Need for Speed Theories shutdown date and details.

Hello gentlemen of the internet, it's the Most Wanted here.
After constant waves of problems, I've finally decided to put the forum to sleep later this year.

Now, before you get ultimately fed up, let me tell you a story.


Back in 2013's spring - when the forum was created - I felt a bit more open when it came to the Theories project, and made a forum to allow you guys to get an insight at my projects, also allowing you to help me out if you so desire.

At first, when we've started feeling the true impact of the publicness of the forum, we've decided to make the forum into the strictest forum the racing game community has ever known. We've held monthly account deletion waves, when we've been deleting inactive and 'useless' profiles, so we've only had the 'useful' people around. Everyone kept it tidy, everyone were doing their jobs, and it all felt like an absolute elite to be able to stay on NFS Theories. The site at the time was notorious for its absolute strictness, we've received loads of complaints from people who we've decided to get rid of. Well, with a reason really.

But now in 2014 - the site went through a lot. Most of the people who were around in 2013 aren't on (or aren't contributing to) the site anymore. Everyone has changed a lot. The entire site as it is slowly became the exact opposite of what it used to be, and what I wanted to forum to be like in the future. Now it's filled with content not just EXTREMELY IRRELEVANT to the site and its etiquette, it's also just simply a large mess. Now it's nothing but a casual forum littered with irrelevancy.

Theories is not about researching Need for Speed anymore. It's about everything BUT what it is meant to be.

And as an administrator and the owner of the site - I feel like i am responsible for everything everyone does on this site. And not just that it's a bloody mess, I can clearly state that most people (grown ups, not kids) who come here to be casual site members simply end up leaving because of the amount of stupidity and irrelevancy being thrown at them. I feel embarrassed to look at this now.

Other than that, Need for Speed Theories nearly ruined my life several times. It has a notorious history of being attacked, and hated for obvious reasons. And as again i feel fully responsible for everything going on the site when these happen, and believe me - you do not want to go through that.

The official shutdown date of Need for Speed Theories is 2014 December 28th, Late Night around european time. I'll be there to say my goodbyes and to end an era.

To the people from 2013 who have either left the site or stayed here doing their bests to keep it alive:
Thank you for all the support still, all the help and all the inspiration you've given to me last year! You'll never be forgotten for forming the site back then. It was an awesome experience and it was so nice to get to know people who were around to help! Too bad most of you left the site by now..

To the people from 2014:
Thank you for coming onto Need for Speed Theories, and still keeping it alive even though it's not about what it used to be anymore. Most of you too are awesome people I'm glad that I could meet!


So what's going to happen now?
Enjoy your 30 days left of Need for Speed Theories. When it's going to be the 28th of December, I'm going to put the site into a permanent Maintenance Mode. I also am going to create a special rank of people who will be raised up to staff level, who are still going to be able to access the site even after the shutdown. Those members will be specially selected by me - if you ask for it / about it - > it's instantly out the window. I won't even bother replying.

Sad to see it all end like this, but I have a feeling that it is for the best if we let Need for Speed Theories just fall asleep. It nearly died out several times this year, at least let it have a proper funeral.

Thinking back, implementing the original idea of the site should not have been done in a forum-form. That's the best way to get something that'll hop completely out of hand quicker than you'd think.

The possible successor of Need for Speed Theories is going to be a Reddit.com page for it. Announcements will be held soon.

Thanks again to all of those people who made the site what it was, and kept on supporting it to this day! It sure as hell has been an experience!

See you again on 2014 December 28th, late night european time.

-Most Wanted