2015 in Review: Edain's Best Year!
You're goddamn freaking right!!
I was so lucky that it be on this glorious day that I would join the mod community. I had already been blown away by 3.8.1. But knowing that some people had to wait two years while my mere 3 month felt like an endless nightmare... wow!!
Again, you guys deserve every good thing that has happened: a striving english community, the Mod of the Year Award, ect... You brought the players a chance to keep playing the game they loved and not just that, you expanded it ten-fold. You deserve everything... except maybe this:
What we did not expect was the sheer hatred we would receive from a very small but vocal minority. In the weeks and months after the release of 4.0, we had to weather a barrage of deeply personal attacks and even witnessed people gleefully plotting to kill members of the team. It was frankly disheartening - and extremely grotesque - to see how people could sink so low because a hobby project offered free of charge wasn't 100% to their liking.
I'd just like to get real for a sec. I was actually shocked when I read this, it was just such a happy message of achievement, effort and reward and then BOUM!! Hatred, threats of murder.... You guys never have and never will deserve such hatred, I hope you ignored them or told them to go ish kakhfê ai’d dur rugnu. You guys have put so much effort into this, never complaining, never stopping, never letting us down...
You're the most dedicated people I have ever seen, this is further proven by the amount of dead mods that I have seen. You guys keep being awesome and I wish you ten times as many Edainers this year!!
Just remember one thing: #therewillalwaysbehaters. Promise me to never give up on this beautiful project that has brought so many people together.