Winter Brawl!! We have a tournament coming up for Brawlhalla (PC Smash brothers), if you're interested and for more information click here: Winter Brawl! [brawlhalla Event]

A new raffle will be coming out soon so if you want some extra raffle entries be sure to become a sponsor!

This will be the official thread for all the updates on minecraft. I will not give an exact date for when MCMMO Towny will be available, but I will say that it is getting VERY CLOSE to being released. Thanks to everyone who has been stepping up and wanting to get involved but we are in very good hands now that @SuperMaddud is back. Minecraft Update Thread

You can now bet on E-sports games with credits! This is not a feature that will stay for sure, we are only experimenting with it. Any feedback about this can be messaged to me by starting a conversation on forums, or just feel free to start a thread in General. https://xenogamers.com/odds/

Credits will be going on sale soon, a special christmas discount and the date will be announced asap!

https://xenogamers.com/credits/packages

We will also change the odds values so you get more for guessing the right team before E-sports matches!

https://xenogamers.com/odds/

Happy Holidays everyone!

What's New This Month?

• TF2 staff activity adequacy will be determined by higher ups instead of having a specific hour requirement. It is hard to be accurate and can be discouraging to members who wish to be staff if they see such a set requirement. In other words, be active if you can be as TF2 staff, but you no longer need to aim for a "minimum 18 hours" on our servers.
  
• Facebook Screenshots of the month will be increased from 800/1000 credits to 2000 credits a month. You can also earn other things such as custom badges for screenshots so make sure you enter! Xeno Gamers Facebook | 2017 Changes
  
• 2 new raffles! Shadow Daggers | Urban Masked (Well Worn) | Xeno Gamers and 10 TF2 Keys | Xeno Gamers! Special thanks to @JuannabeGod for providing the knife for the giveaway!
  

What's Coming Up This Month?

• Minecraft! It's been a long time coming and I believe a rushed project is a bad one, and the server is almost ready. Just want to give a special shout out to @Klure @MineCrack @jubens45 @SuperMaddud @Owl @Pepper @Hanney @Jaydow for all their hard work so far, I promise it's gonna be worth the wait!
  
• Custom Badges are now implemented to xG! We can customize them completely, and can only be earned. The badges that will be made are for community night winners (Hunger Games, Town of Salem, Brawlhalla etc) and for other unique individuals (for example trivia masters). I will have a thread dedicated on ideas for badges soon.
  
• xG Curator Page will be implemented this month. The full layout will be finished, and available to all members to review games/software. Any reviews done really well will be featured on the xG curator page, a locked section on the forums and be given credits accordingly. The reviews on the forums will also not be limited to steam games.
  
• Banners for News Updates + Promotions/Demotions. The banners will not be big, and should give some nice flair to our homepage. I will get the exact dimensions and make a post about how people can contribute if they'd like! Expect this in the next few weeks.
  

What's Coming Up Later In The Year?

• Youtube will start getting attention once I have all my software from school! It will be open to the community for content and that will be expanded on later in the year!
  
• Social Media Presence will be worked on throughout the year with giveaways and community activity. If you have any ideas on improving our Facebook or Twitter, be sure to message @TheSupremePatriot or @Hanney!
  
• More Events and Tournaments! I just want to clarify that higher ups are not the only ones who can organize these. If you have an idea for the community, take some initiative and set it up! If it's a success we can even give you credits for organizing it.
  
• Sponsor-only benefits are going to be looked at and worked on throughout the year. If you want to look at what we have so far for sponsors, check it out here Sponsorship And The Reward Tiers
  

What's Going On?

• Minecraft is up and running! mc.xenogamers.com! Plenty of updates to come soon as well, if you have any suggestions, feel free to direct them to the proper locations! MC Discussion
  
• Facebook and Twitter both have contests currently for Credits, a Content Creator title, and possbily a custom badge! Information is below
  Facebook: Facebook Coverphoto Submissions Twitter: Twitter Update.. It's Happening!!
  
• Raffle will be drawn in under 8 days! If you haven't done it yet, click here to get started! Shadow Daggers | Urban Masked (Well Worn) | Xeno Gamers Members Only!!
  
• Badges are still being worked on, I take sole responsibility for the tardiness of the deployment! I will work on them asap. For suggestions: Badges Megathread!
  
