Clanbase - Game Over
For those unfamiliar with the name: ClanBase once was a cool site to visit if you were an online gamer. With cups and ladders hosted for games such as the RtCW, ET, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike and Call of Duty series, a teenager really had quite some options for multiplayer entertainment. Heck, we even had LAN finals for our renowned EuroCups.

Those days are far behind us and as it stands today, the company that owns the ClanBase site - GGL - is unable to cover the costs required to run the website. Moreover, lately the owners of the site do not wish to cooperate with the voluntary crew, keeping everybody in the dark and thus showing complete disrespect to people who spend many hours a day trying to make our tournaments a success.

The website has now been offline for more than three weeks due to an unpaid bill. No action is being taken by the owner to get the website back online. Having no vision for the future, we - the ClanBase Crew - have lost our last hopes about ClanBase ever coming back online, and unfortunately we announce the end of a great era.

The history and the truth as the ClanBase Crew sees it

A US-based company called Global Gaming League (Professional Interactive Entertainment, Inc.) noticed the success of the site and bought it from the original owners in December of 2004. They had financial backing for server hosting and our tournaments. Things were going well until in 2007 CB suffered its first heart attack when GGL couldn’t deliver the prize money they put up for the EuroCup. This can be marked as the start of our downfall.

The CB Crew has always been made up of volunteers with the majority being just teenagers. There was no possibility for us to come up with the money on our own that was promised, yet we were always the ones getting blamed. After all, it was our cup season and our name. It is no surprise that after this blow there was no way for us to host another season with the promise of any kind of prize until the debt was settled with the previous winners.

To this day, GGL owes around €24,000 in prize money which will never be settled. The other sites who were in the same gaming business of course had no problems hosting their tournaments however they wanted. ClanBase, however, lost a great deal of its reputation along with some top teams who never got their winnings.

As time went by the site also started to decay. After the takeover we had paid developers who tried to put the code in shape. There were some noteworthy developments such as the seasonal and invitational ladders, but after the first test run we couldn’t get the necessary changes implemented - because GGL stopped paying the developers.

Money. The source of all evil.

GGL started moving the servers between hosts (RackSpace, Amazon, GreenQloud) to save costs, and to avoid further missed payments. This appeared in the news a few times when providers came out with how they were lied to. We also lost the ability to upload files anything other than demos. Fortunately, a Crew member had the means to help out.

Funding continued to dry up. After the first wave of cuts where we lost the two developers and a head admin, things cooled down for a while. Recently, a general system administrator was cut off which got interesting at one point when CB suffered a denial of service attack to which the host (GreenQloud) responded with moving the servers to a different IP address. However, the domain name had to be updated as well to point to the new address. Since our sysadmin was not getting paid, he refused to perform this, essentially holding the site hostage for a while.

So how do we get money? The site had ads for a while which obviously was not enough. We may have been naive thinking that upping the quality of the site would be a good move, which was promised more times we bother to count. GGL thought otherwise. In fact, many of the cool features our gamers would have loved to see on the website were never implemented - because "CBv2” was supposedly just around the corner.

Their first bold move was trying to get adult banners on CB - a website that was home for thousands of teenagers. The Crew was shocked and appalled by this. Fortunately, we managed to get our voice through (by threatening to go on strike) - but we also lost several valuable crew members who had enough of the poor conditions and bad decisionmaking.

Next to adult material, gambling can also be a good source of income. The Poker and Betting ladders were introduced. It is doubtful that much money was ever made of this, at least nobody said otherwise. The only thing certain is that these projects never got off the ground.

A poor attempt was also made to gather money in the form of offering VIP membership. Nobody took this very seriously and as expected, nobody bothered to opt in after a while. The only benefit to having VIP was the ability to get rid of some of the ads. Perhaps a regular donation system would’ve been more useful.

By the end of August 2013, yet another problem surfaced: the money ran out for the hosting. This is when CB started to go down every month when the time came to pay for the next 30 days.

Of course we tried contacting GGL through our manager who was in charge of handling communications. As you may have guessed by now, he also failed to receive his payment for a while and a company owing money to you, and who knows how many others, is not in a hurry to get back to you.

The ClanBase management tried to directly contact the GGL founder and president Ted Owen (since everyone else left), with very little success. Whenever we got a response it usually consisted of no more than a few words.

