Well Bret, as long as we're talking about PCF (and your apology is accepted by the way) I feel that I owe you an apology for how things went down there as well.
Back then I was approached by the "group of investors" to present the offer to you for the site. The way it was presented to me at the time was that I would be running the site with the group as "silent partners". Yeah.....as it turned out some of them didn't want to be so silent. That's when some of the infighting began and some people then left for greener pastures like BSB, EAMods and Football Freaks. I really regret about not being more upfront with you about it at the time as I was honoring a request from the group that they remain anonymous. I truly am sorry for that.
I do take some solace from the fact that PCF did outlast MaddenMania as a separate entity in the end. At one point I looked up MM and found out that they had been sold lock, stock and database to Operation Sports and were part of their network. Unfortunately in the end for PCF it gradually became a place where only the advertising spammers went to post there porn ads. Most of my days were spent with deleting those posts and banning the users, only to find out that they came back the next day under different names and posted again. I swear, they must have been using some sort of super spamming program that created profiles automatically. That went on until the day when I went to log in and found that PCF had disappeared. Yeah, our host had decided to close up shop and go out of business overnight and they took more than a few sites with them. It wasn't what I wanted but I didn't have much say in the matter. So after that I migrated over to Football Freaks where they were doing some fantastic work modding Madden NFL 08, and I moved with them to Football Idiots when the FF database crashed.
I've been part of that community ever since and I have been working on modding the final version of Madden for the PC and having a hand in updating the look and feel of that game to modernize it - with the tools that those guys developed it's a fun hobby for me at least.
On a different note it is good to hear from you again, and I am happy to hear about the positive turn your life has taken.
Back then I was approached by the "group of investors" to present the offer to you for the site. The way it was presented to me at the time was that I would be running the site with the group as "silent partners". Yeah.....as it turned out some of them didn't want to be so silent. That's when some of the infighting began and some people then left for greener pastures like BSB, EAMods and Football Freaks. I really regret about not being more upfront with you about it at the time as I was honoring a request from the group that they remain anonymous. I truly am sorry for that.
I do take some solace from the fact that PCF did outlast MaddenMania as a separate entity in the end. At one point I looked up MM and found out that they had been sold lock, stock and database to Operation Sports and were part of their network. Unfortunately in the end for PCF it gradually became a place where only the advertising spammers went to post there porn ads. Most of my days were spent with deleting those posts and banning the users, only to find out that they came back the next day under different names and posted again. I swear, they must have been using some sort of super spamming program that created profiles automatically. That went on until the day when I went to log in and found that PCF had disappeared. Yeah, our host had decided to close up shop and go out of business overnight and they took more than a few sites with them. It wasn't what I wanted but I didn't have much say in the matter. So after that I migrated over to Football Freaks where they were doing some fantastic work modding Madden NFL 08, and I moved with them to Football Idiots when the FF database crashed.
I've been part of that community ever since and I have been working on modding the final version of Madden for the PC and having a hand in updating the look and feel of that game to modernize it - with the tools that those guys developed it's a fun hobby for me at least.
On a different note it is good to hear from you again, and I am happy to hear about the positive turn your life has taken.