• Reviews are still in it's development stage. If you feel like you're really good at making reviews, make sure to check out our section here! Reviews I would recommend looking at the reviews in Highlighted Reviews from @Vector and @Egossi for the amount of effort we are looking for.
  

What's In The Near Future?

• New Banners on all News Posts. Self explanatory, this is also my fault for it taking so long, I will have it out next month.
  
• Sponsor is currently being reworked to make everyone happy. For now, I would recommend holding off on paying if you plan too, the staff want to be sure we roll out a subscription based sponsor system that is cheaper and more easily acquirable for everyone. This also means adding way more things to sponsor ranks. For anyone who is currently a sponsor, you will get rewards based on your current tiers once the system is in place.
  
• Youtube! If you have short clips that you think we can use (highlights alongside other xG members) than be sure to message @TheSupremePatriot and myself.
  

Click here to link your Trade URL!

More information will be announced when everything is ready!

 

Hello Xeno Gamers!

 

The Leprechauns are gone but we're back!

What's New This Month?

• TF2 Staff Requirement has been reverted to a set time of 14 hours biweekly. The higherups decided that leaving it up to "be as active as you can" left too much gray area, and they believe that the staff prefer set hours as well as long as it's reasonable.
  
• Added the banners for News + Promo/demo, not final versions by any means so don't fret!
  

What's Coming Up Soon?

• Membership Application Processes will be changed completely within the next 2 weeks once the final things are worked out. We will change it to 2 day applications where there is a 2 day window for people to voice their opinion (mainly to say if they are unfit to join xG) and if they qualify then they will be in. This change is from many people who join our servers finding xG too hard to join as some people who aren't very social can not get the required vouches to join our community or do not want to wait the few weeks - month just to hear if they got accepted or not. We do not want xG to feel like an exclusive club. This 2 day window will be crucial in keeping out people who shouldn't be in so members who want their voice heard should be checking forums daily. More details will be out in a post dedicated for it and will be open for discussion there.
  

 

Hello Xeno Gamers!

 

Haha April 20th am I right fellas?

What's New This Month?

• The Official Noob Guide is out. The Official Noob Guide! If there's anything you feel is important to add, please comment on the guide and I'll make the changes! Anyone who is new to the forums will hopefully see this now before doing anything else.
  
• Badges are now out on users. Refer to this guide Badges if you want to know what is available. (Will be finished within 2 days as the badges interface got fixed less than a day ago) If you have any suggestions, please post here Badges Megathread!.
  
• For Staff: "Unless a Player is explicitly affecting the Servers (or is otherwise harassing a Player on our Servers) then there is no reason to ban a Player for their actions outside of the Servers. In other words, in order for a Player to be punished, they have to be affecting the Server as a whole, or, and this is a big 'or', they have to be a danger (IE. [verbal] harassment, threats, etc) to any of the Players in the Server (including Staff). Anything above or beyond this is an abuse of power from the Staff (depending on the situation)." Quoted from @Forest, we discussed as higher-ups that this is in fact the best course of action. This debate was sparked due to a ban last week so this should hopefully clear things up, and if you have any questions as moderators/admins, do not be afraid to ask the higher-ups on clarification.
  
• TF2 Staff can now choose to use staff titles or tags in servers, instead of just the steam tags that we've done since the beginning of time. This is subject to change at a later time, but for now the division managers and leaders agreed that as long as it's not confusing they have 0 issues with you guys using the staff-specific titles on our servers.
  

What's Coming Up Soon?

• Revamping CS:GO, Minecraft, GMOD will begin May, school will be finished for many of us so expect a ton of events, badges, credits and giveaways within the next month to help repopulate our servers and prepare for the long awaited summer! Minecraft specifically is being looked at right now, as we have a few members interested in helping run the division, and we will make sure to choose the best course of action to keep the community happy. @SuperMaddud said he will be back in a few weeks so we will talk to him as well and then go from there.
  
• Youtube will be started earliest May or latest June, so if you're someone who thinks you have good content for xG's official youtube channel, be sure to prepare your stuff and message me when the time is ready!
  

 

Hello Xeno Gamers!

 

You ever heard of that PUBG game?

What's New This Month?

