ParrotHead wrote: Well I, for one one, feel less than welcome. I feel violated by this community. I gave unconditional support to this game. I supported Echoboom in their efforts. I bought the game several times. I bought coin several times. I brought tons of friends to the game. I joined a unique squad and fell in love with its members. I made friends here that I hope to keep for a lifetime. However, I watched the developer of this defunct little game take a big steaming crap on this squad and some of its key members and now I watch those that remain gripe and complain because the offended parties actually took offense.
This squad isn't "owned" by any one of us. It isn't "owned" at all. It is us. I'm shocked that we, as "us", haven't supported the requests of the most dedicated of "us". I'm appalled that so many of "us" are outright abusive and disrespectful. It saddens me, but after years of being one of "us" that I'm jumping ship. Y'all take this group and do what you will with it. You should have the common courtesy to not use material that you've been asked not to, but I'd be more shocked by everyone here doing that than by all the other BS I've seen lately. John, I'm most disappointed in what you've done here. You are right, it's costing you friends and you can count me among them.
I intend this to be my last post.
Gary, if you read this, understand that I have my reasons, at first I stood by what Rick was asking, but then I thought long and hard about it and I thought that what was being done here, was not the right thing to do by the guys who stay here, they had a right and right to have a say in things. I thought a lot of Rick and still do, but the squad is not and never was about one man, it's about fifty or a hundred or a thousand others, one man created the squad, it's all those others, including you who made it what it is. This is where MOM began, now it's in one other game, it's to have its own web site as it supposedly branches out to other arenas, yet here, this game where it all began is to be excluded, not the individuals admittedly, but the game, does this mean those who only want to play this one game are to be barred from the site. Rick has left a legacy here, in the form of all those banners he made, in his wit, in his sense of fair play. We choose to honour that legacy, not sweep it into some dark corner.