this needs to be discussed

[Draenin]

Originally Posted by Hiro

it's how i perceived it - sorry for the misunderstanding

now, as a developer, would you be willing to work on a project with the goal of bringing in new players? would you be willing to ask everyone and anyone you know who can help out with the project? non-developers can't lead a development charade, and all it takes is one person with the time and motivation to start making it happen

if not you, then who?

Well, it's not just something that -you- or -I- need to do. The community itself needs a better attitude altogether about bringing in new players and not just turning them away. Instead of saying, "Yeah, all these servers suck," players and developers should give newbies (and even oldbies) more reasons to stick around.

And by the way, here's that particle editor I was talking about. Players are -very- capable of making their own tools. The problem is, even when they're made, a lot of people don't bother to share them: