Midnight Heart
Spazmatism
I want to make a thread for simply thanking those involved in making Terraria and it's community forum so wonderful. I couldn't find a similar thread and thought it would be something the community could give back. I know a ton of us feel very happy and appreciative for all they've given us. It's so easy to forget to let them know and take it for granted that they know. especially with all the 1.3 hype going on. Even though it's so simple a task, it can make a BIG difference to them and their day.
That said, please feel free to tell, show or express your gratitude to the devs and community helpers in your own way. I encourage getting creative with how you do so. If you have a talent or idea that will let you say thanks in a unique or amazing way, go for it! Whether you draw a picture, build something in game, write a song/poem, make a simple and genuine post or whatever other neat ways you think of, let them know!
This isn't a competition and no way of saying thanks is better, or means more, than any other. As long as you genuinely let the Terraria team know how grateful you are, they will appreciate it; regardless of how you go about it. This is intended as a positive thread. If you have something negative to say, please keep it to yourself or take it elsewhere. If anything negative gets posted, I ask that the Mods remove it from this thread. Let's keep things upbeat and about our gratitude for the amazing game and community home we've been given.
To the Devs and those that keep our community a fun and safe place, I sincerely thank you. When I look back at all the games, and their respective communities/dev teams i've encountered, you guys truly stand out to me. You guys have consistently and thoroughly shown that you care, listen, love us, are talented and are more outstanding than i could ask for. For that, i respect and love you guys. You've more than earned your place as my favorite dev/community team ever! I'll happily stand up for you guys and support you as much as i can. Terraria blew my mind when I played it for the first time. "You had me at hello", so to speak. I didn't expect anything more and thought I got more than my monies worth. You proceeded to update Terraria and blew my mind each time you added new things. 1.2 felt like a brand new game and had the same adventurous, mysterious and new journey feel i had when i first played Terraria. I believe 1.3 will do that as well. It's one of my favorite games of all time and will always be so.
YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!! From the bottom of my heart, thank you for everything you've done, do and will do. Props to you all.
P.S. Thanks to anypony who has helped keep this a great community via: suggestions that made it into the game/TO/TCF, constructively gave input/criticism that helped progression and promote new/improved ideas, did/made something amazing and shared it with us, picked up somepony when they were down or any other act that helped make the game and community the great place it is today.
Love and appreciate you all.
Edit* Devalaous made a post that gave some great insight into various things that the Terraria team has done. I think it's worth reading, if you'd like to learn a little more about them.
Devalaous, thank you for this interesting and helpful information.
"Okay, lets post that thing I said I would. I've talked to pretty much everyone on the Re-Logic and TCF staff to varying degress in a few places, so I have a bit more insight than the average joe, but here goes:
@Redigit: First and foremost, thanks for actually making this game to begin with, you must be overwhelmed with how popular it became, and I definitely dont envy your celebrity status. A lot of people seem to misunderstand you, which is unfortunate, your nowhere near as imposing and unapproachable as some people think. And of course, your probably the best CEO out there, whoever heard of a CEO that lets people photoshop their face onto pretty much everything in existence!? Keep up the good work man, and keep your company in that perpetual state of Awesome
@Cenx: Terraria wouldnt be where it is today without you, and your one of the most pivotal parts of the entire community, always posting new and cool things to keep the hype train rolling, and never above getting involved with the community despite the constant bombardment on your profile page and various inboxes from excited fans. I wonder if you too, ever expected to be famous like this. I also have to thank you personally for being okay with me putting you in my Sims 3 game, along with Sparky, your sim's antics are a vital part of the stories that go on there.
@Yoraiz0r and @@Skiphs: As the newest guys, its a bit difficult to write much, but youve both done so much work, stabilising the game, making the site, endless bugfixing and putting up with Red's demands, and that fool Omnir's existence. While us public wont really know the full extent of what you really do, I appreciate it all the same.
@D-Town: As one of the team thats forgotten about the most, its pretty essential to have you here In a world where "business" means doing hundreds of evil things to make a dollar, its pretty awesome that the equivalent for Re-Logic is a hilarious guy like you that doesn't shy away from getting involved with any old member's antics and will be there in the thick of them making jokes, reading stories, and what not.