The last we heard from him, he stated that "GGL will move on without ClanBase, and besides, why did the Crew never put any money in it?”

Mr. Owen, the Crew put time in it. A lot of time... for free. Every day. And to clarify, nobody has ever reached out to us to ask for any kind of financial aid. Not that we would’ve ever agreed to anything if the money had to go through GGL as that would’ve resulted in the money never reaching its intended destination.

Ultimately, we understand that our users would have expected us to come out with the truth sooner. It has taken us three weeks to make a public statement - but the only reason it took so long is that we were trying to not lose the hope and to reach out to mr. Owen. Unfortunately, our last request (or offer) to him - to release the ClanBase site to the crew for us to be able to continue running it on our own, without the GGL - was not welcomed.

It is thus our sad duty to inform you that ClanBase is gone. We would like to sincerely thank over a thousand admins working on the website over the past 15 years of ClanBase’s existence. And an even bigger thanks goes out to all the players who supported us over the years and who did not lose faith no matter what.

This writing has not come easily because ClanBase has been a big part of our lives, and we definitely did not want to see it end like this.

Clanbase - Game Over
Die Clanbase war einmal eine sehr coole Website für Online- Gamer, mit Cups und Ligen für Spiele wie RtCW, ET, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike und der Call of Duty-Serie.

Diese glorreichen Tage sind nun hinter uns, und heute steht es um die Clanbase Website sehr schlecht - wir sind nicht mehr in der Lage, die erforderlichen kosten der Website zu decken.

Die Website war offline für mehr als drei Wochen, wegen einer unbezahlten Rechnung. Keine Aktion wird vom Eigentümer übernommen, um die Website wieder online zu bekommen. Da sie keine Vision für die Zukunft mehr hat. Wir - die Clanbase Crew - haben unsere letzten Hoffnungen die Clanbase jemals wieder online kommen jetzt endgültig verloren, und müssen leider das Ende einer großen Clanbase-Ära verkünden.

Source: etpro.de | clanbase.org

I (Adrian) have the honor to invite you to the next event dedicated to finding hidden objects on a map: PUMPKIN HUNT

Guardian of our server Farmer Vladek always dreamed to grow pumpkins. He put it on your server so unfortunately bad luck would have it, that day was awash in a corpse. Now, when it's time to harvest, Farmer Vladek for nothing in the world can not remember where seeds sowed. Help him find all 100 pumpkins that planted!

Farmer Vladek medal will honor the best pickers in the forum and lvl on the server.
Fun will begin October 31 and November 9 we will summarize harvest.

Information about the maps on which Farmer Vladek probably planted pumpkins, will appear on the server on the start date.
Wolfenstein.pl Gameserver: No Name - 193.33.177.19:26010
(translate by google)

Mam zaszczyt zaprosić wszystkich na kolejny event poświęcony poszukiwaniu ukrytych na mapach przedmiotów: PUMPKIN HUNT

Opiekun naszego serwera Farmer Władek zawsze marzył, żeby hodować dynie. Posadził je więc na swoim serwerze, niestety pech chciał, że tego dnia był zalany w trupa. Teraz, gdy nadszedł czas zbiorów, Farmer Władek za nic w świecie nie może sobie przypomnieć, gdzie porozrzucał nasiona. Pomóżcie mu odnaleźć wszystkie 100 dyń, które zasadził!

Farmer Władek odznaczy najlepszych zbieraczy medalem na forum i lvlem na serwerze.
Zabawa rozpocznie się 31. października, a 9. listopada zrobimy podsumowanie zbiorów.

Informacje o mapach na których Farmer Władek prawdopodobnie zasadził dynie, pojawią się na serwerze w dniu rozpoczęcia.

More infos: wolfenstein.pl/forum
Source: Adrian via FB | wolfenstein.pl

We all know Halloween, trick-or-treat and grab some candy, pumpkins scary little kids. This year we celebrate Halloween even more special, together with the amazing 6th b-day of our FA-community!

We decided for this special occasion we host an Fearless Assassins HALLOWEEN BIRTHDAY BASH like you've never seen before.

