Dear gamers,

As I can safely assume,  some of you have indeed played Global Agenda - the sci-fi mmo shooter made and released by Hi-Rez Studios in 2009. Probably even more have heard, read or watched a video about it. To the ones who hadn't had a chance to try this brilliant game out, I can assure you that it was a truly great title - full of varied game modes, with 4 distinctive classes and an awesome, extremaly friendly and helpful community. 

I can be a bit biased towards this topic but in my opinion GA was the best game I have ever played.  I used to be a part of a lot of agencies (global agenda's name for your everyday guilds), to name some : Poland, Poland2, Exposure and Naked. I met so many amazing people there. We would gather every evening to battle over territory with other agencies (which was both extremely stressful and satisfying at times)  and then chill out by playing a raid or some PvE spec-ops. GA's PvP was honestly an awesome thing too. Not to mention the character customisation system was really well done too - tons of different jetpacks, dyes, flairs,  jetpacks trails etc.  

And then everything started to go downhill.  Hi-Rez basically started to gave up on their game. No new updates, close to 0 communication with their playerbase. They didn't care about the poor pvp balancing, which was getting more and more apparent, and tons of hackers - Hi-Rez basically stopped doing anything.They focused all of their money and resources to produce Tribes Ascend, then Smite and then Paladins. Which, ironically, all turned out to be, let's be honest here, very generic and boring titles. Especially Paladins which is a pathetic copy of Overwatch. Were those 3 titles worth killing Global Agenda?  Hi-Rez teased us with their plans for making GA2. And, guess what, they canceled it all.* 

I do not even think Hi-Rez is capable of bringing GA back... Hell, they even removed GA from steam and deleted its website. They pretend like it's never existed... While it was very, very successful at its peak time. All they have ever done since GA's release was disappoint people. But I want an explaination. Heck with me, WE want an explanation. Since Global Agenda pretty much died, I've been playing many games. I've seeked shelter playing LoL, The Division, recently Overwatch. But none of these games were able to fill the empty space left by Global Agenda. I feel like lots of people feel the same way too. We're basically Global Agenda's refugees, a nation of players first satisfied by Hi-Rez's debut title, then brutally kicked out of our most beloved game realm and left to rot. 

Dear Hi-Rez Studios, what caused you to abandon Global Agenda?  What was the reason behind all of this?  And was it worth it? I think he community does deserve to know. Nothing can do Global Agenda justice it deserves but... That would be something. Unless you finally make GA2 for real. And start to behave like a responsible game studio, which does care about playerbase's needs and does not leave their best creation to focus on other projects.

I don't know if I am the only one so emotionally attached... but I get really sad and sentimental when I think about the good old times with people from my agency. They will never come back but maybe we can make the future as good as they were.

Cheers,

James, aka "Tajniak" back in the day 

* https://www.engadget.com/2012/10/03/the-firing-line-hi-rez-talks-global-agenda-2 Pretty much the last time we've heard about GA2.