WHERE ARE YOU VIKING ????????????????
- Thread starter JIM WALKER
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I am happy for your personal success. I can't say that I am happy about the loss of Viking controllers. I was planning to treat myself to at Xbox One Berzerker for Xmas this year. This year has been a bit rough so I deserved a treat. I have been very happy with my Macro 360 controller so it was a no brainer for me to get one for my Xbox One. Just seemed to always be bad timing for me. Seemed like anytime they were available, I either didn't have any money or it was needed elsewhere. Now I am out of luck cuz I do not have the skillz to DYI it. To be honest I haven't had much time for anything these days. I haven't even had time to make the macro for the game I bought my controller for. lol
Another thing I loved was the sense of community that you made here. You and your staff took a personal interest in all your customers. You made sure they felt like family. To me, that speaks volumes. If there was a way I could help I would but about all I could do would be a social media blitz to promote the company and the product. It is a good product from a good company.
Another thing I loved was the sense of community that you made here. You and your staff took a personal interest in all your customers. You made sure they felt like family. To me, that speaks volumes. If there was a way I could help I would but about all I could do would be a social media blitz to promote the company and the product. It is a good product from a good company.
JIM WALKER
Active Member
well said RealTime, I feel the same, as do many many others, thank you for putting it into such heart felt words.
Odingalt, you did not FAIL at anything. I am not trying to speak for the entire Forum but I will say that we all have benefited greatly from all of your efforts to produce a QUALITY product. I am for one thankful for all that you did to provide the product. I am grateful for all the work and support the members gave me over the years in macros and tweaks. Not to mention the awesome customer support that I received when my controller had a bug the needed fixing. I understand that times have changed my friend and that it is so much harder now to create a controller. I am sorry that there will no longer be any Beserker Controllers made, I so wanted on but life got in the way and money had to go elsewhere. I will make do with my 360 Macro controller for the foreseeable future so no worries. If that breaks I have a brand new one never opened that will take it place. I will use these until the cows come home or the rapture happens.
Take Pride and Joy in the knowledge you did an outstanding job!!!!!
Respectfully,
Storm
Take Pride and Joy in the knowledge you did an outstanding job!!!!!
Respectfully,
Storm
I agree.
I miss the days of Viking as well! I still come to these forums every so often. To make things clear, I was at one-point working somewhat indirectly, but still for, Viking360. No longer. When things stopped becoming profitable for Viking, regardless of my contributions, they simply could not afford to pay anyone.
These days I am absurdly busy. I haven't played Xbox or PS3 in years (no time!). Every so often I'll play Smash Bros. for nostalgic reasons (and because I'm pretty good...but will definitely never win a tournament). I have never once played PS4, and I have played the Xbox One maybe once or twice.
These days I'm working on my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, and in addition, a concentration in Medicine since I used to be pre-med. That whole pre-med business didn't last too long, thankfully, but it sort of delayed me a little on my CS degree. It won't actually delay it, but I'm kind-of behind in math requirements. I was going to try to catch up over the summer, but instead worked full-time as a software developer. I originally went into the job only knowing Python, but learned C++ and VBA before I got there. I then self-taught myself Java on-the-job (because they are super-gung-ho-Java) and wrote some entire programs in Java for the business.
Anyways -- I am now this semester finally officially on-paper at the engineering school at my university and have been busy interviewing at a number of companies. Not only am I a full time student, but I already have 2 part-time jobs. One of them is daily as a software developer / project manager (continuing to work remotely for the business). My other job is more like once every few weeks as needed to consult for a private practice. I may soon add a third part-time job. This would be for a data scientist position, something that I am extremely interested in since I have already done an internship in Machine Learning a few years ago. Machine Learning and data predictive algorithms are the future. I coded a few scripts in Python a few years back to begin to predict what/how people are thinking. It was a summer internship, so I was never able to do too much with it, but this is the future.
