What would you roleplay?

[Belle Hibiki]

I'm not going to argue that some writers on this site aren't as active as they could be, but acting like people are just using the staff as a scapegoat is a misrepresentation.

Activity is a two-way street. The difference between staff and players, though, is that the players aren't the ones who made a committment to maintaining the site by accepting a staff position. Staff positions are (supposed to be) positions of responsibility, not priviledge. That means taking responsibility when the thing you're supposed to be looking over goes wrong.

I also take issue with this idea that players are demanding 'Update-must-happen-NOW'. Players were demanding that like over a year ago, and nothing was done. Then a few months later, and nothing was done. We had CA turned off without any input from players (irritating, but at least it was something) then re-enabled following big ol discussions. A lot of shit there never made it anywhere close to in the game. Some things did, like community grading, the biggest idea to come out of those discussions, but that flopped in Tenkaichi Budokai from players not doing their part (was probably a mistake to make them do the final rounds as most people involved were tired of doing so many of them), and flopped again in the League.

You added Achievements which would be relevant for a grand total of two sagas before staff stopped running them. You took the widespread concerns that newbies started way too far behind and decided that an adequate response would be upping the starting experience from 5 to a whole 10. We discussed rank systems, we discussed activity surges, short Rps, long Rps, prestige, retools of the entire CA system, etc. - and nothing came of it. It's been around half a year since the rank system stuff, and double that for some of the other idea threads/promises of changes. And how many of those happened?

So yeah, I'm going to call BS on this idea that players are demanding things happen unreasonably quickly. The speed that staff has used to address problems here could be generously called glacial. It's hardly a wonder that players feel like the staff just doesn't care anymore.