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Yes but why do you feel you have to alert everyone of this drastic event? Why can't you just enjoy the time you have on the game and not worry about when it might end? Now EA will probably be swamped with e-mails of frantic players wanting to know if they should possibly:
A. Even bother becoming a paying member if the game will shut down.
B. If they can get refunded for a game that wont continue to be around.
C. Complaints about why they were never informed of a possible game termination why someone on a forum had to announce it.
You have to think about others too. And the age groups that play this game are getting younger and will take this in a more dramatic sense. Please just, stop freaking out over something not happening now, go play the game, enjoy it, have fun with it, meet new people make new friends go work something! Stop bringing this up when right now there is no need for it. Let others enjoy this game as it is, not as something we have to grip onto just incase tomorrow its ripped away.
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See, that's just the sort of attitude i was referring to
Lets all put our heads in the sand and wait for the game to die....
If you say you love the game, then you would fight for something to change so that it would survive in the long term.
Your peception that theres no need for posts like this now is soooooo wrong in my opinion. People are closing their accounts everyday and it doesnt seem to bother you.
If you read the forums, you will see peoples concerns about the game. You may not agree with them, you might think the game is perfect as it is, but you are not I assure you in the majority.
The more poeple are ignoring the complaints that customers bring up, the quicker the game will go.
Please don't aid its disapearance by trying to stop the voices of the players being heard.
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But the point is this. No matter what anybody does,
somebody is gonna be unhappy. There is NO way to make every single person in this game happy. What Hecate is saying is exactly one of the points I've been trying to make....we need to make the best of what we have *now* -while- we try to make things better...it is possible to do both. People are so focused on making things better and negating what we have now that they can't even be partially satisfied while we wait to see what is in store. This game is nowhere near finished, and yes the devs want our feedback on what we don't like, but I think instead of saying that negative posts don't need to happen at all, I think I'd just like to see a bit more diplomacy without all the histrionics and drama that we've seen injected with the facts. That is what isn't needed and that's what gets people so upset.
Perhaps there needs to be a section for these types of posts that only registered members can read. Lurkers who haven't registered can read any post on here right now, so we have no idea who is reading what we say or how it might affect them. Maybe if there was a section that only registered readers could read, there wouldn't be the same worry because that reader would have to consciously register and go there to read the negativity, so ostencibly they would prepare themselves for it before they went in. I don't know if anything like that is possible, and I guess this paragraph is really more suited for Stratics Discussion but it's just something I thought of while reading these posts so I thought I'd interject it with this post. I dunno what else we could do to keep the negativity and venom from putting people off of the game....if anybody else has ideas I'd love to hear them. Not having them would be the simplest thing, but people have proven that they're not gonna refrain from posting stuff like that, so there has to be another way that we can protect potential new players from it, or it very well could keep them from becoming new players or have them cancel their subscription after only one billing cycle because of all the negativity, since the atmosphere in game is a totally different world. Some of the negativity is mixed in, but overall the atmosphere is happy and hopeful, to the point that I hesitate every time before giving anybody the address here since this is where you find alot of the 'how-to' stuff. It'd be nice if that could be separated out into a different site so I wouldn't even have to point new players here at all.
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What you are advocating, is hiding the problems the game has from potential new players thinking of joining. Honestly, dont you think that's a little wrong?
It's akin to EA sending out those emails stating that the game has been updated and is now much more fun.
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What is fun is a matter of opinion.
The game being updated is a fact. As shown by other people in other posts... whether you find those updates to be fun... well thats where the opinion part comes into play.
I know people who have returned to the game who never thought they would return and they claim to be having fun...
Then again, they could just be lying to piss people off... eye dee kay.