Now It's Time to Say Goodbye

Today was a busy day, so I'll go through this and try to catch everyone in one post! If I miss you, my apologies!

@uchijawar I've been around the game long before my employment, so there's nothing to say I won't be around post. I obviously would not have a ton of influence like I did internally, but who's to say what the future holds?

@mechabeastmc666 Sorry you feel that way! (no sarcasm, genuine). It's not easy moderating the PWI forums, even if the forums aren't as crazy as they used to be. I can see where the drop offs I've had in communication wasn't the best result for the playerbase, so this is a legitimate criticism.

@ynwa77 I appreciate the sentiments, but again like moderating, it's one thing to be a player a whole other to step into the role of managing a game where you have to balance business and community. It's not easy.

@lasha22 Before anyone gets a new conspiracy angle, I didn't leave because of the community. I came from this community, in case anyone forgot. I'm not big on labeling communities "toxic" or anything, as I always try to find the root cause of the complaints beyond the more harsher words.

@shade13 This would be Arigora arena right? Initially it was sized down to the shorter window, which we can't change. I suppose it can rotate depending on seasons, but with the window as it stands now, it will always inconvenience someone. I'll leave a note down for the team though, as something that should be looked at and see if CN has any reservations or if there's any technical issues on changing these times. We've been able to change times on other events beforehand, so I don't see why this one cant be changed.

@jsxshadow I've heard some other things about DC as well (outside of the season thing, specifically about the actual fights, which definitely do not seem by design)

And for that event, I hope to get any update up sometime this week! I have a bit of documentation and other tasks to do first, so it will take a few days.

@obielle Awww thanks so much! And with the tournament, we had some people who name changed after a certain period and then some things fell through. Spoiler alert - this was going to test run the old area that was used back during the big PWI/CN tournament back in 2012 (?), as when I tested everything, it still looks to be functioning.

@baseaddress He doesn't have the same type of experience as I do with the game specifically (game knowledge), but he's been looking over some of the stuff I've been doing since about Jan/Feb of this year. He's also been working on other projects in tandem with me so, you guys have already seen his influence and work for a little while now. He's more heavily data driven than I am, so his strength lies in the trends he sees on the backend (not something easily apparent to players as opposed to, say me talking about game knowledge)

Not sure if this answered your question.

@splendideyes *blinks* I have no idea what you're talking about.

Also for that stuff, that'll be part of the whatever events I can wrap up before I go (this and the Winter Mount thing if that hasn't already been closed out)

@xdragonxx I attribute this to finding out what things were bottlenecking - and that alot of them were actually not as big of a deal - and freeing those up to then be able to focus on the bigger picture stuff. I think the biggest surprises for me were things like the localization or UI changes or things like TW server time changes. Things I thought would take bigger effort turned out to be not so severe.

@mistressani Thanks so much and yes, of course there will be some things lingering. I hope to resolve as much as I can, or at least line up actionable solutions and guide people post my time here.

@ailiadrake Haha, its fine, I understand that there's things that can be improved with PWI (I've had my fair share of....very heated posts back in my day.) Base requirements are pretty set in stones however, we've been in better talks with more considerations of the International version. I'll note that down as well as the Minion stuff.

@irmoose It's not a job in the game industry, so it's nothing controversial. It is a company that's been around for a good amount of time and I'm pretty excited to see where it takes me!

@beernard1992 DQ NPC price or a DQ "Shop" system? For the former, I dont know if I have said this before, but there is an incredibly high storage of DQ in the game which has caused some concern about suddenly adding those prices back onto those items. This means that the chances of it being reinstated (NPC Pric) is not good.
The current proposal I was working on in part with some suggestions from players was implementing an exchange with DQ in our Transmutation feature. This might be the best route we can take. Since I will no longer be heading up that endeavor, I'll have to pass this to the team.

@heero200 I should definitely be floating around in the game. I will miss working with you and thank you so much for all you do.

@wettstyle I couldn't say if there's any artistic stuff that will be used, but it doesn't mean I wouldn't still be doing art stuff on the side.

@iamtearsh Actually we know each other, before I started working here. I hope I don't give you a heart attack when I tell you who I am (or maybe you would have figured it out all along!) I'll always be lurking around, PWI was my first love of an MMO.

@blazerboy I would hope not! I can't speak for those who come after me, but some would say some days I cared too much? Maybe that's not such a bad thing after all.

@lunasol#7139 Awww, I'm sure there were others in the past who cared but for one reason or other, roadblocks appeared. Thanks so much for the kind words

This is a wall of text but I genuinely appreciate all your kind words!

@jsxshadow This I've been debating. I doubt I'd get in much trouble after the fact, but their rules were more for keeping me sane than anything (this and the fact that if an employee's personal character was revealed to the public, any words coming from them would be representative of the company and/or be taken as gospel by the playerbase). I've toyed with the idea of streaming that reveal, but it depends on how the next few days shake out.

Some either suspect, or know by virtue of knowing my on my other socials (FB) and for many years IRL. That stuff, the company couldn't control. I'm grateful for those that didn't say anything after all this time, it must've been incredibly weird.