Divinity is such a beautiful thing.
When we sat there in despair back in 2011, realizing that our current Minecraft server we played on had gone down the drain for good. We couldn't have imagined something like this to happen, ever. I know I don't play Minecraft as much as I did in the early days, that doesn't mean that I don't think about Divinity every day as I visit out lovely little forums and such. I'm so proud to what we have become during these trying times, we've managed to survive through thick and thin.
I remember the first days like it was yesterday; me and Roobster being excited of our very first few members shortly after going online. Reaching 10 concurrent players, 15, 20, etc. When we reached somewhere around 20-25 concurrent players we felt extremely satisfied as that was our ultimate goal. At the time, it felt that we've reached the top and that we shouldn't expect much more in terms of achievements. Little did we know that we had only scratched the surface of what we could achieve as our community started to grow and establish itself.
As both a player and a server owner it sometimes difficult to realize that each player is in fact a person. A unique person, somewhere in the world, represented by a single digit. When I was at Roobsters house a couple of weeks ago we talked about just this, I remember I said something interesting. Food for thought; take your house, the place you currently live in and imagine there being 51 persons inside of it. Unless you live in a very large house, that's definitely a challange in terms of logistics.
51 unique persons, spread all around the globe gathered together in a virtual world. Our community, our family.
