Fog — It’s a sad day for the Team Fortress 2 community, with My Gaming Edge closing it’s doors after a year and a half online.
For those who were unaware of My Gaming Edge, MGE was a TF2 website created by CB, which brought content for those players who wanted to gain an edge and learn from the pros. My Gaming Edge also provided livestreams of ESEA matches and recently completed it’s first (and now only) MGE Cup, an off season tournament which pitted the best teams against eachother with the Open Bracket and the Invite Bracket. As of late, there has been less content coming from MGE, with CB stating in his statement that “it has become much more difficult in the recent months to get our pros to make videos in a timely manner and I hate to continue to push them to provide content when they simply no longer want to”.
The current ESEA-I Weekly Edge videos produced by My Gaming Edge will continue for the rest of the season, and ALL videos will be free to view for the next two weeks. The full statement is after the jump.
I wanted to start off by thanking the TF2 community. I know it often gets a bad rep, but it really does have some of the best most genuine people that I have come across in a long time. There has been so many people who have helped with the MGE along the way from the early stages of development to maintaining and running the site that I could go on for days. I wanted to extend a special thanks to these people (you know who you are) for sticking with me and doing what many people said would never work.
Over the past year and a half MGE has far exceeded my expectations. We have had over 500 premium subscribers and just over 300 at any given time. These subscribers enabled us to keep our doors open and run events such as the MGE Mod Tournament and the recent MGE N.A Cup. I have to also give a special thanks to our premium members because without you there would not be an MGE. I Can honestly say that I am proud to have run the site with such success since it’s inception and wouldn’t trade it for anything.
I truly believe that MGE did succeed at what we set out to do. We gave the tf2 community something new, different and exciting. We also provided the community and the premium members a service that had yet been brought into the competitive TF2 scene. Of course we had our hurdles to overcome but it was a learning process and I am glad we were able to work through those issues to bring a regular flow of content to the community.
The time has come to close our doors. In order for MGE to run and provide the reliable and regular content that the community and our premium subscribers deserve we need two major things to happen. One, we need our pros to provide content and two, we need someone who has the time and dedication to run the site. The main reason MGE is closing its doors is due to the fact that I no longer have the time to dedicate to the site. I currently got a full time job and between that, playing and spending time with the wife there is just no room left. Also, it has become much more difficult in the recent months to get our pros to make videos in a timely manner and I hate to continue to push them to provide content when they simply no longer want to. It is also not fair to our premium subscriber base.
MGE will remain open for about 2 weeks with full FREE access to all of our content (starting 12/7) . I wanted to apologize to anyone who recently, within the last 2 weeks, signed up for premium and would like to extend to them the opportunity to get their money refunded in the next few weeks. If this is the case please email me at [email protected]
Also, to all of our premium subscribers. Please remember to cancel your subscription HERE so you no longer get charged.
Once again I wanted to thank the entire TF2 community and everyone who helped with MGE along the way. None of it could have been possible without you. This was an experience that I will never forget.
CB
My Gaming Edge will be missed, R.I.P :(
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2011-12-08 by Fog.
Recovered from the Internet Archive (archived copy) as part of tf2esports.com's preservation of VanillaTV's TF2 coverage. The original site is no longer online. All rights remain with the original author; reposted for historical reference.