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Well, 2500 currently active players. The actual population is closer to 6-7k, but most of them are raid loggers or offline pending Naxx.

I actually agree with this. I believe that a good intermediate solution would be to allow one-way transfers from Elysium to Anathema, and to re-lower the server cap on Elysium to stable/low latency levels. The only question is how many players would take advantage of it. Of course this is a bit of development work, but it's a lot less work than a full server merger between realms on different patch levels and with vastly different gearing and bank status.

You didn't just argue for a solution, you demanded it in every single post and thread where it conceivably could get noticed. You hijacked other player's important posts to promote that agenda. You spewed it repeatedly all over the world chat on the server. You engaged in a concerted campaign to force the merger. This is not something that just happened with a neutral open discussion, you literally created one of the most toxic playing environments in any private WoW server community, and whether that was intentional or by-product, it IS what ultimately killed the server. There were still well over 1.5k active players on Zeth, when we made the decision to merge it. These are facts you never cared about, because you only have one perspective - and fuck anyone who disagrees. And now, you want the same thing to happen to Anathema and it's players, because fuck them too, right? Yes, we should merge 2500 players for the sake of a couple of hundred. And if we don't, make it so intolerably toxic that the bulk of those 2500 either quit playing or re-roll on another server. That way, you don't have to.

Yes there were negative trends, but while the project and staff were trying to improve the server and encourage players to play there, you were busy tearing it down and demanding a merger. The servers don't exist just to cater to you Indi, there are thousands of players on every realm and they all have a right to enjoy playing how they want to play. You never understood this, or if you did, you never particularly cared. You are, and always have been about YOU first, and fuck every one else second. And more than this, not only do players have a right to enjoy playing how they want to play, where they want to play, they have a right to do it in relative peace absent this kind of toxic behaviour.

No, your kind of thinking is what creates these problems. Self absorbed, self interested, and self centred. Stop and think about things from other perspectives and you'll realise just exactly what an ass you were.

No, I think about 150-200ish players are unhappy with the population. Primarily NA, and primarily ex-Nost, though obviously there will be some bleed-over into other demographics. If you look at just NA timezone, that might seem significant (though still a minority) given peaks push 800-1k, but if you look at active population as a whole, which is roughly 2500, it's a absolute minority of the population.

Ah Indi, you know exactly how much influence you had. Your team of malcontents made life a living hell on the server - as a GM I regularly saw complaints about your constant negativity in world chat. You polluted the forums with your charts and demands for action. And just like now, you and the players that aligned with you were a vocal minority discouraging anyone from playing on Zeth'kur. Sure it wasn't just you, personally, but you were right there in the front waving the standard, and you certainly were one of the most vocal. You and yours hijacked every single thread you could, to promote your agenda. And yeah, in the end, enough players got absolute sick of trying to play with you around. While there may have been other problems, even right up until the end we received regular pleas not to close Zeth'kur from players that were enjoying playing there. If you create a toxic environment, why would you be surprised that players dont want to play there? Players ticket GMs for everything, and what sucked more than anything was having to reply with "well we can't just ban him/them" because we could see first hand the negative impact your campaign had on the server population. Are you really trying to pretend innocence? You screwed over a thousand or more players to get what you wanted because you couldn't be men enough to simply re-roll on Elysium (but mah geaaaars and looots and materialsssss, I worked so hard for dem!). That, more than anything, disgusting me. Yes, population decay is inevitable. What I call "the natural life cycle of content in World of Warcraft". It's something that happened in retail, and it's something that will happen with each server, and when the bulk of your population is raid logging or taking a break, or leaving for other expansions or games, that's going to make it worse. The key to balancing population decay is to promote and encourage new players to join the realms, that's what keeps populations healthy and vibrant. Not forcing mergers between servers and telling every last interested person to roll elsewhere. The players that are complaining - just like you with Zeth - are not concerned about the health of the server, they are concerned about their immediate boredom and are absolutely willing to screw over every other player on the server for that sake.

