09-09-2012, 05:46 AM
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A decade of fun~ 'w'
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: erectin a dispenser
Posts: 25
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Considering it seems that majority managers now, especially after the downfall of classic subscriptions, are just narcissistic overly privileged teens or old as dirt players that won a popularity contest with no real development skills, I really doubt Stefan wants to hear from any of them. There isn't an honest system put in place to determine whether or not someone should be a "manager" of a server, thus they have no credentials or place in getting a VIP one-way red alert to the PWA team. Managers are and have always been to Stefan and Unixmad as just another kind of player. This is from their mouths to myself back when I had several RC's and dealt with them regularly. They're nothing special. They just can alter flags in their own little playground and feel important.
Considering most of them have never even cared to read the EULA or Rules of Conduct, or even follow them, that also really reinforces the issue of no one caring to listen to their every beck and call. If Graal ever gets a surefire way to apply as an official manager of a server, not based on time spent playing the game or how popular someone is, but by how ethical their decisions are and how much they can actually benefit the development cycle, with PWA involvement and possibly some contractual agreements, Stefan and Unixmad have all the more reason to delete emails and blow them off. Honestly, there hasn't been a real competent development team currently active on PC Graal for who knows how long that could potentially revive the game, sans some people on these forums (who are amazing at GS2, and you know who you are), so its not like anyone is really going to get their full attention (besides those people who are actually being innovative with GS2 on these forums).
If you want their attention, be a go-getter and generate some money for them without them having to hold your hand through it; act professional on and off client; know the EULA and the Rules of Conduct and enforce them properly without bias; revamp your application processes to be serious and treat RC like an actual job instead of a secret VIP chat room; then and only maybe then they'll talk to you regularly and answer those emails you think are super important and oh-so-vital to the survival of your server. That's what Zodiac was doing. They got pretty far with it. If you went on their RC, it looked like what you'd expect a console for a paid administration would look like on a much more successful MMORPG.
Also considering that the attention you guys want doesn't even happen for their cash-cow iOS variant of Graal, I highly doubt it's going to happen for the PC version. Classic servers get free hosting anyways, so it's not like they lose any money ignoring you.
I'm with Skyld at the beginning of this thread on this one.
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