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[optical]

It is with great sadness that i bring the following announcement.
Due to a number of circumstances involved, Remnants of chaos will be shutting down in approximately a week, around the dates of 15-19th of november, 2009.

This has been a hard decision to make, however myself, as well as Rezlind feel it is the best one that can be made, giving the sitation we are in.

Prior to shutting down, i will be bumping up the votepoint rates to 4x per vote, and there will be a number of events and games ingame being hosted by the gm's, in order for everyone to enjoy the last few days of Remnants.

The arena season hasn't been decided on, however i was originally planning on ending it soon, so in the next few days you can expect your rewards to be in your mailbox.

There are a number of factors that have brought us to this decision, the first one being legality.
As some of you may know, blizzard has stepped in and shutdown wowscape, as well as taken them to court. At this stage there isn't much more information on what they plan on doing. However, it is obvious that they do not want to see private servers in existance any more and because of this, I would much rather respect their work and their decision and shutdown, then insult them as well as risk legal issues myself by continuing to run a server.

As some of you are aware, next year i plan on starting university, as this was my last year in school. This would also mean i have very little time to dedicate to ROC. Prior to the news of blizzard, i planned on either leaving ROC to someone else who is capable of developing it. However, it is unlikely that any such person would of come up in the short space of time there was to find them. I therefore feel that shutting down ROC would be the better decision, and it will be remembered as a great wotlk private server in its prime, rather then dying a slow death due to lack of development.

The third factor is money. As you will of noticed, we have not got any income, unlike most other servers, and i have payed the bill's every month out of my own pocket. This was fine for most of the year, however i could not continue to do so without selling virtual goods ingame, which i am very reluctant to do as it creates imbalance. Therefore selling items was not going to happen, as i created ROC to be a fun, competitive, enjoyable and challenging dedicated PVP Realm, not a business like some of the other wow servers are run with their ridiculous donation packages, such as donation for gm etc.

I am sorry for not notifying everyone sooner, however i have been extremly busy lately as i have my end of year exams next week as well as finishing up school last week, i have had very little time to write up a formal announcement. The decision to shutdown was made approximately a week ago, so it isn't as if i've kept it hidden for a long time.

And finally, to wrap up, i'd like to say thank you to a number of people.

First up - Staff/Others
Rezlind - A great dedicated administrator who was always there to help out. He has been with me since CC, and has been a great help with a number of decisions and was the man who chose the great GM staff we have today - Thanks!
Soon - Has been with us for a long time, took a few breaks to do other things along the way but always found his way back. Has continued to support roc since it was created.
Asetas - Longest standing ROC GM, has been a great help and i have never had a problem with him, good guy!
Janar/Syncron - Two of our younger GM's, also long time dedicated supporters of ROC, they were here since the beta began and have stuck it through till the end/ Never had an issue with them since CC, excellent staff members.
Icelina - A great guy who is pro at frost mage. Was with roc since the beta, also played on CC. He has come along way in maturity and is now a good guy. He resides in bavaria and will continue raging when he loses in arena due to "lag"
Royale - Quiet guy, didn't really get to know him very well personally, however he has also been here since the start and has helped out alot ingame as well.


Second off - Beta tested and long time players.
Thanks alot to everyone who has stuck it through with ROC since the days of the beta, in which we had 10 player peaks. You guys have helped tremendously, and i have alot of respect for you because of that. Thanks!

Third - Voters/Everyone else
Thanks to everyone who has played here and helped keep the community going. Those who voted day in and out, and supported us, you guys are great. Without you, there would be no ROC .

When we officialy shut down, i will be keeping the forums and IRC/Vent online so that everyone can remain in contact for some time. I will also be giving my MSN away to those who ask for it. I will not be giving it to just anyone im afraid, only people who i respect/hot non tarps.

I encourage everyone to remain here until shutdown, however if you choose to leave, i recommend returning to retail, as you just cannot beat it, and your efforts will never be in vain.

If you have any questions, please do post. And i am warning you, if you troll or attempt to derail, i will dish out perm bans, keep this thread clean and respectful.

