Dear Justice League Infinite readers and the Infinite Crisis community:

As some of you may have noticed, I haven’t updated JL∞ in a little while. I’ve spent the last week or so doing a bit of soul-searching—thinking about this site and my role in the Infinite Crisis community as a whole. And it saddens me to report that I’ve decided to place Justice League Infinite on indefinite hiatus. This will likely be my last post.

I will always be proud to have started the first Infinite Crisis fansite. I created JL∞ on March 28, 2013—three days after the game was announced, and in the past 6 months, I’ve made over 70 posts, amassed over 200 Twitter followers, and formed great relationships with other members of the community. But I’ve always viewed this site as an experiment, and in judging the success of that experiment, I have repeatedly asked myself the same three questions:

(1) Do I enjoy producing the site?

(2) Can I devote enough time to produce the site properly?

(3) Is the site fulfilling a specific need within the Infinite Crisis community?

I will say as an initial matter that I have always enjoyed producing JL∞. I remain a devoted fan of Infinite Crisis, and this site gave me an outlet for that devotion and an excuse to dive into the nooks and crannies of the game. In recent weeks, however, my answers to the second and third questions have changed, and they’ve led me to this difficult decision. The strengthening current of daily Infinite Crisis information has transformed JL∞ from a few-hours-per-week hobby into a full-time job, and I’ve reached the point where in order to maintain this site, I’d have to make sacrifices in some other part of my life—be it my profession, time with my family, or one of my other interests. I imagine that this would only become a larger problem in the future.

There have also been a number of welcome developments in the Infinite Crisis community since I began JL∞. For one, Turbine has significantly increased its efforts to communicate with its players about the game—through community streams, webshows like The Construct, and social media. In addition, the community itself has grown, and players can now get their Infinite Crisis news, builds, and strategy from any number of different sources. Even though I’ve decided to step aside, a number of capable individuals will continue to carry the torch.

Even though JL∞ will no longer be part of my life, I remain committed to contributing to the Infinite Crisis community as best I can. That may mean streaming, or shoutcasting, or producing guides and videos—I’m still trying to figure out what I’d like to do. But I will continue to love this game, and I will continue to do whatever I can to contribute to its long-term success.

Finally, I’d just like to say thank you. Thank you to everyone who took the time to read this message. Thank you to everyone who ever followed, bookmarked, or read Justice League Infinite. Thank you to Cardell, Sera, Leo, and others for all the e-mails, tweets, and kind words. And thanks to Turbine and the community for creating this game—this thing—that I adore so much.

From here on out, I’ll just be PeterPlatinum, regular guy. If you’d like to keep in touch, feel free to friend me in-game, invite me to a premade, or follow me on Twitter, where I’ll be transitioning my account to @Peter_Platinum. I look forward to seeing where Infinite Crisis takes us next.

Sincerely,

Chris “PeterPlatinum” Battles