I thought my post and Ragnar's reply might have got through, I was hopefull for change but as yet no action has been taken to reslove the problem.
To not even bother making a token effort with players crying out for something does leave me to wonder what is going on at FC.
This has been a hard week, I have seen a lot of good players cancel, I have heard the Omni Guilds planing to quit on mass if things dont improve, even the pillars of the players community are giving up doing evens and are close to quitting.
I am close to doing the same as well, I put a lot of time and effort in AO but I no longer feel I get anything back from FC. The players are great but I watch people putting a lot of working into events etc while FC cant even be bothered to write a simple report on there web page or give a 10 minutes speech.
The last one was Clan day an event created and run by players, not only did FC not both to show up in the form of Radiman or for that fact anyone. But after the event the clan attacks on Omni, then items in the press, the players felt close to war.
I cant tell you how dissappointed the players are that no effort was made to offically even reconise this action. Its as if Radiman, Ross dont even exist. But worst it sends me the message that FC could not care a hang what we the players do.
On the 15th of May this game is to be re-released I hope this to be a turning point that we can get back on track but sadly I fear not.
I am not asking for much from FC but I want to be heard and I want to here what the future plans are. The biggest problem we have is the total lacking of communication between the players and the FC team including ARKS and events team.
I am taking the step of creating a player council to talk to FC to have regular meetings with them to discuss events at least once a month. The idea is to bring up real players issues about the state of the game, not just moans about certian proffesions, but the good points of AO to.
We have to work as a team and both sides are going to have to help each other to get there. All we are asking is a chat once a month to go over issues and discuss the plans you have and how we the players can help you.
To much of this game is one side working and not invloving the other, this must be as much a problem for the events team as it us for us.
In order to try and force this issue through I am having an open players meeting this saturday in baboons at 18:00 GMT, 19:00 british summer time and 20:00 central eupean time, (lord knows the US times pls someone work it out) to try and get a list of issues I can talk to the events team about.
If you are unable to make the meeting e-mail me your points at Kirranas@hotmail.com. Also if FC reads this maybe you can send me an e-mail to discuss the player monthly meetings as well.
Kirrana