@GazzaGarrattAs the guys before me have already said, what you do for this community is nothing short of astounding and I cant thank you enough. As with some of the other guys as well, I feel bad that I dont participate on here in the way that I'd like to. All good intentions for a while but then it goes South through nobody's fault but my own.
Keep doing what you're doing buddy. It's really appreciated from all the members here and we'll try and do our bit on here to support you more.
11-12 years I've been a part of this group (FG/FPS/MW2F) and seeing the amount of work you put into this Lee, is astounding, inspiring and makes me feel guilty for not being around here too often. (I already know you're thinking "you're not meant to feel guilty")
I'm going to make more of an effort around here to get involved, I'm just shit at sticking to things these last few years.
Lee, I love you.
FG, I love you. Even the lads I haven't officially met.
Well life hasn't been quite the same this year has it now? It's been a struggle, even for Mr Annoying Positive guy over here. Keeping going mentally is challenging enough in life as it is, let alone more lockdown news across the world. However, I haven't stopped, maybe procrastinated a little too much, but I wanted to report we are getting somewhere. Needless to say I can't do it without you all visiting and popping in, not forgetting our home for which i'm extremely grateful. This could be a long-ish one but it will be worth it so please read all of it!
I'll do my best to keep it brief (yeah, okay Lee) and maybe give you some visuals a long the way to make it easier to not switch off 😁
FG Progress Updates
We mentioned some months ago here, we (or more so I, with the help of you amazing people) wanted to make a stand and keep things moving where we could to make a difference. I've copied the bits mentioned from the thread and shown any progress next to it:
Merchandise Shop - New application purchased for FG so it can support the Merch shop. Early days but you may see that there is a resemblance of a shop on our Home (you can check it out in the menu bar).
It needs a lot of fleshing out with way more bits need to be added of course so obviously any ideas of things we should have in there please can you keep them coming. Big shout out to Matty @Misneach_ as he working through to find an american provider so we can get the same or similar designs to save on the postage.
FG Points/Gamerscore - This hasn't moved anywhere. Not received any ideas since we raised it and sits lower down the pecking order as it was an added incentive to your daily life at FG.
Creating new sections (New entire page spaces for games) - I've started creating a few but obviously need a little more content to get them fully up and running. I'm considering making a few live with bare bones and getting all of you to help flesh them out a bit and offer suggestions on what you think would work best. That way we have something workable ongoing to regularly improve. Destiny and FIFA are a few i'm looking at but there's a lot of work under the hood with the new functionality to get it bang on. Just wanted to show you something to see progress is being made even if it still needs major tweaks and changes:
Creating new sections - New homepage - its coming along too. Not too much to giveaway here but I think we need to have a central point for everyone to remember all the other parts of stuff we have fun with too. Work in progress below but getting there...even if it could end up meaning one extra click for some:
Expanding existing areas - we now have dedicated forums and discord channels for a few games with also corresponding notifications for those games. You may have seen a few pop up in discord and these should work well with new page spaces if we decide to have them.
Guides & Tips section - We haven't received any new updates to it. With Destiny launching soon and with other brand new games as well as existing games starting to get a following (FIFA, 7 Days, etc) it would be good to get a few more up.
Re-engaging with old FGers - we've seen a few faces come back, and its nice to see some of the PPRs of old (and new!) being updated. Its just a rubbish time for everyone so reading everyones PPRs, hearing that you're all okay and getting by however you can is really awesome to see. Would love to see more updates and people embrace PPRs more, even if its just to read others and comment on their ones. Its the one big way we can make a difference in such a small amount of effort.
Open our doors to new FGers - A few people have graced us with their presence. Awesome thanks to people like Nutty @Nutcuttlit spreading the FG wings out there on all manor of games. When you can, make sure you take the moment to make newer people feel part of the group properly. The more we help each other, the better we'll all feel about stuff going on.
Regular gaming nights schedule - We've definitely picked up a few things and I can only see more to come. FIFA Monday Night Football, GT Sport Weekly Races on Tuesdays, 7 Days horde nights every so often, and Destiny Raids have popped up again too. I think what I probably need to do is more simple YouTube explanations on how to set up events, etc as I fear just because I might not be able to turn up or can't make a night doesn't mean we can't make a go of things. We also have to be persistent. If a few times they don't work, you keep trying as the more it becomes force of habit, the more times people will join for fun and good times.
Ways to help others (real charity fundraisers starting with charity streams) - I don't think we've managed to find enough time to do these of late which is a shame as its something we could definitely do to support others. I did think about a group Movember even if its 3 days late.
Try to get a regular pattern on sending out Feel Good Fund parcels to caring FGers - There's been a few parcels sent out. I haven't updated the thread lately but this probably leads into a time where because this year has an absolute awful one for many, i'm going to try and do what I can to make something happen, starting with the BIG Xmas FGFGF Giveaway.
