Quitting People - A Positive Alternative
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:07 am
OK, here's an appeal to the various people who have cancelled or are cancelling their subs.
Don't.
Please.
First and foremost that's admitting defeat, its capitulation and it weakens the resolve and 'voting power' of the Cooperative/PvE playerbase, which can only increase the problems in the future by causing a community shift.
Secondly, each one of you that goes moves the rest of us an inch closer to going as well, snowballing bigger and bigger.
What if, instead, we stayed?
If we work just as hard as we have in the empty time to bring this community together and give it fun things to do. If we roleplay our protest to the war, if we move towards a third option by moving towards Tryton or building our own.
We have accomplished a massive amount, just as players, with no tools at all. The storytimes, the merger party, the pub meets, the knife fights, the races, treks, great guilds with great community reputations - even amongst people who haven't liked their style.
We believed in this world through Patch One, through the financial difficulties Nevrax had. We asked Jessica difficult questions, we met up in person and became real friends. People have even become real world couples through Ryzom - and in no small part due to the relative maturity of this community.
This is the only online game where, until now, I have felt like part of something, where I have felt my presence has meant something to other players and I wasn't just a cipher.
It was, perhaps still is, a place where roleplay can actually mean something.
Do you have any idea how rare that it? You won't find it on any other online game out there to the degree you have it here - not in a graphical MMO anyway.
So, I propose we stay, we stick it out, we keep doing what we've always done to make Atys a better, friendlier place to play in, we wait for R2 and when we get it, we go absolutely nuts with it, push it to its limit and make some fantastic stuff. If we can do the wonders we did with no tools, just imagine.
Alright, so all the upcoming stuff is PvP. Ep2 will end, the outposts, hopefully, we'll be able to trade with the owners of and perhaps an alliance of neutral/RP oriented or independent guilds could take and hold one together, establish it as a free port known to be under our protection. The FvF area stuff? We can switch it off and ignore it, there'll be consequences to doing that, but we should still be able to get by.
Yes, I still hate it, but I believe in what this community is capable of - IF it doesn't all leave. So I'm asking you all, please, stick it out with me, just a little longer. We've been patient for a year, stuck it out with Ryzom - come to love it. That love is worth 6 more months at least even if we have to grit our teeth.
Isn't it?
All the RP friendly and community minded people - you're needed. What we have is something worth fighting for and that doesn't mean giving up so easily.
Please?
You force me to pull out the big guns.
*Puppydog eyes*
Don't.
Please.
First and foremost that's admitting defeat, its capitulation and it weakens the resolve and 'voting power' of the Cooperative/PvE playerbase, which can only increase the problems in the future by causing a community shift.
Secondly, each one of you that goes moves the rest of us an inch closer to going as well, snowballing bigger and bigger.
What if, instead, we stayed?
If we work just as hard as we have in the empty time to bring this community together and give it fun things to do. If we roleplay our protest to the war, if we move towards a third option by moving towards Tryton or building our own.
We have accomplished a massive amount, just as players, with no tools at all. The storytimes, the merger party, the pub meets, the knife fights, the races, treks, great guilds with great community reputations - even amongst people who haven't liked their style.
We believed in this world through Patch One, through the financial difficulties Nevrax had. We asked Jessica difficult questions, we met up in person and became real friends. People have even become real world couples through Ryzom - and in no small part due to the relative maturity of this community.
This is the only online game where, until now, I have felt like part of something, where I have felt my presence has meant something to other players and I wasn't just a cipher.
It was, perhaps still is, a place where roleplay can actually mean something.
Do you have any idea how rare that it? You won't find it on any other online game out there to the degree you have it here - not in a graphical MMO anyway.
So, I propose we stay, we stick it out, we keep doing what we've always done to make Atys a better, friendlier place to play in, we wait for R2 and when we get it, we go absolutely nuts with it, push it to its limit and make some fantastic stuff. If we can do the wonders we did with no tools, just imagine.
Alright, so all the upcoming stuff is PvP. Ep2 will end, the outposts, hopefully, we'll be able to trade with the owners of and perhaps an alliance of neutral/RP oriented or independent guilds could take and hold one together, establish it as a free port known to be under our protection. The FvF area stuff? We can switch it off and ignore it, there'll be consequences to doing that, but we should still be able to get by.
Yes, I still hate it, but I believe in what this community is capable of - IF it doesn't all leave. So I'm asking you all, please, stick it out with me, just a little longer. We've been patient for a year, stuck it out with Ryzom - come to love it. That love is worth 6 more months at least even if we have to grit our teeth.
Isn't it?
All the RP friendly and community minded people - you're needed. What we have is something worth fighting for and that doesn't mean giving up so easily.
Please?
You force me to pull out the big guns.
*Puppydog eyes*
