change, it would be nice to know what happened to them.
Did they retire? Die? go bankrupt? Sign Non-disclosures/participation agreements? Get forced out over internal issues? Move onto bigger/ better mods? Martyr themselves in Afghanistan? Have children/get married?
It would be nice to know, but I bet we never will. The Fh2 community is mature and we can deal with the good news, as well as the bad, but I harbour suspicion that the FH2 team doesn't respect that fully.