At any rate, I'm glad to finally be fully in the technology sector. I had a lot of pressure to become a doctor, but it was not for me. As it is, I hate the way schools are in the U.S. College is absurdly overpriced (medical school even more insane), and I teach myself everything. I feel like I am wasting my money paying for this degree, but it is unfortunately the standard here in America. Some of the best programmers I have ever seen are not people with college degrees, but I must say college is an experience worth having. It has taught me to work harder, smarter, and faster. Friends too... I have never been happier and never have had such fantastic friends. However, I have so little time that I have to plan everything out. When to finish this. When to finish that.
I must say, if you are interested in CS, then everything is about what you do outside of school. I learn very little from any class directly from class alone. I learn mostly from YouTube and being active in throwing myself into insane things and figuring them out somehow in the process. If you have the motivation, you can do anything. I failed a few exams tailored to Java programmers because I started out as a Python programmer and didn't understand what the heck was going on. Accept failure, because you can recover. I went on YouTube and spent hours upon hours watching videos of C++ programming, learning what things actually meant and what you actually needed to do. I then aced my final and did fine, even after initially failing multiple exams.
Things are going well for me, but I will always be thankfully of Viking360. It was the first real experience in problem-solving, and it was fun to contribute to a community of people. I loved having people download my macros and use them to make themselves better players. It was fun being the reason that Infinity Ward had to write patches. It was fun playing cat-and-mouse with Infinity Ward, having them patch a macro of mine to only have me release a new one that got through it. And then repeat this. It reminds me of the iPhone jailbreak community.
It is sad to know Viking retail is gone, but the experience will always be with me for the rest of my life.
These days I am absurdly busy. I haven't played Xbox or PS3 in years (no time!). Every so often I'll play Smash Bros. for nostalgic reasons (and because I'm pretty good...but will definitely never win a tournament). I have never once played PS4, and I have played the Xbox One maybe once or twice.
These days I'm working on my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, and in addition, a concentration in Medicine since I used to be pre-med. That whole pre-med business didn't last too long, thankfully, but it sort of delayed me a little on my CS degree. It won't actually delay it, but I'm kind-of behind in math requirements. I was going to try to catch up over the summer, but instead worked full-time as a software developer. I originally went into the job only knowing Python, but learned C++ and VBA before I got there. I then self-taught myself Java on-the-job (because they are super-gung-ho-Java) and wrote some entire programs in Java for the business.
Anyways -- I am now this semester finally officially on-paper at the engineering school at my university and have been busy interviewing at a number of companies. Not only am I a full time student, but I already have 2 part-time jobs. One of them is daily as a software developer / project manager (continuing to work remotely for the business). My other job is more like once every few weeks as needed to consult for a private practice. I may soon add a third part-time job. This would be for a data scientist position, something that I am extremely interested in since I have already done an internship in Machine Learning a few years ago. Machine Learning and data predictive algorithms are the future. I coded a few scripts in Python a few years back to begin to predict what/how people are thinking. It was a summer internship, so I was never able to do too much with it, but this is the future.
At any rate, I'm glad to finally be fully in the technology sector. I had a lot of pressure to become a doctor, but it was not for me. As it is, I hate the way schools are in the U.S. College is absurdly overpriced (medical school even more insane), and I teach myself everything. I feel like I am wasting my money paying for this degree, but it is unfortunately the standard here in America. Some of the best programmers I have ever seen are not people with college degrees, but I must say college is an experience worth having. It has taught me to work harder, smarter, and faster. Friends too... I have never been happier and never have had such fantastic friends. However, I have so little time that I have to plan everything out. When to finish this. When to finish that.
I must say, if you are interested in CS, then everything is about what you do outside of school. I learn very little from any class directly from class alone. I learn mostly from YouTube and being active in throwing myself into insane things and figuring them out somehow in the process. If you have the motivation, you can do anything. I failed a few exams tailored to Java programmers because I started out as a Python programmer and didn't understand what the heck was going on. Accept failure, because you can recover. I went on YouTube and spent hours upon hours watching videos of C++ programming, learning what things actually meant and what you actually needed to do. I then aced my final and did fine, even after initially failing multiple exams.
