Goodbye, AGN.

[LORD APOCALYPSE]

Well, this is saddening news.

Doing my usual yearly check in, what the hells happened?!

[Dechipher]

I also stopped visiting once I kept receiving the attack site warning. I was just like...fuck it.
I dig what people say about this place and adolescence. I learned quite a few social skills on this forum, but mostly I just had fun. I was like 12 or 13 when I joined. That was over ten and a half years ago - which is insane. Quite literally, AGN has (somehow) been the most stable thing in my life over the last decade. While I don't want to just be like "I'm done with this place", I don't have the energy to put into something that no longer contains a natural draw for me. I think we had a good thing building up with Shattered Earth, but with me on a Mac it wasn't able to really go anywhere - not to mention I couldn't code and it was slightly difficult to get in contact with WL on moving forward with the project.
There are several people at this place that I've somewhat kept in contact with - CAD, MSU, and Masamune. There's a couple of other people I'm FB friends with but I forgot what their usernames were.

facebook.com/jwhitmarsh
Find me if you want to. I might be around here, but it'd take this place generating its own energy instead of me feeling like I am posting into an endless abyss.

[Yoshiman]

Guess what I decided to type into my address bar? I'm actually kind of surprised I even remembered my password without using up all my login attempts. :p

Seeing this place go down is what it must be like to visit a childhood home, only to find it's been bulldozed and replaced.

I'll have to admit, this is almost exactly what it feels like to me.

I joined way back in 2001 (mainly because of Zelda Classic), along with a bunch of other members. I was 12 back then and spent most of my awkward adolescence here (as evidenced by my username and early posts). I kind of drifted away around 2005-ish, if I remember correctly. I would pop in and post every now and then, but I slowly became a lurker and stopped visiting altogether.

I have to say though, out of every discussion forum I've been a part of, this is probably the only one where it felt like a family. A caustic and dysfunctional family at times, but a family. c:

[KJAZZ]

Even if this place is just a husk of what it once was, the fact that it still exists is something I'm thankful for. Good times... even if it became more of a ghost town than it already is, I'd still be sadder if it wasn't here.

Then the first incarnation of Shattered Earth came about, and I think I dated an imaginary person - granted I was like 14? That was definitely the weirdest part of my adolescence. [Only KJAZZ can really confirm whether hyper was real or not, really - fucking weird].

Ohohohoho. I guess it's okay to spill the beans half a decade later, hmm? hyper is indeed a real person, a friend of mine. I'm pretty sure what happened in the beginning was that because he picked the White Mage avatar, other players wrongfully assumed he was a she, and then showered "her" with gifts. Deception was not his original intention, I'm sure, but he kept up the facade because hey, free virtual gold and equipment, right?

[Xyvol]

It seems strange to be mentioned in a post like this, I never really knew what kind of effect I have on people though a web forum. Then again, there are a lot of names in that list I have good memories of.

I think the fact that this site is still up and running says a lot about it, even though it may be sparsely populated. It hasn't faded into the void of the internet.

[christiankhs]

holy.. i ve been inactive since like 2002 or something lol i cant believe they didnt erased my account , maybe nobody remembers me, im the guy who doesnt speek english very well i remember your names and its sad to see people that have always been here are ...leaving... i feel nostalgic i stopped posting because there was no motivation to be here i mean zelda classic never advanced and open zelda died or moved to another part , i dont know how things like this work but they should give zelda classic to more programmers or something
please if you or somebody else really wants to leave dont do it at all, i mean keep comming sometimes at least

[DarkFlameWolf]

Just got here after over a year away and it is sad to see posts like this. But good to hear people are still checking in once in a blue moon. Almost like we're all wishing for it to become revitalized, knowing its probably not going to happen. I've met some good friends on here. You can all look me up on facebook under Darkflamewolf. Pretty easy to find me. Must give major shout out to Cbailey for being one of the most awesome testers I've ever had to work with. You can test my new and upcoming projects anytime buddy!

[King Aquamentus]

everything's relatively ok here, aside from spambot attacks. the Zelda Classic forums are still very active as they work to get everything fixed. did I mention the spambot attacks?

[cbailey78]

I even check the "Currently Active Users" at the bottom of the main page and I would be darned to see it go to the single digits.

[goKi]

I remember logging in here probably every day for about 6 years. It was when i moved out of home and didn't have Internet that my interest kind of dissipated. It's a shame. Like many of you, AGN was such a huge part of life. Will never forget travelling halfway across the world for the AGN convention in '05. That was a blast and i met a bunch of awesome people there. My life is nothing like it was back then, to most of you who haven't kept touch, I would seem like a completely different person. I guess in a few ways that is because I am.

Thanks for the shout out Atma. Hope your life is well and you've achieved what you had hoped so many years ago.
It's sad to hear what has happened to AGN and even though i don't visit much anymore, it will be a dark day when this place ceases to exist.

Good luck to everyone who's been here forever, those of you i still keep in touch with, look me up for a chat! Those of you who dont, i'd love to hear what's going on in your life:

e-mail: brentonjames at gmail dot com
facebook: www.facebook.com/bootman (make sure you say who from AGN you actually are in a message or something, or you may get ignored )

Cheers for the memories AGN,
goKi.