Bit of an overreaction.
Before there was even a Memb stream, a viper or mbl stream or scripter for that matter... when Zone went down in 2006, we got stuck with Gamepark, which was basically like GameRanger and the game was dying at a rapid pace (no features and no momentum). Players wise, there wasn't many around anymore, there was a Daut and a Chris and a few old farts like the chileans, funito etc. No tyrants or basically anyone who is currently in the top 30 of Voobly. These are basically all new players who benefited/discovered IGZones or Voobly.
Elusive, m0d and eXecute and a bunch of beta testers created IGZones (Voobly) in late 2006 and released it in roughly 6 months with a working anticheat, lobbies, friend messenger list, ratings, profiles etc., There was a cohesive effort to create a community place for this game, pretty sure elusive did not even dream of making money back then (I can tell you him and other admins burned countless amount of money initially, plus the unpaid work hours). IGZones essentially started aoczone as well (after its predecessor aocgroup stopped being available online).
So what I'm trying to say, while clearly Chris needs some PR person, don't exaggerate things. Particularly the ones that never played this game pre-2012 and think HD is the "reason" AoC is alive. Pleaseeeeeeee. You guys have no idea. Voobly predates Reddit, steam, twitch etc and the founding of this platform was for the community and the game, not dollars.
So do complain about Chris's ruthless tendencies to behave like Maduro, but don't blame the platform.
Steam is a hot pile of garbage and the chances of Microsoft ruining multiplayer gaming are really high. So yeah, take it easy on little Voobly.
Before there was even a Memb stream, a viper or mbl stream or scripter for that matter... when Zone went down in 2006, we got stuck with Gamepark, which was basically like GameRanger and the game was dying at a rapid pace (no features and no momentum). Players wise, there wasn't many around anymore, there was a Daut and a Chris and a few old farts like the chileans, funito etc. No tyrants or basically anyone who is currently in the top 30 of Voobly. These are basically all new players who benefited/discovered IGZones or Voobly.
Elusive, m0d and eXecute and a bunch of beta testers created IGZones (Voobly) in late 2006 and released it in roughly 6 months with a working anticheat, lobbies, friend messenger list, ratings, profiles etc., There was a cohesive effort to create a community place for this game, pretty sure elusive did not even dream of making money back then (I can tell you him and other admins burned countless amount of money initially, plus the unpaid work hours). IGZones essentially started aoczone as well (after its predecessor aocgroup stopped being available online).
So what I'm trying to say, while clearly Chris needs some PR person, don't exaggerate things. Particularly the ones that never played this game pre-2012 and think HD is the "reason" AoC is alive. Pleaseeeeeeee. You guys have no idea. Voobly predates Reddit, steam, twitch etc and the founding of this platform was for the community and the game, not dollars.
So do complain about Chris's ruthless tendencies to behave like Maduro, but don't blame the platform.
Steam is a hot pile of garbage and the chances of Microsoft ruining multiplayer gaming are really high. So yeah, take it easy on little Voobly.