Incorrect. The whole time they were being developed, I never liked the idea of them at all, and opposed the idea before they were even constructed, but you guys got the go-ahead from Daz to do it, anyway, so my dislike for their existance, now, is no different or altered than my opinion on them back then - Difference is, now I actually have some sway over their fate. Personally, I think people should take into account that I had every ability (not to mention right) to just remove them from the server, entirely, when they became the centre of attention during that duping issue, yet I didn't because - and getting to your points about
talking to the players - even people who didn't have the benefit of owning them said it would really piss off some good players, merely caught up in a bad situation, so I didn't.
I don't mind the idea of an event that uses them, like laser tag uses the laser rifles, but as far as them returning to the Era population, only the people who own one say they would hate if they weren't coming back, and giong by what you were saying "Losing 2 percent is better than losing 98 percent of players", and only a minority believe we should even have these weapons on Era at all, thus, they're not coming back. That's the pure fact.
In all honesty, not that you'll believe me, anyway - I'm
not keeping him around because he's a friend. And on this note of "
friends with RC" bullcrap, I'm sick of hearing it. Crow wasn't a friend when I hired him, nor half the people on the team, but just about all people on RC, now, are friends of mine. It's what you form with your team, so when someone says "
You hire friends", and I respond "
I fail to see your point", I really mean it. Crow is now a friend of mine, because we've spent that time working together and gotten to know each other, but I am not going to keep him around (and I'm not keeping Icarus around) "
because he's a friend", and it's certainly not "
I can't be bothered".
I'm keeping Icarus around because even if he says "WoW is more fun to
play", that doesn't mean he doesn't pitch in and keep up to date
'.
As far as Maverick goes, I've been handling business issues, myself while I have much more important things to do, and have made it clear to Maverick it's really getting beyond a joke, and that he needs to step up his own game. Whether he listened or not will be evident to me the next time I get a chance to log on RC (as after this post, I have to go see some family). That's all I'm going to say on that issue, because I'm not entirely comfortable with discussing the security of a member of staff's job in the public eye, yet behind his back.