He's more of a dictator than a manager.

So what does a manager do? How does he dictate?

Please, if a new manager is chosen don't make another mistake.
Thor can not be manager, everyone knows how closed minded he is with his projects and his views towards graal.

how can you be a dictator if you do nothing?
hes like the opposite of a dictator.
thats the problem.

Sadly I don't think we'll have a meaningful debate on Storm's position because the thread instantly became a campaign for Manager.

No offence to this but this was a pretty stupid thing to say. Storm does absolutely nothing, and makes no major decisions/changes.
Dictators make HUGE changes and have people put in a lot of work. Which storm doesn't.

Well, you naturally need a replacement if someone should be removed,

Thats basically what it is now. Masterstorm and Thor. Thor handles development, Storm watches over the admins and listens to players complaints. In addition when time permits he helps out Night with some GC stuff or Thor if Thor asks.

did i read the word help? masterstorm and the word help do not belong in the same sentence

when do all those NPCs in limbo get released as GC prizes?

It's a possibility for a few of them.

Reality is that not much can even be done with Storm out of the way because of this preservation for Classic. But Storm does a lot less than what the normal manager does. He should dictate how development goes all in all. Thor is there to watch over the dev staff and lead projects (as well as other things). Storm just shouldn't "help", he should be the one casting the show here.

He claims that he is always responding to players which gets in the way of his work time, but that is doubtful with Classic's playercount. I remember Subzero and Crowfeather, former managers of UN, being able to answer my PM's and several other peoples and get **** done as well as act on player inputs.

Aside from what is mentioned in what I've quoted below, what does "the normal manager" do?

This may be the staff hierarchy of many servers, but it is not what happens on Classic and I'm not sure it ever has. The person in charge of the development leads the direction of the server development, not the manager. It is true that the manager should be discussing the direction of the server, but in the times that I've spoken to Storm about the server direction he seems to be aware of what the development teams have wanted to go in, which suggests he does do this.

By Dictator, I meant he wants to be in charge, and is stubborn like one and won't step down.

Wow, well said. :)