Fourlinks, please don't change around words for it to sound like something worse. I have enough bonkers on my case trying to put up a bad picture regarding things I said or done. I did say I didn't check up on this thread as often anymore, and I did say that there's simply too much bashing and flaming over this change, but I don't think I said what you actually wrote.
I myself along with many others have tried to explain our reasoning and explain that the change has more to it than what some are able to grasp, this just to end up in an endless loop of negatives of the change we are all so familiar with. I honestly do have many other things to look into around here than just this very thread, and even though I still spend a lot of time helping administrating FeralHeart I might not have the time or energy for the 12 hours a day I used to be able to shoot out sitting and arguing over a change we have the out most right to try out, and the conversation I had to engage either over messages or in the game has been in many times based on lack of information regarding the change or complete bashing, which I cannot take seriously.
We wouldn't hesitate to lock this thread if we had to, but we have said that if people wanted to discuss the change, here would be the place to do it, and we hope that people would appreciate being able to do such. I do appreciate that some people in this thread is trying to be civil instead and look further of why the change was made and look for answers, even ways to improve the current situation, this is what shines through in the end. I will say as I've said before, sitting here and pointing fingers and making it out to be staffs fault is really not going to speak for or explain why generals staying in the games official maps is the right choice. You really need to be able to have insight as the person you are to truly understand why general is currently disabled. There's many people in the game, and most of these has not been the ones to see and take care of complaints for both for and against generals existence, and you need to take a lot more things to account than just how general was fun to talk in, or how it helped with advertising.
People have made threats, they have dragged thing out of proportion, they have said it's the end of the game, they have said the quality of the game will go away, they have taken everything from heaven to earth to explain how they think how bad this change was, but in this also failed to actually list anything on how it will do so, it just will.. Every time someone comes up and ask a serious question though, we try to explain as well as possible what sort of reasoning there is and maybe why ones other reasoning might not hold up in the heart of the judging of the case it self.
I will quote what Whitelightheart wrote:
Now, as for our decision regarding General, it does stand until further notice. However, it's only been a little over a month and a half since it was first taken down, and some users are still either in a tizzy over it, or are still figuring out how to adapt to the change. In the larger perspective, 3 years of the game being online with Gen versus a month and a half without is only a fractional amount of time, and not much to make a decision like this.
After all, it was a big decision to remove General, and it will take solid reasoning, time, and patience to even begin to turn the decision back.
