In Remembrance of Mplayer
 

 
One of the most memorable times in my life has been to work for an amazing company where I have met so many awesome people. These people worked hard to not only make such a fun work environment, but also a great multiplayer gaming service that will always remain a legend to millions of gamers. 

I actually started out with Mplayer as a Command & Conquer gamer, then moved on to Quake 1 and SCARAB. My friend Gates (who was in the Shadow Clan, the top C&C clan on Mplayer), mentioned that he was a beta tester for Mplayer's games before they came on the multiplayer service. He told me that it was an invite thing that the Mplayer employees did but the beta testers could refer people they trusted. He wanted to mention my brother and I to Mplayer since he thought we'd be a great addition to the testing team. I was a bit shy about the whole idea because I am not a very technical person when it comes to computers. My brother took it on as if it was a new car he was driving. I learned from him how to submit bugs for the beta supervisor, which was Hilary Somers at the time. The nice thing about the beta system was getting a free game and testing it before everyone else could. I later on started working with them. There's more information about my history as a newsie for Mplayer under my California Girl's Corner of the Net site under about me/newsie. 

I don't have pictures of 'every one' that ever worked at this extraordinary company but I do have many pictures of events and pictures along with bios of some people I was very close with. I worked as a contractor for Mplayer from 1998 until 2000. Then moved to the Bay Area to work in-house with them for a year until Gamespy bought them out in January 2001. I had mixed feelings when we were bought by a competitor of not only the gaming service but our online gaming network, Xtreme Network. All of the work my brother and I did, along with Nathan 'Prime' Farenthold, Jon 'Jeh' MacLellan to make Xtreme Network as big as it was, made me very sad to see it die. The fact that I had to do the burying was even worse. I couldn't just walk away like everyone else did when things got weird the last 2 months before the company was bought out. I was the only person to bury the Network, which was referred to by all of my friends as my babies because I nurtured (updated them) like they were. Every one of those sites were designed and created by my brother, Jeh or me. Quake3world.com was the one I worked the most on because of the thousands of people who looked at the site daily. It was one site that had so many readers that wanted attention so of course, emails normally flooded my box every day of issues or complements.

Gamespy was kind enough to bring me aboard to help them for half of a year to clean up and bury Mplayer and Xtreme Network before they laid off a handful of people, including me. At first I had only known a few pretty good friends like Sluggo, Kornelia and China at the time. I also had met the owner at previous gaming events. Then I made some even more really cool friends in the process of working there and regained hope in a special way. I did feel that there was a possibility that I could help another gaming company grow stronger. Time told that tale by me leaving the company. Mplayer will always remain a legend in a lot of gamers' hearts. I know working there will always be something I cherish (the good times and the bad). 

Former  Employees

 

 

Mplayer Pictures