All good things must come to an end?
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26 Nov 2018, 01:42
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Journals
I've been deliberating for a while whether it's time to shut Crossfire down.
Crossfire has been a fantastic haven for RTCW & ET for more than a decade. This community has achieved magnificent things together and I think it's safe to say it has well outlasted anyone's expectations. Personally, Crossfire enabled me to grow and learn in ways I thought never possible and I owe a fantastic debt to this community.
The reality is that the site is now largely inactive. Google Analytics says 15k people visited in the past month which somewhat surprises me but... apparently 10k of those are the Philippines and and are only visiting the user registration page...so yeah I don't think they're real. I am concerned that the site is probably quite leaky in terms of user data and that is probably a legal liability, plus it costs 50 euro a month in server fees.
More importantly though it is evident that no one is really contributing much in the way of content these days, I notice the last LAN was unfortunately cancelled due to lack of interest. If anyone has a plan that they'd like to share with me as to how they hope to breathe new life into this community I am all ears, otherwise at some point toward the end of the year I will most likely shut the site down.
Similarly if anyone is interested, I would love to keep some form of archive of all of the content from Crossfire's history alive and if anyone had the technical skills and wanted to work on that I would be glad of the help.
If this is to be the end then what a run it has been. There are plenty of other gaming communities that are older and bigger than Crossfire, but there are none that I'm aware of that can touch the story of all that Crossfire did as a community. Crossfire became so much greater than the value of its individual parts and for that I am eternally grateful to you all.
Crossfire has been a fantastic haven for RTCW & ET for more than a decade. This community has achieved magnificent things together and I think it's safe to say it has well outlasted anyone's expectations. Personally, Crossfire enabled me to grow and learn in ways I thought never possible and I owe a fantastic debt to this community.
The reality is that the site is now largely inactive. Google Analytics says 15k people visited in the past month which somewhat surprises me but... apparently 10k of those are the Philippines and and are only visiting the user registration page...so yeah I don't think they're real. I am concerned that the site is probably quite leaky in terms of user data and that is probably a legal liability, plus it costs 50 euro a month in server fees.
More importantly though it is evident that no one is really contributing much in the way of content these days, I notice the last LAN was unfortunately cancelled due to lack of interest. If anyone has a plan that they'd like to share with me as to how they hope to breathe new life into this community I am all ears, otherwise at some point toward the end of the year I will most likely shut the site down.
Similarly if anyone is interested, I would love to keep some form of archive of all of the content from Crossfire's history alive and if anyone had the technical skills and wanted to work on that I would be glad of the help.
If this is to be the end then what a run it has been. There are plenty of other gaming communities that are older and bigger than Crossfire, but there are none that I'm aware of that can touch the story of all that Crossfire did as a community. Crossfire became so much greater than the value of its individual parts and for that I am eternally grateful to you all.
You are still right with your text. Have tried my best with the recent Lans but to cancel the last one has shown that it seems to be over.
The search engine will need a bit of a revamp though. I tried to search for butchji's old journal about the adverse side-affects from shaving his butt-crack the other week, however it came back empty on both 'butchji' and 'butt-crack'.
After a bit of googling it turned out he actually copied the original story from craigslist... what a time to be alive.
ET was a legendary game, and crossfire was the heart of the ETPlayer community.
Thanks to the admins for running it, and thanks for taking the time to archive years of content.
Having crossfire archives would be great indeed
I just want to thank all the people who tried to get this alive. <3
"ur time has come"
you turn around, walk away and as the fucks are flying you glaze back and say "im from crossfire bitch we aint going nowhere, this is not the end only a new beginning"
im sure we fucktards can get together and keep the forums alive atleast, sure we cant run a lan or run or get a tan but in the cold weather we can unite as naked brothers spooning together to keep warm in the cold we are facing. The cumback
it was a pleasure indeed, warm regards
think i watched one of ur livestream ages ago and iirc u had alot of ppl watching (fucking nice!) :D think u played dirty bomb or the other similar game what is it.... brink(?) :D still mad skillz bro! i think my skill is long gone tho... i only hop on the pc for some late games when im shitfaced as fuck and bored at home other then that i dont use da computar anymore as much :D
still early and im drunk af apperently :DD Was just thinking the same will hop on the "community" ts (pasting the ip bellow for anyone hoping to find some games/play et i hope
u should install et and play for the nostaglia :D et forever bro :D
halfway into the wall of text i forgot what i actually wanted to say :D ...
anyway nice seeing u still alive (:
wish you all the best success in 2k19, happy new year \o
hyperion-gaming.net:9991
onks teillä viel jotain nallekuskin tapasta tessu/discordia missä tiristään?
