This articles outlines the history of XfireSystems.com and Majin Planet.com. In order to outline and make it easy for those wondering about our past it has been broken down into "Generations" The reason for this is because I feel that at points with in my webmaster career I was able to not only go beyond what I did before, but each one was its own and had its own story to tell. I hope this is helpful in understanding my way of doing things, the events that led us today and what the future may hold.
Web Address used - (not in order)
- http://www.xfirentertainment.com
- http://www.spiderweb-entertainment.com
- http://www.anime-ent.com
- http://www.dragonball-millennium.com
- http://www.gundam-unlimited.com
- http://www.dragonballfinal.com
Xfire Entertainment
When I change my domain name to Xfire Entertainment in late 2002, the site became the for front. But with a staff issue and other personally issues in my life it was basically the end of the legacy of XfireSystems if you want to even call it a Legacy.
SpiderWeb Entertainment
In about early spring 2003, I came up with an idea for a cool review web site. Me and my friend Matt was going to run. I decided to go with a different host other then Dell Host, who I had been with from 1999. Well It turn into a nightmare. I had start an account on a host that was only $5 a month. Well they had a number of issues with there servers and after about 2 weeks of failure of setting anything up I request to close the account. Well it took them 3 weeks to do this, and after another month I finally got a full refund including domain name cost and the month they had charge me after I had request a cancel. This is where I would tell you who they are so you don′t run into them, well they went out of business in 2004 like many online business did.
Anime-ENT.com
OK, so in May 2003 I had no job, no web site, nothing. I was still at that cross road of what to do with myself. Lucky for me I have cool parents. So I went to try my hand at making a review site again. This time alone however, as my friend Matt moved with his Mom out of state and I end up losing contact with him. So I start a site called Anime Entertainment. This time I went and found some people, who I had already known for a good year and ask them if they want to help write reviews for me. Which most of them where thrilled. So Anime ENT started. I want to wait to open it until I had at least 10 anime reviews. Well lets just say that never happed. These people where so lazy, it became more of just "OK sure I′ll do it" but never plan on doing it.
I′m no good at having staff and for the most part because they where the people I had chatted with online I didn′t want to come across as an ass hole by firing them. I also to make up the time I had while I thought my staff was working on reviews, I reopen Dragonball Millennium and Gundam Unlimited. At about August 2003, it became clear to me that Anime Ent was never going to take off so I change it to Anime Unlimited which was nothing more then some random anime stuff but mostly a portal for my DBZ site and Gundam site. Which didn′t last long as after the failure after failure to be seen with in the community, the lack of having anything to show for my years of a webmaster and basically having nothing to look forward to in the future I finally had it in late November 2003 and just closed all my sites, turn off my computer and basically said good-bye to the internet forever.
Dragonball Millennium: The Unofficial Dragonball Z Source
Well, in fall 2003 I started really working on my DBZ site Dragonball Millennium, I work hard on it and for the most part I had almost all of DBZ done. I then start working on Dragonball, once I had about 90% of it done I start to look for link partners. I hit up sites like DB Unlimited, DBZSC, DBZ Network, SaiyanZ Rage (as well as the others), I hit just about every DBZ site I could think of. For the most part I got 0 replies. I did talk to Kosmo from DB Unlimited who basically told me that my site was good, but it had lots of problem like navigation, the layout sucked and to many errors in spelling, grammar, etc. He at least told me to work on those and then contact him a few months later. I figure I would do it about a year later.
The last site I hadn′t try yet was Majin Planet. However I wasn′t sure I should even bother to do it. I debate over it for like 2 weeks until I finally said "what do I have to lose" however when I went there they had closed. I had also run to the end of my life span as a webmaster in late November 2003.
Gundam Unlimited
Other then some updates here and there, nothing change over the years. In fact I closed Gundam Unlimited about a month before I closed all my sites. I couldn′t find any good Gundam sites and for the most part I didn′t think the site could make it and with no real thrill to work on it I thought it would be better to leave it closed. So in October 2003 I closed Gundam Unlimited.
Dragonball Final
This is almost worth putting as its own Generation, however the result of the site was from my other sites. OK, well for the most part of December I didn′t even go online, I didn′t even think about running a site. That was until one day I was out and I over heard some teens, I think about 16-17 years old talking about DBZ. The reason it drew my ear was it was the first time I had heard others talking about it outside of my own friends. Well I heard one say something that was totally untrue, funny thing is I don′t remember what it was. I do remember the site it came form. I asked for his source and he told me a site called DB Silver. I went to check it out and learn all about its nasty history with the community.
Project DBZ started. I was pissed that such a big site or for the most part got lots of hits, could just steal others information like that. I myself have been called a ripper, in the summer of 2004 I was a member of unrivaled.info (use to be dragonball-gt.com) and I was flame, bashed and even called a ripper. Which is funny because the two sites they claim that I was ripping from was Dragonball Unlimited (one even claim to work there; which was a lie) and Majin Planet (shows how much those fuckers know!).
I work my ass off on the site. I did nothing but watch DBZ every day just so I could pick up things that many missed. I even started a section, first ever in the community and still to this day is. A weekly section called GT on TV. Now I know what your saying, Dragonball GT sucked! Well maybe but you can not call yourself a true DBZ fans site if you don′t cover everything. Which I did, and one of the reasons no one in the community like me or the site, which resulted in someone hacking it was the simple fact that to them, I was some new kid who came in and make a site better then they could have. Now when I say better, I mean content wise, lets face it my GFX skill back then was bad, there is a reason to that however (see cool facts at the bottom).
For the most part Dragonball Final was the first big site I had run, I got over 50,000 visitors almost every other day, the most was July 2004 which I peak 65,000 visitors in one day. I know that may seem like nothing to some people but to me that′s a hell of allot of people. I had also put my hand in running a message board for the first time in July 2004. However it never took off, for the most part I had like 10 members I think. Then the unthinkable happened.
In August 2004 someone hacked into the FTP and with in moments deleted all the pages other then the home page. That sunday turn into the worst day of my life. Not only was the site deleted online by my computer had a crash forcing me to reformat and reinstall everything... once I came online again and login into FTP to download everything I was shocked to see what happened. I along with many other sites where the result of a random hacking that took place which for the most part was over shadowed by the hacking of the Cnews and its the result the network it had shut down. I finally on August 22nd 2004 I closed the doors of Dragonball Final for good, ending almost 5 years of running a DBZ fan site.
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