Post by Steve Farrelly @ 11:54am 18/09/14 | 29 Comments
Many of Australia's current games writers (including yours truly) had work run across Telstra's gaming domain, but Joaby manned its fort for the better part of five years, shaping its voice and tone, while delivering top video content and, of course, helping run its excellent game servers.
Click here for his GameArena eulogy
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Posted 12:29pm 18/9/14
Pretty sad to see it go...
Posted 12:52pm 18/9/14
I am still recalling many fun things from those forums and it is in a way like the loss of a really good friend that you hung out with for what seems like a life time.
Joaby was pretty good value posting pics of his disgusting giant hamburger fetish amongst other things.
The on going war amongst the fly boys shiftymcpicky ,cheroca (a formidable character before his flying escapade) huey stand out and the last post that brought every one together was the "Plane on the treadmill" a comprehension of physics was not generally a strong point on game arena (ceiling propellers).
Posted 01:23pm 18/9/14
I doubt Scuzzy knew of the rivalry that was going on in my house, and I know GA never knew how much my old man appreciated your servers and service and I doubt he would ever take the time to thank you. But on his behalf, Thanks. He loved playing on those servers and being part of that community, to this day he stills casually mentions what fun it was and I appreciated that he had this moment of gaming that enabled us to share an interest. His name was noxious and he has retired from video games.
Posted 02:32pm 18/9/14
Posted 02:43pm 18/9/14
Gamearena rawked yo. :)
Posted 02:43pm 18/9/14
Downloads were always fast, hardly any ads or f*****g around to get your hands on files.
Posted 04:34pm 18/9/14
They weren't making money...
Posted 04:45pm 18/9/14
I rarely get to exercise my 'told you so' punitive urges, so allow me to offer a particularly loud I F*****G TOLD YOU SO to all those lovely GameArena commenters who flamed me for daring to suggest in an opinion piece that Aliens: Colonial Marines might not have the right number of Gearbox employees working on it so it might not come out with AAA polish. Yeah.
Posted 04:57pm 18/9/14
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Posted 07:35pm 18/9/14
Good memories.
Oh, and Jim laying into everyone with his BanStick!!
Posted 08:06pm 18/9/14
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Posted 09:34pm 18/9/14
Played 1000s of hrs of bf2 on GA3 karkand inf, GA8 dally and allmaps. Never saw a single admin in all that time but the freedom to play without fear of being banned by some butthurt admin and the anarchy and lols that followed (especially when the negscore broke) was worth the odd hacker.
Yeah some good times in General.
Bluedogpcs brain damage. Pirrelloman threatening to bring the full might of the AFP down on GA for cyberbullying.
Bieltanman, SweatyGremlins
Space updates from l3p3r, where is that guy?
Posted 10:33pm 18/9/14
It's a shame to see the servers go though. Their bf2 servers were some of the best that I have played on. Hell, that's why I joined the forum in the first place. And yeah, I do miss all the funny s*** that took place in the general forum. Gamearena will hold a spot in my heart for that.
Speaking about the forums, I think it's exactly a year since they closed now, isn't it? Should play battlefield 2 or something else on the weekend to catch up and whatnot.
Posted 03:53am 19/9/14
Posted 09:25am 19/9/14
The message is even better.
"Basically, we're closing this s***, and uh, yeah, thanks. Cya."
Posted 12:05pm 20/9/14
The guy with the dolls and mental problems, oh and two toy guitars. Epic fred.
At last the master plan for GA by the good folk at Telstra has come to fruition.
Posted 07:27pm 20/9/14
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Posted 02:11pm 21/9/14
He's still a virgin. I ask him on a regular basis.
Posted 10:19pm 21/9/14
Posted 11:58pm 21/9/14
Lols. :)
Posted 09:53am 22/9/14
He has empathy for women. While that exists, he'll always be a virgin.
Posted 09:13am 23/9/14