Farewell, Surak!

[Frosk]

Dear all,

Marco Antonio Alvarez, known by most of you as Surak, is leaving us.
10 years working together, and of course we feel sad for having to say goodbye to a friend that did so much and worked so hard on building this world for you guys.

On the other hand, we also feel happy for him, because we know he has a huge opportunity ahead.

Fortunately enough, this decision has been taken with enough time to redistribute his tasks and responsibilities. We don't expect big alterations in the game's maintenance and day to day development.

We wish the very best for him!

I'll just leave down below a letter that Surak wrote himself (don't forget to leave a comment saying goodbye ).

Goodbye, Community!

On March 3rd I reached my 10th anniversary working in NGD Studios, all of them mostly dedicated to Regnum Online's development (now called Champions of Regnum).

It was a lot of time, endless working hours with blood, sweat and tears; whole nights trying to figure out why something wasn't working properly, trying to make this game what it is today. All of this just because we had the crazy idea of developing an MMORPG in our country without even stopping to think where we were getting ourselves into.

I actively got involved (some may say too much) with the community and I found a lot of friends in it. And probably some enemy too. People from Buenos Aires, from other provinces, and other countries as well. I even hosted some of them at my own house more than once. We went out, we had meet-ups at Parque Sarmiento (a huge park here in Buenos Aires), FIVE RegnumFests (!)... and even several travels to meet far-away players! I can't deny it was fun!

But, as some of you may have already heard, I'm retiring. It's time for a change. I'll just hang my red and yellow developer/admin armor to dedicate myself to other projects outside NGD (and outside Argentina).


Thanks to all of you, especially for being patient :P The game will go on, don't worry.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

- Surak