@Crowno, @@Lazure and @@Jimmarn: As the artists and spriters of the team, your easily one of the most important parts of the team; you guys give the game life and much of the game we see everytime we play is your combined work. Spriters have a habit of coming and going, but I hope all three of you are around a long while yet. Your also all easy to talk to when not busy on something, which is nice (And guys, please stop assuming Lazure is a woman, the avatar isnt THAT much of a throw-off is it? )
@Loki: Oh man where do I even begin with you. Shortly after joining the TO community I quickly noticed your moderation skills, a very rare thing in a world where most people given power over others over the internet become robotic banmachines or corrupt powermongers, and found you were probably the most instantly respectable moderator, pretty much ever, and it didnt surprise me at all to see you promoted here on TCF with a much bigger role, you always felt like the defacto leader on TO, so it was great to see it officially recognised. Your also awesome when not actively working, I consider you a friend here and can talk to you about anything on my mind, freely, which is similarly a rare thing, given many of the disasters in my life.
@Tunnel King, @@Jeckel, @@Nike Leon, @@Kelp, @@Blu, @@Charmander27 and @@Leinfors: As the moderating team, you all come under fire the most, and are always going to be the love/hate relationship of TCF, and its understandable. Not all of you are easy to talk to or relate to, and its not always easy to seperate the "policeman" stigma from the real person underneath, but you all do a great job, pretty much the only team of moderators in existence that I approve of. Nobody else on any site ive been on, minus ONE guy on Doomworld, gets it "right" like you all do.
Special mentions:
@Solsund: While no longer on the team, like a lot of people here and on TO, I considered you my personal favourite developer. Ive said this a lot, I know, but its worth repeating. As a new guy who was previously a modder with heavy community ties, you and Yorai were approachable, would readily talk to the community without being swamped by fans and spoiler requests like Red and Cenx would, and always had the most fascinating random trivia to share with people who were willing to listen, like the light banding effect when light goes through a single block. And lets not forget all those optimisations you brought us all
@MrRudi: While not actually Re-Logic, I owe this guy a LOT. I joined TO entirely to report console version bugs after lurking and being amazed a developer was right there in the middle of the players getting feedback and bug reports, something that you generally just DONT see. While not all of the things I reported were bugs (I was relatively new to testing things still), you took one suggestion seriously and its in all console versions now, much to my continual amazement. Not only did that kick my confidence into gear making me a lot better at my Doom mod testing, where im now a project leader for two mods, I also stuck around TO mainly because of you. So your to blame for my continued presecence on TCF, hahaha!".
That said, please feel free to tell, show or express your gratitude to the devs and community helpers in your own way. I encourage getting creative with how you do so. If you have a talent or idea that will let you say thanks in a unique or amazing way, go for it! Whether you draw a picture, build something in game, write a song/poem, make a simple and genuine post or whatever other neat ways you think of, let them know!
This isn't a competition and no way of saying thanks is better, or means more, than any other. As long as you genuinely let the Terraria team know how grateful you are, they will appreciate it; regardless of how you go about it. This is intended as a positive thread. If you have something negative to say, please keep it to yourself or take it elsewhere. If anything negative gets posted, I ask that the Mods remove it from this thread. Let's keep things upbeat and about our gratitude for the amazing game and community home we've been given.
To the Devs and those that keep our community a fun and safe place, I sincerely thank you. When I look back at all the games, and their respective communities/dev teams i've encountered, you guys truly stand out to me. You guys have consistently and thoroughly shown that you care, listen, love us, are talented and are more outstanding than i could ask for. For that, i respect and love you guys. You've more than earned your place as my favorite dev/community team ever! I'll happily stand up for you guys and support you as much as i can. Terraria blew my mind when I played it for the first time. "You had me at hello", so to speak. I didn't expect anything more and thought I got more than my monies worth. You proceeded to update Terraria and blew my mind each time you added new things. 1.2 felt like a brand new game and had the same adventurous, mysterious and new journey feel i had when i first played Terraria. I believe 1.3 will do that as well. It's one of my favorite games of all time and will always be so.
YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!! From the bottom of my heart, thank you for everything you've done, do and will do. Props to you all.
P.S. Thanks to anypony who has helped keep this a great community via: suggestions that made it into the game/TO/TCF, constructively gave input/criticism that helped progression and promote new/improved ideas, did/made something amazing and shared it with us, picked up somepony when they were down or any other act that helped make the game and community the great place it is today.
Love and appreciate you all.
