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    Hello. I’ve made the difficult decision to begin the process of winding down (most of) GFL. This has been caused by a variety of circumstances, including:

     

    • A decline in popularity of our servers. Our main divisions have been slowly diminishing since GFL’s earlier days, but up until recently this wasn’t as big of a deal as CS:GO could more than make up for it. Unfortunately, with Valve releasing CS2 and hurting the CS:GO division, our revenue dropped substantially.
    • Failure to pivot. Despite our revenue falling substantially, our expenses didn’t. In fact, some providers even increased prices citing inflation. While we have been aware that there was a problem for some time, due to a combination of optimism regarding CS2’s ability to pick up where CS:GO left off and a failure to implement measures to reduce our expenses quickly enough, our bank account’s balance has deteriorated over the last few months. While we did indeed take some cost cutting measures earlier this year, they did not end up being sufficient. More substantial changes were needed and key individuals capable of planning and implementing them were unavailable due to outside obligations.
    • Inability to find a new owner. I’ve had the idea of passing on ownership of the community and departing floating around in my head for some time as I have had neither the time nor motivation to work on GFL. I asked a few individuals who I trust whether they’d be willing to take on the community. Due to the substantial amount of work involved in bringing GFL back to being sustainable (among other factors), none of the individuals I spoke with were willing to take the community in its entirety due to risk that entails. As I really do not want to be doing this any longer, I am left with the option of either partially or entirely shutting down the community.

     

    In line with this, the majority of GFL’s servers and services will stop operating on or before July 21. I’m sorry I cannot offer a more specific timeline, but I will try to keep things operational until cancellation dates make doing so no longer feasible. That said, some servers will continue to operate under new ownership.

     

    CS2 Zombie Escape

    Despite the overall decline of the community, Zombie Escape has remained strong thanks to the continued efforts of @Vauff, @Snowy, the server’s staff team, and the community. I think it’d be unfortunate for ZE to go down with the ship, so I’ve spoken with Vauff and will be handing off ownership of CS2 Zombie Escape server, the gflclan.com web domain, and most of the community’s remaining funds to Vauff (the rest of the money will be used to settle any obligations I have incurred on GFL’s behalf, such as outstanding invoices from service providers). This change will be happening over the next week or two and there may be some downtime associated with moving things over. Vauff will be releasing his own announcement with further details.

     

    CS:GO Surf and Surf Private Servers

    While the public CS:GO Surf servers have been hurt substantially by CS2, @Infra is interested in potentially spinning the subdivision off into its own entity, so GFL Surf will continue to operate in some form and private server services will continue. I will give Infra some money that would have otherwise been paid out to private server clients as a refund for early termination of the service. I will also give Infra ownership of the Surf Discord.

     

    Physion Unturned

    A while ago GFL purchased another community, Physion. Since purchasing it, Salad has acted as the community manager of Physion. Salad is interested in continuing to run Physion independently. To facilitate this, I will be giving Salad the physion.gg domain name and the Physion Discord.

     

    Other Divisions

    Various staff members have expressed that they would be interested in continuing to run their servers at their own expense. I am happy to facilitate this by giving them access to any server files they may need (excluding anything with restrictive licenses, e.g. GMODStore addons). I am also willing to consider on a case by case basis transferring ownership of divisional Discords to interested staff members. Any staff members interested may contact me on Discord to discuss.

     

    Acknowledgement

    Throughout GFL’s history, it’s been somewhat of a tradition to tag a bunch of members who had a significant impact on your time in the community in resignation / departure threads. While I was initially tempted to do the same in this post, the reality is that there are simply too many people who played in a role in building GFL and I don’t want to run the risk of leaving anybody out (that said, if you have anybody you feel had a positive influence on your time in the community, give them a shout out in the replies!). So instead I’d like to thank all of the staff and community members who played a role in making GFL special to myself and so many others. I’d also like to thank Christian (Roy). Despite the admittedly rough break-up, literally none of this would’ve been possible without him and I wish him the best.

     

     

     

     

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    It is sad the day has come. GFL certainly has been a part in my life one way or another be it as a player, admin, manager for a long time. Thanks for the great experiences and friends made along the way. It has been a good time overall I think, thanks for everything you provided GFL. 

     

    I'd do the funny @ mentioning people but 95% of the people are gone or never check the forums. Thanks CS:S Boomers. 