Whatever your decision will be, I thank you for the effort youve put into this site and community. Wont be posting here anymore after this, so I'd like to give a shoutout to all the guys from thefinest and exitium, we had good fun in the past 10+ years.
Farewell
All the best for everyone who was a part of pS*/thefinest family over the years and RIP Radari.
Jezus fucking christ
So many questions that will be left without answers... Love you guys (no homo)
Ill miss everything from cf :( it was a part of us all !
fucking nismeaux you always have something funny to say !!1
Thanks for providing us with this awesome platform, it has been a pleasure!
An archive would be great, perhabs the legacy guys could host that? And for the communication part, I think a simple free forum should get the job done with ease.
Some days I wish I could just boot up my pc and play 6on6 via et.gather or play some christmas pimped map like North Pole xd. Or even just watch a decent game with your excellent shoutcasting :)
Anyway most of us are way past our "gaming days" so for everyone that has played with / against me in the past... thank you for all the nice memories.
pubg me de vila, acid en nog ander vergane glories
Ik zit op discord me SneeK, Jetro , Spones, acid soms, mAus is al is gepasseerd en nog n paar.
RIP Crossfire
We are playing 11on11 there with 7 leagues, +150 teams, 13000 registered users and 1000 daily visitors.
Only thing we need is a "draw" function for results like 1:1, 2:2 etc. (and the possibility to embed it on the main page...which should still be working?)
Eg.
https://www.gamestv.org/event/59990-faze-vs-mibr/
also add PES19 because it's better... !
Thanks everyone for being part of the greatest community.
Enjoyed the game more than 10 years and played with hundreds of different ppl all over the world which I will never forget.
Cu!
The good news is that the community spirit that has kept this site alive all these years seems to still be active. A few people have reached out (I'll leave them nameless to save the pressure on them) with ideas on how to both keep a portion of the site active (Journals!) and then archive the inactive parts of the site.
I think/hope we'll be able to keep the old girl alive yet.
And, as you know i'm still uploading new videos of matches (with shoutcasts included!) on my youtube channel. I actually have been doing this consistently for over the last 3,5 years.
I've uploaded more than 600 competitive history matches for RTCW and ET:
RTCW: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNPxBUfrP1k48mfgrn0gzDzjuZx6cMFs0
ET: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNPxBUfrP1k5qvwprMlRSPAdyFxcK7BVm
I'm still looking for new material as my ET shoutcasts of you are running dry :-( or i don't have the demo. I should make some sort of news post actually, if ppl still have demos or other shoutcasts left..
Last but not least, i've been starting an "'ultimate RTCW history movie". Since i'm still at the early stages, i don't mind sharing some short teases:
clip 1 - quakecon 2003: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO712NXrIng
clip 2- bob 1 2002: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tp-qGRyikc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP0owFGCfI4
But I completely understand where you're coming from and just want to thank you for keeping this game alive for as long you did for us. As I look back at my old comment history, it makes me truly see how much of a child I was and how I changed as the years passed. At one point, you replied to one of my idiotic comments roasting me and I was so happy cause the real TosspoT had actually replied to my comment. On a serious note, I'm sure if it's costing you only 50 euros a month, we can easily get donations to reach that every month. Thank you for everything you did. Much love and hope all is good in your rl.
Its understandable that given the lack of activity and on other side monthly costs as well as any potencial private data leaks could do more bad than good, i assume there could still be some alternative ways of maintaining some basic form of crossfire, maybe find a cheaper hosting or similiar stuffs.
