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Wow I'm about at a loss for words. Shaun you've made an amazing game and you've gathered such a great community of baseball fans here. Reading all the responses in this thread is touching. I remember all these guy's from back at your puresim boards and the 3-4 years that I've been chatting on the boards and playing your game and watching it grow has been truely a great experience. I hope Matrix doesn't take down this board but if it does I hope we all can find a new home to continue to chat it up.

I will continue to support this game and send donations to you because I feel that this game is worth more then you ask for and with the amount of personal time you put into the game and customer service is top notch.

I completely understand how important your family is to you.. btw how's the boys? I remember when you posted about your last kid being born.. truely shows how much you love your family and how proud you are of them.

Kick back drink some MGD and enjoy the sparetime.. and hey be a Puresim fan and play some yourself and maybe join an online league.

Shaun,

I used to post on the old forums.  Heck I remember following you on the usenet groups back in the days when Puresim was just an idea, and I purchased some of your Front Page Sports editors.

I was sad to read you are no longer going to commercially produce Puresim.  However as a father of two, I completely understand the time constraints and you absolutely made the right choice.

Do one thing for yourself, and for all of us:  When you change to a freely distributed product, please put an option on the game screen or on the website to contribute donations on behalf of your efforts.  I for one will definitely support your future work one way or another, and I am certain many here will too.

I have been trying to figure out where to begin since I read this thread a few days ago.

My nature is to burn myself out on something, disappear from it for a few months, then repeat the cycle. PureSim definitely fits in to that category.

When I first read this thread a lot of memories of PS crossed my mind. I stick with pc games that immerse me, that allow me to disappear for a period of time. PS does that and I remember many times where I disappeared in to the game and personified the players.

Sometimes you think it will always be there and without warning, it just stops.

Please understand me, it may sound like there's a sense of anger or entitlement, but it's not that at all. There is just something sad about the end of a (life) cycle.

Shaun let us in on some much of what he was doing, so for me it felt like I was a very small part of it. But the fact that he listened, then implemented what was discussed was by far the greatest feature of PS.

Thanks for PS, Shaun. I have been playing on and off since 2000(?) an I owe you for many hours of "disappearance".

Wow.....13 days after this was announced, I just found out about it. Man, thats a shame. I really thought PS was on the verge of catching some of the baseball sim competition. Man, Im bummed about this [:(]