Really? I think its quite silly. And as Ingredient said I agree, I think part of it is just wanting to try being an admin.
And while not all of the off-shoot servers are being made/moderated by children, as for the ones that are the best thing I can say it amounts to is this:
"...Cute. Now go bother someone else."
I know that sounds terribly harsh but really, lets be honest. Even EXCLUDING the ones that are made from the "leftovers" of the original Impressive Title, there are many supposed games that are being attempted from scratch there are numerous threads on the "other games" section.
And you know what? Its usually people (and often children I suspect just given the naive and uninformed outlook some of them seem to have when discussing what they are working on that I have a hard time believing an adult would not have already figured out on there own) who are LOOKING for staff, LOOKING for help, but as far as /accomplishing/ something past a dinky little website? They haven't done anything.
To make something THAT complicated, you need people you KNOW, who have SKILLS, who you know will remain DEVOTED until the whole project is over and asking on a forum "Hey all you people can you help me pretty please?" probably won't get that devotion. You'll most likely get people who are bored and will abandon you when they find something else to do.
So when people use the "leftovers" from Impressive Title and put it on a new server, they can bypass a LOT of the work involved because KovLKD has practically done most of it for them already. Texture artist? Don't need one! You already have tons of textures. Animator? Nope! Don't need that either unless you want to adjust what was already there for some reason. Now do not give me wrong, I will give them credit in saying yes, they probably put a lot of time and effort adding extra things to the games but at the end of the day... that's really it. They get their chance to be admin/mods after only having to put forth a fraction of the effort it would take to make a game from scratch.
If it were my decision I would give these "IT Server games [or even regular computer game works in progress]" a section of their own inside of "Other Games" and move them. I'm tired, as I'm sure some others may be, of sifting through "other games" and having to dig through a billion pages of IT-server games or other games that don't even have a real screenshot to show for their progress.
So overall? Eh, the ones that already have some real effort put into them? More power to them. I just don't want anything to do with them. I can't look at Impressive Title the same way I used to simply because most of my friends are gone from there and are here.
At the end of the day, its like a giant sculpture of a rocket. If you make it out of legos, will I be impressed? Probably. But since you didn't make it out of your own raw materials that were not pre-made to hook together for you, it will never be as amazing as say, something made entirely out of ice, twigs, clay, etc.
