Plan of attack? I don't believe there will be one. As you quite rightly said, as this forum closes what's left of our bruised, battered, and depleted RP community will scatter to the four winds, these I believe being RPCentral, the RP forums on AO Stratics and AO Vault (ack, IGN, nooo), and some will basically go nowhere.
Ultimately, the end result of this is going to be to kill off the larger offworld RP community, and make the onworld community that much harder to "live" within. There will be a lot of confusion, a lot of "who are you" conversations when people would otherwise known from 'watching the gridnews' (reading the forum), and an awful lot of "I never heard of you, bite me" conversations.
Oh, and buh-bye to the press releases issued on this forum when Funcom doesn't approve for release on the main site.
Our part of AO, the best part, the maturest part, the role-playing part, as it's life hangs in the balance could really of used a hand pulling it back up and onto it's feet with some strong STORY content from the MMORPG that used to bill itself as different, with it's 4 year storyline.
But no, instead we get this kick in the face, here, at the end.
No bang. Just whimper. And a lone bell tolling the game's descent into PvP and level-mill junkidom from hell.
Bah. /flip
Plan of attack? I've not been shy to talk about it of late. This latest turn of events does nothing to improve that situation.
Sorry Nina, but I couldn't be positive about this.
Seeya around everyone.
(in a galaxy far far away...
www.swg-rp.com)
Garret "Bonefish" Silvestrini
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