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    1 hour ago, Nick said:

    Breaks my heart to see this day has come. I really wish gaming communities were in a better spot and received more attention from developers; it is a shame to see it slowly dwindle away. GFL has been a pain in the ass at times, that's for sure, but I have met some great people here and gotten experiences I value highly. I think it's sad that newer generations will likely not experience communities like this.

     

    Thank you, everyone!

     

    @Liloz01

     

    I remember when you made a plugin for minecraft and broke the server 🙂

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    I'll never forget my time spent on Purge and Gmod as a whole and all of the people who made it the amazingly dumb place that it was, too many to mention and most of them probably will never check the forums again but special thanks to @Shuruia for putting up with years of stupidity from me and my shit head friends, (some of which are banned from the forums lmao) and somehow letting me get made a division leader when I was like 15

     

    RIP to the TS3 server, we still use TS3 every single day

     

    I think this is Major Push @Coolest Cat He would have wanted me to post this

     

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    Damn, ya'll fell apart after I resigned huh.

     

    All seriousness, GFL has been my gaming home for the last what, 12 years? Longer? I forget how long anymore. I will miss my periodic stalking on the discord channels and forums (cause I do still linger around).

     

    There's too many people I would want to tag and thank, but a few final shoutouts to some who have been there for me for years:

    @Salad I will meet you at the address

    @Infra Australia is weird you should leave

    @annoying furry You should just admit you have a crush on me, it's obvious, just let it out it's fine

    @Shuruia What the fuck is a kilometer?

    @Auralanity Best secretary around, please continue to DM me spicy pics

     

     

    Leaving you guys with my final words of wisdom:

     
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    GG everyone. Even tho I wasn't a god gamer in CSGO or CSS zombies escape 

    At least you all made good memories with those 2k hours spent...

     

    At least I was able to do gris, mako, and misk. Xdd

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    RIP to the community that gave me a childhood. I started playing GFL servers when I was 11? 12? It was like 2013/14. Had some great laughs with the community. Made some life long online friends along the way. Sorry to anyone that was there for 2015-2017 me that was an edgy shitlord. Oh and I definitely abused admin on the Purge server. EVERY ADMIN I KNEW ON PURGE ABUSED IT. WE ALL NOCLIPPED INTO YOUR BASES TO FIND THE BEST WAY TO RAID THAT SHIT. I said it.

     

    Best regards

     

     

     

     

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    6 minutes ago, Otter said:

    RIP to the community that gave me a childhood. I started playing GFL servers when I was 11? 12? It was like 2013/14. Had some great laughs with the community. Made some life long online friends along the way. Sorry to anyone that was there for 2015-2017 me that was an edgy shitlord. Oh and I definitely abused admin on the Purge server. EVERY ADMIN I KNEW ON PURGE ABUSED IT. WE ALL NOCLIPPED INTO YOUR BASES TO FIND THE BEST WAY TO RAID THAT SHIT. I said it.

     

    Best regards

     

     

     

     

    I took the LLLLLLLLLLL! I have come back to this video so many times over the years. Truly an iconic Otter moment.

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    Just now, Dano said:

    I took the LLLLLLLLLLL! I have come back to this video so many times over the years. Truly an iconic Otter moment.

     

    this video is solely the reason I quit GFL and got a job

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    54 minutes ago, Otter said:

     

    this video is solely the reason I quit GFL and got a job

    I'm glad I affected your life so positively (/s) and I am proud of you. You took the W in the end.

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    The day has finally come.

     

    Knowing that I joined nearly a decade ago makes me feel old. Many good memories and almost as many cringe ones.

     

    Too many people to mention by name, but thanks to the handful of friends I have made here over the years and sorry to all that had to deal with my shenanigans. 

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    11 minutes ago, Dano said:

    I took the LLLLLLLLLLL! I have come back to this video so many times over the years. Truly an iconic Otter moment.

    Domps and myself just went through a bunch of Grumpy's videos yesterday I think it was. Great times.

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    On 7/11/2024 at 10:18 PM, The1337Gh0st said:

    shame to see gfl go for the most part especially around my birthday, but it's been pretty fun for the past 6 years here and I got some pretty good memories out of it, so thank you all for everything

     

     

     

     

    New Phone, Who dis?
     

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    From the degenerate days to the moments i had a laugh in CS Surf, thanks for a community to return to anytime. RIP

     

    edit: I was 15 when i joined GFL, I'm now 22 and getting married next year 

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