Farewell, Lion!

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Lion, one of the longest standing (and the oldest) webmaster from the C&C community, has posted his farewell message at his sites, CNCDEN and RADEN. Here's what he says:

Lion wrote:

After more than a decade of being a part of the Command & Conquer community and webmastering the DEN websites, I have decided to hang up my webmaster title. I don't have a big speech planned, other than to say I've had a super great time over the years. There have been some ups and downs in the C&C community, but for the most part, all has been good.

I want to say thank you to all who have visited and supported the DEN websites. I've had much help from C&C fans over the years. Thanks to Westwood Studios and now Electronic Arts for the C&C games. I've enjoyed playing them. Goodbye and best wishes to all. Smile

I'm sad to see he leaving, although I've seen many people who left and returned after some time. Lion was a good reference for the C&C community and he made an outstanding work with both DEN sites and forums. At PPM, we wish him the best.

gufu · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:21 pm Post subject:

Well, that is certainly not a good news. Sad to see the guy walk away. But he probably have his own reasons.

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-=HelloDave=- · Grenadier **Joined**: 06 Nov 2008

Farewell Lion;_;

Shadow Hunter · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:59 pm Post subject:

LOL, soooo much time, before PPM, i was always in RADEN, good times learning maps and seeing mods lol, i still remember when i've seen TAKTICS (i think it was that) on the news and i was llike: OMFG Surprised

Goodbye Lion. Sad

Shakar · Cyborg Cannon **Joined**: 04 Jan 2008 **Location**: Places

CnCDEN was the first site I went to when wanting to learn how to map in Generals because it has such a great tutorial there that explains the things. I hope the DEN stays alive at least, so others can go to it and see it's great resources, even if a good amount of the maps aren't that great, it's a great refrence site.

001010011100101110 · Commander **Joined**: 18 Aug 2009

Well it's been much more than a decade since the first real C&C came out, so I'm at least glad that a lot of people still remains on the old games, and some new ones come for the latest games.

Clazzy · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 2:45 am Post subject:

This is quite a shock, I must admit. I suppose Lion would have left the community eventually but he's been around since before I joined the community. And that was about ten years ago, now I feel old.

Anyway, I wish Lion well for whatever he's up to now, even though I really only used to visit for Mooman's mods and not much else.

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Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

I rarely pay a visit to the Dens, but they surely are well lead and organized sites. Goodbye Lion.

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Pepzi · Plasma Trooper **Joined**: 26 Nov 2004

Clazzy wrote:

This is quite a shock, I must admit. I suppose Lion would have left the community eventually but he's been around since before I joined the community. And that was about ten years ago, now I feel old.

Anyway, I wish Lion well for whatever he's up to now, even though I really only used to visit for Mooman's mods and not much else.

I feel you, this is a rather historical moment for me. Life goes on and the community goes on.

djohe · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:30 am Post subject:

I used to visit CNCDEN and RADEN during the RA2, Renegade, Generals days and slighly during C&C3.

Does this mean RADEN & CNCDEN will close?

Pepzi · Plasma Trooper **Joined**: 26 Nov 2004

djohe wrote:

I used to visit CNCDEN and RADEN during the RA2, Renegade, Generals days and slighly during C&C3.

Does this mean RADEN & CNCDEN will close?

I had a look in the Den, I think what it most likely means is that someone will simply replace him. Someone from the current Den staff is a logical candidate. I don't think it well be the same though, it feels kinda like someone taking over your Blog.

Destiny · President **Joined**: 02 May 2006 **Location**: Singapore

Woah, I go to CNCDEN quite a bit, it's sad news to hear him go...hopefully he'll popup every once in a while so we know how he's doing. Reality is hard.

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Ickus · General **Joined**: 25 Nov 2002 **Location**: @__@

Never though I'd see the day. well I do wish him the best of luck. I certain recall the early days of venturing RADEN back in the day.

but now I definitely see it's time to move on.

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 9:52 am Post subject:

I don't know Lion personal, nor do I visit his site that much, but still, best of luck with your future life Lion Smile

Wess · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 6:56 pm Post subject:

no more Lion's Daily Blurb!

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Reaperrr · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:57 pm Post subject:

Wess wrote:

no more Lion's Daily Blurb!

yeah, I'll miss that too Neutral

It's one of the features that made the DEN stand out from the crowd.

PilotstroupF15E · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 21 Sep 2003

Wow, it has been a long time. I'll miss him. I started out with my brother on CanisRules' C-Gen community around '01 and both CNCDEN and RADEN were what tied us all together with the larger community. I was sad to see Canis go about two years ago, and though I fell out after I went full on with college, I'd still pop in here and there time and again. At least the site won't vanish. There are still a lot of resources out there, and again, his sites tied them up nice and tidy for most people to find without the distraction machine that is Google.

Team Black · Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 2:02 am Post subject:

Haven't visited his site that often, but the times I did were all good times

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