You're free to disagree. I mean, it literally is a small loud minority on the forum/reddit who are literally just complaining they can't PVP and Raid anymore which is literally a lesser concern for the bulk of the current population who would be affected by any actions taken for the server. But you are free to disagree. No one is saying the population hasn't dropped. That would be ludicrous. However, it's also kind of moot, any decisions need to be made with consideration to the population as it stands. Forcing a merge for the sake of a couple of hundred bored OG Nost players who are already geared on multiple alts would be an absolute bad idea. Discouraging new players from rolling on Anathema because a couple of hundred bored OG Nost players are bored, is absolutely a bad idea.

It's literally the same people creating those threads and participating in them. That's just another flaw in the arguments being made "Look at all the threads on the forums about this issue, clearly it is important to all players" - said after continually creating threads after they are locked. Take Morathe for example; temporarily banned for creating multiple threads in violation of ToS and then went on to create more. If you count the actual number of players that are participating in this discussion, its negligible measured against the active server population, and it's still not a major part of the population even if you factor in ten or twenty more per participant. Then there are the demands that the project answer them - staff have repeatedly said "there will be no merger" so why act like you haven't been told this? Then there are demands to "tell us there will be TBC" - which completely ignores the fact that staff probably have no solid plans at this stage and it would be a long way off if it ever happens? And I said if a poll is done, it needs to be done by the players, not the staff, and done in a way that involves the entire server and neither implies nor promises transfers or mergers. Add to that "neither promises nor implies TBC". Until such a poll is done, rough estimates are all we have. We know the rough active population and distribution of players on Anathema right now, and we know the rough number of players demanding a merger or complaining about population. Using the statistical 1 in 10 rule, we can estimate the actual number of dissatisfied players. It's a heuristic, a rule of thumb, it's not intended to be exact but to provide some measure of insight and proportion. Anyone who has studied problem solving and analysis (a core module for most software engineering, for example) would be familiar with the legitimacy of these models.

Those who are content are not even aware there is a debate raging about the future of the server. There are roughly 2000 - 2500 active players across all time zones, giving a peek population of around 1.2k. There are maybe ten - fifteen people complaining about the state of the server. Even if you assume that there are ten players holding their tongues for every one that is complaining (which is a generally accepted heuristic) the complainers are not even close to a significant part of the current population distribution of Anathema. It's a not exactly startling fact that most of our players dont read the forums, visit the discord, or read the reddit unless they actually have an issue. If they also don't play during the NA time zone, and therefore don't have to deal with NA negative world chat bullshit, they are probably completely unaware of this conversation or any talk of a merge.

I'm ex-staff and I care about the project. The majority of Anathema players don't even read the forums with any regularity, or the subreddit. Many are completely unaware that there is a concerted campaign to undermine their server and try to force a merge in the footsteps of Indi. The few that are aware and involving themselves in the discussion get shouted down at every opportunity by you and others. I saw exactly what happened with Zeth'kur from the inside, and I don't want to see it happen to Anathema because old Nost players from the NA timezone are having a rough time finding raids or battlegrounds after they were deserted by their peers. Your inability to understand that there is more at stake here than your own personal experience is why you will never understand opposition. You're loud, ignorant, and uninformed.

So Elysium players don't get a say in mergers to their own server? Yeah, that's fair. Of course, if you set the bar at 60, you exclude the bulk of the leveling population and if you set it lower, at say 30, players can smash that in a couple of days with practice so it won't stop vote stacking. A vote will also completely ignore the opinions of players who are not even aware there is problem and are content with the status quo unless Elysium Project spam messages telling people to vote which in turn will create the impression that a merger is on the cards - which is not - and again, skew the results. If a vote is going to be done, it has to be done by the players in a way that genuinely involves the whole server and not just those with a problem, but also in a way that neither promises nor implies a merger.

Except that you can't apply the same logic in reverse. Players that are upset with the status quo will complain while those who are content will not involve themselves - thus they don't represent a part of the prominent available data (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic). It's a fallacy to present the "noisy minority" as representative by assuming that because they present the bulk of complaints that they represent the bulk of players. It's equally a fallacy to assume that because other players are not speaking up that they agree with the complaints. Sure, some might, but I accounted for that using the standardised 1 in 10 participation heuristic. You really should be careful when trying to pull that schtick.

