Hi,
I've only been playing a few months now but the second I begin to have a negative attitude about this game you will no longer see me on the forums or in game. Why stick around and ruin the mood for everyone that's trying to enjoy the game?
(This is not addressed at Nemrik explicitly now, I just used the quote to show an example)
You might know that there are quite some people that are in this game for many years now, and have payed serious sums for it meanwhile. Many have actually "invested" amounts of real money unbelievable for anybody not confident with EU.
These people have made it possible for PE to become EU, and for EU to survive until now. These people have made it possible that you, today, can play this game.
Imagine you'd be one of them:
You'd have spent hours and hours of your live playing this game, developing your avatar, making friends, contributing to the survival of this game you love(d).
You'd have spent insane amounts of money, a multiple more then needed to pay WoW-accounts for your whole friends and family for this time.
You'd have acquired lots of skills and gear, with much of it having a hefty markup at the time you bought it. It's worth a small car or more now.
Now this game takes a direction that you don't like, the number of participants steadily shrinks, the activities in the forums slowly approaches an all-time low, and the markup of your property goes down and down. You see your hopes dashed, and you begin to realize you might have wasted a lot of precious lifetime, and a lot of money.
What would you do now?
Would you pretend that the sun is shining, the birds are singing, all would be warm, nice and cushy?
Denying the
elephant in the room?
Whacking on all those that don't follow your
3 wise monkeys tactic, accusing them of negativity, whining and destructive behavior, offering tin foil hats to them, and umbrellas, in case the sky would fall?
Or would you check if you'd have some balls left, stand up, and fight for your beloved game where you have a serious financial interest? Pointing to mistakes, making suggestions for improvement, discussing the to-dos and not-to-dos? Keeping some pressure on the game developers to support your interests? Make your voice heard?
Up to you, you need to decide this for yourself.
What should be regarded:
It doesn't make much sense to discuss ad hominem. If Joe is accusing Jane of "
a negative attitude about this game [that will]
ruin the mood for everyone" Jane might react calling Joe a "
FanBoi".
(Hypothetically, I don't do this! I just abused some of your words to clarify)
The overwhelming majority here should be people that love this game, and just hope it will further survive, and evolve, right? Why would be they be here else?
For sure it's unavoidable that a few, very few, trolls are crouching out from below their hiding rocks as soon as any discussion arises, and try to justify their pathetic existence doing their miserable work - but these are so few, are so well known to all, and are mostly ignored by any educated participant anyways. They come from both above mentioned sides, and we should be careful not to feed them.
Obviously I'm on one of the above mentioned sides. I have chosen to fight for the game that I love, for my "investments", and not to stand aside pretending there's no problem.
I understand that it might be confusing for a newbie to come here and read the many threads where problems are addressed, and complaints are filed. I understand that this might be repelling.
But wouldn't it be ways more repelling to paint a picture here of a perfect universe, ignoring any problems, and such actively lying to them?
Simulating a land of milk and honey, just to give them a harsh awakening when they realize the truth?
I hope to have been able to show a different view, and the reasons behind. And I hope to have been able to refrain from being too bad (there's a consistent danger ...). Should someone feel attacked, please re-read, it wasn't my intention. Maybe PM me - English isn't my native language so mistakes can happen.
We might have a different opinion - but we shouldn't shoot each other, OK? After all we have a common target, the success and the survival of EU, right?
Have fun!
