Management Poll!

Honestly, yes, and no, but I will say no since there is more no than yes.

I like most of the gms as people. Ive met a few in game and they were awesome. Even on the forums, they try hard to deal with the backlash of different things as best as someone should expect. I feel bad for them alot of times because they get almost no say in what happens to our game, but they still have to deal with hundreds of posts bashing them, yelling at them, calling them out as failures, etc. I would not in a million years want their job for the simple fact that there has to be zero to no satisfaction in it. So I give them respect for that too. The only thing I really have against them is how they try to bribe us with Facebook likes on so many things, but at the same time, I can see how they might HAVE to do that to show numbers to their bosses.

The mods... now thats a hit and miss. There are some I like, some I dont. tbh, I miss Ary, Hawk, Konari, Andracil, etc. I admit, I really like Grim and Kritty. However, I just DONT like Shelly. Power trips FTL. The rest of them I have no opinions one way or another really, though Fuzzy makes me miss Hamsta from the way he talks b:cry.

Now, the reason I have to say no, is the developers. I know we dont know any by name, or anything like that, but they are the reason this game is on a downward spiral. Their management of the glitches, bugs, content, and everything else is laughable, and I really hate how they basically leave our gms high and dry on dealing with the community's problems. They are the ones responsible for almost every complaint, from rubber banding, to lack of content in the updates, to the unbalanced classes, to the medals being removed because "we got them too easily". They run this game as if it was a second rate cash in to them, which as far as I can tell, thats all it is.

I'd have to say yes. I may not agree with some of the decisions they have made, but they don't do things haphazardly and it's pretty clear why decisions are made. Mostly its about the money, this is a business, after all. But they do a good job.

CptMaggots - Lost City wrote: »

Honestly, yes, and no, but I will say no since there is more no than yes.

I like most of the gms as people. Ive met a few in game and they were awesome. Even on the forums, they try hard to deal with the backlash of different things as best as someone should expect. I feel bad for them alot of times because they get almost no say in what happens to our game, but they still have to deal with hundreds of posts bashing them, yelling at them, calling them out as failures, etc. I would not in a million years want their job for the simple fact that there has to be zero to no satisfaction in it. So I give them respect for that too. The only thing I really have against them is how they try to bribe us with Facebook likes on so many things, but at the same time, I can see how they might HAVE to do that to show numbers to their bosses.

The mods... now thats a hit and miss. There are some I like, some I dont. tbh, I miss Ary, Hawk, Konari, Andracil, etc. I admit, I really like Grim and Kritty. However, I just DONT like Shelly. Power trips FTL. The rest of them I have no opinions one way or another really, though Fuzzy makes me miss Hamsta from the way he talks b:cry.

Now, the reason I have to say no, is the developers. I know we dont know any by name, or anything like that, but they are the reason this game is on a downward spiral. Their management of the glitches, bugs, content, and everything else is laughable, and I really hate how they basically leave our gms high and dry on dealing with the community's problems. They are the ones responsible for almost every complaint, from rubber banding, to lack of content in the updates, to the unbalanced classes, to the medals being removed because "we got them too easily". They run this game as if it was a second rate cash in to them, which as far as I can tell, thats all it is.

-Thank you _Petal_ for the topic. It's something I have thought about for a long time, but did not find a good moment or any place to talk about. It's done now, thanks to you-

Well then, CptMaggots, let me reply to your post:
I agree with about all you said, in that GMs and mods are the ones at the frontline, having to deal with a bunch of super aggro mobs on steroids... I mean... angry customers. You know, a bit like a RB instance. b:chuckle They have a lot of courage to go on, even more because they do it voluntarily, are present every day and mods are not paid for it. I repeat, they are not paid for what they do.

Well, I feel ChaoticShelly was a nice mod, she embodied the colder, stricter type of moderator. I kinda liked her, because given how some people here in the forum act... You surely witnessed the unfunny fail trolls, flamebaiters, immature perverts, the holier-than-thou dummies (full with long rants rich with boring complex arithmetic formulae to aim shutting the other's mouth... drives me to sleep. And no, I have got nothing against those who explain game mechanics to HELP others), rich spoiled individuals QQing all day and all other kinds of disruptors, so I should not explain too much.
Of course, myself am not perfect at all, I tend to be sarcastic, a bit distant and not kind at all to scammers, haters and trolls but also have an annoying part that wants to have things cleared up with a boring and detailed set of arguments, but yeah, I sure have a good side too. As long as I don't break rules or annoy others (too much)... I even asked mods to warn me if I go overboard. b:laugh
I'd love if there were moderators in game (as well as the return of GMs to moderate world chat, trust me).

What else to say. Ah yes. If I had to become a mod, I guess I'd have to give up on my freedom to express myself fully, including the developed arguments with others, my sarcastic side (higher ones have to keep decency, yes?) and have to be present all the time. I cannot do it, but I could assist them in their quest for justice.

Amd finally, when it comes to developers, I am quite disappointed as well, as the game could have been so much better if some minor decisions (leading to major effects) would have been taken into fact (to make a great game, listen to the playerbase, ignore/discard the stupid and against nature suggestions*/threats -give us a reason when doing that, devs instead of hiding things or apologize via GMs, plox- and implement ideas that could freshen the game more than a bit! And it does pay off... cash cash!!)
Yeah, as I feel that PWI is localized, info is largely slowed down (it's mass internet age, c'mon, even voting and info transfer should not take so much time?) if it's not lost during process, or ignored. Even if the GMs, CMs and mods are genuinely concerned about our well-being, even if we were not all the ones that directly pay with cash,something is lacking (stated above)... And it's why they take the backlash in full force.
I do feel sad for them.

