[Announcement] Closing the Rust Division

[annoying furry 6,300 / 63,950]

Hello all,

 

It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that we have decided to close our Rust division. A few months ago, our servers were doing very well, but after continued performance issues, high turnover, drama, and just a lack of community support for the division, we unfortunately believe that it is for the better that we close the division for the time being . Thank you to all the staff, former and current, and players for making the division successful for as long as it was.

We may try to bring the division back at some point, but for now we want to focus on improving our infrastructure and existing divisions.

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[Dominick 135 / 2,706]

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Edited August 10, 2021 by Dominick
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[Liloz01 1,256 / 19,845]

Ah... The Liloz tactic I see...

 

Sad that it came to this. A lack of the right people at the right time!

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[Baconator 172 / 5,303]

I don't know what to say. We fought tooth and nail to try and have this division succeed. I believe we had more fight left and based off of staff reactions I can only assume they knew it too. 

Heartbroken 💔 

[Lonely 151 / 4,215]

Long Live Rust Division!

[Rhysin_ 540 / 13,177]

Saw it coming, saw it happen. bye rust, maybe someday youll come back and be good

[MrSleeps 136 / 4,678]

CWRP Salutes Rust!

[offline 54 / 671]

RIP to the Pookie

[TheThirdReaper 291 / 0]

PropHunt salutes Rust. 

[VilhjalmrF 2,099 / 30,689]

forever missed

[Angie 145 / 2,647]

In the most respectful way possible, I am not surprised in the slightest that this Division closed. After @Bue. left @FrenZy put @Hatehim222 in charge and completely ignored he was destroying the division. Then when Creed decided he was done tearing up everything Bue had done as much as he could, he gave the rubble to @Dominick who tried everything he could to bring it back up. With little support from the higher ups. GFL rust was doomed to fail after Frenzy decided to ignore how horrendous Creed was for the division. Regardless all the higher ups still choose to never pay attention to rust or give a shit about the work put into the division that every single staff member put in. Bue and Skittlez were by far the best thing that had ever happened to the rust division they put so much effort into the division and you never cared, bue especially put every ounce of her time into the division and you ban her for joining another community?? And Dominick for that matter as well?? He did everything he could seeing as he was handed rubble. Maybe if all the Directors had gotten off their internet High horse they would have realized how much help the division needed, instead you all sat around and watched it crumble.

 

Fucking pathetic.

 

On another note, it is also pathetic to ban members who did nothing wrong other then join a different community, like ffs how insecure can you be. 

 

You won't ever have anyone who cared about the division more then Bue and Dominick did, but wait.... you guys never gave a shit GFL will go to shit completely if you keep ignoring the people who put everything into this community. 

 

You will probably ban me now for spitting facts.

Edited August 10, 2021 by Angie

[Salad 1,132 / 18,977]

36 minutes ago, Angie said:

I am not surprised in the slightest that this Division closed.

Nor am I.

36 minutes ago, Angie said:

After @Bue. left @FrenZy put @Hatehim222 in charge and completely ignored he was destroying the division.

Why did Bue leave the Division exactly? Refresh my memory. Who was an apt replacement at the time for Creed?

 

36 minutes ago, Angie said:

With little support from the higher ups. GFL rust was doomed to fail

What support could have possibly been given? It has been explained countless times that the issues with our rust servers do not exist due to the hardware, the majority of our problems came from two things. #1 being our networking. Roy for the longest time was the only person who had any control over it, and once Aurora gained full access, she promptly began fixing this. #2 being the complete lack of anyone with enough technical skill within the Rust division since Skittlez left.

 

36 minutes ago, Angie said:

Bue and Skittlez were by far the best thing that had ever happened to the rust division they put so much effort into the division and you never cared

The bolded portion is overly incorrect, GFL rust did very well with Skittlez in charge, and if you asked him if he felt "supported" (By the way, what does that mean? Did you guys need the Directors to manage and wipe the servers? Configure plugins? Train your staff team?), he would say yes.

36 minutes ago, Angie said:

bue especially put every ounce of her time into the division and you ban her for joining another community?? And Dominick for that matter as well?? 

I'll get into this in a moment...

36 minutes ago, Angie said:

Maybe if all the Directors had gotten off their internet High horse they would have realized how much help the division needed, instead you all sat around and watched it crumble.

Did you guys need the Directors to manage and wipe the servers? Configure plugins? Train your staff team? As many many people have constantly repeated to the Rust staff, 90% of the issues were unsolvable from the beginning, due to not having the access and power to change our AnyCast network. Your point is moot. There is not a thing in the world any of the Directors could do that a single Division Leader or Manager couldn't have done.

 

36 minutes ago, Angie said:

On another note, it is also pathetic to ban members who did nothing wrong other then join a different community, like ffs how insecure can you be. 

I'm unsure if you're out of the loop or just intentionally being obtuse. Bue was banned for assisting the wonderful server team at {REDACTED} in poaching our staff members. Dominick on the other hand was banned for his amazing performance in our Rust Discord after we announced that we were closing the Division. So no one was banned for leaving and joining somewhere else. hope that's cleared up 🙂

36 minutes ago, Angie said:

GFL will go to shit completely if you keep ignoring the people who put everything into this community. 

For having been GFL staff for so long, I'm surprised at how unaware of our other successful Divisions you are. Rust is not the be all end all of GFL. We will do just fine with or without it, and maybe someday we will take another shot at it 🙂

 

That being said, thank you to all of our Rust staff for the effort and work you put in to help our community. ❤️ 

 

Edited August 10, 2021 by Salad

[Duck. 489 / 0]

 

[annoying furry 6,300 / 63,950]

Gonna lock this. Just gonna be shit flinging ig.