Bloodbath Community Servers

Throughout the past year, the Team Leaders and I had been planning a transition process whereby today I finally announce my planned retirement from leadership of Bloodbath, along with our second longest-serving team leader, Oracle, as well. After a decade of service to the community, it felt appropriate to continue the tradition of a newer generation taking the reins and providing their own vision and direction.

However, late in the transition process, we discovered that it was not only the current leadership that sought to move on, but the entire replacement leadership as well. With that revelation and the little energy left to delay transition further, the leadership has unanimously decided that Bloodbath will end its server hosting operations by month’s end. Without a passionate and solid leadership team, we cannot in good conscience be running an active server community.

In what seems like an age ago when I took over leadership of Bloodbath, I had written in its description a mission statement that has remained there ever since:

“...passion to provide the most that our games have to offer and create lasting memories for the community before the conclusion of such games come to pass.”

With the conclusion of our games coming to pass, and ourselves along with it, it’s with a full heart that I’m pleased we were able to achieve that impact on this wonderful community. While we host farewell events, many of us will be in reflection of the friendships and memories we built here over the years and remark on how far we’ve come as people and our pursuit of happiness in this small corner of the internet.

Just remember it’s been the friendships- not the games- that have held this community together over the years and our Discord will remain open as a hub for finding those and various games to enjoy together. And for those that still want a similar experience to what we provided with custom content and a veteran player base, we will be supporting our sister servers as they carry on the core games we once offered. But most promising of all, should a game ever emerge that incites passion in the way the Red Orchestra franchise did, and a new generation of leadership wishes to take over, they’ll have the invaluable asset of over two decades-worth of gaming and Bloodbath veterans there behind and ready to support them.

It’s been an honor and heartwarming experience to have played with you all and led this community over the years. I will cherish it always. Thank you for being a part of this community and our lives here at Bloodbath.