The players that want to abandon Anathema or force a merge with Elysium can be estimated by the number of people making posts about it, give a factor of 10 for silent agreement, nets you about 100-150 players. That is NOT the majority of Anathema. It's maybe 10%. The active population of Anathema is higher than the peak population, btw.

Pretty much this.

Unless circumstances have changed, there is no intention to punish players for playing the game the way it was playable in retail Vanilla. Those portals have always been a problem, but it is allowed to MC (with cap or priest) a player out of them. Is it something we like? No. The only real way to address this is to disable the portals themselves.

You ARE toxic. You don't even play here anymore and youre still trying to get your uninformed way.

FYI, the major gold sellers are American, not Chinese. There are Chinese good sellers, yes, but it's the Americans that are the worst offenders. They use VPNs as well btw. Please make sure when you're quoting that you correctly attribute.

I apologise. Honestly, if it weren't so much work to do, I'd absolutely recommend opening transfers from Elysium to Anathema. Maybe even offer some sort of transfer bonus provided the account remains active on that server for a period of time. The problem is that it IS a lot of work, and there are precious few man hours available to do that kind of work, nor to deal with the interruption to other important work that needs to be done. Still, I don't see things as grim, and transfers would only be a temporary shot in the arm.

What is it with you and strawman arguments. I never asked for obedience or claimed to be anyone's saviour. Doctors are Doctors because they want to be, and because they understand the need. Do you disrespect them? Police are police because they want to be. Lawyers are lawyers because they want to be. Everyone takes on the role they choose because they choose to - that doesn't mean you shouldn't respect them. Do you flip off veterans too, because they chose to server their country? This is hyperbole, I'm not insinuating in any way that being a CM or GM or team lead or anything else is anywhere worthy of the level of appreciation and respect those jobs are, but they are worthy of some respect and appreciation. Nor is it an obligation or expectation, I didn't become a GM to be respected, but I don't appreciate seeing you show such disrespect to others who are working hard to meet the needs of the server without any other kind of reward. It's a similar situation brewing on Elysium PVP now, they can put a cap of say 8k on and inflict queues (most likely at least an hour) on players or they can keep the cap high and hope to address lag, latency, and server instability. Same situation that faced Elysium on launch, where both Ana and Ely were hitting populations of 11k players online concurrently, and this was PRIOR to the DDoS attacks. You have to deal with reality, not ideal situations. Nothing is ever ideal. Again, you need the mental flexibility to understand this. Shit talking is the result of competition between servers, it's toxic and negative. I can't speak for Shenna but I hoped that giving everyone a unified vision and having them work together would bring private wow servers out of that morass and into a newer more cohesive and collaborative future. Projects would be reformed and a cross project leadership established that would help direct and grow the whole community. It was not something we could do alone, any one attempting this needs to be willing to work with other projects and extend olive branches and second chances. You have to be emotionally mature about things like this. If you cling to old grudges you'll never get anywhere. Again, you have to work with reality, Duki. You can't magically have your cake and eat it too. If these changes were not made the project would have died very quickly from much worse problems. They were necessary changes and they remain necessary changes. You can cry all you like about how "un-blizlike" it is, but it's far better to have a server with minor changes than no server at all, I would hope you agree. No, it's literally very bad English and I cannot parse out what you are saying in regards to respec costs and how that relates to the opening statement. I'm not criticising you for not being a native English speaker, I'm literally saying "I can't understand this, please rewrite it in a way that makes sense so I can address it". It's not that simple. You can spend a year fixing all the bugs in the core, in which time no content is released and players leave out of boredom. Players would rather have some bugs and new content than no bugs and no content. That's the reality of it. The length of time players are willing to wait for new content differs player to player, but we assess as a whole the sentiment of the server and how much time is available before we need to release the next round of content. In an ideal world, with a team of hundred capable developers, and best-in-practice processes for testing and delivery, infinite money to spend on server infrastructure to host PTR realms for all players, we would be able to release new content regularly and bug free onto bug free servers. Since that isn't a feasible reality, we have to make judgement calls. A formidable feat. I know, I was there inside the instance watching, as were the other GMs, making sure everything progressed correctly. They were geared and played very well, and that's all there is to it. There's no point arbitrarily ranking up difficulty by increasing damage or health pools above the ability of skill and gear to account for it - doing so would make it hard not only for the top 2 guilds, but make it impossible for everyone else ever. You're minimising the technical proficiency of those guilds. They used well practised strategies, and did everything right. That's all there is to it. I don't know why you're bringing up Alexensual. He had nothing to do with the decisions around War Effort. It's really confusing when you link unrelated things together. We didn't have a choice, what part of that is confusing you? If we didn't change War Effort it would take forever to complete. This decision was entirely about letting players experience and participate in AQ within a good time. Yes, and in the overwhelming part, the staff are unceasingly professional and dedicated. So what if the occasional forum response is terse. You need to set the standards you expect according to the UoD. You sound like that idiot who DDoSed the server and threatened to keep it up until leadership was handed over which was never going to happen. Anyone is welcome to apply for a position with staff. Not many people do, because it's a job - and many that do, don't stay with it long - because it's a job. I didn't see your GM application in GM applications, Duki. The success of most projects is determined by word of mouth, not by advertisement. This is why there are so many concerted efforts by vested interests seeking to undermine different projects. This is why Indi pushed so hard to create the impression of failure on Zeth'kur which ultimately lead to Zeth'kur dying. It's not about server advertisement, it's about word of mouth spread by the player base. We even have screenshot, blog post, and video of the day activities to promote the server. But when it comes down to it, players dont play because they saw an advert, they play because they heard about it from someone else. Do you know where I heard about Elysium from? A youTube streamer on Kronos II who got me back into WoW there. This was the first time I'd ever heard about Nostarius or Elysium or Kronos, despite all their advertising. Word of mouth is how you reach people. Where were the ads for Felmyst, Duki? And yet they had how many players on launch? We advertise when there's something to advertise, but it's up to the players to spread awareness. No amount of ads is going to do that.