Things are going well for me, but I will always be thankfully of Viking360. It was the first real experience in problem-solving, and it was fun to contribute to a community of people. I loved having people download my macros and use them to make themselves better players. It was fun being the reason that Infinity Ward had to write patches. It was fun playing cat-and-mouse with Infinity Ward, having them patch a macro of mine to only have me release a new one that got through it. And then repeat this. It reminds me of the iPhone jailbreak community.
It is sad to know Viking retail is gone, but the experience will always be with me for the rest of my life.
Purple Essence
Member
The ironic thing is that companies like Cronus max put Viking out of business but I bet Odin's RND could have built something better.
I have no doubt that would be the case.
battlelog
Member
Wow this really sucks, I loved Viking controllers. I still have my ps3 rag's and ps4 rag's, still working with no issues.
I still have a mint condition 360 rag, I think I used maybe 3 times. It's still in its shipping box.
I wish you the best Einar and thank you for all the support that you gave me with my controllers.
Plus thanks to the community that also helped me understand how to work these controllers.
BATTLELOG OUT.
I still have a mint condition 360 rag, I think I used maybe 3 times. It's still in its shipping box.
I wish you the best Einar and thank you for all the support that you gave me with my controllers.
Plus thanks to the community that also helped me understand how to work these controllers.
BATTLELOG OUT.
so whats going to happend when u turn the servers off we wont be able to programm/upload runes as everything is done online ,since theres no offline software?
modded matt
Active Member
If it ever comes to that, I will host the forge on the Acidmods dedicated server.
You can save your runepacks offline and load them into Berserker through the app by dragging-and-dropping onto the app.
Within the forge on a runepack editing screen, look for the little icon of a down-arrow. It's the download pack button. It'll save a copy of your pack locally. Then you can drag-and-drop it onto the app. This is just the emergency back-up plan, but Viking is still in business. We just aren't selling retail gadgets at the moment. We're just selling wholesale modchips. We'll find a cozy home for Forge. And I don't see getting rid of this web server, just downsizing it to a cheaper option. Right now we pay around $300/month. I have too much personal stuff loaded on this web server to shut it down.
Within the forge on a runepack editing screen, look for the little icon of a down-arrow. It's the download pack button. It'll save a copy of your pack locally. Then you can drag-and-drop it onto the app. This is just the emergency back-up plan, but Viking is still in business. We just aren't selling retail gadgets at the moment. We're just selling wholesale modchips. We'll find a cozy home for Forge. And I don't see getting rid of this web server, just downsizing it to a cheaper option. Right now we pay around $300/month. I have too much personal stuff loaded on this web server to shut it down.
Hey guys.
I know this post is pretty old now, but I just wanted to chime in with a few things and pull back the curtain behind who I am.
Meet Freyja AKA Amanda.
I was the last soldering Tech, the front of shop manager, the head of customer service and ticket responding, and the person almost entirely in charge of shipping and receiving.
I loved (almost) every minute of the almost three years I spent with Viking. I was there from before the new consoles debuted to the last controllers being built.
In that time I got engaged, married and adoped two beautiful girls (they're cats I left Viking because of the decline in the industry and it broke my heart a little to do so. My job there, and my passion in life, is to create things. When my job changed from making custom controllers for people who loved a personalised and specialised tool, to making controllers for people who wanted a plain controller that could do everything they dreamed for less than 100, to inspecting thousands of modchips for other companies, I held out for as long as I could, but when offered a job in a more promising feild that still allowed me to create I took it.
I miss Viking very much and I still pop on evey now and again to see how the community is doing. This has been less frequent in the past few months as my husband and I are expecting our first child in April.
After working there so long I feel like I got to know some of you guys here on the forums and I just wanted to take a moment to share about my life in hopes some of you could get to know me like I knew you.
Amanda
*edited for typos*
Ps: I don't even game!!!! I just love to solder and take stuff apart/fix it/put it back together!
