Wednesday, August 4, 2010

In a slowly deteriorating community, veterans persevere.

As the IDs of new blocklanders climb higher and higher, it seems to me that the community is starting to lose its metaphorical grip a little. The advent of UnPnP (Universal Plug 'n' Play) allowing people to host servers without having to manually port-forward has in a way loosened the reigns a little. Now, nearly any average person can host a server and showcase their talent to the community. Unfortunately, there is also a darker side to this. Since almost anyone can host, that also means that far less mature and contained members (trolls, haters, bigots, etc.) can draw far more attention to themselves. These vectors, if you will, are often the cause for veterans like myself to leave the community and move on. Many have taken this path, some of which were good friends and acquaintances of mine.

Thankfully, however, many are starting to return to Blockland -- or at least, sticking around and dropping in every once in a while. Take Spation, for example. Up until recently, I hadn't seen him in at least 6-8 months. I've seen the likes of Stratofortress and Reformist too. Quite a few of us have never truly left, like Jirue, Maxwell, Kyle Brickalo, Randomguy, Destroyer and many others. Hopefully, more will come back, and fewer will go away in the future. We need to pass our good values to the next generation of blocklanders, just like the previous-current did to us back in version 7.

3 comments:

  1. I've seen old players that host just as bad servers as new players. It also doesn't help that many of the older players have a huge ego.

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  2. That's true, although a lot of them do it just for show. They're mostly good people,. by and large.

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  3. I'm cool enough, i should say. also, this website is tops fyi.

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