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.bansheeforce.net
- http://www.sithmasters.org
- http://www.majin-planet.org
- http://www.narutoforce.com
- http://www.xfiresystems.com
- http://www.db-gen.org
- http://www.ani-cnews.com
- http://www.majin-planet.com
Banshee Force
In late 2005 I was so sick of people not respecting my site XfireSystems that I finally said forget it and plan on closing it. But I took some time to think about it and soon after renamed it to Banshee Force, kicking off into 2006. For the most part Banshee Force became the life and soul of all my sites, which end up being the new network′s result of falling. Which end up creating a new site which you are looking at today.
The Sith Masters
In late 2005 I reopen the site as a forum, for my sith fans and as kind of a rpg section for my main site. For the most part it had an almost cult following, it didn′t last however. Even know those who became the life and soul of the site, if one thing I have learn in my years is if the webmaster doesn′t have the heart to run it, then it wont be anything more then what it can be. I also ran into some design issues and with other issues well into 2006. It along with all my sites was part of the "Great Merge" as I like to call it.
Majin Planet.org
It had start to become painfully clear that nothing more then this was my web site. I could see that the Majin Planet name had done to me and to the visitors. From early 2006 I start the long debate over what I should do with all my sites. Should I keep going running different sites or put them all into one and have one big site. Other issues was what to call the site. Do I honor the name and legacy of Majin Planet and name the site after Majin Planet or do I let it die and move on.
Naruto Force
A great idea, however just because I think its a great idea doesn′t mean that it is a great idea. For the most part I never really did anything with it. I try to but it seem to be more clear that it was nothing more then a dream. After the Great Merger I did however took a week and kick it out, more or less a blog site. But after 2 weeks it was clear that my real passion was in Majin Planet and not in the site so I closed it and along with Gundam unlimited, which was a short life return as a forum as well as XfireSystems.com became a almost another merger, more or less was less then the Great one.
XfireSystems: Web Resources
There was a few reasons why I started it. First off the tutorial section on Majin Planet seem to be more or less out of place. I figure I could run it as its own site. However I deiced to not run it as say a normal web site but more like a resource site. For the most part it has been going well. Not so much that I have no passion to run it but more or less I′m not having time to do it with out help. As before I even open it I promised myself that I would always put Majin Planet above it. Only the future will tell if the new version of XfireSystems makes it.
Dragonball Generations
Again it was more or less merge into Majin Planet way before the Great Merger. That and I lost the domain name for it. For the most part as far as the site being under my wing, it has come and past. I have however see a few forums with the name. I guess its a good thing it never took off as for the most part its a to common of a name.
Ani-Cnews
This was not my web site, it was Majin Trunks. I was nothing more then the co-webmaster and for the most part the back end guy. The site was the ultimate test for my template/IPB script system. I′m sure Majin Trunks hated it. But it got the job done. Even know the site died out because of not only mine and other staff′s lack of doing anything really past the first week it was opened but the lack of anything in the Anime Community itself. I mean its hard to run a community news site when the community you base it off of doesn′t nothing but make short new updates about the latest episodes and how fans need to donate. It in itself is one of the reasons the anime community sucks these days.
The Sith-Majin Wars
A short lived idea from the twisted mind of Majin Trunks. The idea behind it was the same of the Majin Wars from the old days when MajinMebs was webmaster. Basically we where going to split Majin Planet into two site. The plan was to make it seem that Majin trunks. got pissed about how I ran the site and was just going to take it back. Then I would reopen my "version" of Majin Planet which then would result in the two sites fighting at each other and letting the fans vote on which site was better. In the end we where going to merge back into one site. This would create the idea that we would both each add new content and then would result in new content. We would then tell everyone that we where in on it.
The idea sounded good, but after I kicked it off with some articles and Majin trunks. fired back with some remarks of himself and the result of a few fans and other factors we let the cat out of the bag before we even did it. Ending the Sith-Majin Wars which was a unseen war, that wasn′t anything more then a funny joke that no one pick up on.
The Great Merger - Majin Planet.com
This section is in two parts, first the Great Merge which basically resulted in Majin Planet.org (Majin Planet Productions), XfireSystems/Banshee Force, The Pomojema Force, Naruto Force and The Sith Masters all merge into one web site. This way not only was I able to work on just one site (something I had not done sense 2004 (Dragonball Final)) but it allowed me to have more content in one site.
For the most part it has been a big hit with fans and even some of the more hardcore fan base love the idea and the support has been great. If anything it was the best idea I have ever had. When I was choosing a name for the new site. I had a problem. I wanted it to be something new, I though about calling it Majin Planet - Evolution, I even though about calling it Unrivaled-Source. However that drop off the list fast as I wasn′t going to have to listen to those cry babies over on Unrivaled.info about me stealing their name. Which is funny because it didn′t even cross my mind until I wrote it down. Finally I set with just simply "Majin Planet" I mean its the ultimate brand name in the terms of the Anime Community.
The Brands
The same idea about the Sith-Majin Wars, only more so like what WWE has done with RAW and Smackdown. Majin Planet now as two sites One Majin Planet Productions, and the other Majin Planet Generations. One for the new fan base and the future, the other to hold on to the past. Well even know today that may seem more or less not the case it still kind of is. While right now there are no plans of any sort of remerged between the sites, as if anything I can see Majin Planet Generations just simply becoming CAS and for the most part no matter what this site is and will always be Majin Planet, or Majin Planet Productions as is more of the name used as for releasing music videos. Only the future can tell what will happen, but no matter what happens both sites will be always affiliate together if anything sister sites forever.
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