PS: I am writing this prior to a chemistry exams and haven't had time to check my grammar and spelling - go easy on me!

Regards - Optical.

[Xenius]

Damn =(

[WarBunny]

Bye. :-)

[Kungpao]

I'm gonna have to go outside now.

[juxti]

ty for the server, it was fun to play on and GL with final year of school / uni

thanks for hosting it / developing it

[Rezlind]

Im also giving out my email to friends and hot tarps.

[juxti]

will you be quiting rez or u going to play on a dif server

[kazzy]

oh no =[

[Rezlind]

will you be quiting rez or u going to play on a dif server

There is no other server tbh.

[Jumpyz]

Thanks Opti for everything it was really fun i wish it wold stay for more time online it was the best private server ever lived and always will be rememberd with the best community i wish i cold stay in touch with u all and play more i dont know where to go retail is 2 laggy for me u guys where the best and i respect all of u if some1 wants to stay in contact with me please add my msn [email protected] and right ur character name in note opti please add me if u can wold rly like to know u better u seem like a rly nice guy 2 chat with and thank you for everything opti it was rly grate playing with you guys every one of u.

[Lemon]

Thanks for the awesome serv...most fun I've ever had on the internetz :]

Guh bai

[Feverer]

well.. we should all join a new server.. and make our own comunnity there.. open a thread and make suggestions..

Sad ...

[LampaN]

Thanks for the stay, i really enjoyed it.

[God Realm]

Opti please give me your MSN

[freecake]

It's been a great pleasure playing on this server again since CC. All you Gm's have done a great job, thanks opti for trying your best.


Many thanks freecake.


/salute.

[painless]

That's sad news indeed.

Thanks for giving us a great place to rehab from retail Opti.
Good luck with whatever you're gonna do.

[Candy]

/bye great job with the server opti /respect

[Icelina]

I vote for a gathering somewhere so we can decide what to do, i really dont want to leave without knowing where my friends are going.

[freecake]

I vote for a gathering somewhere so we can decide what to do, i really dont want to leave without knowing where my friends are going.

Let's pewpew on retail?. I've got many chars on there :> * (I play EU now not US.)

[Icyflame]

My greatest respect to all the staff, and especially you Optical. For even paying this server for so many players that enjoyed it till the verry last bit. I had a great awesome time on this server. I have not been here from the start. But I found it on xtremetop100, (Thank you voters) and eversince I never changed to another server. Since I couldn't find a server with som many stuff that actually worked properly (thank you devs). And the amount of players, there were so many already from when I logged in. Such an active community. After played 3 days I also decided to join the forums. Tho I am not such a forum troll I still did read alot of topics and the news every day. Thank you for this month of great fun. Best of luck with your schoolwork. And thank you for this awesome free server with fair rules, and GREAT gameplay. I am affraid I will not ever find another server like this. But still, THANK YOU, LOT'S. EVERYONE WHO TOKE PART IN CREATING/KEEPING THIS SERVER UP OR THE COMMUNITY! I sure will be there to enjoy the verry last bit of RoC. Cya arround

Best of luck,
Icyflame
Lithum
Veragus
Lutherious
Drynut
(My main chars ^^)

[Soon]

There is no other server tbh.

[Snowie]

Damn im gonna miss this server. Was on CC too.. Thanks for the awesome server im gonna miss it, afterall its the only good PvP server out there. I respect your decision and wish you good luck in your future life.

Sad regards from

Snowie the Warlock - Will be missing the snow in AV
Flowtex - Might loose his flow after the shutdown.
Cybtix - Going to miss healing in AV while reading the spamming guys messages in LFG.

[Creet]

Thats really sad. im crying.. really..
Joke .. xD
but thats really really sad but i still know its just a gaim.. but then again how much work u did in that.. and now *poof* its gone

;..(

i hope u do great in Real life .. have fun and good luck .. Friend.

[Achronos]

You've been great and you have been most kind to let everyone on this server enjoy it for free without all the donation items which ruins all the fun with playing on servers like this. I hope you do good on your exams and good luck with the university! That's so exciting

I'm sorry Blizzard has decided to do this and I completely understand your course of action in the matter.

