…must come to an end. The Self Preservation Society has the sad duty of announcing that our Day of Defeat server will not be renewed when the current subscription expires. We don’t yet have an exact termination date from our GSP, but we expect that the server will go dark on or around the 2nd of December.

Cola, Pepper & I are closing down the server because we feel that the time has come to move onto new things. DoD has entertained us well for many years, but it’s an open secret that we’ve been looking for a new game for the SPS for a long time. We hoped to transition from DoD to <insert game here>, so that the closure of the DoD server wouldn’t mean the end of the SPS community. Sadly we never found anything that really hit the spot.

We want to say thank you to everyone who has helped to make the SPS what it was – never the biggest of gaming communities, but definitely one of the very best. We thank all of our regulars for their constant friendliness and good humour, and we salute those outstanding community members who joined the ranks of The Society to provide admin support on the server over the last three years. In alphabetic order, those fine folks were:

Billy, Bob’s Your Uncle, Bourne (aka -_-), Danwhy, Dave the Brave, Dire, Easy Target, Ecco, Fantomet, Frank Lucker, Fug, Headlander, Jimmy Jazz, Jonny (GIMP), Mac, Nik Oms (too many aliases to list), Oddball, Oo Did Dat, Pilgrim_UK, Pvt Kairis, Ratcatcher, Roxymoron, Shooter, and Steve.

All that remains to say is best wishes to you all, and that the forum will remain open for some time after the server’s demise, so that regulars can keep in touch and tell each other which servers they have moved to. We hope you take a bit of the SPS spirit with you wherever you play.

All the best,
The Self Preservation Society

Dr Pepper – Smokin Cola – Amaterasu