Is your clan looking for sponsorship? A free server?
Are you pro? A bunch of commited lads who’ve been playing CSS since it beta’d on the BBC micro?
Will you put our name on your T-shirts at the LAN’s you attend? Girls already do that for me anyway, woof.
Maybe you’ll tattoo INX-Gaming on your arse, because you’ve only come to INX-Gaming because we’re the biggest and best around.
You’ll try and sell as MANY servers for as possible? Making INX-Gaming a huge game server provider?
GREAT! Where do we sign up?
INX-Gaming do not sponsor clans!!!1111shiftone
If you have just MSN’d us, or messaged us on livechat, and have been linked to this blog post, please don’t take offence.
Take it as just me being very honest, and telling you how it is. No bullsh*t!
Let me explain, and detail, why we don’t sponsor clans, point by point:
It says clearly on our contact page we don’t sponsor
Go on, have a look at http://www.inx-gaming.co.uk/support/. It’s likely you have found our MSN / Windows Live Messenger, or Xfire address on there. in haste you didn’t read the writing next to it:
» Live / MSN Messenger – sales@inx-gaming.co.uk. For sales enquiries only. We do NOT provide technical support via msn. Please also note we do not offer sponsorship to clans, so please don’t ask.
Oops! Missed that bit. Maybe we should tattoo it to our head. And I concede, we don’t state it for Xfire, we tell you to look above:
» XFire – inxgaming. As above!
Clearly it says on the contact page we don’t sponsor. Don’t worry, I don’t read all the crap on webpages either. We all skim read. It happens. In fact only this morning I skim read an entire edition of Nuts Magazine.
Although those few that think “Yes, I did read that but we’re an exception”.
Yes you quite clearly are. Very rarely do I walk down the street to see pro-CSS players with their head shoved up their own arse. There are no exceptions. None, no thank you!
What about our paying customers?
If I bought a kebab from Chilli Masters in Spalding (my favourite local takeway), and then saw Chaz and Jon come out with free kebabs, I’d start a fast food dual. No, really I wouldn’t stand for it.
If you went into the off license and bought some beer, only for the people to come along side you and take a free case (hey, on the house lads, you are pro underage drinkers), you’d not be happy.
So how does one of our customers feel, let’s call him Andrew, when he / she has shed out £30 for a big public Counterstrike server? He loves it, cos we are great. He’s happy to pay the money monthly. He’s been with us 6 months now.
And then, then little dlibert in da txtspeak vuice sez a forum post.
HEAR ME NOW!!1 WE IZ GOT A FREE, SRY SPONSORD SVR FROM DA BOYZ @ INX. COME JOIN. AYE N BUY A SVR.
Point made clear? Andrew’s going to go apesh*t. And likely so.
While we are charging for a service (yes we are a business, and there to make money….SHOCK HORROR), we will not give something free to a clan while other customers are paying their hard earned cash.
It aint worth it, love
Contrary to what the templates you can copy and paste your clan name, and the GSP name into, it aint worth it for us GSP’s.
I’ve spent 4 years in marketing and business development. With the best due respect, I find it a lil irritating when I’m told how we should be advertising ourselves.
Putting your banner on our website, it aint going to work.
Really, you could get the red devils to explode our name across the air.
I am not bovved.
Again, don’t take offence if you’ve been linked to this. I’m telling it as it is, and having a little gest at the same time.
But for Pete’s sake (or Andrew’s), have a look at our affiliates system – www.inx-gaming.co.uk/affiliates.
If you are a brilliant clan, well done. You’ll never be as pro as me at CS, but PLEASE keep on trying.
Seriously, if you are a respected clan, and you like our services, earn yourself £5 for referring us. Then you can get a proper server. A proper custom control panel. All the works.
And you won’t have to tattoo Olly on your arse.
Have a good weekend all!