Thanks for a wonderful time on CC and RoC alike. It has been loads of fun and I think you've done a great job developing it.
Thank you to Rezlind as well and all the other GMs who keep the stupidity levels to a minimum and bare through all the less intelligent tickets I assume you're reading all day. And thank you for all the events you have hosted. It doesn't matter if some of them weren't thought through perfectly because it provided everyone with a fun and social event for everyone on top of the regular pvp.

[zerox13]

Sad news indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great job Opti/Rez/Soon/asetas/trail GM's Great job making CC back as RoC It was fucking great to play with you gonna miss you all!!!!!!!!!!

Hope the Event's is gonna be awsome!

PS: Opti maybe you could add DK's withou fixing them totally

[Blew]

aight man, we had a great run,opti all the respect in the world for u dude,started a server on ur own and did a pretty awesome job at it

Msn: [email protected]
yahoo:re5pect_for_homies
mail:[email protected]

hit me up

[Icelina]

Skype : Drakedog12
Msn : [email protected]

Mostly online on Skype (copycat ftw 'made it 4 years ago' )

[ibram]

Some great times on this server, but big regret to see it shutting. In all the servers i've tried this is the one i've had the most enjoyable times on

Shikha

- and yes i will be looking for another server, For those of you in guild Restless read the guild information and message of the day, will be migrating as many members to a new server and forming a new guild.

[TheDarkGod]

May blizzard burn in hell

[mineralinis]

Wow.. This was a shock :/ damn good server it was.. Respect for all server staff

[Jumpyz]

MSN : [email protected] ALL ADD ME I LOVE U ALL BUT PLX TELL CHAR NAME BEFORE U DO

[Vroomm]

Optical, MAD FUCKIN' PROPS to you for EVERYTHING involved in this server and what it has become. The Best PvP Server I have ever been on, and probably will be for the rest of my life because my WoW days are coming to and end, just like you. I just want to say goodluck in your future to come, and I hope you achieve all your goals. I'm sorry and i'm gonna let you finish, but REMNANTS OF CHAOS is one of the best servers of all time!

[Beam48]

This is very sad news
Hopefully we can make a Remnants of Remnants of Chaos

Thank you Opti for all that youv'e given to the server

[thespion]

Thank you for the server, GL with exams i hope one day if private servers are still in existance that you will re open one and develope it. Hopefully i can continue on my career path as a games programmer and come close to what you achieved with this server, really all the best and thanks your a great guy from what ive seen speaking to you in IRC.

[Savagekiller]

This is depressing to read. I'll admit I don't really have much time anymore to play on the server, but I still like to pop in every now and then. I can't imagine going to another server without paying $14.95 USD for it.

Best of luck in your future endeavors everyone.

[Nans]

Damnit, where does one go now?
I'm going to miss everyone. :<

[TheDarkGod]

[email protected]

[Drakk]

When im going to private server, Ill be on dominion due everything works. But as ppl have said, There wont be another server like this one.

Would be fun if ppl would gather up like ice said.


[email protected] @ msn.

- Drakk


(Jared. Really awsome work these years. Hands down. One of the best. Love you)

[WrightLOL]

this sucks , thanks opti, btw if ur still in school and cc started like years ago , ur one smart mofo , and all the staff i enjoyed it since cc times


[email protected] my msn

[Helene]

I don't know where I should start.
During my time here it have been great. I really didn't expect news like this.
I really enjoyed playing here on Remnants of Chaos during the short period of time.
With the fully respect I wish everyone good luck when the server shuts down and
that people will still drop by the forum/mIRC.
Thank you all for a wonderful time here on Remnants of Chaos.
I hope I meet familiar faces from this server when I find a new server. I will still drop by the forum/mIRC
and I hope everyone will remember their time here on Remnants of Chaos. And good luck with university Optical.

[gog]

OMG i can't believe we're shuting down. . I just wanna say : THIS IS THE BEST PvP SERVER EVER !!!!!! p.s PEOPLE, PLEASE HATE BLIZZARD !! im gunna miss you all - even the alliance dudes BB ---- BLIZZARD GOD HATES YOU AND SO DO I ! ------

[Nepenthe]

Bleh, its kinda sad. I spend like 6 months on this server which was time well spended.

