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Originally Posted by Darlene159
It is impossible to make everyone happy. Really, it depends on how far you think the owners should go to keep customers happy. They should never go so far as to degrade themselves, and the game/product. Sometimes it is really hard to find a happy medium, especially when you are dealing with children.
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True; for one, it'd make a lot of players happy if Graal went 100% Free again, but that would be an unhealthy business decision. (though 1 free server's all it takes to get back into the Shareware market, which I consider a Good Idea)
Two, speaking as a former manager, what the players want and what they need are disparate concepts. The players WANT 20 hearts and the goldsword and boots that alternately let them cross the map in record time and make them invincible, but they don't want anyone Else to have these things; what they Need is either a balanced server, more quests, or a variety of chracter options, depending on how you view their request. Bit of a tangent, but the point is, all these people who want Graal to sell the server - I imagine the vast majority want Their Own Server under Their Own Rules and Nobody Else's. If they got it, they'd spend maybe a week making, I dunno, Naruto Overdrive School of Otter-Fu, then be dismayed at how many other people are stealing their market. What do we need for such things? More relaxed copyright regulations? I suppose we could look into Parody Laws, but I doubt our hypothetical Narutard would be content with a Narudo in red with a pidgeon symbol on his wooden headband. It's a too many scientists, not enough hunchbacks situation; better cooperation between potential servers will bring more servers to the market, developed by more people than if they each were developing in secret...but everyone Wants to be the manager, so.
Three, finally - what do we really mean when We The Players say we want more say in how the game's run? Granted, I can't possibly speak for Everyone, but I imagine we really just want to be heard, our input acknowledged. Not to take total responsibility for running the server, certainly not for managing its finances (and worry about anyone who claims to have Unixmad's best financial interests at heart - even I'm ultimately here to see the game I love blossom regardless of financial victories). And by Heard and Acknowledged, that means when we have an idea to make the game better we can either act on it or at least find out why we can't - There will be Global Commmunication in the next version and here's the proposed syntax, -or- Sure, write up a news post for the website in PHP and I'll review it, -or- I'm sorry but we can't get away with actually making a Minnish Cap Server, you guys are gonna have to change the following aspects, (insert list here).
But that'd detract from the Top 2 Admins doing their jobs, so...should maybe Ibonic be given the authority and responsibility to speak For them? It might help.
10-26-2006, 01:53 AM
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