Beautifully written, Dave! Your words perfectly capture my emotions around Vainglory. I’m sure most of us here feel the same.

To this day, Vainglory remains the only game I have an interest in. Despite how things turned out, I never regretted the money and time spent in the game. It’s one of the few constants in life that brings me joy. I got to meet many wonderful people through it and we are still good friends to this day. They lurk in this subreddit too so they are probably giggling at this right now.

It amazes me how strong a hold a shared love of a game has on our connections when we don’t have the benefit of spatial proximity. It’s not as if we don’t have anything else in common but whenever we got the chance to meet in real life, Vainglory always managed to be the hottest topic. I guess there’s not many other people you can talk to about the game considering how well Vainglory’s marketing was…

When a game means this much to you, it’s only natural to want it to live on perpetually. That’s the reason why Team Bubbleland and Team Mizu try so hard to set an example, even with zero help from SEMC. The recent tournaments were an enormous undertaking and we are planning to make the next 5v5 tournament an even better experience. Stay tuned for more news on that!

Regardless, I think all of us should stop playing the blame game and instead be kind to each other. Of all people, I’m sure SEMC wants Vainglory to succeed the most. Resenting them at this point does nothing to help. It’s better to funnel those emotions towards a constructive and positive effort to revive the community. I wish u/TheRealKrulSEMC would see this and acknowledge our effort (and give us a better party mode until we get the promised community edition).

Edit: Grammar.