Well, you gotta continue your life. Time to get back on real life or buy some time to retail. LOL.

THANKS OPTI FOR THE SERVER, AND EVERYONE FOR THIS. JUST REMEMBER, ALL THE GOOD THINGS COME TO AN END AT SOME POINT.

SEE YOU, LOVE YAH.

E: And yeah, this has been the best private server ever, and i wont be going on any more privateservers anymore because i'll just start missing RoC more.

[TheDarkGod]

all go start magtheridon EU. /w shalaman to be friendz + boosts :0

[ryan]

this server is amazeing,sad that its shuting down ive played on 20+ server before this 1 and this is the best server out there,and there prolly never will be a better one...it looks like blizz is finally acting on priv servers, in the near future there might be none left.

[Gnomerizer]

Best priv server ever. Sad to leave, but meh. I had to leave CC too, and RoC showed up after all, you cant forget that. I kinda hope it will come back some time. Fuck Blizzard they suck ass.

So who knows, in months, in a year or more, but we'll get together again in the Chaos of the internet

Besides, I'm in last year too, so maybe its better that i spend more time with important things. CU GUYS!

[Nhiyla]

u were the best dev opti <3
u did really really well back during CC times and on RoC times. i wont forget all the memories over these years i sticked to your server, much love and good luck irl <3

[Royale]

I really enjoyed my stay here. I'd like to stay in touch with everyone, feel free to add me on msn: [email protected].

I will go back to retail because there is no server like this. And in my opinion, it even outclasses retail by far.

Goodbye and good luck everyone.

-Royale

[Lolistab]

Alot of us already moved to dominion... lol :\ Sad to see the server go though, <3'd the time I was here.

[beerplz]

oh my gawd.. i was so happy when i saw the words "optical, AV realm" in the toplist since chaoscruade disappeared...

ROC > Retail

no roc, no wow

bye :/

[MONOCHROME]

I left a couple of days ago, and I just want to say thank you so much Opti and the staff for bringing the server back, for whatever time it lasted, it was great to be in it again, it's unfortunate this had to happen. LONG LIVE CHAOS CRUSADE AND REMNANTS OF CHAOS!

[Zukiros]

Awwww... well I found another good server so if anyone wants to play there you should, its fun!

http://dominionxtremegaming.com/community/index.php


I'm Zukiros on horde.


Bye Opti & RoC! I'll miss you!

[Chaoshunternfrie...]

: ( Best WoW server ever. Goodbye Chaos...again : (

[belvadon]

None of you probably know me since I don't talk. I'm Sean the annoying frost mage, but I've been playing here since CC and this was the one and only true private server for me. I thanks Opti and Rezlind for bringing back CC as ROC. I hope everyone can find some place else to play.

[optical]

Thanks for all the kind words .
I will be adding those who posted msn in this thread, but if i don't get round to you, you can also drop me a PM with it.

I encourage everyone to make use of mirc, http://www.mirc.com/ to stay in contact, its a leight weight easy to use chat client, and you can leave it running in the background etc and will be able to chat with me and the rest of the staff etc. It's where you're most likely to talk to everyone in person.

I will throw up a mirc guide when i have time. Unless rezlind or someone else capable makes one prior

I must also urge that if you go to another server that isn't retail, don't go to ones which obviously dont know how to develop and just run stock emulators (trinity,mangos,etc) and then try profit from it by selling items/gm positions/talents/blah - These servers are the scum of the earth, they profit off other peoples hard work (blizz and emu devs) and they are the reason blizzard has taken action.

[Soon]

<3 everyone. Take care !

[juxti]

Thanks for all the kind words .
I will be adding those who posted msn in this thread, but if i don't get round to you, you can also drop me a PM with it.

I encourage everyone to make use of mirc, to stay in contact, its a leight weight easy to use chat client, and you can leave it running in the background etc and will be able to chat with me and the rest of the staff etc. It's where you're most likely to talk to everyone in person.

