Crossfire Leaves Heaven Media
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31 Aug 2011, 16:40
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News
Crossfire.nu has today left the Heaven Media group and will now operate as an independent entity.
Despite the best efforts of both parties, we have come to the realisation that we are unable to assist Crossfire in reaching its full potential, and as such we cannot in good conscience continue along the road we are on. The right, and sensible, action for Heaven Media to take is to hand back ownership of Crossfire, to give the community what they need.
Mark Reed, Chairman of Heaven Media, said: "Whilst we have made efforts to engage and grow Crossfire it hasn't resulted in the success we had hoped for. Having reached a fork in the road as to where next to go, we decided in the interests of the Crossfire community to release the site from the Heaven Media group."
Stuart Saw stated: "The Heaven Media opportunity was one that was too good to turn down. Unfortunately, the operational realities of the deal proved that eventually both parties were losing out from the relationship. We've taken the decision to part ways out of a joint feeling of responsibility to Crossfire and the gamers within it. I'd like to thank Heaven Media for their selfless behaviour in this move and look forward to maintaining a good relationship with them going forward."
Crossfire and Heaven Media will continue an on-going strategic relationship. Crossfire will be looking for ways to best support the ET community going forward whilst Heaven Media will continue to support their gaming community that includes Cadred.org, Tek-9.net and EsportsHeaven.net.
Despite the best efforts of both parties, we have come to the realisation that we are unable to assist Crossfire in reaching its full potential, and as such we cannot in good conscience continue along the road we are on. The right, and sensible, action for Heaven Media to take is to hand back ownership of Crossfire, to give the community what they need.
Mark Reed, Chairman of Heaven Media, said: "Whilst we have made efforts to engage and grow Crossfire it hasn't resulted in the success we had hoped for. Having reached a fork in the road as to where next to go, we decided in the interests of the Crossfire community to release the site from the Heaven Media group."
Stuart Saw stated: "The Heaven Media opportunity was one that was too good to turn down. Unfortunately, the operational realities of the deal proved that eventually both parties were losing out from the relationship. We've taken the decision to part ways out of a joint feeling of responsibility to Crossfire and the gamers within it. I'd like to thank Heaven Media for their selfless behaviour in this move and look forward to maintaining a good relationship with them going forward."
Crossfire and Heaven Media will continue an on-going strategic relationship. Crossfire will be looking for ways to best support the ET community going forward whilst Heaven Media will continue to support their gaming community that includes Cadred.org, Tek-9.net and EsportsHeaven.net.
->off to nightshift
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Would be a fantastic improvement and would make me laugh whenever I logged on.
Something you want to tell me unblind?
I thought we agreed on an abortion.,...
I never did feel this site received the same attention from HM as TEK 9 and Cadred did.
Coverage is a major factor when it comes to competitive gaming, I know you know this as well as I do. Wouldn't you find it annoying if you worked for a site which was part of a larger company which included 2 similar sites with staff being rewarded/paid for their work when you're getting nothing?
Don't get me wrong, this isn't about me wanting a pay cheque, because everybody knows this is just a huge hobby for me. However, when you're forking out money to 2 sites and not to your 3rd site, you need to ask yourself questions.
Unfortunately that didn't work out and he ended up leaving soon after, and since then it's beeen tough for us. When time gets thin and budgets stretched, we weren't able to pay as much attention to Crossfire as it would have needed, and ultimately that same reason is why we are now pulling out, and handing it back to Stuart.
I think this decision is definitely a benefit to both parties. Remember to edit the HM promo video!
http://www.tek-9.org/news/tek9_becomes_part_of_the_heaven_media_group-1782.html
That was over 2 years ago. There has been ZERO development on the site, and a lot less community activities (cups, drafts, etc.) then before TEK 9 was purchased.
Coverage and a forum has been the only thing keeping it alive.
However, Crossfire's development has all been done pretty much internally by people of the community. This leads me to believe there's nothing stopping TEK 9 from being the same. But that's neither here nor there when it comes to the point I make about the staff benefits.
And i gotta love this awesome speech of you guys, 20 lines to say exactly the same in a loop.
Who Would actually Admin and set up this website?
How many people do you think would Register?
How Active do you think the website will be?
Do you think some small ET community website will intrest sponsors and Organizations more than crossfire?
ET will last longer with crossfire, Without crossfire ET will not last very long at all yes you may be able to make another forum but it wont last as long and will be pretty much useless dead and boring. Lets be honest half the people on crossfire don't even play ET and most of it is some random forum topic or journal about how they had spaghetti numbers for tea.
The Fact of the matter ET will be much smaller and less apealing.
now make some real improvements!
- add colors to the different forums on the forum section
- Please fix that column without a picture it really makes the site look untidy, in fact just delete the column
- Add a webchat irc somewhere on the main page for #crossfire
- Improve the voting system on movies.
-Fix the Gtv feed
- Make journals bold when they get over 50 comments.
- Make journals bold when they get over 50 comments.
Might well look into this :)
Hopefully it wont be long until this list and the much larger list of upgrades needed are resolved.
E-Sport companies are all about the moneys
and I really hope that you don't do anything with computers as a career, at least not on an enterprise level, if you are biased and narrowminded like that. The choice of platform and/or software on that platform is not always yours to make.
you're talking about the general case, i'm talking about crossfire.
a site like this would be far more efficient on something other than IIS, even apache might offer better performance
Yeah, and I've seen the IIS error page in place of crossfire.nu much more frequently than before the HM switch. Sure it _can_ work but there's a reason linux/apache are still boss for webservers.
crossfire does not require IIS, it only hampers it (how many times have you been greeted by the IIS error page instead of crossfire.nu?)
CF did, guessing still does only run on PHP+mysql. At the time, IIS really wasn't an improvement and just hindered the transition of the old non IIS server to the new one.
Personally I can't stand IIS, and we have changed slightly over the past year, I think four or five of our servers are now on linux with a mixture of mysql, postgres, nginx and apache. But we will still be using at least some Windows servers for quite a while - but hey, you no longer have to care about them.
The all about the monies comment was more to do with picking CF up thinking they could get ad revenue and then dumping it after realising it isn't what they thought it was and can't plunder it.
Criticise us for everything we failed to do, but don't say we don't care about our communities :)
Heaven Media were a real let down and the comment/statement from Corin should just read that we did not actually care about crossfire or the ET community.
Other promises such as the full tilt poker challenge was played in every other game/community bar ET/crossfire.
Looking forward to your announcements and being free of HM!
The specific reason why the ET tournament is the only one not to have taken place is that it was the last announced - we never planned to have it, and we decided to provide the prize fund for it ourselves, while still branding it as sponsored by Full Tilt, just because we were aware that we hadn't been treating ET as well as we should have been.
Once we know where we stand with them we will finish the campaign, including the ET tournament, I'm just not sure when that will be.
On the more general note, I would like to say that while it may have sometimes appeared that we didn't care, the truth is that we did care but just weren't able to show it. We do understand the issues we had, and that is entirely why we have decided to pull out.
IMPROVE this site now! ;)
lol et comunity... GOOD LUCK!
=)
GL :)
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Sounds like a good bit of business :) GL Stu hopefully you can breathe some life back into the community... somehow...
HM couldn't give Crossfire.nu the attention they initially wanted.
Do I blame him? No.. Is it fucking lame to act like it was anything else? Yes.