Longknife's Guide to Objectively Filing a Complaint without sounding like a Jerk

There's plenty of QQing about how the GM's have this mad conspiracy plot to kill our mothers and make us cry in our sleep, and holy ****, personally I'm tired of seeing it.
So, because I believe that criticism is a neccesary cornerstone that helps lead to improvement and yet I think this community is largely-filled with disrespectful buttmunches who couldn't criticize constructively if their life depended on it, I've composed a nice little list of what not to do in a criticism thread that I recommend all members follow before posting complaint threads in the future.


1) Make a damn argument. Great example: "OMG GMs Y U MAKE TT SOOOOOO HARD OMG DIS IS BALLS U JUST HATE US AND WANT TO CASTRATE US UNLESS WE BUY 40 BILLION PERFECT WORLD MONIES, NO FAAAAAIRRRRR~~~~." Yeah man, I'm sure that after the GMs read this, they wrote down "Note: Players don't like being castrated" in their handy-dandy notebook.
Perhaps a better alternative would be: "There are good sides and bad sides to the new TT difficulty. The good side is that TT90 and TT99 equipment will now remain special; it will be harder to aquire and won't turn into some generic equip that everyone and their mother has. TT mat prices will also increase for those who actually manage to do the runs. Some players may like this, some may not. The bad side is that this is very disappointing to everyone expecting the old level of difficulty, of course.
Personally though, I think we should note that it's the players who ALREADY have their TT equips that will cash out on this. They're able to take these bosses on easier, so they'll be the ones farming. This means that ONE group of people (ie, the players with pimped gear) will likely dominate the TT mats market and develop a monopoly. This will contribute to seperating the rich from the poor, which is never a good thing. It discourages new players and makes them give up and quit. Perhaps for this reason alone, TT difficulty should be tweaked back down. Nirvana difficulty though could probably stay as it is without such a side effect."

See that? Those are the kinds of arguments GMs will probably read through. Why?

Here's the difference summed up:
First argument style, AKA the most common style on the forums currently:

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~~~~~ b:cry"

Second alternative argument style:


"This change is bad for the game because A, B and C."

See, the second argument uses this amazing tool called "LOGIC." LOGIC is used to persuade your audience to agree with you by using flippin' common sense.
Seriously, you all should try it.


2) If someone is already complaining about what you wanna complain about, post in his thread instead of making your own. Look at our poor, helpless forum. It's filled with people saying "Waaaaaaaaa~, but it's not faaaaaaaair~" Listen, I dunno if you all were attention deprived as toddlers, but as things are now, making your own thread WON'T get you extra attention. Let's say there was ONE complaint thread. Would it's creator get more attention than the others? Yeah, probably. People would say "wow Terry, I agree with you completely and you just gained 14 additional relationship points with me for making this thread." Problem is, there's dozens of these damn threads. See, when there's dozens of them, that means people stop reading who made it, because that opinion is no longer special and unique. You're considered "just another brotha" instead of "the hero and truth-speaker of our cause." Also, you're thread will tick the mods and GMs off cause they're probably even more sick of reading all this **** than I am. That means your thread will be closed and your righteous fight immediately shut down. If you just post your opinion in another thread that's already pages long, then your post will surely stay there for all to see, and you won't be losing any potential attention. See?


3) No boycotts. You are not Mahatma Gandhi; your boycott will fail miserably for two reasons:

Let's say you established a successful boycott. 90% of the forum promised not to cash shop to prove a point. Guess what the other 10% is thinking? "If I cash shop my butt off like an anti-social jerk, I can make millions and become all-powerful in-game!!" Yep, so there's your first hole.
The second hole is this: MMO's typically come from Asia. The developers generally pay close attention to the asian version while flipping the International version the bird. It's much, MUCH easier to examine one MMO carefully and bet that all the other versions will likely (eventually) run into the same issues the initial version runs into. Is this a lazy way of thinking? Yep. Is PWI a horrible demon for doing this? Nope, actually every MMO I've ever known has been like this, and aside from that PWI has provided better service than the others. Is there anything we can do about this? Nope. All we can do is trust that the Chinese are just as cheesed off about the changes as we are so that the unwanted changes will be reversed.
Also worth mentioning is that those of us who constantly accuse the GMs of not doing their job are probably just stressing them out. The devs are the dudes in China who make the changes to the game. They themselves have the final say in what gets changed and what doesn't. The GMs here are in charge of managing our game, but UNDER the management of the devs in China. GMs DON'T have their own say; they just follow the orders given to them and can only tell the devs how cheesed off we are; they can't actually reverse changes themselves.




4) This is not a conspiracy to make us all join PWE's new game. Seriously, what the HELL?? Tell me how this makes any sense at all. Why would a company PURPOSEFULLY provide horrible service with one product in hopes that people will buy the other? This is basically the equivalent of if McDonald's were to offer a steaming pile of **** to it's customers, and then after they were finished barfing all over the walls, McDonald's proceeded to offer them an ACTUAL cheeseburger. Do you think people would buy the second burger after the first "burger" was a steaming pile of ****? Of course not. Does it makes sense to purposefully run off loyal, paying customers IN THE HOPES that they'll visit your new store you just built downtown? Of course not. It makes much more sense to simply hold on to those customers and keep your steady, reliable business while trying to build up the second business as well.


5) Stop with the cliche jokes.

For example:

"HURRRDUURRRRRR I bet next week is like:

INTRODUCING...
The TT difficulty reduction pack. Reduces the difficulty of TT FOR ONLY 40 GOLD PER RUN, HURRRDURRR."

Wow man, did your mom help you with that one? It's pretty good. Haven't heard a joke like that in....4 seconds.


Seriously, if you must use this community's disapproval for recent patches as your shot to become the next George Carlin, then AT LEAST come up with some original jokes. For the Love of God.






Sample alternatives to complaining on the forums:


-Petting Kittens
-Watching a Movie
-YahooAnswersFail.com
-Playing the Game
-Flying a Kite
-Bungee Jumping



Well, I hope this has been both educational and interesting for you all.

Happy complaining b:bye