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Announcements => Developer Blogs => Topic started by: azreal on 22-05-2012, 00:05:37
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It is with a heavy heart that I my friends, wave goodbye to all of you. While my love for this great mod has never left me, my motivation to work on it has, and unfortunately I am officially retiring from the development team.
However before I go I thought I would do something different. You see, often times in such a small gaming community of players and developers, it can be hard to facilitate communication between these two groups. Developers often times fade into the abyss of real life (rightfully so), with little warning or notice to the public. But you see, this community and this game has meant so much more to me. I started playing Battlefield 2 back in 2006. It was the first game I'd ever played on a PC, and I was instantly hooked. One thing led to another and I then discovered modding, which led me to discover various FH2 updates, which led me to discover FH1, and the rest is history. I started out just like all of you, as a regular fan of the mod reading the updates every week. It never occurred to me that I would end up being the guy who would eventually write them, but through a lot of hard work, I was able to improve my mapping skills and go from public player to betatester to developer.
It may sound cheesy, but I've really enjoyed these past few years doing what I've done. I've made a lot of friends as well, some of whom I've actually spend time with in real life, and some whom I wish I could. And overall, I have to say that I'm quite pleased with my choice to dedicate many late-night hours to this mod. I just wish I had more dedication to stay on the team and continue some of the work that I've started.
So what's next for me? Well for one I won't be writing any more news updates. There may a few weeks in delay before someone else picks up my job, but eventually someone will. I gotta say, I'll miss seeing everyone try to guess the content in each news update. I'll of course still read the forums and try to spark up conversations when I can.
What's next for the mod then I'm sure many of you have been wondering these past few months. Well I can say is be patient. Our team grows smaller each month and is kept alive by a handful of dedicated individuals at this point. Hopefully the new patch will be finished up soon and out the door for all of you to enjoy. There are few things left to reveal so keep an eye out for that as well. Beyond that all I can say is good things are coming. You might not hear about them for a few weeks, months, or even years but good things are coming.
And I think with that I can end on a good note. To everyone here in the Forgotten Hope community, I say goodnight and goodbye.
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Don't go Mike!
It's been a pleasure to sail with you on the same boat. Hope you'll find time to still follow the mod. All best on your road of life ;). Salute!
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http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/
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You will be missed. Good luck!
-arisaka/Pascucci
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no
this cant be
Farewell :(
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I've not been active too much in FH2 the last years and just discovered this forum lately. So, I don't really know you and your work, but still I'd like to thank you for everything you did for the mod.
Fare well and good luck for your future ! I just hope that this is not the beginning of the end, but I don't think so.
All developers have my highest respect, since they spent a lot of time and created the best mod I have ever played. Thank you.
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Damned :(
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While I am sad to hear of your departure, I must commend the announcement of your resignation from the Dev team.
Too often a voice has faded away from us without barely a hint of whatever became of the personalities which we have come to love, cherish, and respect.
Any particular reason for your departure?
Regardless of the outcome, best of luck to you in your endeavours and hopefully the experience of working on Fh2 has been parlayed into some form of employment within the field of game development.
Don't forget us and most importantly don't stop playing Fh2.
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Thanks for all of your dedicated work azreal. You've done a terrific job and I've thoroughly enjoyed every news update. As you leave, know that you will be honestly and truly missed. The joy you've helped to bring through this mod is something to be extremely proud of.
With that said, I must say I'm a little disheartened by the following passage.
What's next for the mod then I'm sure many of you have been wondering these past few months. Well I can say is be patient. Our team grows smaller each month and is kept alive by a handful of dedicated individuals at this point. Hopefully the new patch will be finished up soon and out the door for all of you to enjoy. There are few things left to reveal so keep an eye out for that as well. Beyond that all I can say is good things are coming. You might not hear about them for a few weeks, months, or even years but good things are coming.
Not sure if you meant it the way I interpreted it, but it seems rather ominous... I sure hope this isn't the beginning of the end for Forgotten Hope :(
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WHAT?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Tell me you at least will be from time to time developing or something, or activity in the forums. In any case...farewell and good luck with your life!
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Never knew you personally, but it is sad to you leave!
Best of luck in all of your endeavors! ;D
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Hope all goes well for you mate, the times I have talked/played with you were always a blast. I truly wish you success wherever you go from here.
Regards, Eric.
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Thank you for all the great things you have to the mod, cheers mate.
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Noooooooooooooo! :'(
I will miss your regular news updates Azreal! It was always a pleasure trying to decipher your enigmatic News titles and then find out that the real update was something totally different.
Take care mate and goodluck on your future endevours.
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Gl to you sir, thank you for giving me a reason to wake up on the wee hours of Sunday morning to see what y'all had in store for future releases. :) :'(
With that said, I must say I'm a little disheartened by the following passage.
What's next for the mod then I'm sure many of you have been wondering these past few months. Well I can say is be patient. Our team grows smaller each month and is kept alive by a handful of dedicated individuals at this point. Hopefully the new patch will be finished up soon and out the door for all of you to enjoy. There are few things left to reveal so keep an eye out for that as well. Beyond that all I can say is good things are coming. You might not hear about them for a few weeks, months, or even years but good things are coming.
