I gracefully admit that, having generally quit gaming more than a year ago, I have no
right to comment on the state or decisions related to servers.
However, I can, and
will, address what I've seen in this thread, and that has been a very sad display.
Your story bothers me for the fact is we never see you in ventrilo you very rarely played on blackmesa you continue to wine and complain about everything, you have never recruited anyone into eGO but you have the nerve to post here and say we made bad decisions.
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As for the rest of them I see there concern especially the ones that dedicted to eGO and Mesa itself.
Your post bothers me for the fact that you are a
Division Leader.
It may very well be that I'm the only one that finds this disturbing but, your post shows the most
short sighted notion of what a
community is, I've ever seen from someone in
leadership.
A community is not about the
tags you use, it's about the
sentiment you share. The fun you have that makes you
want to come back; Enjoying the play with friends, and even complete strangers; The feeling of a perfectly timed
?ber, the joy of when that last
crit pipe killing
everyone, and even the cries of desperation after being steamrolled, and that bitter taste after eating a
crocket.
None of that has anything to do with
tags or number of
recruits.
You play with the
people. In the end,
tags are
meaningless.
I find it
appalling that a
Division Leader would post something with such a tone towards a member who, in that regard, had been nothing but extraordinary towards the
community.
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I would gladly agree with all of your appeals to this change if you were all true supporters of the server and cared about our division.
Hahaha, I love people who have no respect. "This guy" happened to be a former Advisor for eGO in the past, and knows a hell of a lot more than any of you do about filling servers.
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To
you, the same note as to
Razor1. This is appalling.
This might be most
immature display from leadership I've seen. At the very least, let me point out the fact that you cannot claim
respect when the tone of your own posts is
insulting.
Here, I'll give you a goal for getting the Blackmesa Server back.
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Once again, I'm not saying if you meet those 3 goals that you definitely will get Mesa back, I'm saying that I will personally try to get another Mesa server if you do.
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Feel free to PM me with any questions, comments, or concerns!
I applaud you for posting the closest thing to a
propper response. But I have to point out a couple things.
Why post goals to get
mesa back and not to
keep mesa? I don't claim that
mesa would have been saved if you posted something like this
weeks ago, but at the very least, you could
honestly say that you tryed
all you could.
Coupled with the message
from leadership saying
mesa was safe if the other servers were
OK, which tured out to be false, even if your intentions
are the
best possible, here, now, this just seems like a
vage promisse.
Even if members posts' were nothing but
flaming,
feedback from leadership should always be
responsible.
I don't know what the magical solution for all of
TF2 is, but I know that it must start with leadership being more
open and
transparent. I'm not saying you should paste all of your
private forums discussions here, but topics like server changes, that affect (
dramaticly) the
whole community,
should be shared as rapidly and as clearly as
possible.
[TL;DR:] A
core part of the problem is a lack of
propper feedback,
dropbox is good but only really works one way. There ought to be more threads asking for
communty input about things being discussed by leadership.
K^^