• New Raffle! We understand how popular PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has become, and we want to give back to the people who have supported us! We are giving away 1 copy of PUBG in our raffle that you can enter if you're a sponsor or donator of Xeno Gamers! Sponsors get 20 entries, donators get 5, and the draw is at the end of May! PLAYERUNKNOWN'S Battlegrounds! | Xeno Gamers
  
• Profiles now are much quieter if they have custom music playing. We reduced it to 0.2 from the initial default (which is 1 I believe). We have also added covers for your profile, default and custom. Defaults currently are just different colors (which is also free), and custom (that you can purchase for 2500 credits) lets you upload your own banner, the dimensions currently are about 1370px x 210px but will be changed to be something more standard and bigger. They can also be gifs! (Fyi, you only need to purchase once and can change it as many times as you want!)
  
  

  
  

• Badges have been updated. New badges are the [GiftR] badge that you can get by providing a raffle prize that we use, or by gifting the raffle prize to another xG member if you win it from the raffle.We also have a hump badge for 5000 credits. Shoutout to Cyanide and Happiness. Refer to this guide Badges if you want to know what is available. If you have any suggestions, please post here Badges Megathread!.
  
• Minecraft is going to be worked on, but we need your help! Tell us what you would like on this thread! Minecraft, What Next?
  
• Mod Applications are now open to members who are 14 years or older! We are reducing the age from 16 to 14 due to an overwhelming response from the community and the higher ups agree that 14 should be the starting age.
  

What's Coming Up Soon?

• More Events! Have an idea for our next event in xG? Let us know and if your event gets selected we will gift you 5000 credits if it's a successful night!
  
• Youtube! Xeno Gamers Subscribe to us now if you want to be the first person to watch our newest content coming soon tm
  

 

Hello Xeno Gamers!

 

Which Witch is Witch?

What's New This Month?

• Banners for monthly news posts specifically will now be games that xG recommends. The game this month is Witch It, a prop hunt stand alone game that is very promising! We've been having a ton of fun on it on teamspeak, and I'd definitely recommend others to buy it and support the devs! No, this is not sponsored.
  

  [MEDIA=steamstore]559650[/MEDIA]

  
  

• Teamspeak! We understand many people want to only use discord, we've had about 3-4 threads asking for it, but as of now we prefer to have control, security and the added features that comes with teamspeak so we will stay with it for the time being. We would also like to ask the staff to try to use teamspeak more often and we will give you mod or admin over your division's teamspeak channels. We will not be forcing anyone because we don't think it's necessary right now, but if you are staff, please do not sway others from using our teamspeak just because you use discord. Last thing, all community events will require people to be on teamspeak, so just keep that in mind! ALSO You now get credits every 5 minutes you are in teamspeak, as long as you aren't in the AFK channel or muted.
   
  
• Raffles will now be a different format. It will always be set up so Members get 1 entry, Donators 5, and Sponsors 20. On top of that, you do not need to log in every single day for your entry to the raffle, from now on you can do your maximum amount of entries in one day so you don't have to worry about it until it's drawn! You can thank @virr for the changes on entries per day as he found it might have been annoying for sponsors.
   
  
• Badges have been updated again, we are adding higher quality badges for users instead of static images. Badges For any discussion related to badges, you can direct yourself here: Badges Megathread!
   
  
• Ratings have changed, and we want your feedback! For new Emojis/ratings: Creating New Emoji's/ratings For discussion on the rating system, and to give feedback on what you prefer: Rating System Feedback Thread [poll]
   
  
• Overwatch community nights are finally returning after a bit too long of a hiatus. Check out this thread if you're interested!
   
  
• TF2 Donators! The TF2 donator powers will be changing around a bit to freshen up the perks and rework some of the powers. New perks will be added and old, less exciting perks will be removed. Higher ups are in mutual agreement that donating should not give you anything affecting gameplay, so medic-shield and no-fall will most likely be getting replaced. Don't worry, we have some cool stuff planned ;) More information really soon™
   
  
• Steam donation bot is currently undergoing a repair job as it's been broken for a while. ETA at the end of this month!
  
• Sponsors are also being updated so hold off on any sponsor donations if you're interested. I will try to sum it up for now but it will be more in detail once it comes out. Monthly subscription base, much cheaper (3-5 dollars a month). Different tiers. Anyone who is lifetime sponsor will reap all future rewards from the new sponsorship, and not have to worry about losing anything from previous sponsor rewards once we decide to remove stuff. Anyone who is a sponsor but not lifetime will get as many months rewarded to them without having a pay anything equivalent to how much they paid. $60 sponsor = 12 months of sponsorship if the sponsorship tier they want is $5/month
  

What's Coming Up Soon?

