Important Status Update About UOGuide's Future
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2016 5:05 am
October 8 Update: UOGuide will not be shutting down. As I stated earlier, I was letting everyone know what my thoughts were. After what has happened with the Stratics Wiki launch it is clear more than ever that the community needs UOGuide as a resource. I thank everyone for their messages of support, both public and private. If you want to help out there is plenty of stuff to create and update on UOGuide.
See Also: Stratics Wiki Administrator Copied Content from UOGuide
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In the past 10 years we have come a long way with UOGuide. Back in 2006 there was no website providing current and detailed information on UO. Players were wandering a wilderness of forum posts and second hand knowledge on how game mechanics worked. It was a trying time.
Starting with Mondain's Legacy and continuing on through Stygian Abyss and High Seas, UOGuide provided the information players needed to play UO. We had hundreds of contributors with some even becoming site staff members. Every day thousands of people looked up topics from peerless bosses to crafting materials. The article on that Stygian Abyss puzzle was especially popular before the loot nerf. Basically, if you needed to know something you knew you could find it on UOGuide.
Unfortunately things have changed over time and not in a good way. The Time of Legends expansion released last year has barely been documented. There is an enormous backlog of articles not updated to reflect publish changes. The UOGuide staff has decreased over time to just myself for these past 2 years. But worst of all, recently there has been an enormous amount of misinformation and drama directed at UOGuide.
In the past 10 months there have been 3 major incidents. This is unprecedented in the history of this site, in which I don't recall even one previous similar incident in the preceding 9 years. There seems to be a concerted effort to perpetuate complete fabrications about UOGuide and myself. I have spent a lot of time correcting them.
The fact is I don't want to be spending my efforts defending against such ridiculous assertions. Most recently I have been devoting my time to improving role playing and events on Atlantic shard using the governor system. All this nonsense has taken away from that the past few days. I'm tired of it. And if the past is any indication of the future it will only continue to get worse.
To put it simply, the captain can't be in the engine room shoveling coal and cleaning toilets when the ship needs steering. While I would love to spend all day editing articles as I used to, I have too many responsibilities to run every aspect of the site. The same goes for correcting false information. This is literally a one man show and has been for a while. I can't focus on the things only I can do when the Main Page is terribly out of date.
With that said, my only option at the moment is to shut down UOGuide. I have never once thought about closing or giving up on the site. But things have just gotten so bad this past year and it is causing me too much trouble. I always thought I would keep the site going no matter what. But the recurring attacks on what I've worked here to create is too much.
This letter was written to inform everyone about what is going on and my current thoughts. Closing down UOGuide is not set in stone. Also, this does not mean I am quitting UO. I will continue working on projects such as the Atlantic Shard events and my news service at www.jcthebuilder.com.
Normally I would wish you to have a nice day, but that does not seem appropriate here.
Sincerely,
~~~~~ JC the Builder ~~~~~
~~ UOGuide Administrator ~~
Atlantic Governor of Moonglow
See Also: Stratics Wiki Administrator Copied Content from UOGuide
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In the past 10 years we have come a long way with UOGuide. Back in 2006 there was no website providing current and detailed information on UO. Players were wandering a wilderness of forum posts and second hand knowledge on how game mechanics worked. It was a trying time.
Starting with Mondain's Legacy and continuing on through Stygian Abyss and High Seas, UOGuide provided the information players needed to play UO. We had hundreds of contributors with some even becoming site staff members. Every day thousands of people looked up topics from peerless bosses to crafting materials. The article on that Stygian Abyss puzzle was especially popular before the loot nerf. Basically, if you needed to know something you knew you could find it on UOGuide.
Unfortunately things have changed over time and not in a good way. The Time of Legends expansion released last year has barely been documented. There is an enormous backlog of articles not updated to reflect publish changes. The UOGuide staff has decreased over time to just myself for these past 2 years. But worst of all, recently there has been an enormous amount of misinformation and drama directed at UOGuide.
In the past 10 months there have been 3 major incidents. This is unprecedented in the history of this site, in which I don't recall even one previous similar incident in the preceding 9 years. There seems to be a concerted effort to perpetuate complete fabrications about UOGuide and myself. I have spent a lot of time correcting them.
The fact is I don't want to be spending my efforts defending against such ridiculous assertions. Most recently I have been devoting my time to improving role playing and events on Atlantic shard using the governor system. All this nonsense has taken away from that the past few days. I'm tired of it. And if the past is any indication of the future it will only continue to get worse.
To put it simply, the captain can't be in the engine room shoveling coal and cleaning toilets when the ship needs steering. While I would love to spend all day editing articles as I used to, I have too many responsibilities to run every aspect of the site. The same goes for correcting false information. This is literally a one man show and has been for a while. I can't focus on the things only I can do when the Main Page is terribly out of date.
With that said, my only option at the moment is to shut down UOGuide. I have never once thought about closing or giving up on the site. But things have just gotten so bad this past year and it is causing me too much trouble. I always thought I would keep the site going no matter what. But the recurring attacks on what I've worked here to create is too much.
This letter was written to inform everyone about what is going on and my current thoughts. Closing down UOGuide is not set in stone. Also, this does not mean I am quitting UO. I will continue working on projects such as the Atlantic Shard events and my news service at www.jcthebuilder.com.
Normally I would wish you to have a nice day, but that does not seem appropriate here.
Sincerely,
~~~~~ JC the Builder ~~~~~
~~ UOGuide Administrator ~~
Atlantic Governor of Moonglow