User:Big Kab/An Open Letter to the Developers

Ahoy! You may or may not know me/know of me, but I was referred to you because they said you were one of the only ones that actually works on the game like you care about it. Anyways I have some strong words, maybe not necessarily for you, but for your staff. I am hoping y'all heed them and take appropriate action. Okay, I normally do not speak out on these issues and I am rarely one to criticize, but it is getting out of hand. Y'all (the people in charge) need to get your act together and do preferably all of these things. Take the servers down til you fix several if not all of the major issues currently plaguing your product, communicate far better with the community than you have in the past, and add more staff to help you get these tasks accomplished and perhaps add and stabilize more servers. There is no point keeping your product available to the public if it is this broken. I understand that y'all are doing this voluntarily, have no major backing, and have other responsibilities in life, but there comes a point when you have to face the music. Either do some, or preferably all of these things or continue to see your community dwindle and die out before your eyes. I'm all for giving props and praise when it is due, and it was due for awhile, but that ship has sailed. You cannot coast on past success forever. I do not kiss boots that are undeserving of being kissed. While some in the community may blindly praise you for doing nothing for over a month (yes you say you are working on servers, but there's been no evidence of that fact, and it's only become progressively worse), others have quit, cut back their playing time severely, and or moved onto other games. Address these issues. Do not get me wrong, what y'all have done and accomplished so far is great, and I am not criticizing that, however no one can sit on top of the throne forever without continually taking action to better whatever it is that got them to the throne in the first place. To not criticize at least to a degree would beget complacency on the party devoid of criticism. So take this with a grain of salt and (hopefully) begin to pull your heads out of your bums and fix the issues. I do not wish ill upon you or your game, I hope it does not go the way of POTCO, but continue along this path and it surely will. I even offer my services in a bridge between staff and community capacity. The root word in community and communicate/ion/ing, is COMMUNE and commune straight from the dictionary is this "a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities." y'all have not done a good job thus far in keeping the community informed with what's going on. That needs to change, games live and die by their staff's communication skills. With all that being said I wish you the best and eagerly await your reply. However, if it is not satisfactory I will post this to the public forums and Facebook group and the wiki and let the public have at y'all as I'm sure they are already doing. There's no reason to not be proud of what you've accomplished, but stay humble.