Six months ago we heard the announcement that a company called SportsHub had purchased WIS. During that time, we were told the following:
- SportsHub has a significant user base among its network of sites, so we'll certainly be looking to take advantage of that for marketing purposes. The opposite is also true, as you'll eventually be seeing some promotion of other SportsHub games here. Obviously, the audience is very similar between fantasy games and simulation games, so hopefully this relationship works to bring people to WIS and also to expose you guys to some other games.
- You should definitely expect updates to all the games in the future. As I mentioned, I'll have my hands full in the short term with the transition and building a new staff. One of my main goals going forward is to become as transparent as what we're working on and what's coming in the future. I know it's frustrating to be in the dark, so I'll do my best to keep that from happening.
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I'm painfully aware that a lot of promises have been broken in recent years. A lot of that was beyond our control, but that's not an excuse. It was as frustrating for us as it was for you guys.
I'll be as transparent and honest as I can going forward, but sometimes priorities will change or mitigating factors will cause delays or course changes. The good news is that there won't be anything dividing our attention. It'll be WIS all day, every day.
Unless I'm missing something, the lack of news or updates has been anything BUT transparent. In fact, SportsHub doesn't even have WIS listed as a service on their website. We don't know if they've built a team for WIS yet. We don't know what the future plans are. We don't know timetables.
I know a lot of WIS users have been here for a long time and spent a lot of money. Frankly, I believe we deserve some answers. If they are working on WIS "all day, every day," why have we heard nothing? Most people like to ***** and moan, but we need to do something. I suggest going to the SportsHub website. Under their "Contact Us" section, you have the option to select "Whatifsports" from a down menu. Let's bombard them with complaints and questions. If that fails, we should seriously consider boycott. As much as it would suck to lose all the hard work from our teams, it will be worse to continue to allow this site to slowly die, as it has been for the past few years.