Sunday, February 27, 2011

Farewell MGC

mygamercard.net is a site that a lot of xbox users have used, but most probably never saw how much effort went into it. MCG was the first and one of the most popular site that allowed you to create your own gamercard to display your xbox live information and achievements wherever you wanted, plus they put together achievement based leaderboards for the whole world for those competitive gamers. Sadly site owner, Morgon, has chosen to close up shop as support from Microsoft has waned and bandwidth costs (coming out of his own pocket) increased with 13 million daily gamercard requests. Apart from just being a gamercard service, MGC was home to some of the most helpful and friendly forums on the web. As the site shuts down, all of the people using gamercards from there will find them replaced with a farewell image, which you can see 3 times in our contact info on the right, because i intend to leave them there as long as possible as a sort of tribute to the site. You can head over to http://www.mygamercard.net/ to read Morgon's full statement about the closure and find a detailed timeline explaining how MGC came from being a proof of concept all the way back in 2005 to the time when Microsoft stopped caring. So from myself and hopefully all the other gamers who used your service, thank you MGC and farewell.

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