[BlackSolider]

If the job of a classic manager is to just guide to staff and give em a boot in the right direction occasionally, storm can do it if he becomes more active. Hell we don't need to fire someone who basically makes sure things are in order. We can get a trained monkey to do it.

Now, if the job of a classic manager is to bring in the dev team each week and check on their progress towards goals X, Y, and Z....then we need a new manager b/c storm hasn't done that.

The problem is, everyone has a different opinion on what classic manager should do. I think if the dev team was releasing more consistently and going in a direction favorable to the players, we wouldn't have a big issue with storm. However, this doesn't seem to be the case. The last dev release was the chat box...the last major release were the 2 quests. The next big dev release is supposedly the auction thing, which I don't know the due date of. But chat boxes and auctions aren't what the players want. I won't sit here and pretend to know what the majority wants, but tickets+prizes+lack of content are a few of the issues. Until some of these issues get fixed, it won't appear to the public that the dev team is doing much good, and thus storm isn't doing his job by guiding them.

Wow I rambled again. In summary: if the manager needs to keep the staff in line, storm can probably do that. If the manager needs to guide the dev team towards a certain goal, storm might not be able to do that. We must, as a community, decide whether the dev team is doing enough to solve our problems. If not, we need to somehow get a new manager who can push the devs to more productive and constant releases. Who that is, I don't know.