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The Future of SLP:
I will cut to the chase right up front and then go into more detail as to not drag it out. The SLP you all know and love is coming to an end, sort of (more on that). SLP has been to great places and done great things and I feel proud to have been behind the wheel of it for almost 5 years and feel as though we are going out on a high note with lots to look back on. The current event we have scheduled is effectively canceled and the few that have paid will be refunded immediately.
This is for several reasons, everyone knows I am long winded so I will try to keep this short and sweet (and probably fail).
When SLP started us, the leaders of SLP were in a much different place and had much more time on our hands to slave away putting on awesome events for all to enjoy. Steve moved away leaving a big hole and Jeremy stepped in to fill that nicely, now we are all moving to different places in our lives and priorities shift. I’m sure that even those of you that think you understand how much work and effort goes into planning and running an awesome LAN party don’t have a clue! Weeks and weeks of slaving. We have had a great staff to help us in this and as those staff members have moved on we have definitely struggled to find people to take up leadership roles to put on our events. To be completely blunt, we are just not interested in all the work anymore! We just want to play games and have fun.
We feel like we have accomplished what SLP is and was supposed to be and are happy with that. Just the task of sponsorship alone gives me nightmares to think about undertaking again! And when you have feelings like that, its impossible to be successful. In the couple of weeks coming up to a LAN, myself personally… I lose much sleep just thinking about all the stuff that has to be done and that makes it rather unenjoyably. Jeremy feels the same as well, and he lives 4 hours away!
Basically given where SLP has been, we are just interested in playing games with our close friends…the most anticipated part of our LANs for us has developed into our Friday night pre LAN with just our friends and SLP staff and regulars, the rest has become more dreaded as work than enjoyable.
THE SLP COMMUNITY:
We are very proud of the community that is SLP and nothing will change with that, our website, forums, Facebook and everything else will remain exactly as it is. We really want to maintain the gaming community that we have fostered and have built lasting friendships in. I am sure over time it will dither out or not be as active as it always was but the SLP community has always been something that no other LAN could pull off no matter how awesome their events, and because of that I feel it will endure, and we will support it.
SLP GOING FORWARD:
SLP is not going away for good, but it will not be as public as it has been. We will still put on a few events a year but they will not be for the general public. When we put on events they will be invite only for our friends and those active that we have become aquatinted with in the SLP community (basically those whom we call friends on our forums). Our events will be very small, 15-20 people at most and will be more of a group of friends getting together to play games than a public LAN. The existing SLP staff will be disbanded as a unit, although will maintain a special status as have all past staff, and will have a permanent invite to anything we do and also may invite a few people themselves possibly. When we have an event it will be small enough that whoever is invited to participate can just show up and help us set up and such, as you would with any home LAN.
IN CLOSING:
Who knows what the future may bring, sometime in the future we may decide that SLP should have a second coming, we are leaving that open to whatever may happen, but for now we are constricting it down to more of a ‘group of friends’ type of organization, or club rather than being open to the public at large. I am proud of what has become of SLP and all the memories and friends that I have acquired through its years and look forward to continuing to play games with those folks and be involved in gaming community. SLP has definitely set a high benchmark for the gaming community of the northwest as a whole and looking back on that makes me smile.
Thank you for coming out to our events and helping to make SLP great.
/Ehren
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