Credits to close in end-June
Hello, everyone. I apologise for this very abrupt announcement but after talking to the staff team and due to various reasons, I have decided to close Credits in end-June.
First off, I have personal reasons for closing the game. I start work in July and will be taking up part-time classes eventually, which will leave me with little time to manage a TCG. On top of that, to deal with decreasing player activity and improving card flow, the staff team had been planning a few big changes. However, I realised something very important during the planning - I'm no longer as passionate about TCGs as I used to be. To turn things around in Credits, lots of changes will need to be made and unfortunately, I lack the energy or motivation to push for those changes right now. I've been unnecessarily dragging my feet over brainstorming with the mods and making the changes, and that's not the kind of attitude anyone would want to see from a TCG owner. For these reasons, I have decided to step down.
Secondly, why closing, and why not a hiatus or a new owner? I've thought about it, and I decided that going on a hiatus would be as good as closing the game since I might not end up returning to it for a long while. Not to mention it's not really nice to keep people waiting indefinitely for something that may or may not happen.
I'm not open to the idea of handing Credits over to a new owner either; I did pick a new co-owner several months back but they ended up being busier than they expected and I had to take back most of my duties so... plus, Credits is the very first game I own so on a more personal note, I'm quite reluctant to give it up. ;; More importantly, there're other issues facing Credits, like dwindling player participation and greater difficulty in finding creditless caps [since MU went down and took Eizou Tokuten with it and spooked other people into removing their uploaded files], so it feels irresponsible to hand over the game at such a difficult time.
tl;dr: Sadly, I don't have the time and motivation to keep Credits going anymore. Since a hiatus is as good as closing to me, and I have my doubts about getting someone to take over, Credits will be ending its run on 30 June 2012.
Our mods are very awesome people and helped me come up with a lot of ways to improve the situation, but ultimately I feel that I have to be honest with you. Better to close it with a bang, right? It's definitely been a very interesting and exciting experience, and I have a better idea on what works and what doesn't for this game. Maybe [and that's a VERY big maybe] further down the road, I might even decide to reopen the game, with all the new changes already in place. Who knows? And if I do, I'm sure that Credits V2 will be way better than it is right now. Not to say that it isn't great now, every single one of you guys have been absolutely amazing. ♥
So, what's going to happen now? Things are going to go on as normal, games will still be posted [maybe more special rounds will be coming your way!], the June deck release will still happen. In June, the deck donations post will be closed since there won't be a July release. Everything else goes on as normal.
My deepest apologies, especially to the members who joined fairly recently... I'm happy that you all enjoy the game and I thank you all very much for your support. Without you, Credits would surely not have come so far. I'm sorry for springing this on everyone so suddenly, and I hope that you can understand.
First off, I have personal reasons for closing the game. I start work in July and will be taking up part-time classes eventually, which will leave me with little time to manage a TCG. On top of that, to deal with decreasing player activity and improving card flow, the staff team had been planning a few big changes. However, I realised something very important during the planning - I'm no longer as passionate about TCGs as I used to be. To turn things around in Credits, lots of changes will need to be made and unfortunately, I lack the energy or motivation to push for those changes right now. I've been unnecessarily dragging my feet over brainstorming with the mods and making the changes, and that's not the kind of attitude anyone would want to see from a TCG owner. For these reasons, I have decided to step down.
Secondly, why closing, and why not a hiatus or a new owner? I've thought about it, and I decided that going on a hiatus would be as good as closing the game since I might not end up returning to it for a long while. Not to mention it's not really nice to keep people waiting indefinitely for something that may or may not happen.
I'm not open to the idea of handing Credits over to a new owner either; I did pick a new co-owner several months back but they ended up being busier than they expected and I had to take back most of my duties so... plus, Credits is the very first game I own so on a more personal note, I'm quite reluctant to give it up. ;; More importantly, there're other issues facing Credits, like dwindling player participation and greater difficulty in finding creditless caps [since MU went down and took Eizou Tokuten with it and spooked other people into removing their uploaded files], so it feels irresponsible to hand over the game at such a difficult time.
tl;dr: Sadly, I don't have the time and motivation to keep Credits going anymore. Since a hiatus is as good as closing to me, and I have my doubts about getting someone to take over, Credits will be ending its run on 30 June 2012.
Our mods are very awesome people and helped me come up with a lot of ways to improve the situation, but ultimately I feel that I have to be honest with you. Better to close it with a bang, right? It's definitely been a very interesting and exciting experience, and I have a better idea on what works and what doesn't for this game. Maybe [and that's a VERY big maybe] further down the road, I might even decide to reopen the game, with all the new changes already in place. Who knows? And if I do, I'm sure that Credits V2 will be way better than it is right now. Not to say that it isn't great now, every single one of you guys have been absolutely amazing. ♥
So, what's going to happen now? Things are going to go on as normal, games will still be posted [maybe more special rounds will be coming your way!], the June deck release will still happen. In June, the deck donations post will be closed since there won't be a July release. Everything else goes on as normal.
My deepest apologies, especially to the members who joined fairly recently... I'm happy that you all enjoy the game and I thank you all very much for your support. Without you, Credits would surely not have come so far. I'm sorry for springing this on everyone so suddenly, and I hope that you can understand.