This is what awaits u in the horror of Fun !?
- Halloween maps
- Crazy gravity
- panzer-, rifle- and sniperwars

Event: =F|A= HALLOWEEN BIRTHDAY BASH
Date: 25-26th October 2014
Time: Time: 12.00 (noon) to at least 7.00 (12PM-7AM) London time zone (GMT +0)
Server Name: F|A NODOWNLOAD XPSAVE FOREVER | FUN #1
Server IP: fun1.clan-fa.com:27960

Teamspeak 3 server:
Server Name: =F|A= Clan TeamSpeak
Server IP: ts.clan-fa.com:4666

Don't miss it, or no candy for you!

Sources : fearless-assassins.com | wolffiles.de

Trickjump Evening on A4

After last month we noticed that the players on our Server A1 are in better shape. Therefor we continue our sports event.

This month we have set up some activities to play - For example: Tennis, Golden Dunk, Chess, Poker.

All maps are dual objective. So no need to sit on the bench. We will see you on 24th of March at 20:00 CET on A2 (213.239.207.85:27961)

Nachdem wir im letzten Monat bemerkt haben, dass die Spieler auf unserem Server A1 besser in Form sind,  setzen wir unsere sportliches Event (auf dem A2) fort.

Diesen Monat haben wir auf folgende Aktivitäten gesetzt - zum Beispiel: Tennis, Golden Dunk, Chess, Poker.

Es sind alles Dual-Objektiv-Maps. Also es besteht keine Notwendigkeit auf der Bank zu sitzen oder zu Campen. Wir sehen uns am 24. März um 20:00 Uhr MEZ auf dem Server A2 (213.239.207.85:27961)

Quelle: dark-alchemy.com

Dear Wolfenstein: ET Community,
Many people have been messaging us lately, asking if the LAN event will happen. The community want us to make it happen and we are willing to host it for you. After the last newspost we did not get the response we'd hoped for, resulting in our long silence.
After having another internal conversation, we decided to try and make the event happen, for you, for us and for all those unforgettable moments, the offline events of this beautiful game. We have to pay the location in exactly one month, that being said, this is the final deadline!

We need exactly ten 6on6 teams and twelve 3on3 teams to make the event happen. If we can surprise ourselves and make it, the event will happen from November 2nd 2018 to November 4th 2018. We need the teams signed up and paid by August 30th 2018! Every 6on6 team pays 390€ (65€ per player) and every 3on3 team pays 105€ (35€ per player). We still have the location booked and would love to host the event and the needed seeding tournament.

The prize pool the teams are competing for will be 3160€!

We have reset the recruitment post, to give you all the chances to form or/and find teams. See >HERE<

You don't have a full team? No problem. Sign up for the event and you will be assigned to a team by the event organisers.

Greetings from Chosen, Ekto and stRay

Many thanks to:
Moe, for his donation of 550€ to the prize pool.
The three winning teams of the "ETernal Damage Cup", for their donation of 450€ to the prize pool.

Source: crossfire.nu | wolffiles.de

Panzers, riflenades, shotguns and headshots. Just some ingredients for a nice map-cocktail.

We promise you a "blast" of an evening. And you also need to keep your "head" clear.

Come and show us your skills with all weapons available.

See you the 29th (Sunday) of june at the server to be: Dark Alchemy #2

More info > here <

Source: wolffiles.de | dark-alchemy.com

ET Sniper War - Get your sniper rifle ready, hide your wife, along with alot of beer or if you prefer milk.
Cause, we're gonna have a Sniper Evening on Saints and Sinners Server.

IP:85.236.100.205:28260

Everybody is welcomed!

Source: wolffiles.de

The *WF*Clan invites all players to their NQ 123 Mod, (NQ Revmod), test event. The action started this weekend and will carry on to include next weekend too.

So grab your MP40/Thompson and join in the frag fun as the *WF*Clan test out the excellent new features of the NQ 123 Mod.

IP: 108.18.68.108:27966 - this week end | IP: 108.61.18.108!27977 - test new nq 123 features this week

NQ Revmod info >> wf-gaming.net/nqrevmod

Source - wolffiles.de | wf-gaming.net

Fun Event on PARAZIT-Clan at 19.00 on the 27 September - Server IP: parazit.ro:27960

Link: parazit.ro

Source: wolffiles.de