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General Discussion / Re: Is CG 'Dying'?
« on: May 27, 2014, 07:07:48 PM »
Alright, I'll take a minute to respond to this on behalf of Catalyst-Gaming.
We do understand the concern for CG's future, player count is obviously lower than history. This is troubling to our members as well as the staff. Catalyst-Gaming is going on 4 years old soon; arguably one of the longest running communities based on Garry's Mod. We have had our down periods, and this is one of them. Catalyst-Gaming is confident in our ability to perform in these situations and perhaps a level of transparency is good about now.
You all probably know about our efforts with CGRP and HRP2. Our development staff is hard at work trying to get these gamemodes out the door, however work can only happen so fast. You have probably also seen Roflwaffle asking for extra donations towards the end of every month. It should be obvious, but if it's not, Catalyst-Gaming is a bit short on funds due to the decreased player activity. We are beginning to feel the pressure of maintaining our overhead costs while at the same time trying to expand and develop new games. It's important to bear with us while we try.
With that said, I feel I need to stress the fact that Catalyst-Gaming is not in danger of shutting down, however we have had discussions about downsizing while we attempt to bring down costs. You can play on our servers confident that your hard work and digital items won't be made worthless in the foreseeable future.
As a final word, I'd like to speak for myself. Believe me when I say that we're working very hard to ensure accessibility to our services and game servers. We have backup plans in case we really can't make a payment. I assure you that the website will never be shut down and we will find ways to keep services online even if we have to sacrifice a bit of luxury or performance.
We do understand the concern for CG's future, player count is obviously lower than history. This is troubling to our members as well as the staff. Catalyst-Gaming is going on 4 years old soon; arguably one of the longest running communities based on Garry's Mod. We have had our down periods, and this is one of them. Catalyst-Gaming is confident in our ability to perform in these situations and perhaps a level of transparency is good about now.
You all probably know about our efforts with CGRP and HRP2. Our development staff is hard at work trying to get these gamemodes out the door, however work can only happen so fast. You have probably also seen Roflwaffle asking for extra donations towards the end of every month. It should be obvious, but if it's not, Catalyst-Gaming is a bit short on funds due to the decreased player activity. We are beginning to feel the pressure of maintaining our overhead costs while at the same time trying to expand and develop new games. It's important to bear with us while we try.
With that said, I feel I need to stress the fact that Catalyst-Gaming is not in danger of shutting down, however we have had discussions about downsizing while we attempt to bring down costs. You can play on our servers confident that your hard work and digital items won't be made worthless in the foreseeable future.
As a final word, I'd like to speak for myself. Believe me when I say that we're working very hard to ensure accessibility to our services and game servers. We have backup plans in case we really can't make a payment. I assure you that the website will never be shut down and we will find ways to keep services online even if we have to sacrifice a bit of luxury or performance.