Anyways if it all goes down this path and it actually gets shut down, i assume the competitive scene will probably suffer that last nail in the coffin of trying to keep it somewat semi alive, tho ET itself at least public part is still a bit active. What a way to celebrate 10 years on this account :D
Thanks for keeping CF up as long as you have - all good things come to an end indeed!
But for sure it was a fun time!
Hell of a run! If anybody feels they would like to stay in touch and/or maybe play something add me on steam!
- Killerboy out.
Wakizashiuk signing off one final time :)
G5 - From left to right, top to bottom - Goso, Skydeh, STEEV, Ras, JMZ, h3lix_ & Waki
Every dramas and stuff will even be a good souvenir in a few years when I'll think and remind about the fact it happened with people that loved and shared the same game than me.. brothers arent always agreed between them but they are still from a same familly. It is for me the same with ET.
Sorry for all the disturbance, sorry for my english but I love you all, being french, polish, uk, german, finnish, swedish, belgian or what ever country, ill remember you all as brothers of games.
Kisses
Mxt0r
11 years, 9 months and 21 days
Rest in pepperoni.
I took a screenshot of all my medals in my profile, now my mind is at ease for whatever is to come!
Thanks for keeping it up all this time!
ET will still always be my favourite game.
Thanks all for the good times!
objective completed! Great shot!
gg, wp
It was a meeting place
ET and particulary ETPro is in mourns.
We must find a solution
Eventhough a backup/archive of CF is very appreciated would be nice to have some kind of database with contact to all people from here... I remember when they closed xfire (the software) I didnt even know and lost all my contacts...
Maybe something like a list with your steam/discord/email/twitter whatever
GONE :'(
Gone but not forgotten
Shoutout to old teammates & e-buddies, catch ya on the flipside.
cu Oulu torilla tavataan
ps: agreed
Much fucking respect.
edit: tears in my eyes reading this, still no time to properly respond, but I'll get in touch with some to see if we are able to pull out one final tournament
PS: Op Mallorca was ik even de flikkertje :)
kthxbye
cool that youve saved this xdddddd
RIP
Thank you for providing us with the platform to create lifelong friends.
As Dave mentioned we still meet up at least once a year, and it's like we've never been apart.
This is a time I will always look back on fondly, with some fantastic memories along the way.
Congratulations on your career achievements and best of luck for the future.
Crossfire made me meet incredible people from all over the world. 10 years later we still hang out on our very professional communication softwares such as Disco and Whatsup. I even had a chance to share a couple of bears with my mates
I'd definitely be in to see some of your nerdy faces.
I wish you the best mate !
Who could predict that I'll still be here after 15 years, when one day in 2004 a guy I was trading with in Diablo 2 said "hey, you should try Enemy Territory, different but a great game". The rest is history.
All these hours on TS/vent, analyzing GTV games of idle.ee and their tactics (shouts to Night, me and syriusZ were the biggest fans :XD best player in ET history), preparing tactics in school to test them in the evening... some might say it was a waste of time, I say those are some best memories and I wouldn't trade them for anything. Learnt a lot and still know some guys here in my city that I began playing with in 2004 - q2nf, our first clan was made only with guys from
I still have more than 30 FM's of some best players back in their days, sometimes when I get nostalgic I watch one or two.
Hope this community or site will somehow survive, so I can still visit it once in a week to see if any nerd created another dumb journal. If not - it was indeed hell of a run. Best game and community ever. Over and out.
Hope someone will take over
It is crazy how my account is already 14 years, 4 months and 7 days old, I think I started playing ET when I was around that age lol. Good to see quite some familiar names still in this thread as well, hopefully it isn't the last I've seen of you all. :)
i still member after 15 years! :(
#JeSuisCF #ET4lyfe #CantKillWhatHasNoLife
https://www.crossfire.nu/news/7338/crossfire-to-be-shut-down-tosspot-speaks
:(
Big thanks to everyone still putting so much effort into this community!