Ahh, the continued references to "kid". Grow up, Duki. And I don't mean in age. I mean emotional maturity. You have no grounds to insult or call anyone anything given your own behavior. And you sound like a drongo. I don't really expect better from you at this stage, Duki. I'm not even hoping for better from you. Well I'd post it, but lucky for you, the thread was removed. Funny how your begging for it to be deleted worked out in your favour, huh? I challenge you to find a single word or action by me when I was GM that was in any way damaging or toxic to the project. I have held myself with absolute professionalism and respect to the job. Regardless of your attempts to insinuate and imply otherwise I will always be proud of my work for Elysium, I only wish I could have stayed on and done more. It's not true just because you say it or believe it, Duki. If you don't know it, then you are wrong, if you did, then they are lies. You can choose which, but there is no third option. I know that you don't understand why anyone would dedicated so much time and energy to a project, but take it as written: It's because they care. You're digging deeper and deeper into your own personal sewer pit here. The more you write, the more clear it is that you are incapable of the level of emotional and intellectual maturity you pretend to have. You make insults every single post, and then ask me to find where you insulted anyone? How clueless and unaware can you be about yourself? This is just pathetic. Who do you think I am? I was a senior GM, not a team lead. I didn't make a single decision on behalf of the server, I contributed to the discussions, and helped people to the best of my ability. Your motivations and desire to insult and degrade anyone who disagrees with you have never been more obvious than in this moment. You know what's really funny? You absolutely could not have handled being even an R2, I don't think you could even have handled being a CM. You don't have the emotional maturity for it. You want to insult and degrade me when I have done more for this server than you ever could have contemplated and I'm just one of the (ex) staff. There rest of the team, and the team leads, and the admins, are still there plugging away, working to make the best use of the resources they can and make the best decisions for the server they can. My contributions pale in comparison to theirs, but yours, your pale even in comparison to mine. That's the scale we're looking at here. You would quite simply break the first time you faced a decision as tough as some of the decisions the project is faced with, because you lack the mental flexibility to consider other possibilities, other points of view. You are right, and that's all there is to it, in your mind. You twat! You don't even know when I joined. How can you even make a claim like this without the utmost dishonesty in your heart? You don't know how long I was a GM or even the things I did. Like I've said before, you're clueless and ignorant to the reality of the world. Exactly what do you think my job was, oh enlightened one? Please, illuminate me, I'm all ears. What's the job of a GM, Duki? And then tell me how I didn't do it with professionalism and decorum every day for months until my health failed? You wouldn't have been missed if you had never joined. I can't say that you brought anyone new into the fold, but you surely drove some away. Your net impact has been negative, and that's all there really is to say. Finally: See? You're a liar. You simply can't help yourself. Like Trump you'll lie about anything to make a good insult. What are you going to called Sheyster Stodola now or something? I didn't miss your claim of "FAKE NEWS" either. I QUIT. Literally, the stress and demands of being a GM on top of my day job put me in the hospital. I am now in the process of recovery, and so taking an interest again. But I don't expect you to understand or appreciate that. You'd much rather call people "kids" and whine about how your ignorant demands were ignored. Seriously, you would not have been missed if you never joined.

