Hello Anime Faction! This is the Steam group admin CharMomone here, as you're likely well aware this steam group has been inactive for quite some time and some of you may be curious as to why, which is why I'm here today to shed some light onto that.

So Anime Faction was originally conceived back on the forums of a gaming website called GameTrailers, they had allowed for creation of groups on said forum called factions, hence where the name Anime Faction came from. Roughly around 2009 during the conception of the steam group feature I had permission to make a steam group called GTAF (GameTrailers Anime Faction) which was invite only solely for the purposes of arranging game nights within the anime faction group. Fast forward to around 2011 GameTrailers announced they were shutting down the community forums on their website which wasn't long before the forums itself was shut down, so Anime Faction migrated to it's own forums and I decided to make a new public Anime Faction steam group to commemorate this.

Over time the forums side of the Anime Faction was dwindling and becoming more reclusive, effectively we had no flow of new members to breathe life into the group as a whole and overall despite some attempts at social media on my part and others we never managed to carve out a place for ourselves online. Indifference to the group as an entity had set in, people started focusing on their adult lives, and the advent of the popularity of discord marked the end for an interest in new members, eventually the Anime Faction became just another private discord group of old friends. I had tried to integrate the steam community I had worked consistently on promoting over the years to the discord group so as to try to breathe new life into the community once again but that was shot down, effectively this steam group was an outside entity to them and they no longer wanted to participate with it.

Despite everything, I had tried to maintain an active presence on the Steam side of things, the Anime Faction Steam Greenlight Collection was a massive success and something I consider as a badge of honor for our group as a whole, curation was a moderately successful at the time, but once again due to lack of support from the forums side and dwindling activity in the steam community it meant that I had two options, either try to rebrand this group into it's own entity or let it fall to apathy.

Due to personal health and mental well being reasons I had decided to cease updating this group. I tried to pass it off to the founding members to see if they would have an interest but it was utterly irrelevant to them so I just maintained inactive ownership.