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- Nov 26, 2020
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Okay, admittedly, that title was meant to draw in some of the more old school members. I doubt it worked.
When I joined eGO, I was 14 years old, and I had just finished Final Fantasy 7 for the first time, despite it being a game that was a few years older than this organisation. As a result, I decided that my first tag would be "one winged angel" due to how obsessed I was with with the primary antagonist. I stylised my tag in the most edgy way (no pun intended) possible, and I think I used to go by "0ne W1ng3D Ang3L" or something along those lines. Blunder years, right?
Doom 2 on several floppy disks was my first ever real computer game, but my first online game was Day of Defeat: Source in early 2007. This was when I came to know eGO via their Donner server. After a few hours, I was hooked, and I thought it was cool, but there was no way I could have known what was about to happen. A very gentle British man by the tag of Revelation invited me to join eGO. When I tell you that my mind couldn't comprehend this offer, it was basically the extent of winning the lottery at the time. I hadn't ever felt such a level of excitement, and I was terrible. Why was this man inviting me to join a group of people that clearly had such an incredible amount of experience over me?
I would soon come to understand that Rev not only exemplifies the ideals of the group, but what every gamer should express if they have the ability to do so. Playing with eGO in not only Day of Defeat: Source, but also Team Fortress 2 (I purchased the game on release day as a result of my time with eGO), Counter Strike: Source, and also Battlefield 2, showed me that I should not be afraid of competition. As a result, I took the lessons eGO taught me and implemented them further than I could have ever imagined.
It's 2020, and the world is ending. I don't compete in anything, but I play DoD:S often, and when I see eGO people in the handful of American servers available now, the memories flood me unlike anything else. It breaks my heart that the server that eGO hosted before it was even named such, the Avalanche server, no longer exists. At the end of the day, however, I'm glad that the tiny server grew into something so massive, and has now impacted an absurd amount of lives.
I'm but one person, but I bet there are many others with similar stories. For that, eGO is to be thanked.
RIP Rev, and I hope to see some of you in the few active American DoD:S servers.
When I joined eGO, I was 14 years old, and I had just finished Final Fantasy 7 for the first time, despite it being a game that was a few years older than this organisation. As a result, I decided that my first tag would be "one winged angel" due to how obsessed I was with with the primary antagonist. I stylised my tag in the most edgy way (no pun intended) possible, and I think I used to go by "0ne W1ng3D Ang3L" or something along those lines. Blunder years, right?
Doom 2 on several floppy disks was my first ever real computer game, but my first online game was Day of Defeat: Source in early 2007. This was when I came to know eGO via their Donner server. After a few hours, I was hooked, and I thought it was cool, but there was no way I could have known what was about to happen. A very gentle British man by the tag of Revelation invited me to join eGO. When I tell you that my mind couldn't comprehend this offer, it was basically the extent of winning the lottery at the time. I hadn't ever felt such a level of excitement, and I was terrible. Why was this man inviting me to join a group of people that clearly had such an incredible amount of experience over me?
I would soon come to understand that Rev not only exemplifies the ideals of the group, but what every gamer should express if they have the ability to do so. Playing with eGO in not only Day of Defeat: Source, but also Team Fortress 2 (I purchased the game on release day as a result of my time with eGO), Counter Strike: Source, and also Battlefield 2, showed me that I should not be afraid of competition. As a result, I took the lessons eGO taught me and implemented them further than I could have ever imagined.
It's 2020, and the world is ending. I don't compete in anything, but I play DoD:S often, and when I see eGO people in the handful of American servers available now, the memories flood me unlike anything else. It breaks my heart that the server that eGO hosted before it was even named such, the Avalanche server, no longer exists. At the end of the day, however, I'm glad that the tiny server grew into something so massive, and has now impacted an absurd amount of lives.
I'm but one person, but I bet there are many others with similar stories. For that, eGO is to be thanked.
RIP Rev, and I hope to see some of you in the few active American DoD:S servers.
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