Not sure how many times it has been posted in this thread regarding certain users behavior and lack of considerations of the picture as a whole, but also about how other things must be looked over that some players really don't put any thought in what so ever.
So with the whole "face it" then it can be flipped around to say that you need to face that there's a good amount that doesn't. The respect is double sided as well, if a staff and even players take their time to look over the situation and explain why matters are like they are, just to get completely nagged over due to a change they have the outmost right to do or at least try then maybe their human side shows too in their replies. To put it bluntly, what's the point of having a general chat if there's no game to speak of to hold it. The players in the game and the community as a whole, no matter how helpful people that might be out there is a weight and responsibility that must be taken care of, and the function of general chat, or the fun it brought has been put aside for now to change how the game plays out. There's no need to sit and pretend like the mean staff do it just because, or to make the game so much more worse for the players. There's good reasoning and thought behind it all which has been explained and voiced quite a few times in this thread as players don't understand or see why it's no longer there.
Now this might be the wrong thing of me to do since Raz wanted this thread to be here for discussion. But this thread is nothing but this thread has many time just been nothing but pointless drama and lack of proper insight or consideration where users throw their little fit regarding this change left and right. The positives of this change has been clear as the sky, the negatives has so as well, so no need for users to make their lists that will end up far from biased, or pretend like the staff or players that do not mind this change cannot see. I had concerned members coming to me, and said how this thread should've been locked long ago, and I really don't see much point in letting this lay around.
Taking care of a big game like FeralHeart is no easy task, even harder so when a staff need to take actions that many might dislike throughout the game or community, but if you know there's good reasons for it a reputation or image is not everything if you really care for the game to be around and work properly. We have read the majority of the comments and posts, if not all, the staff has been very patient and replied and explained their reasoning many times. This is not a case of giving in and be done with it if you have spent years looking over players both in and out the game and what a chat like general are capable of.
So for now, unless someone feels the need to unlock, I will leave this thread locked until further notice regarding general chat. I don't want this sort of behavior going on here on the forum in this thread any further.