Because someone has to. Someone has to step up and keeping everything oiled and running. If no-one does, then there is nothing. We (and I'm including myself here) as people who care about Vanilla WoW, love the game, and want it to succeed - and more than that, were willing to sacrifice our time and energy to help it do so. YOU don't care. There are plenty of people who do, who appreciate the lengths that the staff go to, how hard they work, and how much they accomplish just keeping the servers running day to day. The whole team absolutely respects the community. But that's a strawman argument. That I personally don't respect or appreciate the way you have behaved says nothing and does not diminish in any way my appreciation and respect for the community as a whole. YOU are not the community, Duki, you are one person in a sea of 20,000. You are a single voice. Bull-fucking-shit. 1. It was necessary, there was no way for either server (Elysium PvP and Anathema) to cope with launch populations. Further, it was something that was heavily asked for and anticipated. Point is, you were wrong. Even if it didn't ultimately work out, it was still the right decision. 2. The LGN was and remains an amazing idea that would have delivered a beautiful uniform and progressive experience across all expansions that could have taken a player from earliest Vanilla all the way through to Legion. That it was undermined by Twinstar and Kronos and other's direct manipulations of the situation is a still painful loss to the private wow server community as a whole. This is why we can't have nice things. Again, you were wrong. That things didn't play out the way we wanted doesn't make it a bad decision to pursue that goal. If you never try and never strive for a vision, you will never bring it to reality. 3. One wonders what shady and disreputable communities you're a member of Duki, if you claim advanced notice of upcoming doxxing. Regardless. You don't give in to terrorists. Elysium was damaged, but we stayed standing and continued to rebuild. I don't know what your point is here. What should we have done differently? Quit? 4. Your idea was wrong then, and it remains wrong. You make a lot of logical errors in your reasoning, Duki. You think that because something happened it happened for the reasons you believe. Sorry to rain on your picnic. 5. This is such a moronic statement. Modifications are necessary. The game would be unplayable without them and they are never undertaken without a lot of debate and cross-discipline discussion. Nothing is modified unless it is absolutely deemed necessary. I'm sorry that your personal wants got stepped on, but sorry the community and the servers as a whole take preference. 6. I partially agree on this one, but unfortunately there is a reality you just don't acknowledge. There is a finite number of manhours for development, and we can't force open-source developers to work on things that don't interest them. There are also multiple realms at different points in their timelines that have been waiting for new content for different lengths of time. Naxx is needed. It's not a question of wanting to wait or not, but simply that in order to get Naxx out in a suitable time frame it needs to be worked on now. Once Naxx is out, developers will be able to take a breather and focus on fixing some of the more onerous outstanding bugs. 7. AQ40 was tuned to pre-nerf levels, there was an issue with armor values on release but by and large the reception has been overwhelmingly positive. The problem is not that AQ40 is too easy, but that it is too hard for guilds that have yet to clear it. 8. This was a split decision, one we didn't really want to have to make but we had to make in order to release AQ40 in a reasonable time frame. Unfortunately we couldn't force players who were hording war materials to turn them in, and we couldn't stop those same people competing for war materials against players wanting to turn them in. We were forced to make adjustments. 9. Shenna is Shenna. She wore her heart on her sleeve and invested everything into the project. Elysium and the LGN were her vision of what was possible. But again, you have no idea what was actually going on behind the scenes there. I ask that you not act like you have insight into things that are opaque to you. It would have been better if Shenna had kept her cool, but given everything, I can hardly fault or blame her for getting hurt. 10. "Told them to hold down their moral,ego and arrogance , talk with people about problems , stop dividing the community with example of respec cost , apologize the comunity (they do the opposite)." - sorry no idea what you're referring to here. 11. "Told them to start working as professional Staff , not like ordinary player (they do the opposite)." - this is just offensive. You want 100% professionalism, pay someone to do the job. Don't expect people to give up their free time to serve you, to endure incredible pressure and stress daily, and then demand they act with 100% professionalism. The staff are overwhelmingly professional in what they do. 12. "Told them to add Anathema specific Advertisement to get more people (they deny)" - your vague ramblings about this have been far from helpful. What advertisement, where, how? You said they should advertise big things - what big things? And part of advertising is YOUR job as part of the community. Don't expect the staff to do everything. Where are your advertisements about Anathema? Where are your posts and blogs and screenshots advertising any of the servers? 13. There is no web developer at present. The website will not be changed until there is. That's simply a fact of life. The website is built in a product that is uncommon and unwieldy, and badly implemented at that. To fix and change things there without breaking the whole site requires a competent developer skilled in that product. Nor do they have the time and manpower to completely rebuild the website in something else. Sorry, but this isn't a refusal out of obstinance, it's simply a lack of necessary resources to affect change. Given these 13 points, do you honestly no understand why I don't appreciate your statements and actions? You're wrong inside and out in so many ways, and then you claim you were right because the planets aligned and sort of delivered an outcome along those lines? That's no more accurate and insightful than a psychic octopus election prediction. I keep telling you that you do not have enough information to make these calls, and you do not understand or have any insight to the processes the project uses to reach decisions and how seriously they take them, and you keep blindly believe you do.