Endless memories...
btw TosspoT you're on IG/YouTube somewhere we can see what you're up to nowadays?=)
Cya @ LAN bitches <3
It's been a blast. I've met great people, friends, and experiences through this community. Although my heart tells me it would be awesome for someone else to inherit this site and keep it running, it's a race to the bottom. Additionally, anyone who does inherit it would have potential GDPR issues as well as numerous site vulnerabilities and buggy code. Therefore, I think it's best to say v55.
It could be nice to get everyone into a discourse channel to keep the giggles alive, but as a website format I believe this community is truly dead.
Special thanks to Tosspot, Marcus, Ronner, Stray, Sebhes, Timbo and all those that kept it alive even after all the interest disappeared. The fact we were able to get a LAN going in 2017 is an amazing feat. I wish everyone from here all the best!
Only registered users allowed to see any content, during registration you must agree to the terms according to which you are a legal person/a business.
To those users already registered, once signed in, a pop up delivers the new terms and services which the user has to agree in order to continue using the site.
btw, love you Tristan.
On a side note, if someone still has the video please share :XDDDDDDDDD
I remember laughing so hard...
ET never dies.
Too much work required, and there's almost no audience anymore. The last volume has less than 8,000 views on YouTube, and that's still pretty high for ET these days. Movies released now would be lucky to get half of that. The content also wouldn't be as good. Medius covered ET at it's most popular I think. 2011 onwards has been relatively quiet.
(:
Here :)
https://youtu.be/__4sg-83yG4?t=268
Thanks for the ride all, wish you the best.
Cheers
Btw noBrain is still rolling but in Fifa Not ET anymore
still hoping for a miracle Wolfenstein: Global Offensive with matchmaking n shit ;D
Proof as you see me here taking a picture of a supershoppingmarket
Posting 4 messages in a row without any link between the previous message he was supposed to answer lol
First comment and second are related, its a philipain picture. Also the first comment is directly aimed at the journal post.
Third comment was seperate, but also directed at the journals date, as my fourth comment reply on my self is related again to the third.
So whos autistic now huh?
Please reply in a structured order.
forgive him
he's just another attention whore retard who is trying to be funny by replying to everybody
RTCW <3
Really miss the times when you opened up your server browser and saw 100s of filled up servers and 1000s of people playing.
Nowadays, it's 99% bot servers and an occasional play on ECGNetwork mp_beach, because that's literally all that is left :<
Same story for crossfire sadly.
Oh well, getting old :<
IMO the problem is, that the community held on to ETPro. If the competitive players would move to another mod and maybe ETLegacy at the same time, the game might be attractive again. Better hardware compatiblity, Installer for Win, Linux, OSX(!!) and so on. I'ld like to provide 1 or 2 et server, if ineeded, just to give something back to the community and the greatest game ever since.
het voelt net weer als vroeger toen we samen vissen vingen
had some really funny moments and made friends for life. good luck to all of you <3
Going to light up for the good times of escaping "normal" social life.
Kisses to all my old buddies who know me
<3 xLibres
I'm gonna hit up some public server for a nostalgic game now :)
Respect! Transfer this community to Twitter.
TosspoT, I know you've moved on, but you're still my favourite shoutcaster :D <3
Seeing how many ppl are posting in here makes me wonder if this website really is dead?
I haven't really contributed much here in the last few years (work, career, eat, sleep) but I think I visit this website at least once a week to follow up on new journals or re-reading old content.
It almost developed into a ritual for me while waiting on the airport for my flight home every friday.
Besides the loss of all the content here I feel like the biggest loss to me would be the possibility to stay in contact with all the great people I met here. Go guys PM me your linkedin or facebook!
12 years, 4 months and 18 days and I will stay till the last second! :)
Thanks for everything (all the admins & the community)!
LANs, daily journals, spam with loekino and so on. it was long time daily routine to come here and spam and troll and talk shit, goddamn i loved it :D but not only because of fun, the people made it great. thats why some are still in my life even after so many years of inactivity.
so fingers crossed that ronner gonna take it. please add a donate button then.
to not lose contact, come and join discord and lets play some nostalgic games.
we are already a bunch of 170 ppl in there. lets stay together in this hard times :) https://discord.gg/6EyxPv2
i hope this isn't the end and i hope that people will still go on and play some games together.
thanks tosspot for keeping this alive so long.
