Originally Posted by BlackSolider
People are so fickle. For years they ask for a change of the manager position, or at least a review. So finally, they got a review. The people thus developed an expectation that their dreams would finally come true: storm would be removed and a new, "more capable" manager would be appointed.
Yet their expectations were not met with this decision. Storm wasn't fired even though classic had been mostly stagnant under his rule. The PWAs, apparently, decided that "storm 2.0" can do his job. However, they half-way met the people's request by appointing a second manager, Thor. Cleverly, they covered their rears by giving classic a fall back option of "storm 2.0" turned out to be as idle as the original version.
But, being fickle, the community is, apparently, not satisfied. They wanted storm's blood, or at least for someone they saw as more capable to take his job. Their half-met request might actually be a good thing, though not necessarily the best option.
Then again, we'll never know if another option would have worked out better. There's no reset button on time. There's no "loading the previous saved game". What there is, however, is the future. Now I don't know how long most of us will keep playing graal. It's pretty obvious though, that graal, as a whole, is going downhill. With bigger, better, and far more advanced MMORPGs or w/e on the market, graal will never draw in enough new players to keep the game going for another decade. So, while we still play this (pretty crappy) game, we need to make it as fun as possible. Can our new manager, Thormo, guide us in that direction? Well there's only one way to find out. And it's not sitting on our asses and *****ing at the PWAs + bell via forums/pms. It's playing the game we've (for whatever reason) played for so long, and by helping in whatever way we can.
So, good people of classic, sit down, shut up, and do what you got to do. If you're going to stop playing graal because of this, then you really have wasted the past couple years of your life. This decision is not a great reason to just stop playing. I'd go into details of reasons why we should have stopped playing graal years ago, but I can bet most of you are educated enough to know what those are.
Thus each of you is left with two options:
1) stop playing graal altogether, or move to another server just b/c your fragile feelings were hurt
OR
2) keep playing the game you've played for years, because change is coming
Now I won't sit here and pretend to know exactly what the future holds or what the future could have been. The time for speculation and theories is over. It is time for action. Storm 2.0 and Thor have been given a chance to improve the server. We need to help them along, even if it isn't exactly what you wanted.
I'm already on noah's arc, safe from the flood of tears from many of you. Sadly there is no female dinosaur present, but oh well. I'm going to do what I can to help the server, until I decide to move on. I can only hope that most of you decide to do the same.
Wow...I really have got to stop rambling in these posts.
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03-26-2009, 01:19 AM
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