Etc. b:thanks

*I am sure you heard about these topics in the past. I may give you a few examples upon request.

P.S.: I did not vote. I really love our GMs and CMs and mods, but the developers... not so much at all.

Even though the GM's here on the forums and frankie and everyone else are doing a great job there is much more to be done by the developers.

As from how polite the Mods and GMs are on the forum, yes i like it. sometimes I dont like what they do, without warnings especially, but they do have their nice times when they treat us with events and sales we look forward to seeing (yes, sales, but by this i dont mean "oh, theyre money hungry" - because they cant just hand things out for free)

as for the Devs i cant say i know how they are. Its not really the GMs fault for some things that happen to our game, its really the Devs who send them the patch and may or may not give all the information thats included in it. Devs dont control PWI, but they do take a large part in how the game runs from the patches, of course.

I cant vote on the Devs, though, i have no opinion on them. but i feel that the Mods and GMs are doing a good jon, people wise, as in not being rude, they explain things that happen, or if a problem occurs they get on it asap and let us know information periodically. i voted yes.

_blood_rain - Sanctuary wrote: »

I love the mods here.

b:dirty

2 of the mods are barbs ( ewww ), 1 is veno ( willing to say "yay" because of the tail ), 1 is BM ( humans b:scorn ) ...

... and me is elf ... marry me ? b:dirty

KrittyCat wrote: »

Why, I oughta...

b:angry

Oughta lose aggro to him? *runs*

jk, i love barbs

Tearle - Dreamweaver wrote: »

...only like one mod.

*prepares to spam PMs until an explanation is given*

b:mischievous

I wish I could write yes simply because Grim is one hell of a sexy Archer.

For being bald that is.b:victory

ANYWAY; my opinions on this:
The mods are great, I didn't really approve of Shelly and Grim becoming mods, but really, I think both of them are doing a great job at the moment. Shelly is indeed hash, but eh, to be frank, this forum is in need of that. I like Krit and Fuzzy as well because they're barbs and barbs are awsum pplz. Haven't seen enough of whatever his/her name was again so I haven't go an opinion. Hopefully he/she is decent too.

I like Franky. I've disagreed with him, raged at him, but really, he does a good job for the community. And it impresses me how well he keeps up considering the fact that he gets blamed for pretty much everything. Other GMs are kewl as well.

Then we come to the devs. There is still so much that should be done to this game, bugs that should have been fixed ages ago, new content that we need, how unbalanced it is and so on. And since they create the game, I ended up with voting no.

tl;dr: Frankie owns, Kritty, Grim, Shelly, whateverhisnamewasagain and Fuzzy owns. The devs fail.

As many have said. The forum is well managed and the mods here does a pretty good job. But the forum is not the game, so I had to vote no

The mods and gms are great, the devs on the other hand are lazy/greedy take your pick.

b:scorn Stuck up pplzzzz.... No likey b:surrender

I voted no.

That has nothing to do with the mods or the GM's. They do a good job, as far as I am concerned.

But the developers made me vote no. Every time after an update I hope that certain bugs are fixed, but no. We get new fashion, we get sales to spend our money on, and we get one decision after another that brings in money but screws up the game. Rather than having the Earthguard expansion, interesting as it is, I would have preferred to have all annoying bugs in the game fixed but for one reason or other, that is more difficult than fixing the bug about the medals.

I realise full well that this game is here to make money. But even if u get a dragon orb in return for your money, that does not mean that the rest of game can be ignored when it comes to bugs and the impact of certain decisions. That is called commercial management, and the average game developer may yet have to get their first lesson in it.

All in all, it seems after 3 pages that most ppl vote no because of the devs. If I were them, I would go cry in a corner and then try and do something about the justified criticism. However, after 2 years of playing this game, I sincerely doubt any chance of that.

Honestly? I think I'm going to have to vote no.

I like the way that Frankie is reasonably active on the forums and pretty honest, not afraid to tell us whats going on, like about the DDoS attacks and the DQ medals and how it was a subject of controversy within the staff. I also really like the mods on the forums.

On a more negative note, I really really would like to see the GM's in game a hellva lot more. Yes I know its not what they get paid for, but I think it would really boost peoples faith in the PWI staff. I ALMOST NEVER see a GM ingame and when I do, they are most usually AFK.

From the dev point of view, I know we get our patches from china and the PWI staff don't have a lot of control over them but I would like to see, PK events, more instances similar to FC or Nirvana, more endgame content, more events like the arch invasion or the world boss hunt, perhaps exciting quest chains like the TB one and just more stuff to do in general.

I would like to see medals back on the DQ page, to be honest I find it pretty insulting that they were put into the DQ page, and a lot of people went and bought r9, the ones of us that couldn't afford r9 at the time but were working towards it as a long term goal, are left to be ****ed over by the existing r9s in TW and PvP. Also what about the people that bought all the chips and rep needed and were in progress of farming the medals and suddenly the medals were taken out. That would seriously **** you off.

PW argue that they took the medals out because they were meant to be harder to obtain, if this is true, then why the hell were they ever on the dq page and wasnt r8 supposed to be hard to get? oh yeah, and ummm nixes and event gear and uh chips? No?

And then there are the ****ing bugs in the game that have been around as long as I can remember but never get addressed or fixed. Like rubberbanding or skill cancelling, not to mention charm bypassing by sins.