GM Support

Everything is automated, it took the heart out of PWI. The heart being the GM's. Now, I have quests permanently stuck in my quest log reminding me to buy an inventory stone, or safe stone, or pet bag stone.

Or we get system message spam telling us to look at the cash shop, or we get junk e-mails practically begging for us to charge zen.

Advertising is ok, I dont mind a little. We all are quite aware of the cash shop and its presence. What we do mind is not having the GM's mingle with their players, and the little things that let us know that this company is run by actual humans who enjoy the same thing we do: gaming.

I have a few GM's on my twitter, and they seem so nice, and they seem to have so much fun at PWI HQ. Why cant they bring that aspect into the game, so we can enjoy the company as well?

Aeode - Sanctuary wrote: »

Just bringing these back would be a great step forward. A lot of people have said they miss these.

How else am I supposed to know what day it is b:cry

Yeah, I admit, bringing those messages back would be a massive step forward, even if sometimes those messages were automated. It was nice to see that, to remind us what time it was LOL

I dont understand how this is called Perfect World INTERNATIONAL but we dont have international GM's?

eatwithspoons wrote: »

Please keep in mind, not seeing us in the game does not mean we're not working, we just have a much larger community to support now, and with that comes much less free time.

As fun as hanging out in game is -and I've done it a few times- this detracts from the time we should be spending answering tickets. In the future if we grow more I hope we can have more folks helping out here so we'll have more free time to do this, but having a person logged on all day just to chat is not something that is viable in a game that has to support thousands upon thousands of users.

You might see me if you look hard enough, but I rarely advertise my own presence when I'm hanging around in game for fear of major lag death b:shocked

I know you guys work hard (and play hard too, Ive seen the halloween pics :P) but I guess the community as a whole just feels like there is a serious lack of GM presence, even if there isnt actually a GM on. And world chat constantly gets out of hand (at least on Sanctuary) and you have other players trying to moderate the little immature brats that are bringing up subjects that should be left in the privacy of their house, away from a public game setting (or at least in faction chat).

I dunno I just miss you guys! b:cry

But yeah, thanks for letting us know that an effort will be made on your part. But it shouldnt just be you, it should be several of the GM's, there are what, 5 servers? Dont you guys have assigned GM's to assigned servers? I know that some of you are really swamped, and do multiple things, in game, on the website, and maybe even help the dev team (speculating here, idk how the PWI system is). But I know personally, if I were a GM, I would have PWI running on my computer (or as I said, Id even have a 2nd computer, and run PWI during the workday) just so I can have it available to moderate world chat, throw in a completely random, off the wall system message to make everyone laugh their butts off. The GM support is what really makes and breaks the game, imo...not just the GFX and character system.

This really came out from me from an earlier experience on that support chat thingie....(if that was you spoons, I apologize, but I cant stand what could be deciphered as automated responses)....I hate feeling like Im talking to an automated response system. Thats actually one of the reasons why I think everyone likes you so much, is because you actually deal out real responses.

But thanks for making a note of it. Tell the gang in the next meeting that their gamers want those "Mornings are Vital" messages back darnit!