Quote from DementedKirby »Interesting... I will probably just maintain my primers here just because they have some history and have been here for a while. There's lots of discussions and I believe that they'll still be useful if I'm still able to edit and maintain them. That being said, the staff here at MTGSalvation have made the experience and forums an amazing place and their dedication deserves way more merit and credit than can be given. I hope that, once MTGNexus is up and running, an announcement can be made and thus be able to create an account there (and hopefully no one takes my username). It won't be easy juggling between being active in two different sites, but I will probably only be attentive here to my primers. If the exodus towards MTGNexus is a certain thing, then I will join that immigration.
If the people who make up the relevant parts of the community to you are moving, then going over there could be reasonable. If not, then, at least personally, the community is way more important than the staff. In my case, at this point in time, I'm almost exclusively focused on the Mafia side of things, with the occasional foray into EDH. The EDH section is losing a number of serious people to this schism, so I'm probably just forgoing the game altogether for the time being; I haven't played Magic since August of last year anyways, if I recall correctly. Both communities will probably change, but it's a question of convenience of staying here or loyalty to people who are moving, the primary group of which and force behind which is staff. Both sites are at an unstable state. This site needs a staff that is actively focused on it and appreciates the community, Nexus will need people who like the old staff of Salvation enough to want to be there, and doesn't have the funding or people to be as stable as Salvation potentially can be at this time.
That said, as a user, you probably won't even notice most of it. The staff are just people, just the same as users. Their authority is an artificial concept. So make sure that whatever you choose, it's based on your feelings about the community, not just following either the staff to Nexus or just staying here for the site structure itself, as either way, you'll likely end up disappointed if that's the reasoning for your choice.
From when Iso first introduced me to online mafia on MtGS, I've always been here to design and then host games first and foremost, but I found myself enjoying playing as well, despite, to use one of my favourite quotes from Azrael, flailing "like a floppy new foal".
I've had a lot of good times here and have met many people whom I'm happy to call friends. Through this site, I was introduced to Mafia Society, now Mafia Colosseum, and through that community, many other communities, and more importantly, the love of my life.
I also have had some very negative memories on this site. As I mentioned in part in another thread, my history on this site before playing mafia was:
Looking back over the past few years, the site staff was a very standard toxic environment and I was suckered in. I still have some good friends from there, but the experience is one I mostly wish to bury.
Many elements of this site, even some in the mafia section, have brought back some of those memories now and then, usually for the worst.
But mafia has generally been a positive for me. However, forum mafia has declined on a lot of sites and MtGS is no exception. I still have a handful of games which I wish to run, mostly a couple of specialty games, one of which Iso had inspired me to design, but I don't feel that we have the playerbase to run them here any more. I don't feel the same passion for the game here any more, either from myself, or from many of the people I've seen here. I may run one or more of those specialty games on MU if we get the people for it. I may hand the designs off to people more interested in hosting.
In addition, my real life expectations and opportunities are amping up over the next year or so, and I will need to focus on that.
As such, I think it's as good a time as any to finally finish closing the book on the MtGSalvation chapter of my life. I will likely still be semi-active on MC for as long as that site exists, and the Throne of Lies Mafia Forum as well for some amount of time. Maybe some others. Maybe MU for a game or two.
I will also endeavour to finish this year's podcast and give that to Silver to post whenever and wherever it makes sense to do so. It is twice as long as previous years, and that exponentiates the time it takes to edit it.
For the time being, I can be reached on Discord at osieorb18#0126 or on sites on which I'm active with this username. In addition, osieorb18@gmail.com can reach me a bit more slowly. Some of you have other, more reliable contact info for me as well. I will be staying in the MtGSMafia Discord for some time, but I anticipate that within the next year or two, my presence on Discord will slow significantly. I've already divided the number of servers I'm in by a factor of three, to a total of 15.
I happen to be a Doctor Who fan, and I feel this is a great quote for these sorts of circumstances.
Thanks for the memories.
Lots of love,
Osie.
I'm 1337, lol.
Could be fun. I'll bring it up in the discord too.
I'm actually probably not going to be around updating here much more often (see my post on the Norin the Wary primer).
I recuse myself because I'm a bad player in the playerbase... I kid... I have a conflict of interest, I'm busy, and I hate playing on MU. Pick your preferred reason.
If you're in the Commander RC discord, I check that occasionally. I'm on Discord most of the day when not at work.
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This is probably one of the last times I'm posting here. I've been growing away from the game and don't play very often, as I've mentioned in the past. My experience on this site has had ups and downs.
I was an irregular for a while, then eventually started paying attention to various eternal format decklists, particularly EDH, and Custom Set Creation. I was here for a couple years as a moderator of Debate and Vintage, looking to moderate Commander throughout the entire time I was in those positions. Moderation had some fun moments, but I was constantly being ridiculed, scapegoated, gaslit, and held to a double standard by other staff, particularly senior staff. I stepped down when I realized that it had gotten to be too much, in the middle of such a conversation with one of the admins. I dealt with serious depression throughout my time as a moderator, and while I was allowed to take a break from the site, the site staff atmosphere was still not a helpful one.
Given the closing of Debate, I made a Debate discord, which is still a comfortable and active hangout to this day for the former MtGS Debate community.
Through my staff position, I met a few people I still call friends, one of whom got me into Mafia here. I enjoyed playing in the mafia section for a while and eventually branched out to other sites. I still regularly came back to MtGS to check spoilers, post set reviews, and occasionally play or host some mafia.
This Norin thread has been one of my favourite last links to this site, even as the spoilers are no longer useful (I use Mythic Spoiler), a chunk of the community no longer posts here, and my interest in Magic has declined alongside my rate of playing the game and my opinion of WotC as a company.
All in all, though, I feel old. I feel like even if I didn't feel now like WotC is an awful company, I'd still feel left behind by Magic. The designs don't feel designed for me. I don't get that sense of excitement that I used to get from new sets and new cards. And I'm only 28 years old.
I'll check back here a bit if I have the time this month, but I don't expect to be regularly posting set reviews or anything else for a while. With the mafia community moving on from MtGSalvation, I can finally let the site go.
Ending on one of my favourite Doctor Who quotes feels fitting:
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I don't know what you're talking about; this game is running on another site and then we have plans to go to one of two sites. (As was always the case.)