Not sure if you meant it the way I interpreted it, but it seems rather ominous... I sure hope this isn't the beginning of the end for Forgotten Hope :(
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Farewell! And thanks for all the work you (and the others) did (still doing)
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I'm sure we will all miss those greatly written news updates.
Thank you azreal for all of your work and dedicated time! We will not forget it!
Farewell, and good luck in your future endeavours!
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Sad news :'(
Good luck Azreal
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Farewell and good luck on the future Azreal.
Thanks for all your work, we will miss you. :'(
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All the best and thank you -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izWUYwUUX4I
some Austrian music for that sad moment
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A shame, I always enjoyed reading your posts/updates.
I hope you'll stick around!
on a side note: I couldn't help but get the impression by what you said that the FH2 devteam is at a (near) dangerously low level of active devs, is this true?
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So long and thanks for all the fish!
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Every second news update this year has mentioned a new dev joining, but now that one leaves everyone is having a fit :P
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So what's next for me?
So, what actually is next for you? ;)
Anyway, godspeed to you, thanks for all the hard work along the years.
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Sad to hear, btw, have a good luck ! cya !
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Farewell, indeed sad news. Good luck mate.
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Azreal, in what the reason of leaving you from team developers?
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To answer some questions:
I'm leaving because of a lack of motivation and time. Between work in the summer and college in the fall, winter, and spring, I have little time left for social activities, let alone being a developer. As for what's next for me...well one of the things I pride myself on being is the youngest FH2 developer (as far as I know). At 20 years of age, all I plan to do is enjoy my summer, and then concentrate on school in the fall. I certainly won't have any time to join any new mod teams. I might come back to FH2 at some point, but it'll probably be at least a few years down the road.
And as far as the team goes, we still have plenty of dedicated devs still doing work on the mod. Just less than we might have had compared to previous releases. But that doesn't mean we are struggling to get work done or will stop development next week. As you can see from the last news update, everyone is still going strong.
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Thanks for what you did for FH2, azreal!
I'm looking forward to see you on the battlefield again one day.
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I feel you
Retired Forgotten Honor Admin
Age of 19
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Enjoy your time, if you've got any anyways :D
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To answer some questions:
I'm leaving because of a lack of motivation and time. Between work in the summer and college in the fall, winter, and spring, I have little time left for social activities, let alone being a developer. As for what's next for me...well one of the things I pride myself on being is the youngest FH2 developer (as far as I know). At 20 years of age, all I plan to do is enjoy my summer, and then concentrate on school in the fall. I certainly won't have any time to join any new mod teams. I might come back to FH2 at some point, but it'll probably be at least a few years down the road.
And as far as the team goes, we still have plenty of dedicated devs still doing work on the mod. Just less than we might have had compared to previous releases. But that doesn't mean we are struggling to get work done or will stop development next week. As you can see from the last news update, everyone is still going strong.
Thanks for the clarification!
I'm just worried about the future of FH.
Community in Russia still awaits the arrival of the Eastern Front.
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/Waits for Pacific
JK... jk.. ;D <3
With the quality in every release ill wait until y'all retire and begin modding full time if it means the quality of future releases matches that of what we've seen.
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Wow this is big news. I'm sad to hear that you're leaving after so many years of work, but all good things come to an end.
I hope that the FH2 team is able to find an able replacement, and I hope you perhaps help them with that if possible. As you said, the team is getting smaller and yet they have so much content yet to complete on this epic project! Now is as good of a time as ever for all of us to call out and try to get talent interested in working on this mod.
I for one am dying to see the Eastern Front, but it won't be possible without talented and dedicated bodies like yourself on the team.
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So, no news for long? Well, I guess we have to deal with it. But hopefully it won't take years for the next update to be released. I'm always getting hopeful when I start up the mod: "Fh2.45 is coming soon".
I just hope it will be released before I must leave in July because my military training starts.
Farewell Azreal! I'll miss your updates.
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It is sad to part with you.
But I hope you can still stay in touch with us.
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Thanks for your efforts and fare thee well!
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Thank you so much for your hard and outstanding work azreal. You will be missed. Best of luck to you.
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Cya later! Take care.
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Oh noes I will tie you up Az until you finish the map with all the shiny stars ;).
I wish you all the best with your study, girlfriend and see you on the Battlefield. A man has to play a game form time to time.
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When show map St.-Mere Eglise?
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When it gets worked on/fixed/finished. You have no idea how long it has been in development.
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Fans map have long published http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AwENGYm00w
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Sad moment :-[
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Thank you for your hard work, mate!
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I also have to say thank you for your work. I am one of those guys who joins the forum almost ever day to take a look at interesting topics, but the most interesting things were shown every sunday in these nicely encoded news and I still remember raping my F5 button and crashing the site with alot of other crazy
people ;D. Most important thing is, that nothing of your hard work is wasted and that all FH2 players really appreciate it - and that is something you could be really proud of. So once more thank you and have fun with your truly deserved sparetime. ;)