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I would like to talk a little bit about HG’s finances, our history, and our future. Let me first say what I always say “that HG has never been about the money.” Some people like to joke about where the money is going...to Homer’s car rims or pizza, that is fine to rumer, but the reality is...it's reinvested to growing the community or it’s saved and not touched. You may wonder, what does that mean. Well, we have been around for 15 years. That is a long time. There are ups and downs for a community and I learned we need to account for that so that we can keep HG running for as long as possible. During the last 15 years, we have had our good years and bad years. Our best years were 2007-2010, during that time anything extra was reinvested into growing the community or it was saved and not touched. We had up to 70 game servers at one point! Then there is 2014-2018, our worst years of slow decline, due to multiple factors, for example: CS:Source player base dying out, which we were known for having the most populated servers. As well during this time my personal involvement was greatly reduced due to me having to focus on college (HG Sirius stepped up to run things). With slowly dying servers and struggling to break into crowded CSGO, as well trying other games...during 2014-2018 we would have died if it wasn't for the money saved from prior years and by the end of 2018 there was no more saved money to subsidize costs with and I was contributing leftover operating costs out of my pocket each month. During these years, I created the HG Future & Direction Board and we got to work on rebuilding the Leadership structure and we worked on getting a new version of our website done (the current one you are using). We then released the new website late 2018 and worked on rebuilding our VIP/GOLD subscribers and donations so that I could stop having to contribute out of pocket, this took all year and you may remember seeing me post Discord Announcements asking for any help we could get with donations each month. We struggled but we made it with everyone’s support. Each month since then with the new website and new Leadership structure, we have continued to grow with a bright future. Today, we now own our first piece of hardware ever, the Ryzen box, which you all made possible. This is huge for us and our growth going forward. It lowers our monthly operational costs the less we rent server machines and move to owning and colocating our machines. Going forward, my goal is to continue to work on growth and owning more of our hardware and renting less, as well to one day be able to put HG into perpetuity. This is an optimistic goal that may take awhile and includes me investing my own money so that interest earned on money saved/invested can one day take over paying HG’s monthly operational costs, but its an awesome goal to have because that means that HG can theoretically live forever..no matter what happens to the various fluctuations of income that HG currently relies on month-to-month to keep our lights on..HG can continue to operate for as long as there are active members of this community and willing individuals that step up and run for Director positions during our annual HG Elections Happy New Years & Cheers to a bright future for HG

HeLLsGamers New Years Raffle As this extremely crazy 2020 year is at its end I would like to reflect a bit. HeLLsGamers has had a pretty good year. We had a successful 15-year anniversary gathering on discord, Our CS:GO Division is back on its feet and we have a good relationship with GFL, Several people have come back to our community, Our CE teams are getting built back up, Donations have been great, and seeing everyone come together to show support of our community is fantastic! We got our very own server box for the first time since the community was founded, Many new projects in the works currently and overall HeLLsGamers is just an awesome community to spend time in. 2021 is going to be another big year for us and the sky is the limit! Happy New Year everyone and cheers to many more! We will be conducting a Raffle on January 3rd, 2021. The winner of the raffle will receive a Steel Series Arctis 1 Headset (The winner will be PM'd to claim their prize after the raffle) How To Be Entered Into The Raffle Be Recruit+ Post your new years resolution(s) on this thread What would you like to see added/changed/fixed this new year in HG Like this post (To be entered in this raffle you must have all four above items completed)

I forgot my case doesn't fit full ATX motherboards, so I had to customize my case to fit the new one in. The case should look like this. I'm not sure how I oversighted this, but it'll never happen again. Also I'm sure the PSU is fine where it is for now.....

Honestly can’t blame you, the rims are fuckin sick

Really happy to say I'm now officially a part of this community. I've been around off and on since the beginning and always found myself gravitating towards these servers. The community has always been fun and welcoming and I look forward to the future and the many years I plan to spend here! Homer, you and the staff have done a phenomenal job keeping this community alive. It's really hard to find any "OG" community thriving, yet alone alive, the way you guys have kept HeLLsGamers. I plan to be donating here in the near future and I'm happy to know it will be money well spent into the development and furthering of this amazing group. I wish you and your family nothing but the best and I hope to see you in game soon! -Chris

I remember HG's decline in 2014-2018 as a player and recruit. It was very unfortunate, but things took a turn for the better. Good stuff here though. Looking forward to a ever-growing community! Happy New Year as well to you! Maybe this year we can all buy you rims

Thanks for the update Homer and Happy New Years to you and your family! I am excited to see the upcoming changes for the betterment of HG!

it do be like that sometimes

My new years resolution is to become a moderator for the TF2 Division and hopefully become a Social Media staff as well! (is all I have at the moment, I'm still doing other things for my life to be successful) I would like to see more people become recruit's for the TF2 Division, it would be fun to see more tags on the servers Happy new years HG! Here's to 2021 and ∞

I have asked a mod about the q and hopefully they can change it lol

Gotta pay for that BMW somehow. Jokes aside hopefully the rising trend continues well into 2021 and beyond!

It’s crazy how long HG has been going on for this long. I’m glad things are looking up though! this really is a hellgamer moment new rims when?

Good thing I Donate for good reasons lol

Congratulations on member!

Thanks for all the work that's keeping the community going. Been here since 2014 so I've seen many things change over the years, but for better or for worse I hope we can continue to keep this community running. Happy New Years!

Congrats on [HG]!

I swear its only the people that never play this game that open knives or gloves

I'm only posting it because my name was mentioned I've posted my setup on too many topics lol