<3
eilt: oh and when an archive isn't possible, please give us an export profile function. i would love to have at least all my stuff local saved. that would be lovely.
Thanks for all the memories aswell :-)
Hyvät jatkot erityisesti KRP:n entisille jäsenille, ja muille tutuille jotka vielä lukee tätä. Muistakaa että kunnia ei unohdu.
RIP CF thanks for the memories!
#unbeaten in 1on1 #flawless #livinglegend
Atiunderscore aka KOMTDIEPANZER aka Most Random Riflenade #?
ps: A while back I also added a Wolfenstein Displate to my collection: https://displate.com/displate/370958?q=wolfenstein as a remembrance =]
Thanks for everything that you did for ET and the community.
Shoutout to everybody, thanks for all the memories.
feel free to pm me if you want a private channel, special server groups or icons :) if we get this server full with 64 slots, I'll upgrade to 500 :)
There is also a music bot in main hall, who is protecting you guys from ddos attacks or any cheaters or w/e and welcomes you with relaxing deep house music in main hall :-)
you can also create your own channel when you join, just right click->create channel
this is the ip: wolfenstein.community-ts.eu
btw Big part of ET community still play other shit games like fornite , cs etc so if you dont wanna play ET just deal with it - this is the end.
No one wants to spend their whole evening just finding even that one opponent. Besides, playing casually matchmaking gives you the option to play alone. If you want play ET alone, you have to play on publics, which is just fragfest
https://www.yawn.be/
Thanks for everything Toss, and to the community, thanks for everything, good and bad :)
Ciao x
If I ever get very rich (not my life goal tho), then I'll make ET great again.
I also heard rumours of a new Wolfenstein MP next year.
<3
If anyone would like me to do anything to keep this community alive, I'm up for it, PM ME!
Even if I'm not active here i am visiting this site every few weeks since 14 years.. Thats really weird and just shows how important the days with ET were for me, how much I liked it and how much i am missing this time.
And the number of reactions and comments to this thread show me that I am not alone.
Nice one!
My first FPS on PC was Q3. Then I got into ET. Real hard to get into any other shooters after playing these.
I've been open minded, tried a bunch of games but nothing comes close to Q3 and ET.
sorry community, I let you down
I saw that ronner might save cf which would be awesome.
A part of everyone in this community might disapear with this website but will remain in our memories.
I had a mixed feeling of hapiness and sadness when I saw the news about cf being shutdown.
I thought that finally I wouldn't have to read maxtor messages anymore ....
h3h3
thanks for the games man, u were good player :$
Shame this had to end. But it was always inevitable, susprised it lasted this long.
Take care everyone
If anyone here still remembers me and wants to chat, PM me. I'll be on CF religiously for the next day
Was good ride with all you guys. Thanks everyone
Thanks TosspoT for all the work & casting.
5 months delay
What an amazing game that was, thanks to the people who helped running this community.
<3
good old times
no game will ever amount up to ET! <3 xo
It really was a great community. So active and competitive at its peak. Such great characters and stories told and competitive games. ET is an amazing game but it was helped by the amazing narative developed by TosspoT & co. TosspoT counting in on RadioITG to sync the ETTV. The chat beforehand on XF about who would win and the post-analysis. Crossfire really was the hub of all of that. It would never have happened without the likes of Anaconda, raza, Shakes, Adacore, arni, sol and especially fusen. And that fucker Kamz who kept spamming on xf.be I still hate you.
I can still barely drink orange juice after getting so drunk at Ronners house on vodka & orange at the first LAN and going missing for three days. Going to da club in Enschede. For a very socially awkard nerdy teen Crossfire was a great outlet for something positive and to be a part of an active social community.
The only XF person I see nowadays is foonr on FB who is having some bloody life in Canada. Like a poster above said - after playing W:ET & Quake 3 / CPMA no game really compares. The complexity and teamwork and community was incomparable. Hope you're all doing well - and long may Crossfire.be be somewhere that we can come back to for a nostalgia kick. If anyone is in London give me a shout.