I will throw up a mirc guide when i have time. Unless rezlind or someone else capable makes one prior

I must also urge that if you go to another server that isn't retail, don't go to ones which obviously dont know how to develop and just run stock emulators (trinity,mangos,etc) and then try profit from it by selling items/gm positions/talents/blah - These servers are the scum of the earth, they profit off other peoples hard work (blizz and emu devs) and they are the reason blizzard has taken action.

my is [email protected] if anyone wants to add

[Arrive]

Good run, was already shocked last week when i heard about ;(

This sucks, and I agree that we should all keep in touch somehow


here is my msn-

[email protected]

:\

Really nice server, and will always be remembered

[openlate234]

thanks opti for a badass server.... no other free server compares to this one.... this is a sad day indeed REMNANTS FTW

[email protected]

[Alexisftw]

I vote for a gathering somewhere so we can decide what to do, i really dont want to leave without knowing where my friends are going.

I agree icelina. you and i have never been friends never really been enemies to my understanding but you were an outstanding mage and i loved playing with and against you.

[Dixie Normous]

Ahhhh again it was hard enough when CC shutdown now ROC man ths sucks but cheers to Optical and the rest of the staff for making this the BEST PVP SERVER out there for years always been a fan.

[Chocoleet]

thats sad i hope the server can run again soon when Blizzard stops their SUING SPREE oh yea GOOD LUCK IN UNIVERSITY!!! oh yea dont forget to save all of our ACCOUNTS so when it does come back we will have all of our Happy Characters back. Good Luck to you and my characters : Chocoleet, Kyuun, Hotspwnstar, Holychoco, and many more i hope they make it. Like how Chocoleet and Hotspwnstar made it through Chaos Crusade shutting down, i hope they make it through this shutdown and have an epic come back

[HadokanSF]

wow dude,

i've been playing this server for so long, ever since bc. Playing on this server has been practically imbedded into my schedule. it's going to be sad seeing you guys all go and just be gone. no coming back

well it was a good run, thank you Opti for all that you've done

give me your MSN

this is a picture of me, i've been naughty:

[empire2277]

DAMN!!!! Oh well better enjoy the last few days

[Manicotti]

Chaos Crusade was always the best server out there. The first day I started I was in love. The whole system was just perfect. I had way too much fun on the AV realm to describe in words. The funserver was just amazing. Every aspect of it was just downright genius. It was so much better than WoW in so many ways that I'm surprised they didn't try to shut us down earlier!

Finding ROC on Xtremetop100 after a while from CC shutting down was great! Just thanks everyone for such a great private server. You made a popular game epic.

[Chocoleet]

wow dude,

i've been playing this server for so long, ever since bc. Playing on this server has been practically imbedded into my schedule. it's going to be sad seeing you guys all go and just be gone. no coming back

well it was a good run, thank you Opti for all that you've done

give me your MSN

this is a picture of me, i've been naughty:

oh wow DISTURBING! you would want the server to make it and give opti good luck in university, not sending him pics of chicks.

[groff]

Wow that sucks. i remember when i first got CC i played it more than i played retail.. CC and RoC helped me a lot in developing skills in different classes and i am grateful for that. thankyou a lot for the devotion you've put into this opti and the gm's.
hope to see you all in different servers.. well just the people that don't class them self as some sort of 'Fag'. not to be homophobic, newfags and oldfags is just lame.

Ruiner BE ret pally
Hullo UD rogue
Lagwagon Tauren resto dr00d

[godslefthand]

sad news, but i might actually lose some weight now...mmmm doughnuts.

[Sixthsense]

Aw man. I guess when RoC shuts down, i`m quitting WoW, cause like Rezlind said, theres no other server like this

[Porphyriel]

This server has simply been the best from the very day I joined. There are some great people here and it's gonna really suck to see the lights go off.
Helluva job running this Opti, for as long as you could. Thanks for the good times. Damn, I'm sad now.


/salute

[opopop]

Damn... i just started to play there... it is(was) THE BEST pvp server imo!!!
Since i cant play retail (no money/time to lvl up/i just love PVP too much) tried out all the servers from top 10. ROC is better of all of them put together.
Anyway that was a great time here. I think its time for me to quit WOW now.