• More Raffles! Raffles will be out in a few days, and will be out throughout the entirety of the summer once it starts!
  
• Youtube! A video will be coming out soon, it will be a rage compilation of xG members playing different games together. If you think you have a good video to contribute, send me a private message!
  
• CS:GO minigames has been getting slowly updated with @MineCrack and myself constantly checking out different maps and helping find broken ones to remove off our server, stay tuned as we will try to have a ton of events on CS:GO and hopefully revive our baby!
  
• Minecraft! Our new higher ups have started working on Minecraft, more information once they're ready. Found a bug? Report it here!
  

Thank you for being a part of what makes xG great!

What's New This Month?

• Banners are being changed to raffle prizes, memes and holiday themes depending on the month, I'm reverting it from last months idea because after talking to @virr I couldn't think of a good way to flesh out the idea of "community liked game" as our banners.
  
• Raffles will now have the winner(s) announced monthly, and the upcoming game is thanks to @Rabid for providing our next giveaway, Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition | Xeno Gamers
  
• Badges now include the JonTron badge! Show your love to JonTron for 5000 credits in hub. Badges For any discussion related to badges, you can direct yourself here: Badges Megathread!
  
• Ratings now include Eggplant, Are You Insane, and Thinking! Show your love by giving your best friends eggplant emojis!
  
• Steam donation bot is now working! Expect a guide on that in the next week on how to turn your junk into juicy credits!
  
• CS:GO Minigames are officially every friday 9pm EST, so come join us for trivia, shenanigans and memes!
  

What's Coming Up Soon?

• Youtube video consisting of xG members raging is now fully stocked, expect part 1 very soon! @Jacob and I will be editing it this week!
  
• Minecraft Donator perks are coming! The higherups are deciding on the pricing structure and it will be released soon! Found a bug? Report it here!
  

Thank you for being a part of what makes xG great!

What's New This Month?

• Banners are still being fleshed out and I may decide to do a standard animation similar to what @virr did to the Promo/Demo banners. I'm reverting it from last months idea for now because after talking to @virr I couldn't think of a good way to flesh out the idea of "community liked game" as our banners.
  
• Raffles will now have the winner(s) announced monthly, so congrats @james8470 for winning Ziggurat! The upcoming game is thanks to @Rabid for providing it, Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition | Xeno Gamers
  
• Badges now include the JonTron badge! Buy a piece of JonTron for 5000 credits in hub. Badges
  For any discussion related to badges, you can direct yourself here: Badges Megathread!
  
• Ratings now include Eggplant, Are You Insane, and Thinking! Show your love by giving your best friends eggplant emojis!
  
• Steam donation bot is now working! Expect a guide on that in the next week on how to turn your junk into juicy credits!
  
• CS:GO Minigames are officially every friday 9pm EST, so come join us for trivia, shenanigans and memes! We are using our new Events tab and will use it for our servers + community night events!
  
  

  
  

• New TF2 Donator Powers! New things such as disguises, projectile particles and more! xG-News - Tf2 Donator Update! | Xeno Gamers for all the details!
  
• Shoutbox has a brand new look! What do you think of it?
  
• Minecraft has a new post on information + rules for our Towny server! Check it out here Information and Rules. | Xeno Gamers
  Also, to get the xG tag on our servers, be sure to post your username and UUID on this thread: Member of xG? Need your tag in game? Post here! | Xeno Gamers
  
• Trending is now a new feature on our forums! It's to show threads that are currently active on the top of the page, without having to sticky it. Do you guys like the feature? Let us know!
  

What's Coming Up Soon?

• Youtube video consisting of xG members raging is now fully stocked, expect part 1 very soon! @Jacob and I will be editing it this week!
  
• Minecraft Donator perks are coming! The higherups are deciding on the pricing structure and it will be released soon!
  
• More Raffles! A few big games are coming up soon!!
  

Hope you're all having a great summer!

-Aegean

You can donate items and turn them into credits on the website!

In order to utilize the bot (including being eligible for giveaways), you simply need to click here and enter your Steam ID and Trade URL!

Once that is done, you can go get details about the bot by clicking here.

Simply go to the profile of the bot and Add As Friend to send it a trade and it will go from there!