Edit* Devalaous made a post that gave some great insight into various things that the Terraria team has done. I think it's worth reading, if you'd like to learn a little more about them.
Devalaous, thank you for this interesting and helpful information.
"Okay, lets post that thing I said I would. I've talked to pretty much everyone on the Re-Logic and TCF staff to varying degress in a few places, so I have a bit more insight than the average joe, but here goes:
@Redigit: First and foremost, thanks for actually making this game to begin with, you must be overwhelmed with how popular it became, and I definitely dont envy your celebrity status. A lot of people seem to misunderstand you, which is unfortunate, your nowhere near as imposing and unapproachable as some people think. And of course, your probably the best CEO out there, whoever heard of a CEO that lets people photoshop their face onto pretty much everything in existence!? Keep up the good work man, and keep your company in that perpetual state of Awesome
@Cenx: Terraria wouldnt be where it is today without you, and your one of the most pivotal parts of the entire community, always posting new and cool things to keep the hype train rolling, and never above getting involved with the community despite the constant bombardment on your profile page and various inboxes from excited fans. I wonder if you too, ever expected to be famous like this. I also have to thank you personally for being okay with me putting you in my Sims 3 game, along with Sparky, your sim's antics are a vital part of the stories that go on there.
@Yoraiz0r and @@Skiphs: As the newest guys, its a bit difficult to write much, but youve both done so much work, stabilising the game, making the site, endless bugfixing and putting up with Red's demands, and that fool Omnir's existence. While us public wont really know the full extent of what you really do, I appreciate it all the same.
@D-Town: As one of the team thats forgotten about the most, its pretty essential to have you here In a world where "business" means doing hundreds of evil things to make a dollar, its pretty awesome that the equivalent for Re-Logic is a hilarious guy like you that doesn't shy away from getting involved with any old member's antics and will be there in the thick of them making jokes, reading stories, and what not.
@Crowno, @@Lazure and @@Jimmarn: As the artists and spriters of the team, your easily one of the most important parts of the team; you guys give the game life and much of the game we see everytime we play is your combined work. Spriters have a habit of coming and going, but I hope all three of you are around a long while yet. Your also all easy to talk to when not busy on something, which is nice (And guys, please stop assuming Lazure is a woman, the avatar isnt THAT much of a throw-off is it? )
@Loki: Oh man where do I even begin with you. Shortly after joining the TO community I quickly noticed your moderation skills, a very rare thing in a world where most people given power over others over the internet become robotic banmachines or corrupt powermongers, and found you were probably the most instantly respectable moderator, pretty much ever, and it didnt surprise me at all to see you promoted here on TCF with a much bigger role, you always felt like the defacto leader on TO, so it was great to see it officially recognised. Your also awesome when not actively working, I consider you a friend here and can talk to you about anything on my mind, freely, which is similarly a rare thing, given many of the disasters in my life.
@Tunnel King, @@Jeckel, @@Nike Leon, @@Kelp, @@Blu, @@Charmander27 and @@Leinfors: As the moderating team, you all come under fire the most, and are always going to be the love/hate relationship of TCF, and its understandable. Not all of you are easy to talk to or relate to, and its not always easy to seperate the "policeman" stigma from the real person underneath, but you all do a great job, pretty much the only team of moderators in existence that I approve of. Nobody else on any site ive been on, minus ONE guy on Doomworld, gets it "right" like you all do.
Special mentions:
@Solsund: While no longer on the team, like a lot of people here and on TO, I considered you my personal favourite developer. Ive said this a lot, I know, but its worth repeating. As a new guy who was previously a modder with heavy community ties, you and Yorai were approachable, would readily talk to the community without being swamped by fans and spoiler requests like Red and Cenx would, and always had the most fascinating random trivia to share with people who were willing to listen, like the light banding effect when light goes through a single block. And lets not forget all those optimisations you brought us all
@MrRudi: While not actually Re-Logic, I owe this guy a LOT. I joined TO entirely to report console version bugs after lurking and being amazed a developer was right there in the middle of the players getting feedback and bug reports, something that you generally just DONT see. While not all of the things I reported were bugs (I was relatively new to testing things still), you took one suggestion seriously and its in all console versions now, much to my continual amazement. Not only did that kick my confidence into gear making me a lot better at my Doom mod testing, where im now a project leader for two mods, I also stuck around TO mainly because of you. So your to blame for my continued presecence on TCF, hahaha!".
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