Your Reason For Sticking Around?

[AlteredForms]

I've noticed how some of the users on this forum have been registered for quite a long time. The oldest of which has been visiting from all the way back in 2000. My question was in regards to coming back onto the board and posting on a regular basis.

Is there a specific reason for sticking around on the Beyond Unreal forums? Is it due to your passion for the series, or the friends that you made over the time spent here? How has the forum survived with a fair number of users? Who has been registered the longest?

Best Regards

 

[CaSCaDe]

i personally haven't posted in ages but i do keep coming back and read stuff every now and then. mostly because of friends and acquaintances that have been made over the years.
this series, this board and the IRC channel is how i got to working in the industry and i have allot of good memories of weird stuff that has been going on around here over the years.

 

[AlteredForms]

i personally haven't posted in ages but i do keep coming back and read stuff every now and then. mostly because of friends and acquaintances that have been made over the years.
this series, this board and the IRC channel is how i got to working in the industry and i have allot of good memories of weird stuff that has been going on around here over the years.

Where do you work? If you don't mind my asking.

 

[CaSCaDe]

i am working at guerrilla-games in amsterdam

 

[leilei]

Generally, sticking around depends on whether the subject of the forum is popular enough to be noticed by the eternal september of the next generation. When UT4 materializes for a console release, you bet BuF's going to go through a new one, and it'll be the kind that would tie a homophobic remark to an older UT game for not being on the Xbox One!


tl;dr: The idiocracy effect, hence the tldr.

 

[Al]

Habit.

 

[ambershee]

I've worked for a number of studios over the years, but almost always using the Unreal Engine. This site is still somewhat pertinent to me...

 

[AlteredForms]

i am working at guerrilla-games in amsterdam

It's cool you got to work on Killzone and the fact that Sony own you allows for some kind of stability. I'm guessing you're some sort of virtual artist who creates graphics and other assets for the game?

 

[Renegade Retard]

The free reach-arounds and hot carls keep me coming back.

 

[CaSCaDe]

i'm actually a designer

 

[Hunter]

The free reach-arounds and hot carls keep me coming back.

simple!

I also get to post the odd bit of news too

 

[Balton]

i am working at guerrilla-games in amsterdam

cool, next time I blaze through Amsterdam I'll notify you beforehand.

also, just for once Ren is actually right

 

[Jacks:Revenge]

why would I leave?
it's not like an all-or-nothing proposition.

I still post on BuF like I still post on 10 other forums that I've been using for over 10 years now.
some are more active than others. so be it...

 

[nawrot]

Bored when compiling/updating bzr at work.

Also unreal is not dead!

 

[igNiTion]

Nice font.

I'm still here (forgot about it for a year or two though) because it's the only forum I am a part of. Also, because the names are the same from years ago.

 

[Syri]

Mostly nostalgia... I don't really post these days, but I check by every now and then, see who's around and all that.

 

[Rambowjo]

I mostly just keep up to dates with OT and Games on here these days. I swing by IRC now and then.

I'm really hoping new Unreal content will blow life back into BUF. Reddit is nice, but I dislike how a lot of potentially great communities have turned into subreddit repost/circlejerk fests.

 

[Sir_Brizz]

I stick around because I keep it running

 

[TheBladeRoden]

I had an 8 year break

 

[tomcat ha]

irc pals