But I too always wish to throw myself back into the good old days and play teams, gathers, public all night, trickjumps and what not. Oh how great it was... No new game has ever again caught me in a similar fashion.
13 years, 5 months and 25 days and counting...
Very sad to see this happen, i have lots of fond memories of this game and the community i will never forget.
Cheers
I recently tried to play some ET again. While I got disappointed at the low amount of games available, the game always brings back the best memories. That's thanks to you Stuart, and this unique community you've built throughout the years.
Crowdfunding might help solve monetary issues. Development on the site in regards to GDPR will probably be a bigger issue. I'd actually pay money to ensure an archive is available somewhere. And lastly, if the site does go down, hosting a simple html pointing to for instance a Reddit community can help to give the community a place to find each other.
I wish you and Kaylyn all the best, in everything you still wish to achieve, both personally, and professionally at Twitch.
Andreas
I take my hat off to all of you guys. It was quite a ride! Still, I'm a little nostalgic and sad that Crossfire will just be shut down. But also: I will never forget all the fun we had in the game and here on the site. This community was the best that ever happened to me regarding online gaming.
I hope someone will take care of this website or maybe just archive it, so we can enjoy the good old times.
Cya!
Being a clanleader at young age taught me a lot of English and patience.
Following ET professional scene was that got me into esports.
Playing with the similar minded people helped when it was rough outside.
Working with this site encouraged me to chase my current career.
Have you become a fieldop?
I started ET because of classmates said, you have to try that game. And over the years ET and Crossfire made me find some real nice people. So nice, that since 2012 a bunch of those people and I try to keep meeting once a year, despite all living in different countries spreaded over europe. The friendship has become so valuable for everybody, that even invitations and attends to marriages followed in the years after.
Even before I've been able to met with a bunch of nice folks irl. Summed up we all spend months or even years of lifetime playing this god damn unique game. In that regard ET/Crossfire weren't just a sidenote on the path of my generell maturation.
But let's face it, priorities shifted. All of us aged, finished school, university or whatever education and moved on to family, daily duties and obligations, so there's no more time left for nerding till 4am on a daily basis.
In the end I'm very grateful for your ideas and effort you put in the game and community during all the years Tosspot. It surely had a major impact on allowing ET to stay alive as long as possible on a competitive and very entertaining level (yeah i know, "ET is dead" since more than 10 years already :S).
For now the site is still online, which allows me to write this sentimental crap, leaving me back with an impression of a laughing and a crying eye.
I hope your doing great in real life Tosspot!
Big thanks also to all the annoying, yet entertaining, kidraging nerds (which I also was), playing this game for all those years.
Farewell everybody :)
Either way, I felt like I stuck with this game to its end, however I was clearly wrong as it appears to still keep going in some fashion. Great job to the few still doing their utmost to keep ET alive!
Thank you, TosspoT, for all of your contributions to this game, you're without doubt one of the major contributors to this game's success -- however small of a success it might have been. Too bad we personally had our conflicts which drew us apart; I guess you had to take a stern stance against cheating. But, honestly, what did you expect from a try-hard 13-or-whatever years old? :)
Ending this site may be long overdue, but if some people still enjoy this game, and this site serves as their hub, why don't you transfer ownership (and legal liability) to whomever in that community, and keep the site alive via donations? Operating the site costs practically nothing, barring any potential GDPR issues.
Anyway, yeah. And nice to see your name again. :)
it was a game that brought us together into one big community... it was a game of my high school years.. my colleagues and I were sitting at school desks talking about tags, .. about taxs ... about everything that made us so addicted to this lovely game.
Thanks to Toss... but behind him were a lot of guys who helped out.... so thanks everyone!
I'm glad to have been a part of this community......... and i am still and will be always a big fan of ET!
lov u all <3
good times indeed.
best community i've ever been a part of.
i even like those that hated our team back when we were still lurking around.
cheers. (^o^)/
bb
Looking back it was awesome :)
Good old days, watching one4one with some awesome shoutcast
RIP
update: 26 teams
maybe join us on discord. https://discord.gg/6EyxPv2