Dear PG Community,
First of all, I want to start by saying I am humbled and overwhelmed by the support shown to me by complete Team PG in electing me as the new Gaming and Content Administrator, and giving me the responsibility to take our beloved community forward.It is true, that there are users who have been on PakGamers for longer period of time and have much more post count than me, but since joining PG in 2008, not one day has passed that I haven't been online of PG for a couple of hours. When I first joined PG and read through all this great material and brilliant discussions taking place, I was stunned that this community existed. Intelligent, funny, creative and wonderful people taking part in a healthy environment, mutual respect the likes of which I have never experienced in Pakistan. I questioned myself, how did I not know about this website? And thanked the heavens above that I stumbled upon it. For this, I must thank INF3RN0 for its inception and then Jshak to take it over from him.
I still maintain this belief that PakGamers is much more than just another gaming forum or the safest and trusted marketplace in Pakistan. (We can thank Jshak for that, who will remain the Adminstrator to Market place, subscription,advertising and general related forum issues). Yes, we are dedicated gamers, our blood made of 1s and 0s. But we are more than that as well. We don’t only come here just to talk about gaming experiences (like on most other gaming forums), but make real lifelong friendships, with people whose company we truly enjoy.
For this I would like to thank you; The Community.
The reason why I am trying to 'emotionally blackmail' you by writing the paragraph above, is so that you understand where I come from. I often don’t post a lot of serious stuff, but I guess the circumstance demands it. I have been given this wonderful opportunity, and I intend to fully utilize it to make PakGamers bigger and better than ever before. Mind you, it isn't going to be a smooth road, nor is it going to be an overnight revolution. But through hell or high water, we will InshAllah realize our goals; If there is a gamer in Pakistan; I want PakGamers to be his home.
We will be making a couple of significant changes and a decent number of minor ones, while also ironing out a few kinks along the way. A couple of Team PG members are going to be promoted and a few additions to the teams are to be made. We will also be refocusing the forum towards gaming content and creative works. So keep a keen eye and an ear, (the first official announcement of my promotion to Admin-ship was released on PG Podcast nearly a week ago), out for Announcements.
Right now though, I would like to announce the revival of Team UG project. Below are the details are outlined, I highly urge you to take part in this:
I promise to make our community proud, but I want the same from you guys. Please, this is a 'darkhuwast', do not shy away from Sharing, Liking, Tweeting and generally promoting PakGamers in real and digital life. I really hope that our 'Extreme' users take their experience and position in community a bit seriously and promote
PG as much as possible. I will provide you with 100% support wherever you may need it. We are a tech forum, and we are supposed to be on top of social media. I also encourage older members, who have ‘lost interest’ to come forth and help the community in different way.
So please join me, in welcoming this new era in history of PakGamers and making PG the place to be for our youth.
And thank you for putting your trust in me.
NaNoW out
First of all, I want to start by saying I am humbled and overwhelmed by the support shown to me by complete Team PG in electing me as the new Gaming and Content Administrator, and giving me the responsibility to take our beloved community forward.It is true, that there are users who have been on PakGamers for longer period of time and have much more post count than me, but since joining PG in 2008, not one day has passed that I haven't been online of PG for a couple of hours. When I first joined PG and read through all this great material and brilliant discussions taking place, I was stunned that this community existed. Intelligent, funny, creative and wonderful people taking part in a healthy environment, mutual respect the likes of which I have never experienced in Pakistan. I questioned myself, how did I not know about this website? And thanked the heavens above that I stumbled upon it. For this, I must thank INF3RN0 for its inception and then Jshak to take it over from him.
I still maintain this belief that PakGamers is much more than just another gaming forum or the safest and trusted marketplace in Pakistan. (We can thank Jshak for that, who will remain the Adminstrator to Market place, subscription,advertising and general related forum issues). Yes, we are dedicated gamers, our blood made of 1s and 0s. But we are more than that as well. We don’t only come here just to talk about gaming experiences (like on most other gaming forums), but make real lifelong friendships, with people whose company we truly enjoy.
For this I would like to thank you; The Community.
