Trying to incite an in-game revolt will hardly make you popular with the GMs. Hopefully as a week or so passes they will let you go back. It is a pity since I sort of miss your posts, they are funny.

THAT IS SOMETHING FOR A DEVELOPER TO BE GLAD FOR.

Personally, I think you should be offered a formal apology, Kane.

A forums ban is fine, but it just seems like they’re acting like utter idiots at the moment.

I seriously gotta laugh though at the few people who say that everyone should just accept it because it’s free. That’s a terrible way to think and it’s thinking like that from the developers that keep Allods from being a huge success. With FoD it seems that they are content with short term profits, but no chance of long term success. People will play at the start and will buy the normal CS stuff but once they start pvping and everything and realizing how much they have to spend on perfumes they are gonna quit. There are so many ways to make money with CS’s without ruining the balance of gameplay and it’s a shame Nival couldn’t figure it out. I just hope somebody looks at the big picture and see’s what FoD is gonna do and fixes it, because I really do like this game and want it to be the biggest F2P out there, but the longer they take the less likely that is to happen.

Hopefully that all made sense. It’s 1:30 here and I’m really tired. I just heard about what happened though and wanted to see whats up and say sorry. Lets hope we can make a difference.

What you, and everybody thinking about “hitting them back” needs to remember is this: we all have been given a… gift, so to speak. This company (Astrum Nival) is making a game that usually would cost you monthly to play. They are going to allow you to play it for free. They made a limited (and we could discuss just how “limited” this was all week long, but it’s still limited) closed beta, and we all got the chance to play it before the open public, so we can give them feedback about what works, and what doesn’t.

This is the first aspect: you are there to test. You are not a customer, they are not working for you. For all that matters, you are working for them. You accepted to play the game, see what is broken, warn them with bug reports and mechanics feedback, and in return you are “payed” with some entertainment time that would cost you money otherwise. This means you don’t get to make demands.

The second aspect is: you all have been complaining about this for almost a week now. Those GMs read every single one of those threads; that’s what they are payed to do. Don’t you think they got the idea by now? Do you really think posting 10 new threads with a side of blog posts every day will make them change anything? They cannot change anything, they are not the developers. Like they said on that topic, they are giving the developers the feedback, and I bet Miss Sadie is begging them to change it back so she can finally get some rest.

Someone said to you on a topic that may have been deleted: “You have been banned. Now instead of trying to fight back, do your time, and then soon you might get released for good behavior”. That is the best advice anyone can give you. You crossed the line from “just complaint” to “flame war”. What caused it doesn’t matter, if “the GMs did it too” doesn’t matter; they are the authority there, and they need to enforce this authority, otherwise it’s just chaos. Accept the responsibility for the part you played, and give time for the penalty that was given to you to wear off.

And… sorry for the walls of text. I tend to write a lot.

This is not the point. I emailed them PMed them saying I would stop talking about the fear of death effect but they don’t want to listen anymore. They refuse to talk about it. I told them Id even get rid of the blog post and they don’t care at all. The more I try the more they ignore.

There has been no way I can communicate with them and that been that.

At this time I’m banned forever and never welcomed back.

I don’t want that I want peace.

Ok, we know the feature is broken. We know no players want it in the game. We know many are considering if the game is even worth playing with it. We… get… it. When I say we, I mean we the people involved on this game, be it us players, the GMs, the developers, everybody. We all know what is at stake here. But we don’t need to be reminded of it every five minutes.

Do you care about the game? Do you like the game, and want to play it? Then let it go. You made your case, you sent your message, it was received. Now let them do their work. Stop expecting things to change from one day to the next.

Did you think the GM message about “acknowledging the issue” was incredibly vague? It is supposed to be vague. It means they are not sure yet about what they are going to do. That feature has many implications, both on gameplay and on revenue, and both are VERY important to them, since they need players to want to play the game, and they need to make money in order to survive.

Give them the time to find a solution. If you decide it’s not enough, then don’t play. But stop acting as if you are entitled to some magical answer, because you are not actually entitled no anything. You are not helping yourself, the players, or the game. You are just making noise.

Sorry for the tough love. I have no quarrel with you, I just think you are not acting the way you seem to expect them to act.

quafka/Divega

She is downright rude, as with the other moderators of the boards.

You question them directly in threads they’re posting in, and no response then you see them replying to other people at the same time.

I also received these PMS from sadie and the other moderator of the site declaring my posts “hostile” when they weren’t at all. Upon sending a polite message back to the moderators to clarify what exactly was hostile, no response was received.

Moderation really is a joke on those forums and sadie is a child. A huge disappointment across the board and with fatigue, FoD and the disgusting way their staff acts i’ll just wait for FFXIV.