P.S. sry English is not my 1st language.

[Isnt]

sigh. as this is the end, i may aswell make the best of it. this is flametongue, the dick. sorry to all i have offended and to all i have made fun of, this is not a joke, this is serious apologizing. hope you all can deal with it and put those aside. thanks to opti for the great server, and to the GM's rezlind, jim, ice, janar, royale, syn, and the nub rogue asetas =P. you guys have truly made this server the best server i have ever played on and im sure many others. opti/rezlind, if you guys can give me your msn it would be great to keep up, and if ROC ever comes back up it would be awesome to know aswell; i would also like to say if ROC does ever come back up i will improve on my behaviour >.>. anyways, best of luck.
thanks to arrive, kursh, phobias, mangle, and many other close friends i had on ROC, it has been great. add me at "[email protected]". wish you all the best and hope we can find a new server that can find a loop hole in the system =P. if not, i shall be going back to retail.

-edit- forgot to say peace to my home-G warrior, gforce, maybe i'll see you around lonsdale key =P

[Gforce]

Thank you for the memories, i had good times on this server. Thanks to all my friends who made this game worth playing

I left to retail a little earlier than others but i heard the server was shutting down so i wanted to say goodbye to everyone and hope they all take care.

If anyone wants msn PM me

As for retail server -

Character name: Omzin
Class: Rogue
Server : Tichondrius (PvP) (US)
BG9

Thanks again RoC


-Gforce

[sherm]

sigh iv been with opti since CC sad to see blizzard shut down a great server again. good luck irl opti and the best of luck to every1. i play on greymane US under the name of shérm if any1 wants to look me up. besides that i might try this dominion wow server or something but QQ

[Anakha]

Its very sad to hear that, hard to find a decent server and unfortunately i found ROC 2 days ago...

We still can enjoy last week of the server, instead of increasing vote points etc, why dont u put all relentless gear to a vendor for free optical? So everyone can make their last battles totally equally. And its proper to ROC's philosophy me thinks.

Good job, and good luck in life.

[xChronicle]

Hey Optical.

I truly appreciate everything you do, regardless of whether or not it seems like I'm grateful or not.

Thanks for giving me a place to call home, and rack up 1,000 posts. I honestly love this place, and love trolling the community.

(No sarcasm; straight from the heart)

[Segfault]

[email protected]

My myspace email as well as my MSN address.

[Arrive]

1,000 posts

/headtodesk

[Minipuff]

it's not fair. :/ i hate blizzard, i just find you again after so long time since blizzard shutted down CC! i still got alot of fraps clip since the fairly beginning of cc. I remembered i started on the test real. First time after retail i played wow. Everyone was so kind, booth other players and staff. Then the funserver . i met alot of friends still talking with them. You shutted down and now when i finally found you again why... : ( Well i hope you doing well iRL. To all you guys. You have made my days on private server the best gaming times of my life.

Good luck everyone hope to see you in-game soon.

Best regards /minipuff

[calceyum]

Well i had a great time playing ont his server back in CC days and now, thank you optical for a great server.

My email is [email protected]

[xChronicle]

/headtodesk

Oh come on. I meant everything I said. The message is there to convey my thank you to Optical.

I thought there was luve between us.

[groff]

I'm probably still gonna goto vote everyday.. it just came apart of my routine haha. shiiiit



Ruiner BE ret pally
Hullo UD rogue
Lagwagon Tauren resto dr00d

[kill]

It is with great sadness that i bring the following announcement.
Due to a number of circumstances involved, Remnants of chaos will be shutting down in approximately a week, around the dates of 15-19th of november, 2009.

This has been a hard decision to make, however myself, as well as Rezlind feel it is the best one that can be made, giving the sitation we are in.

Prior to shutting down, i will be bumping up the votepoint rates to 4x per vote, and there will be a number of events and games ingame being hosted by the gm's, in order for everyone to enjoy the last few days of Remnants.

The arena season hasn't been decided on, however i was originally planning on ending it soon, so in the next few days you can expect your rewards to be in your mailbox.