Comms - WhatsApp
We clearly still have a major problem with how life is at present, even though we have Discord, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and our Home here to keep in touch. Whilst I started many years ago saying it could work, over recent years it proved to get in the way, as it makes us all a little lazy at times. However, with the year we've had, how many people are splintered over all those ways to connect, the inability to help get everyone on one simple chat application AND Sony royally fucking up playstation chat parties, I'm planning on resurrecting one purely for FGers. All I ask is that you don't forget this place as this is our Home. If we don't have a home, FG will splinter and die which we all don't want. Let me know if you want to be part of one and we'll see how it goes. When we seem in a better place in the world we'll see how things lay, like everything here and we can change things around as and when we're at that point. I won't hesitate to close it though if I feel this place is dying away. Any views, thoughts, opinions i'd be seriously grateful on this thread.
The BIG FGFGF Xmas Giveaway
Well, here we are. After not being able to do something last year and we've said enough about 2020 until the cows come home (never understood that expression when written down but it works when i say it out loud), its time I believe to put some smiles back on people's faces. I want to keep the Feel Good Fund surprises coming to direct people as and when I can but for the main part of the rest of this year, I want to do the following as I special thank you for being FG and being there for others here too.
We all love an advent calendar so here is our very own. Behind each door will be a prize we will give away, each day of the year. I'D URGE YOU TO KEEP IN CONTACT HERE TO NOT MISS OUT ON YOUR CHANCE.
Rather than spell out all the prizes on this thread straight away, the below lets you select each door to see whats behind each day of the 25 days of Christmas. I can detail them properly on a separate thread but for now go and enjoy whats behind each door 😄. The Raffle System will go up within the next 2 weeks for, I'll create a new thread and it will be for EXISTING FGers ONLY. It will be clear what the rules are to enter so make sure you check your FG login details as it will be linked to those.
The final point I just wanted to quickly touch on is Donations. We can't ever run without them, so thank you for anyone that has donated this year when it's been really tough. No matter whatever you can give and at whatever time, its massively grateful. It can't be like this every year but this one is on me to try and help bring some smiles back to the end of this year - Thank you to all of you for being FG.
GGFG
Link to FG Advent Calendar below (EDIT - I had it embedded in the post too but it doesn't paginate correctly on mobile, the link will be good to go for all):
Forever Gaming's Christmas Giveaway!
CALENDAR.MYADVENT.NET
FG has created an advent calendar for you! Happy holidays! 🙂
Been a lurker for donkeys, diddums former lower neighbor thats all you really need to know. Guess it's taken an actual pandemic for me to finally post.
Play a mixture of shite, typically either shooting or racing, lately more so on the Xbox as am using it as a stand for a monitor so it's more convenient. Trying to get a win in warzone at the minute to be real.
Catch y'all around, on most evenings with diddly to do.
tadnothad
Been a lurker for donkeys, diddums former lower neighbor thats all you really need to know. Guess it's taken an actual pandemic for me to finally post.
Play a mixture of shite, typically either shooting or racing, lately more so on the Xbox as am using it as a stand for a monitor so it's more convenient. Trying to get a win in warzone at the minute to be real.
Catch y'all around, on most evenings with diddly to do.
tadnothad
Been a lurker for donkeys, diddums former lower neighbor thats all you really need to know. Guess it's taken an actual pandemic for me to finally post.
Play a mixture of shite, typically either shooting or racing, lately more so on the Xbox as am using it as a stand for a monitor so it's more convenient. Trying to get a win in warzone at the minute to be real.
Catch y'all around, on most evenings with diddly to do.
tadnothad
Thanks for everyone turning up last night. That was a much needed lolz for once that i stayed up all the way through and didn't want it to end. Highlights for me were Crispy flying off my bonnet into space just in time to go out of the Sumo circle and blow up. I tactically played the worlds best ram and flip on Nick, to put him on his top and then casually slap him into the abyss on the next round of Sumo.
After working out another controller can't hit top speed, it was finally good to eventually smash you all off the track....although i probably remembered more when i screwed up more than being on top. Like casually cutting across Diddums just in time for his pink car to fuck me up. and trying to nudge Crispy out of first only to bump him into the lead on the last corner and drive off into a wall. Having said all this, the Nascar one where Greebs couldn't catch Rich for the life of him, you guys outplayed yourselves constantly hitting a brick wall time after time, properly making cry on that one.
Cheers all, been too long, as always @Diddums @phil bottle @tronic44 @Greboth @crispymorgan @Bluebear @Misneach_ @Rico @Tadnothad & Alex
P.S. Tad joined after 5 years of saying he would. You get a certificate for that. Well Done. You'll lose it though if you don't come next time.
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