Thank you for the update, Raz. I agree with you that everyone over-reacted and oversimplified, myself included. I let myself get swept up in the riot-inciting that others were engaging in, which I regret. Not having staff yesterday honestly made FH feel the chillest and most relaxed it's been in a really long time.
I'd definitely appreciate a little more explanation as to how the block/ban process will work, but I trust it won't be super easy to manipulate, which is what I know myself and many others are probably fearing. I appreciate you giving us even this much, because I didn't expect it.
Before anyone decides to disagree with me about "over-reacting," please remember that over the course of 24 hours, people decided to incite riots in the names of staff members who weren't even entirely innocent in this entire ordeal. They threw a fit, and like a blind mob, you (and I, to some extent) followed. You guys made a Discord server that has essentially become a rant and rave server where you guys THINK you're going to somehow create your own game over the course of 72 hours. Go ahead and make a new game, then, if you want to defend a lame duck staff team's honor. I'm not saying that this entire situation is perfect, and I don't necessarily agree with the moves Raz has taken. But that sure as heck doesn't mean that the staff does not have their own faults, either. (Not all of the staff has been bad, though, I'll be clear. Several of them are reasonable human beings.) Either stay and test this out, or don't. It's that simple.
I will have to agree and disagree with you on a few things.
First of all, yes, I am one of the people who did call Raz names on my current post here; I don't agree with my behaviour but it was out of rage regardless yes it is not justified. What
is justified however, is the outrage of every member that has been lied to, tricked, used and/or manipulated for this game cause of Raz's poor skills of leadership. Do you know how many people volunteered to help with the patch maps and then get denied the last minute because of Raz's irresponsibility? The whole 'looking for map and mesh makers' recruitment was up for a long while and I'm sure the mods can't take actions on this without Raz's approval. Every patch, update, addon by mods etc. must be reported to the game master first before taking action. And now he's trying to blame everything on the mods 'not every link given is Feral-Heart related' as if he wanted to say Nynx gave us something bad. Also no staff wanted to leave and obviously, Staff October was his own idea and he announced it without informing his team, hence why the staff left. This is why we're mad and it's justified.
Don't get me wrong, the discord was made for every feral-heart members to express discomfort and find out what has happened. There is no rant just spectating things of what happened, why it happened and how it happened. We're uncertain of what the ban system means because everyone has a different prespective on it and Raz's lack of careness to explain himself is making the situation even more complex. He was never there to get close to the community no matter what he was always 'busy' with God knows why. Yes he has a life, yes he has his own problems, I agree with you but he has a game to take care of and if he couldn't handle it he should've given it to someone who could manage it.
I don't disagree most of us take it to the limits but the rage to the purpose can be justified. So many were hurt, yes it's still immature to do and wrong but it's justified. Look how many people, most of the minors, are sad, hurt and angry one of their beloved childhood games is going to die possibly. The discord was not made to spread hate or call names but find a solution and work together as a community. Don't missjudge.
And since you co-operated to the riot you can't bash at people with the trap card 'make your own game then' game making is not an easy task for sure but to keep it alive you need teamwork. You need to be dedicated to the game because you will have a host server, yoou will be in charge of coding, approve or disapprove ideas, listen to every idea and every member, listen to complains, requests, reports, hire a team to help with unique models, animations, ideas, maps, mods etc. and yes it's not easy. But Raz doesn't seem to keep up with any of the requirments a game master has; he has to be everywhere including the game while he has his own life, he has to work on the game. He is only active on site and leaves one or two posts every now and then. A game master must be close to the community of their game to know what the base of people need to keep the game alive. It's not easy but even minors can understand that what Raz is doing right now is wrong and bashing at them with this is really wrong. And it comes from me, a really immature person.
Not all of the fun was mature, and yes, people were cursing. As I also mentioned in a later post, I do think that if that conduct is going to be free and rampant, the game should come with a warning then for minors or people who are easily offended.
Raz is not perfect either. I personally don't think he's stable, and I feel like his behavior over this is deplorable. Hopefully you can read and see that I don't condone his actions. I'm just not going to call him a "bitch ass" or tell him to go kill himself, because that's not acceptable behavior either. You can rage all you want and continue to call me "cute" for speaking my mind. I just think cussing and further agitating the situation when it's been barely 48 hours isn't going to accomplish much.
Also I think you are kind of wrong here. At this rate we can assume people who 'bash' at Raz on that discord joke too, there were plenty of memes created thanks to these unfortunate events and I'm sure nobody acctually wants to see Raz dead or vent on him or hate him. Yes we're mad but we're joking too. But you said not every humor has to be mature and people cuss but to joke. Then it's safe to say cussing at Raz and calling him a
bitch ass or telling him to
go kys is just a joke made from these old memes on facebook and it's just a mature/dark way of joking. You can't really bash at them since you said people can cuss and people have have an immature/mature way of fun, which is usually dark humor. There is no different in cussing, cussing is still cussing where's the fun in it?
Don't get me wrong but I find it kind of odd to say people that cuss are having an immature way of having fun but when they joke with cusses against Raz (like plenty of people called him a 'bitch boy' for fun) is wrong because he may did something wrong but we're the good people who must forgive and forget. If a certain way of cussing is a joke, it's a joke. If not then it was never a joke so you kind of confused me, sorry if I got it wrong.
Also, while I do agree plenty of staff were not doing the job they should, the current staff tried their best and got treated unfairly. This Mod october thing was decided by Raz behind their backs and their whole effort by merging their creativity and skills with the members went in vain because the maps were cancelled on the latest patch. Nobody is perfect. We know. But there's a fine line on making a mistake and doing this on purpose and Raz is doing the latter.
You know, I feel people are slowly starting to kiss up to Raz so they can get that modding good good.
What are you smoking exactly? Because I never knew having an objective opinion instead of an one-sided, close-minded one was kissing up to Raz.
