[Matt]

Yes this was an April fools joke, hope you enjoyed it .

Hi,

I have some unexpected news to share with all of you.

We have decided to sell the gaming portion of War-Lords.net to Frag Ready Game Servers. This acquisition is part of Frag Ready Game Servers's campaign to spread brand awareness to the gaming community.

Frag Ready Game Servers is a start-up Game Server Provider which sells top-notch servers out of their premium datacentre in Chicago. Their steam community page is http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FragReady.

Frag Ready Game Servers will continue to operate all existing CS:S servers and plans to continue expanding them. The handover and a name change will take place on April 20, 2013. We will be around to help sort out and alleviate issues while the transition takes place.

This decision has been very difficult on us. We've had these sort of offers from other organizations in the past, but never actually considered them.

However, due to personal commitments Bison, Anubis and Me have been running out of spare time to run something as big as War-Lords.net. Also recent trouble with our ad providers has made us short on funds. We are no longer able to continue financing the servers.

We did have other options, such as axing the majority of servers, but we feel it would stunt future growth and decimate most of our community. Selling our server operations seemed the best option since it would both preserve and expand the community.

I expect most of the current admins will be taken on to help maintain order in the servers. This is, of course, assuming they wish to stay.

This isn't where we thought we'd end up when we first started this, but it's been fun while it lasted. Thanks to all the help from admins and players over the years, we couldn't have kept a community like this going without you.

Cheers,
The Roots.