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"If you like playing on eGO, why not help pay for them?"
This thread is long but it has a point!
We all see these words in the games we play, whether its our division games or now NT. The old saying goes that familiarity breeds contempt and indifference. How many of us, when we hear the national anthems or songs of our country, feel the same swell of pride that we did as children? When I put on the uniform of my country for the first time, I felt ten feet tall; but by the time I was done with active duty with a few exceptions my uniform just felt like a another thing I wore to work.
So it is with all things in life. eGO has become my home on the internet, and I feel no shame in saying that ALL of you (except for Kody) have become like a second family to me. What does this mean? I, like many of us, have settled into a pattern. This has become routine. I log on, I say hi to my friends, I play. The original feeling of "wow these eGO servers are so cool" that I had before I joined and the "man I feel so happy that they asked me to join eGO" are faded. Yes, I am proud to be eGO and happy to do all that I do. But nothing grows by standing still. Stagnant water just gets algae and mosquitoes
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Many of you see how hard Kody and I and MANY others work to keep NT servers populated, to keep the game popular, and most importantly keep the game fun. I cannot speak for the others. But I will tell you that the reasons above are MY main motivation for advocating so hard for our NT division.
"If you like playing on eGO, why not help pay for them?"
Let those words sink in. Think about them for a moment. You see my shiny Donator's Award? I got that first time, 3 days after I joined the site and one day after my app was accepted. I have donated several times since. That's how grateful I was to be allowed into this great organization. I took my hard earned money, and even more of my time, and GAVE BACK and thanked eGO in the best way I knew how. My friends, servers do not pay for themselves. The forums do not pay for themselves. It is up to US, YOU AND ME, to keep this organization running, keep the lights on, and allow a place where JohnT's kids can wander in and out streaming meetings! Now, I ask you, before we DEMAND a new division, why not show our appreciation for what everything we have already been given and everything we already have? No matter how little or how much, EVERY little bit help, even if its just ONE DOLLAR. Our forums have 21, 713 members! If even 10% of that is active clan members and they donate ONE dollar, that's almost 2,200 dollars!
So please, if you can, give something, click that shiny donate paypal button. Skip McDonald's for an afternoon and mail 5 dollars to the address on the site, I have heard a lot of people say they cannot donate because they do not have paypal or a credit card etc, remember that you CAN mail in donations.
(Donations can be mailed to:
EdgeGamers Organization
PMB 303
8414 Farm Rd STE 180
Las Vegas NV 89131-8171)
Together, we can keep the dream that eGO alive and happy and well.
This post should in NO way be seen as an insult to those cannot donate. We all understand that there are sometimes or some circumstances that prevent people from donating financially. Those of you are unable to do so DO NOT feel like you are somehow helping less. You are giving some of the important things, your time, your effort, and most importantly YOURSELVES. Remember that eGO is here for us, we are not here for eGO, this isnt about just keeping a site going, this is about PEOPLE. There's a reason it says "or through other methods to eGO." in the donator's awards!
Boer
This thread is long but it has a point!
We all see these words in the games we play, whether its our division games or now NT. The old saying goes that familiarity breeds contempt and indifference. How many of us, when we hear the national anthems or songs of our country, feel the same swell of pride that we did as children? When I put on the uniform of my country for the first time, I felt ten feet tall; but by the time I was done with active duty with a few exceptions my uniform just felt like a another thing I wore to work.
So it is with all things in life. eGO has become my home on the internet, and I feel no shame in saying that ALL of you (except for Kody) have become like a second family to me. What does this mean? I, like many of us, have settled into a pattern. This has become routine. I log on, I say hi to my friends, I play. The original feeling of "wow these eGO servers are so cool" that I had before I joined and the "man I feel so happy that they asked me to join eGO" are faded. Yes, I am proud to be eGO and happy to do all that I do. But nothing grows by standing still. Stagnant water just gets algae and mosquitoes
. Many of you see how hard Kody and I and MANY others work to keep NT servers populated, to keep the game popular, and most importantly keep the game fun. I cannot speak for the others. But I will tell you that the reasons above are MY main motivation for advocating so hard for our NT division.
"If you like playing on eGO, why not help pay for them?"
Let those words sink in. Think about them for a moment. You see my shiny Donator's Award? I got that first time, 3 days after I joined the site and one day after my app was accepted. I have donated several times since. That's how grateful I was to be allowed into this great organization. I took my hard earned money, and even more of my time, and GAVE BACK and thanked eGO in the best way I knew how. My friends, servers do not pay for themselves. The forums do not pay for themselves. It is up to US, YOU AND ME, to keep this organization running, keep the lights on, and allow a place where JohnT's kids can wander in and out streaming meetings! Now, I ask you, before we DEMAND a new division, why not show our appreciation for what everything we have already been given and everything we already have? No matter how little or how much, EVERY little bit help, even if its just ONE DOLLAR. Our forums have 21, 713 members! If even 10% of that is active clan members and they donate ONE dollar, that's almost 2,200 dollars!
So please, if you can, give something, click that shiny donate paypal button. Skip McDonald's for an afternoon and mail 5 dollars to the address on the site, I have heard a lot of people say they cannot donate because they do not have paypal or a credit card etc, remember that you CAN mail in donations.
(Donations can be mailed to:
EdgeGamers Organization
PMB 303
8414 Farm Rd STE 180
Las Vegas NV 89131-8171)
Together, we can keep the dream that eGO alive and happy and well.
This post should in NO way be seen as an insult to those cannot donate. We all understand that there are sometimes or some circumstances that prevent people from donating financially. Those of you are unable to do so DO NOT feel like you are somehow helping less. You are giving some of the important things, your time, your effort, and most importantly YOURSELVES. Remember that eGO is here for us, we are not here for eGO, this isnt about just keeping a site going, this is about PEOPLE. There's a reason it says "or through other methods to eGO." in the donator's awards!
Boer
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