Before any trade offer is accepted it will tell you how many credits you will receive for the items you have offered and you can accept or deny it on your discretion. I don't want anyone to feel like they lost their items by accident so that is why I made it like that.

For donations of items, you will get 80% of the total cost and this can be adjusted as needed.

I will be adding further features in the future based on requests and general needs! Some of the features include a fully automatic donation system so items can be accepted once more with complete automation, as well as maybe a trading system of sorts!

Giveaways will now be automatically happening on the servers with donated items!

A giveaway will happen automatically every hour as long as there are enough linked players on that server.

All items donated will be given away on the servers to help incentivize people to continue playing on our servers and boost population!

It is currently being tested on Trade Gaming History but if successful it will be rolled out to various other servers!

The item reward you can get is based on the number of players on the server. The more players, the higher tier item you can get. If the server is completely full you have the change to get the most premium items in the bots inventory.

For sake of being transparent, here is a general explanation about the selection process:

It will gather a list of all users on the server and check if their Steam account and Trade URL are linked to the forum. At least four players must be linked. Then it will choose the tier based on the number of linked users and begin the giveaway from there. Players are chosen randomly and there is zero weight being applied to anyone. If there are enough linked players where multiple tiers can be viable, it will choose a random tier from the list of eligible ones. No tier has any weight attached to it so the rare items are just as obtainable as the crappy ones.

Remember: awful items are due to people donating awful things so don't treat the bot as a trashcan!

The tiers available are as follows:

Cool

Player Range | 4 - 8 players

Price Range | $0.05 - $1.00

Nice

Player Range | 8 - 14 players

Price Range | $1.00 - $1.75

Sweet

Player Range | 15-22 players

Price Range | $1.75 - $3.50

Awesome

Player Range | 23 - 30 players

Price Range | $3.50 - $15.00

God

Player Range | 31+ Players

Price Range | $15.00+

Overall, I hope that this helps get players onto the servers as well as helps us populate new ones much quicker than before and that we have giveaways that actually happen and don't rip off players like other servers and communities like to do.

Please help out by sending a trade offer to the bot today to get credits and to keep the giveaways going strong!

Please offer any suggestions or report any bugs immediately!

 

Hello Xeno Gamers!

 

School's back.

What's New This Month?

• Banner's theme is a teaser to the next raffle, can you guess what it is?
  
• Raffles right now are NBA2k17 NBA 2K17 | Xeno Gamers + Poker Night 1&2 Poker Night 1 & 2! | Xeno Gamers. Make sure you enter!
  
• Minecraft is temporarily turned off to the public until we can make all the fixes necessary so guests, members and staff can play without issues again. Server is scheduled to open beginning of September.
  
• Ratings now include Furry, Losing It, Make xG Great Again, Gross, and Random. We will also be removing the Fuck Off rating, after discussion with the higher ups and getting feedback from various members about ratings. #TheResistance prevails for now and Fuck Off will not be removed.
  
• TF2 Rotation Server is being fully funded and managed by @Bone! Have any ideas on what game mode we should try out? Gamemode Rotation Thread | Xeno Gamers The main idea of the server will be trying out and keeping any game modes that are popular to be a permanent addition to xG.
  
• TF2 Donator Abuse rules have been clarified by @Bello, for any donators or staff of TF2, I would definitely recommend reading it. PSA: Punishing Donator aboose | Xeno Gamers
  
• CS:GO revival has begun, we got new staff and will now focus on activity these upcoming months. Be sure to join us for evening jailbreak or minigames shenanigans, with surprise guest appearances by our joke day master @DrLee.
  
• Giveaway Bot is out on our TF2 and CS:GO servers, read xG-News - Bots and Giveaways | Xeno Gamers for more info and start winning today!
  
• Inviting your friends to the xG steam group will automatically give you bonus credits! It also saves the user who you invited to prevent potential abuse of the system. Thanks again everyone for helping xG grow!
  

What's Coming Up Soon?

• A new Youtube channel will be made for xG, expect this within the next week.
  
• More community events + tournaments (not only games we have servers for) with custom badges! Have any ideas? Post a suggestion in General!
  
• Will look into getting streams featured by xG more detailed (i.e. only xG members) + we will provide stream banners, offline pages etc. Any designers interested in helping out may message me for more info.
  
• Build of the Month events on minecraft will begin soon.
  

Best of luck in school everyone!

~Aegean