More Fan Sites and Projects Discontinued

Sonic 2000, one of the most thought out fan game projects ever, is being cancelled by its creator, Mark Palenik. Here’s a statement from the S2K webmaster:

The FTP server is down due to a server move, so I can’t edit the website. Basically, Mark has given up on the project due to lack of interest and enthusiasm. Mark currently wants to drop it all to regain his sanity. Anyhow, where an excerpt of what he ICQed me.

I’m ready to cancel Sonic 2000. I’ve known what the problem with the speed is for a couple of weeks now, but haven’t had the energy to fix it. I’m going to work on an animation for a little while, not for commercial purposes, or even for publicity, just to relax. I doubt I’ll get more than two or three seconds done (since I’m going to do it by hand), but I need a little vacation.

And don’t bother emailing him on why the project has been canceled. He won’t be at his computer either.

JD Harding of The Sonic Corner has ceased updating his site. His final update read:

The Sonic Corner has closed down. Let me explain why. I’ve been working on this site for two years now. I’ve done a fairly good job keeping this place looking great, and up till now it’s gotten a fairly large amount of visitors, and I have no complaints about the site. The problem lies with me wanting to move on. I’ve lost interest in Sonic the Hedgehog. The games are still great, but my interest when I first started this site, and my interest now are two totally different things. My interest before was a desire, a want to make the greatest Sonic the Hedgehog site online. My wants and wishes now are more concerned with my life outside of this site.

I’ve gotten a new job going now. I’m currently a Website designer. I would like to devote all of my time into work, and less time with this site. The rest of my time is devoted to my friends, and my music. What little time I have left is for myself, which leaves zero time for me to fiddle with TSC. I’m sorry about this. I know you all love this site, and come back regularly, and I’m grateful for your loyalty to TSC. You still can come and visit TSC. I’ll keep the site up for a couple more years. I just don’t have the time to update it.

I want to thank all of the people who have made TSC a great site. The composers, artists, writers, the people who visited my message boards, and even just the people who came here to listen to a few Sonic MIDIs, and then left. It’s great to have you all here, and even though this site won’t be updated anymore, I hope you all keep coming back.

Anyway, have fun with TSC. This is JD, signing off for the last time. Ciao! ^.^

Sonic Pandemonium has temporarily shut down; however, Soneec, SP’s webmaster, has E-Mailed me with this notice:

I’m going to start all over again because people seemed to have lost a lot of interest in SP. I will be making a new website still Sonic based but without hoaxes and WYTS unless someone is willing to run those pages for me. As of now, I don’t know when it’ll be up, but hopefully, at least I’m shooting, for sometime this week.

Now, an update to the SegaNet shutdown; Sega Otaku, long time rival of the site and its webmaster, Fernando Mosquera, posted this article:

We never thought it would happen, but just a week ago it did. The long time running Sega based Internet site, SegaNet ceased operations. The reason the site has ceased operations is because SegaNet’s webmaster screwed over the people at Gamers Republic for employment at Game Fan. As a result of this, SegaNet merely links to Gamers Republic and all of the SegaNet affiliates who relied on the server for web space have been left out to dry. For those of you who are unfamiliar with SegaNet’s webmaster he is commonly referred to as Fernando Mosquera, Lagi, King Hippo, Nando and Solid Elephant by people in real life and on the Internet.

It’s painfully obvious that Fernando didn’t give a damn about the SegaNet affiliates, he only brought them on board, because they would load his ad banners and make himself look better in the process. If he really cared about his affiliates he wouldn’t have left them high and dry like he did. Instead he would have given his affiliates plenty of time to make sure they could get settled on another server before he made his employment change. Of course that is something which is unfeasible for Fernando to do. As we have said before in the past, he is a selfish bastard who thinks only of himself and never of others. Even the most hardcore of his affiliates who slung R-rated and X-rated insults at us personally now think Fernando is a miserable human being.

For those who have followed both our site and SegaNet, it’s obvious that we never liked Fernando and never will. However, I think the events which have transpired in the past week justify our contempt for this particular individual. If you people think that Fernando actually cared about Sega and Sega fans than you are gravely mistaken. SegaNet was simply a vehicle he used to whore himself a position at a print magazine. Now that he has a position at Game Fan do you really think he’s going to bring back SegaNet in any form regardless of what sort of contractual obligation he had with Gamers Republic?

I’d also like to give Joe Ottoson the resident Sega UseNet whore who thinks he has the knowledge of god at his fingertips a reality check. Fernando has proven without a shadow of a doubt that he is an inconsiderate and selfish (deleted) who whores himself for personal gain. Almost everybody in the gaming industry knows what type of person Fernando is, yet Mr. Ottoson still refuses to believe it. With the death of SegaNet Mr. Ottoson should be able to find comfort in the fact that Dimension S is still around. Sure the site takes 10 minutes to load and crashes web browsers 95% of the time but besides that it’s a great site!

I for one hope Game Fan is the last job Fernando ever has in the gaming industry. He is unrespected by almost everyone and it’s only a matter of time before he screws up the Game Fan deal and attempts to get back in the industry with another web site. Of course like SegaNet the site won’t be designed by him, won’t be maintained by him yet he’ll get all the credit.

With the SegaNet issue out of the way, I’d like to share a story with everyone who reads the site. Our Senior Editor Shaun Musgrave went to an Electronics Boutique in Winnipeg to pick up his Dreamcast. When he mentioned that he wrote for a gaming Internet site, the guy behind the counter seemed interested. However, when he said that he wrote for Sega Otaku a look of disgust went over the employee’s face and he had somebody else take care of him. Perhaps Mr. Ottoson is right, we are (deleted), but he has to admit that we are good at what we do.