Thank you for putting up with our ***, our whining, our complaints, our arguments, our differences, our accusations, our outbursts, our paranoia, our bad moods, our tempers and our frustrations. Thank you for taking your own personal time out to try and help the XNA community, and steer it towards greatness.

Seconded.  Much appreciated.

+1

This. +1

It says a lot that you guys still stand up for us and represent us even through all the negative crap flying around.

+1

I whole heartedly concur

Much Love
-Jon

+1

I have been reading this forum for over 2 years now and only recently starting to get active. I can agree fully with this thread that at the moment there is some negativity about but at the same time it also looks like people are getting fed up of it, maybe things are changing for the better? I sure hope so. I would also like to thank the MVPs, they do what they can within their power.

Also, there is an unsung hero I feel in Mr_Deeke. He's been so positive about XBLIG and a part from having one hiccup with the MC vs FC lawsuit that never was, he's been great for us. If you get chance help the guy out, send him a paid code for your game to review just show some love :).

Even though I haven't been here long (well not posting much) I pledge to do my best for this community and not let the little niggles get in the way of something that could be great.

Without this turning to much into a speech, let’s all unite and help each other out regardless of our differences because we are all the same bedroom programmers who struggling to get seen amongst all the commercial games out there!

*marches off into the distance*

Those MVPs, they're good people.

Every XNA MVP has helped me with an issue, either I have a lot of issues or they are great guys... ;)

As you probably know if you read my blog I love the MVPs in the XNA scene. Proper good people (even if i accidentally say things that might look otherwise)

Thanks for all that you've done guys!

Even though some of you are a little unstable(*points at Jim*), you're alright folks. :D

We couldn't have better voices for the XBLIG community IMO.

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Word.

I've lurked here for a couple of years also and have seen a number of cycles of issues and dramams pass through.

Can you imagine XBLIG without them? This place would have imploded long ago.

And the work they do on top of here at the App Hub is amazing! Blog posts, twitter & irc questions, just generally being approachable, etc. They have provided me personally with so much knowledge it's amazing. All this on top of day jobs, family raising, etc. I am in awe of how they do it.

Thanks guys!

+2!

I've never had a dream that didn't involve at least one MVP.

+1, to the upteenth power!

DjArcas:

Thank you for putting up with our ***, our whining, our complaints, our arguments, our differences, our accusations, our outbursts, our paranoia, our bad moods, our tempers and our frustrations.

When I read that, I honestly thought you were referring to the FortressCraft "Code 4" debate.

The more I think about it though, I think I was probably right...  You just disguised it as a 'community' thing.  Nice to see you guys are finally admitting you're not infalliable.

And anyways...
 +1 from me too to The ZedMan and the crew for their great job.

Thanks MVPs we really appreciate you a lot. XBLIG may have some problems, but it's still really cool to be able to write games for such a great console.

Baller Industries:

Thanks MVPs we really appreciate you a lot. XBLIG may have some problems, but it's still really cool to be able to write games for such a great console.

I totally agree with this statement.

+1 for MVP love.

Steve

Not sure what all the fuss is about. In my experience they're just a bunch of unhelpful, selfish, self important, stuck up losers. I'm sure all the supposed good things they do are just so they can retain their MVP status. They are undoubtable the reason XBLIG is nearly dead. In fact I hold them responsible for the list freezes, the lack of input from MSFT and everything else that's ever gone wrong around here.

I've just spent the last 2 or 3 weeks working on a "proper" app for a client and generally pottering about due to ill health, and it's done my rusty old heart good to see this thread when I come back from this brief sabbatical.  The role the MVPs play in our community can not be overstated.  They're more or less always available, approachable, honest and direct, and shout very loud and hard on our behalf in a number of arenas.  I've yet to have a question or problem which one or more of them have been unable to either help me with directly or point me in the right direction, and I've had my fair share of problems!