Post by Genki Ogawa on Jul 17, 2018 21:36:31 GMT -5
Ladies and Gentlemen, there's no easy way to say this so I'll just try to be as straightforward as possible.
After what essentially amounts to a decade of being one of the most consistently high-quality platforms for fantasy writing on the internet (I say that without reservation), Brianna, Justin, and myself have faced long hard look in the mirror as we consider the state of the site and the landscape of Bleach as a whole.
We've sort of all known for a long time that the days of sites supporting, talking about, writing about, and speculating about Bleach has been numbered. The first bell was rung by the conclusion of the anime. The second bell was rung by the conclusion of the manga. And the third and final bell is being rung here today at the conclusion of Bleach Gotei as we know it, and it is done on our own terms. So in no minced words and without belaboring the point, we have elected to preserve this BG as we see it today with a fond memory and those who love it still around to see it put to bed, rather than allowing it to die a slow death as all metrics gradually trend downward.
Effective today, Tuesday July 17th, I have disabled registration for new accounts. On Wednesday August 1st we will be disabling posting on all In Character boards.
Please take the above interval to copy any of your characters, art, or creations to your own storage if you wish to refer to them easily in the future. We will not be deleting any material on the site but rather archiving and cataloging things into a more static fashion.
With the above in mind, I hereby give consent for you to write in any capacity you would like to, about any scenario you would like to write about for your character. Always wanted to write that thread after finally becoming a Captain? Please do. Always wanted to imagine yourself unleashing your Segunda Etapa to fight off the Captain Commander? Please do. You have the permission of staff to write in any capacity you would like to in any specific scenario you would like to until we disabled IC posting on August 1st. These obviously will not be regarded as the "canon ending" to BG, but are rather a platform for you to say goodbye to your characters, the site, and some of the legacy here that each and every one of you has helped to build over the last decade. We cannot give you the payoff you would have received from getting a request approved and earning it the old-fashioned way, but this the best we can offer you in lieu of the time to do so.
What's next for Bleach Gotei? Well, we have some surprises and changes for the "next incarnation" of the site that will start showing up after August 1st but you'll be reading about these more in the coming days. The short explanation is that we will be retooling the site to focus on a small group of writers churning out focused stories relating to curated events set in Bleach Gotei, just after the Time Skip / Shinigami Plague event. This of it more like BG as a "campaign" rather than a free-form and open world, and should be a lot of fun to share with any readers out there after we get going.
Finally...To all of you who have shared this space with us over this last decade, to all of you who have enriched the lives of your thread partners by helping to create a beautiful, huge, deeply detailed setting...From Brianna, Justine, and Tony, we sincerely thank you for the amazing ride, and we hope you'll recall this adventure known as Bleach Gotei as fondly as we do.
Goodnight, Bleach Gotei.
After what essentially amounts to a decade of being one of the most consistently high-quality platforms for fantasy writing on the internet (I say that without reservation), Brianna, Justin, and myself have faced long hard look in the mirror as we consider the state of the site and the landscape of Bleach as a whole.
We've sort of all known for a long time that the days of sites supporting, talking about, writing about, and speculating about Bleach has been numbered. The first bell was rung by the conclusion of the anime. The second bell was rung by the conclusion of the manga. And the third and final bell is being rung here today at the conclusion of Bleach Gotei as we know it, and it is done on our own terms. So in no minced words and without belaboring the point, we have elected to preserve this BG as we see it today with a fond memory and those who love it still around to see it put to bed, rather than allowing it to die a slow death as all metrics gradually trend downward.
Effective today, Tuesday July 17th, I have disabled registration for new accounts. On Wednesday August 1st we will be disabling posting on all In Character boards.
Please take the above interval to copy any of your characters, art, or creations to your own storage if you wish to refer to them easily in the future. We will not be deleting any material on the site but rather archiving and cataloging things into a more static fashion.
With the above in mind, I hereby give consent for you to write in any capacity you would like to, about any scenario you would like to write about for your character. Always wanted to write that thread after finally becoming a Captain? Please do. Always wanted to imagine yourself unleashing your Segunda Etapa to fight off the Captain Commander? Please do. You have the permission of staff to write in any capacity you would like to in any specific scenario you would like to until we disabled IC posting on August 1st. These obviously will not be regarded as the "canon ending" to BG, but are rather a platform for you to say goodbye to your characters, the site, and some of the legacy here that each and every one of you has helped to build over the last decade. We cannot give you the payoff you would have received from getting a request approved and earning it the old-fashioned way, but this the best we can offer you in lieu of the time to do so.
What's next for Bleach Gotei? Well, we have some surprises and changes for the "next incarnation" of the site that will start showing up after August 1st but you'll be reading about these more in the coming days. The short explanation is that we will be retooling the site to focus on a small group of writers churning out focused stories relating to curated events set in Bleach Gotei, just after the Time Skip / Shinigami Plague event. This of it more like BG as a "campaign" rather than a free-form and open world, and should be a lot of fun to share with any readers out there after we get going.
Finally...To all of you who have shared this space with us over this last decade, to all of you who have enriched the lives of your thread partners by helping to create a beautiful, huge, deeply detailed setting...From Brianna, Justine, and Tony, we sincerely thank you for the amazing ride, and we hope you'll recall this adventure known as Bleach Gotei as fondly as we do.
Goodnight, Bleach Gotei.