I'm actually really glad this came out. I had been working on either a retirement post or a PM for the senior staff, just hadn't proceeded so this makes it easy.
Here's the story. After Afghanistan in 2010, I started playing on S1 with Caveadsum, Brian, Blu and Damage and the others. Fun bunch of people, and for about two years it was great.
I put a huge amount of effort into the krew and progressed from mod, super then admin and it was fun. I was dedicated to building this place out; I recruited lots of people, made donations, organized events like profile competitions and other events. Basically did my best to help YOU, Walter, build out your clan. It was fun for about two years. Lots of laughs. (The whole reason I play COD and hung out here)
Then, starting around a year ago Wally starts publicly berating me in the shout, ignoring me, leaving me the staff admin out of key decisions. Even started a little clique called "Executives" happily leaving me out. It turned into a very unfriendly environment yet I stuck it out for a year hoping things would get better. It didn't
After a while his behavior really got old but I was just waiting to see if he'd talk about it like an adult but instead it was just this steady stream of bullshit like this in the shout: (Wish I had screencapped more of them. It was almost daily)
It's really difficult to be enthusiastic and supportive of an organization who's founder treats you or others like this.
So, Joint Forces Krew stemmed out of the unfriendly environment YOU created Walter. I just hadn't gotten around to retiring my position yet.
I was planning on 20 April 2013 as a departure date. We'll have to move that up a bit.
You can blame yourself Walt for creating the conditions for this decision. You should have had the common decency and maturity to at least talk to me about why you were conducting yourself that way so we could work things out and move forward.
Anyhow, we go hot on 20 April with servers on both Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the US already online. May even stand up servers in the EU and Australia.
Recruiting on gaming sites begins in April and we'll see how that goes.
Don't blame the others or Andy. I put the idea out there so this was my thing alone.
Not sure where you got the whole "Pro" clan thing.
I only ever just wanted a fun, friendly place to hang out and play games as friends.
Anyhow, exactly as I said in my introduction 3+ years ago, "I will stay with the krew as long as it's a fun and friendly environment."
Well, it stopped being that a long time ago so we're done.
Best wishes to you all. It was mostly really fun.
Greg