Article: Eyes on Final Fantasy Under New Ownership
Congratulations, Eyes on Final Fantasy! You're fourteen years old! You've had your highs and lows, but in the end things have worked out and you're still going strong. What presents have you received? What's that? Someone got Knighted the other day? Unne rejoined too, and fixed the Wiki? That's great, EoFF! Congratulations! Oh, and Ciddies are on? Awesome! Wait, a karaoke contest, too? Something about a wrestling match - a Thunderdome, no less - between a bunch of EoFFers? And a Dragon Age Let's Play? AND a top games of the generation just ended? Unne had a live stream of a FFI marathon? The Fat Chocobos players are all registering at EoFF, and members of EoFF are signing up for FFXIV:ARR seemingly every other day? Man, this place is bustling with activity!
I hear there are some people who have left staff recently, too... Vivi22 and Roogle. But... what's that? There are more people on staff about to depart? WarrenW? Austin? That April Fools prankster, MichaelC? But... aren't they the owners of Eyes on Final Fantasy? Why would they leave staff? Who's the owner now!?
Snappy smurfday, Eyes on Final Fantasy.
Show your thanks by posting in all of those events I mentioned. :)
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Eyes on Final Fantasy Under New Ownership
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Del Murder
Shouldn't something about the purchase go up on the frontsite? I would consider this a newsworthy item!
Fine I'll do it!
On December 5, 1999, Sean Robinson created a tiny little EzBoard called The Highwind, which after a few months was renamed Eyes on Final Fantasy. Sean could not have predicted what his creation would turn into; the result ended up being beyond anyone’s wildest dreams.
Fourteen years later, EoFF is not only alive, but thriving, despite Sean having sold the place to professionals years ago. EoFF has changed the lives of many, including being the cause of a number of marriages, and earlier this year had a spotlight on Kotaku. And on EoFF’s fourteenth anniversary, a new dream was met.
Daniel Towns, aka Loony BoB, aka that guy with the same chocobo avatar after 13 years, registered on EoFF in 2000, shortly after its move to UBB, once the big name in online message board software. In the years that followed, he became a moderator (called “Cid’s Knights” after Sean Robinson’s screen name, Cid Highwind) and then an administrator. He has been the face of EoFF for a number of years, indisputably the most dedicated member EoFF has ever had. He single-handedly turned EoFF’s semi-annual awards, the Ciddies, into EoFF’s biggest event; has previously run the site staff; and has dedicated countless hours to managing the forums -- among other contributions too numerous to list.
And now this place is back in the members’ hands, as Daniel Towns finally fulfilled what we all know he had wanted for years: he bought EoFF (appropriately enough the same year as his marriage that was caused by EoFF -- both of them). Eyes on Final Fantasy could not be in better hands, and I believe on that fact that I can speak for all of EoFF, past and present.
I, for one, welcome our new chocobo overlords.
