Caltrops - Rants





	[quote name="(forums)"]<a href="https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/252904/coin-return-a-progress-bar-and-timeline#latest">https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/252904/coin-return-a-progress-bar-and-timeline#latest</a> [quote]On October 25th 2024 we were informed by PA Corporate that they had decided to end the Penny Arcade Forums, our home. We were told that we would be given until the end of 2025 before they shut the lights off, because of their contract with Vanilla, the hosting/service company the forums run on. But wait! There's a shocking twist! A few days later we were informed that they were wrong about the contract expiration and that we would actually be given the boot on May 21st, 2025 -- more than 6 months sooner than expected. This news kicked a lot of things into high gear. Before long numerous forumers began offering their time and spitballing ideas. After a lot of conversations between some of these intrepid users, a diverse group of volunteers with the time and spoons to devote to the project of standing up a new forum came together and started working in earnest on all the hundreds of projects, small and substantial, that need to be completed before we can have a safe, new home. We refer to ourselves as the Transition Team, and we'll be your guides through this journey. But don't sit back just yet -- we'll eventually need to call on many of you for your own expertise and assistance with some of the jobs to come. And we'll continue to take feedback from the entire community to help guide us through the most complicated decisions in the process.[/quote] I'm guessing the Merch, Kickstarter fleecing, and Lookouts money are finally slowing to a trickle. Costs were cut by outsourcing the comic to whatever the fuck Asian sweatshop AI has been pumping them out for the past half decade, but the time has come to put the forums on the chopping block. Is it finally over for PA as a whole? Anyone knowledgeable venture a guess on how much it could possibly cost per year to host those forums? 0.1% of what they make on PAX? Is PA finished? Or are Pig and Bald just that greedy and realize that all fan goodwill has dried up and they only need to placate PAX related incomes now? Bonus laughter in how <a href="https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/253069/vote-now-coin-return-values-code-of-conduct-open-through-december-27th">they're treating their new utopia like a goddamn constitutional convention</a>[/quote]