Duki, get it through your thick head that I am not part of the project anymore. You cannot infer anything about my work as a GM by the way I am addressing you now as a free and private player unbounded by any restrictions of professionalism and decorum that is expected of the hard working staff of this project. I respected and abided by those rules and expectations as part of the project - and everyone I have dealt with as a GM knows this. That you continue to dishonestly insinuate and even imply that I did not do my job well and with full grace and dedication expected is just an insult against me personally. And this is what I mean, because you began that line of attack the minute I pointed out that your attacks against Elysium staff - calling them dishonest, saying they do not care, that they intend to simply shut down and open a new private server, that they are corrupt, and incompetent - were uncalled for and toxic. That is when you began to attack me personally, because I do not have to suffer your shit any longer without a tongue to defend myself. You are that kind of person who thinks that everything they say and do is all butterflies and light while they shit all over the hard work of others that they clearly have no comprehension about. And quite frankly, if you take my disgust at you, and speaking up as a god damn free and private player of these servers, and defending and speaking up for the staff who cannot defend themselves, is incompetence, then know this: What ever you think of me, you are a hundred times worse. No, duki, this https://forum.elysium-project.org/topic/50453-thank-you-elysium-staff/?do=findComment&comment=416970 is NOT about Feenix, try again. There are scales of sanctions. I personally banned, manually moderated, and directly warned players and hid posts YOU complained about. I'll say that again. Posts YOU complained about - I'm not even talking about the plethora of other posts that were dealt with, just specifically the ones you raised. We see the reports in the moderator control panel, and we address them as appropriate. In fact, that's personally affronting given that I did specifically handle some of your complaints, hide posts, warn the poster, and allocate them infringement points. I have even put players on manual moderation - which means every post MUST be approved. You want to know something else? During my tenure as GM, you personally reported more posts than any other player on these forums. The only players making more reports total were Russians, and outside my purview. I never call someone retarded (or autistic) because those words have more important meanings to me. If I say you need remedial English and culture classes, that means exactly that. Go back through my post history. You will find that there are very few times I have spoken up, and when I do, you'll see that I say what I mean. I'll say an idea is moronic, poorly thought out, unworkable, or just a plain bad idea and I will call them players for unfounded, ignorant, statements (by players I mostly mean you, since you are the main offender here) - particularly about staff. But I will not call them retarded or autistic. My overriding concern is for the servers and server health. Not to pander to your hurt feelings. The fact is, Duki, that you are wrong about so many things, and that you continue to parrot those falsehoods. Perhaps you genuinely think you've been respectful during your stay here. It's a possibility that you are that unaware of your own abrasive rudeness. I'll put it this way, if your complaints against the staff - their integrity, dedication, and honesty - had any merit, I would not object. When you say "I told them not to do this and they did it anyway" - that may or may not be a fair assessment of the situation, but it is not a direct attack against the staff. No one is immune to making mistakes - it's why we have a ban appeal forum. But when you say "They don't care" or "They lied" or "They are going to shut down and re-open" and every time you accuse them of lacking integrity, professionalism, and competence - that's when it becomes offensive. You demand of them a standard that you refuse to abide by, which is hypocrisy, but I don't see them coming out and calling you unprofessional and incompetent, I don't see them speaking back every time you slander them. And rather than acknowledge that you have been given great leeway, and shown unrelenting tolerance and patience and professionalism, you continue to criticise. You could have been a helpful and positive person but you chose not to be. Instead of trying to understand the decisions that are made and why they are made, you chose instead to cling to your own reasoning based on incomplete information. You're bad for this server. Plain and simple.