The reason why I am trying to 'emotionally blackmail' you by writing the paragraph above, is so that you understand where I come from. I often don’t post a lot of serious stuff, but I guess the circumstance demands it. I have been given this wonderful opportunity, and I intend to fully utilize it to make PakGamers bigger and better than ever before. Mind you, it isn't going to be a smooth road, nor is it going to be an overnight revolution. But through hell or high water, we will InshAllah realize our goals; If there is a gamer in Pakistan; I want PakGamers to be his home.
We will be making a couple of significant changes and a decent number of minor ones, while also ironing out a few kinks along the way. A couple of Team PG members are going to be promoted and a few additions to the teams are to be made. We will also be refocusing the forum towards gaming content and creative works. So keep a keen eye and an ear, (the first official announcement of my promotion to Admin-ship was released on PG Podcast nearly a week ago), out for Announcements.
Right now though, I would like to announce the revival of Team UG project. Below are the details are outlined, I highly urge you to take part in this:
Persistence and perseverance are paramount in bringing success to any project undertaken, and we will make sure that we fulfill the requirements.Dear PG'ers
Yes, we are finally going for a full revival of Team Underground. As some of you may know, we've been going through a lot of changes.
When Team UG was originally founded, the focus was to showcase our own content through the platform of PakGamers. Now we're aiming for more. The platform of PakGamers has seen so much potential over the years and it's time we structure it and build a creative brand around it. Simply put, we're looking to recruit the best creative talent found on PakGamers and be a part of this exciting new chapter in PakGamers history.
Why should you try for Team Underground? Well let's see:
- You will be taken in as an Associate Editor at Pakistan's Largest Gaming/Tech forum.
- Have all your content published and promoted under PG's name. Not only on PG, but on FB, Twitter, etc via our official group.
- Podcasts! Yes, you will be able to join and contribute in our podcasts or even host your own.
- Collaborating with other media outlets and websites
- Getting a chance to take interviews and features
- Access to different sponsors
- Special Usergroup color and more PM inbox space.-
- Be a part of discussion that will lead to major changes to PG i.e homepage, structure suggestions.
- Recognition as PakGamers Staff for those of you looking to fill something up for your extracurricular activities i.e students
- Because its uber cool since Team UG section has all the parties and babes.
For those of thinking that I will be forced to write something, here's the thing, this all will be decided and workload allocated on once we have a proper team! We'll be going for a more delegated style of teamwork with this new structure. We already have plenty of ideas floating around and our first priority is to make a proper team around it. We want to play to our strengths instead of making anyone feel pressured.
What do I need to apply?
- You need to have 500+ posts. We want dedicated members that have been around and are well known to us.
- Discipline on forums.
- Show off your writing capabilities. This can be in form of reviews, previews, or even some general impressions in some videogame thread!
- Confidence to take part in activities i.e podcasts, video-cast, blogs, artistic work(music, movies, short documentary, graphics and comics), competitions, joint article writing, etc.
- Respect towards community and staff.
- * Samples (200 words or more) would be taken as an added benefit for your application.
Who do I send my application to and what exactly?
Send a PM to Gizmo, Ranger Taffles or Nanow
You will need to provide your full name and contact number.
Lastly, give us some good reason to let you in. Now we'll be keeping an eye out everywhere. But we'll like to see some form of activity that would make you stand out. Maybe an article? Maybe a video of you ripping on some game/blogs/movie/anime/song. Maybe a worthwhile discussion or debate? Or maybe even some short impressions? We're looking out for anything that's original and creative. Anything you want to publish, which will be viewed by a huge community on PG and links shared by 1000s on FB/Twitter.
Let's get this rolling guys.
I promise to make our community proud, but I want the same from you guys. Please, this is a 'darkhuwast', do not shy away from Sharing, Liking, Tweeting and generally promoting PakGamers in real and digital life. I really hope that our 'Extreme' users take their experience and position in community a bit seriously and promote
PG as much as possible. I will provide you with 100% support wherever you may need it. We are a tech forum, and we are supposed to be on top of social media. I also encourage older members, who have ‘lost interest’ to come forth and help the community in different way.
So please join me, in welcoming this new era in history of PakGamers and making PG the place to be for our youth.
And thank you for putting your trust in me.
NaNoW out