I know this post is pretty old now, but I just wanted to chime in with a few things and pull back the curtain behind who I am.
Meet Freyja AKA Amanda.
I was the last soldering Tech, the front of shop manager, the head of customer service and ticket responding, and the person almost entirely in charge of shipping and receiving.
I loved (almost) every minute of the almost three years I spent with Viking. I was there from before the new consoles debuted to the last controllers being built.
In that time I got engaged, married and adoped two beautiful girls (they're cats
I left Viking because of the decline in the industry and it broke my heart a little to do so. My job there, and my passion in life, is to create things. When my job changed from making custom controllers for people who loved a personalised and specialised tool, to making controllers for people who wanted a plain controller that could do everything they dreamed for less than 100, to inspecting thousands of modchips for other companies, I held out for as long as I could, but when offered a job in a more promising feild that still allowed me to create I took it.I miss Viking very much and I still pop on evey now and again to see how the community is doing. This has been less frequent in the past few months as my husband and I are expecting our first child in April.
After working there so long I feel like I got to know some of you guys here on the forums and I just wanted to take a moment to share about my life in hopes some of you could get to know me like I knew you.
Amanda
*edited for typos*
Ps: I don't even game!!!! I just love to solder and take stuff apart/fix it/put it back together!
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WOW...Hey guys.
I know this post is pretty old now, but I just wanted to chime in with a few things and pull back the curtain behind who I am.
Meet Freyja AKA Amanda.
I was the last soldering Tech, the front of shop manager, the head of customer service and ticket responding, and the person almost entirely in charge of shipping and receiving.
I loved (almost) every minute of the almost three years I spent with Viking. I was there from before the new consoles debuted to the last controllers being built.
In that time I got engaged, married and adoped two beautiful girls (they're cats
I miss Viking very much and I still pop on evey now and again to see how the community is doing. This has been less frequent in the past few months as my husband and I are expecting our first child in April.
After working there so long I feel like I got to know some of you guys here on the forums and I just wanted to take a moment to share about my life in hopes some of you could get to know me like I knew you.
Amanda
*edited for typos*
Ps: I don't even game!!!! I just love to solder and take stuff apart/fix it/put it back together!
modded matt
Active Member
I like others are grateful for your service and time invested in the industry. All good things come to an end. I wish you success and happiness in whatever life brings your way.
Hey guys.
I know this post is pretty old now, but I just wanted to chime in with a few things and pull back the curtain behind who I am.
Meet Freyja AKA Amanda.
I was the last soldering Tech, the front of shop manager, the head of customer service and ticket responding, and the person almost entirely in charge of shipping and receiving.
I loved (almost) every minute of the almost three years I spent with Viking. I was there from before the new consoles debuted to the last controllers being built.
In that time I got engaged, married and adoped two beautiful girls (they're cats
I miss Viking very much and I still pop on evey now and again to see how the community is doing. This has been less frequent in the past few months as my husband and I are expecting our first child in April.
After working there so long I feel like I got to know some of you guys here on the forums and I just wanted to take a moment to share about my life in hopes some of you could get to know me like I knew you.
Amanda
*edited for typos*
Ps: I don't even game!!!! I just love to solder and take stuff apart/fix it/put it back together!
Congrats on the little one. Just like everyone at Viking we appreciate all your love and work you put into Viking. We wish only the best as well.
Fredrow
Active Member
Wow, this is crazy news! As far as I seen Viking come I wouldn't have pictured this happening! I was with Viking from day one and then when Viking moved to their new location we both went our separate ways. Even though I wasn't an employee with Viking anymore I always stayed around the forums and helped out as much as I could just because I believed in the product that Viking was putting out and because E is a straight up good dude! I owe a lot to E and Viking for everything that they have done for me and the knowledge that they have dropped on me over the years. I'm sad to see this great company come to a sudden end like this but I guess shit happens!
Oh and E, any chance you have some PS4 Berserker chips laying around? Or did that project never see the light of day?