Why did you do that? You will need to make an in-game ticket with the full details of each character (race/class/level/realm).

I was responding to your earlier post in this thread. You continue to unfairly and inaccurately insult and denigrate the staff of this project, while closing your ears to any attempt to educate you to the extent of your lack of understanding in the matter. You are toxic in that way, because you continue to push ahead like a bull in a china shop with that ignorance, repeating it over and over and over. Everyone is tired of it, and tired of you. If I had the power, I would ban you for you toxicity and for your continued insulting and denigration of the staff. You are the ignorant incompetent one here, but you are too blind and self assured to realise it. Actually it does. How the hell would you know who got sanctioned and who didn't? You can't see the moderator controls, you don't know who was spoken to, who had posts hidden, who was issued infringement points, put onto manual moderation queue, or otherwise disciplined. Once again you spout something based on your own flawed ignorant understanding, and it's wrong. What a surprise. Rubbish. Tolerating asses like you is what drives this project under. Your continued rants against the server should not be tolerated. If you cannot show respect to the administration and staff, then you don't deserve to play here, nor do you deserve to contribute. The fact that you have been allowed to persist for this long has degraded the atmosphere and attitude across the server - and while I'm singling you out here, don't think you are the only one who this standard should be applied to. More clueless drivel. The only reason I'm speaking out now is because I'm no longer staff, and nothing I do or say reflects on their professionalism nor their dedication to the server. Every one of them deserves incredible respect, respect that you refuse to show while acting offended that you don't get respect for insulting them. I want to see you pull 4-6 hours a day, every day, doing nothing but answering tickets, trawling through transaction logs, investigating gold transfers, monitoring BGs and barely having a spare minute for yourself. These guys pull around 24-28 hours a week - more when there is a heavy run on tickets, and ban appeals, or when an exploit is detected and needs to be investigated thoroughly. Being a GM is not a game, it's not even fun, it's a hard, brain crushing job - and the only reward you get out of it is a) knowing that you're helping the server and b) when a player says "Thanks for all you do". Not to mention that most of them - like me - also have day jobs, meaning they are spending the bulk of their free time on a second job that doesn't even pay. And they do this every day despite people like you constantly insulting them, their integrity, their competency, and their dedication. Like I said, if you can't show them the respect they deserve, you don't deserve to play here, and you shouldn't be allowed to. Fortunately for you, should and will are not the same thing. But I don't have to show the same tolerance I did as a GM as a private player. And maybe it hurts your ego to hear this, but suck it up and listen. I'd have preferred it didn't. You were the one begging for censorship and removal. I have no regrets about shining an honest light on your behaviour and attitude. Well you are. Spade is a spade. You are also a liar who repeats untruths that smear and denigrate the staff and project. You are a toxic negative influence on this project. Go and look in the mirror and consider how YOU would feel if someone said those same things about you and you knew they weren't true. Then consider that staff are not at liberty to respond to your vile accusations and statements. And when you do that you might just have the tiniest understanding about why I find you so absolutely frustrating and obnoxious.