There are a number of factors that have brought us to this decision, the first one being legality.
As some of you may know, blizzard has stepped in and shutdown wowscape, as well as taken them to court. At this stage there isn't much more information on what they plan on doing. However, it is obvious that they do not want to see private servers in existance any more and because of this, I would much rather respect their work and their decision and shutdown, then insult them as well as risk legal issues myself by continuing to run a server.

As some of you are aware, next year i plan on starting university, as this was my last year in school. This would also mean i have very little time to dedicate to ROC. Prior to the news of blizzard, i planned on either leaving ROC to someone else who is capable of developing it. However, it is unlikely that any such person would of come up in the short space of time there was to find them. I therefore feel that shutting down ROC would be the better decision, and it will be remembered as a great wotlk private server in its prime, rather then dying a slow death due to lack of development.

The third factor is money. As you will of noticed, we have not got any income, unlike most other servers, and i have payed the bill's every month out of my own pocket. This was fine for most of the year, however i could not continue to do so without selling virtual goods ingame, which i am very reluctant to do as it creates imbalance. Therefore selling items was not going to happen, as i created ROC to be a fun, competitive, enjoyable and challenging dedicated PVP Realm, not a business like some of the other wow servers are run with their ridiculous donation packages, such as donation for gm etc.

I am sorry for not notifying everyone sooner, however i have been extremly busy lately as i have my end of year exams next week as well as finishing up school last week, i have had very little time to write up a formal announcement. The decision to shutdown was made approximately a week ago, so it isn't as if i've kept it hidden for a long time.

And finally, to wrap up, i'd like to say thank you to a number of people.

First up - Staff/Others
Rezlind - A great dedicated administrator who was always there to help out. He has been with me since CC, and has been a great help with a number of decisions and was the man who chose the great GM staff we have today - Thanks!
Soon - Has been with us for a long time, took a few breaks to do other things along the way but always found his way back. Has continued to support roc since it was created.
Asetas - Longest standing ROC GM, has been a great help and i have never had a problem with him, good guy!
Janar/Syncron - Two of our younger GM's, also long time dedicated supporters of ROC, they were here since the beta began and have stuck it through till the end/ Never had an issue with them since CC, excellent staff members.
Icelina - A great guy who is pro at frost mage. Was with roc since the beta, also played on CC. He has come along way in maturity and is now a good guy. He resides in bavaria and will continue raging when he loses in arena due to "lag"
Royale - Quiet guy, didn't really get to know him very well personally, however he has also been here since the start and has helped out alot ingame as well.


Second off - Beta tested and long time players.
Thanks alot to everyone who has stuck it through with ROC since the days of the beta, in which we had 10 player peaks. You guys have helped tremendously, and i have alot of respect for you because of that. Thanks!

Third - Voters/Everyone else
Thanks to everyone who has played here and helped keep the community going. Those who voted day in and out, and supported us, you guys are great. Without you, there would be no ROC .

When we officialy shut down, i will be keeping the forums and IRC/Vent online so that everyone can remain in contact for some time. I will also be giving my MSN away to those who ask for it. I will not be giving it to just anyone im afraid, only people who i respect/hot non tarps.

I encourage everyone to remain here until shutdown, however if you choose to leave, i recommend returning to retail, as you just cannot beat it, and your efforts will never be in vain.

If you have any questions, please do post. And i am warning you, if you troll or attempt to derail, i will dish out perm bans, keep this thread clean and respectful.

PS: I am writing this prior to a chemistry exams and haven't had time to check my grammar and spelling - go easy on me!

Regards - Optical.

Remnants is WAY too cool to die how much do u need i would donate for no reason just to keep the realm alive plz i could keep hosting it if needed we need to i AM going to keep voting no mater wat i will do anything possible to keep this realm alive plz tell me how i could and i will i can come up with over 100 dollars if needed and optical whenever u get back from univericity keep are accs active so when u get back (in four freaken YEARS) so when u do we can just upgrade the patchs and start plaing again think about it and let me know wat u think of it

[soulsista]

This server has been more fun than retail for me.
Props to the people who have spent time and work making it that way !
and thank you to everyone i ever dueled or played arena with. Great fights have been fought.

p'z !