Oh and E, any chance you have some PS4 Berserker chips laying around? Or did that project never see the light of day?
DirtyyDann
New Member
Hello. I'm really sad to see the words "Viking is dead" I say if anything it's atm.. I didn't come to the forums too often but i liked everyone here. Came by to check up on production to see its not right now. I'm sorry : /
So the only thing y'all are selling are chips?
What about selling colored and design regular controllers? Idk. Also I say to everyone here.. don't stop coming to the forums.. come back if you leave that's just less people visiting and talking about the subject. Find friends to buy this product and give them a boost.
Sorry I'm just sad to hear all of this lol.
I once messaged Viking on facebook two years ago saying ideas that would help.. I got a response back from the team telling me it was great ideas. think it should reminded again even at the state it's in.. people should talk about Viking in other places. Get the word out. Advertise. Post on fb again. Get more noticed. Have everyone here share.
DONT GIVE UP
Maybe start a donation button for 1$-5$-10$.. anything helps.
Sell on other places maybe. I still talk about Viking to people all the time. I miss y'all and still use my 360 macro. Ready for more product. I'll wait! I'll come back to say hi again. merry late Christmas and happy late New Year everyone!!
So the only thing y'all are selling are chips?
What about selling colored and design regular controllers? Idk. Also I say to everyone here.. don't stop coming to the forums.. come back if you leave that's just less people visiting and talking about the subject. Find friends to buy this product and give them a boost.
Sorry I'm just sad to hear all of this lol.
I once messaged Viking on facebook two years ago saying ideas that would help.. I got a response back from the team telling me it was great ideas. think it should reminded again even at the state it's in.. people should talk about Viking in other places. Get the word out. Advertise. Post on fb again. Get more noticed. Have everyone here share.
DONT GIVE UP
Maybe start a donation button for 1$-5$-10$.. anything helps.
Sell on other places maybe. I still talk about Viking to people all the time. I miss y'all and still use my 360 macro. Ready for more product. I'll wait! I'll come back to say hi again. merry late Christmas and happy late New Year everyone!!
DirtyyDann
New Member
Hello. I'm really sad to see the words "Viking is dead" I say if anything it's atm.. I didn't come to the forums too often but i liked everyone here. Came by to check up on production to see its not right now. I'm sorry : /
So the only thing y'all are selling are chips?
What about selling colored and design regular controllers? Idk. Also I say to everyone here.. don't stop coming to the forums.. come back if you leave that's just less people visiting and talking about the subject. Find friends to buy this product and give them a boost.
Sorry I'm just sad to hear all of this lol.
I once messaged Viking on facebook two years ago saying ideas that would help.. I got a response back from the team telling me it was great ideas. think it should reminded again even at the state it's in.. people should talk about Viking in other places. Get the word out. Advertise. Post on fb again. Get more noticed. Have everyone here share.
DONT GIVE UP
Maybe start a donation button for 1$-5$-10$.. anything helps.
Sell on other places maybe. I still talk about Viking to people all the time. I miss y'all and still use my 360 macro. Ready for more product. I'll wait! I'll come back to say hi again. merry late Christmas and happy late New Year everyone!!
So the only thing y'all are selling are chips?
What about selling colored and design regular controllers? Idk. Also I say to everyone here.. don't stop coming to the forums.. come back if you leave that's just less people visiting and talking about the subject. Find friends to buy this product and give them a boost.
Sorry I'm just sad to hear all of this lol.
I once messaged Viking on facebook two years ago saying ideas that would help.. I got a response back from the team telling me it was great ideas. think it should reminded again even at the state it's in.. people should talk about Viking in other places. Get the word out. Advertise. Post on fb again. Get more noticed. Have everyone here share.
DONT GIVE UP
Maybe start a donation button for 1$-5$-10$.. anything helps.
Sell on other places maybe. I still talk about Viking to people all the time. I miss y'all and still use my 360 macro. Ready for more product. I'll wait! I'll come back to say hi again. merry late Christmas and happy late New Year everyone!!