Moofyah

[belvadon]

No one really knows me but if you want another msn friend add [email protected] and if you use Xbox live add my gamertag Belvadon. Opti I hope you keep all our emails. ROC will never be forgotten.

[Misfate]

Terrible news; this was the best PvP server I've ever played on; great GMs and owner, no OP donation crap, and an extremely fun and well-maintained server. Although I never really got to know anyone on the server, I look forward to meeting up somewhere else later.

Thank you Optical for this server, and if you had time in university, had some way to fund the server, and if Blizzard wasn't so keen on extermination private servers, we could have been the #1 server.

BTW, Opti, are you planning to release the core+DB in case someone wants to create and host "Remnants of Remnants of Chaos?"



Useless stats/what I "accomplished" on the server: IGN: Faendrosin (full furious, part relentless) , VPs: 738, Gold: About 6k

[zano316]

This server was best, but sadly it's shutting down again like old chaoscrusade. Been fun and wish you guys best of luck.

[Kursh]

[Porphyriel]

I hear ya, Kursh

[venom]

Imma see if i can help opti save so people just hang in their

[Nihao]

well.. we should all join a new server.. and make our own comunnity there.. open a thread and make suggestions..

Sad ...

Don't you guys understand? THERE WILL BE NO OTHER SERVERS ...
Blizzard is finally actually using the loop hole to sue people that I felt like I only knew.
They'll sue for: the playing of the music(Lv80ETC), also they sue for the Blizzard logo.
They'll sue for: They recently went and copy righted some names/logos used in WOTLK and BC, casuing anyone t use the name e.g Halaa or Ice crown citidal.

---It may be cheap but they want their money, its pay 15 a month or go play D&D or Aion ..something---

Enough with my srs ...

-------WASDICA AND NIHAO remember me fondly, or when you fondle yourself(i dun know the american term)

THANKS OPTICAL BUD I'LL MISS YA COWFATNESS! /hug

[regless]

Hello,This is Regless.I was wondering if i could start hosting this server,If you want of course. But i would just hate to see this server shut down...So tell me if i could do anything like that.

[laintimeh]

This is sad news indeed , I will miss everyone on this server and all of the Gms.
Everyone on this server has made it fun for me and I wish everyone has fun when this server closes and if anyone wants to chat I have aim and its ArtemisFowl28 so have fun and peace! From Pleasant Grove Utah!

[brooms]

Sad news panda is sad news.

I'll miss my little pew pew Boomkin here. Had a lot of fun here. Sad to see it go :/

Take care~

[sherm]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ i felt so sad when i found out about this

[humigas]

Another good server is goin down... OMG this world... OPTICAL u were good designer and programmer i hope you complete your university. GL with that!!
People who wants to chat with me Skype: Mandelrith
ROC 4 EVER !!!!!!!!! best wow server that was.........Ill miss server and my Endalah(Warlock)

[Icyshiva]

I had a feeling this would happen at the end of the year. However busy I am atm I will come help for the last few days also.
Good luck at uni Opti

[stage]

Awwww... well I found another good server so if anyone wants to play there you should, its fun!

http://dominionxtremegaming.com/community/index.php


I'm Zukiros on horde.


Bye Opti & RoC! I'll miss you!

I'll be joining you i guess.

Thanks for an awesome server Opti. Best of luck in real life.

[Guinevere]

Will miss you guyz! <3

Might gonna play retail again, If you still wanna talk to me you can add me on msn:

[email protected]

Thank you for the fun i had here!
KISSES

[jazz]

Well thanks for putting in all the time, effort, and money to allow us to play for all this time. Good luck with uni and your exams. I gotta feeling you'll ace it all since, well, you hosted this server while still at school ;P. Wish ya best of luck and farewell.

-Jazz

[Marklar]

I can't really say anything. I stopped 2-3 months ago but I will miss you guys.
I'm glad I joined CC back then, it was a great fun to play here and there as well. Optical, you are just awesome. I'm an official fan of you, you are the best developer I have ever seen (maybe together with Burlex , but I haven't heard anything about him for a long time)

Thanks for everything!