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Stop busting this teams chops you all. This is not the Dev Team you are looking for. Move along. If you are pissed about how things are in AO atm, please go to AoC or TSW's forums and bitch about it there where the Dev's responsible for leaving AO in the state it is for this stellar team to fix are, thanks.
Some days it feels like I am fighting a one man war of speaking up for a non vocal majority and infractions aside feel pleased so far as I have received numerous thank you IM's from players for speaking up so they do not have to as they wish to remain out of the "mosh pit" that is the forums.
Edit: You are creating a self fulfilling prophecy with each negative post you make on the forums scaring away potential new users. When I look at a new game first I examine the website then I go browse the forums. If there are no forums, I will probably never even try the game. If the forums are filled with pissed off players bitching about crap I move on and don't even think twice about the game in most instances. Every time "you" post negative unhelpful whiney bitchy cry baby nonsense you do more to harm your own gaming experience by chasing away potential players and $$ for FC. Can't we as a community kind of take a step back and breathe in and out and let some of the venom seep from our veins so that we can all be one giant gaming family / community again? If we were all suddenly and magically warped to Dragoncon, people you fight with each day I bet you would sit down have a beer with and have a pleasant chat with about the state of things and your ideals, but, the anonymity of the interwebs and the animosity we don't get to channel out in our daily lives being focused out here needs to stop.
Really have any of you all worked for a company where lots of employees changed positions and new hirings were made because a large portion of the former people in those positions all got moved to a new project? Have you ever dealt with that kind of chaos? Have you ever been left with poorly documented work processes more complex than pushing 10 buttons to accomplish a daily task? This team does NOT deserve your chastisement.
Let me make a suggestion for you. If you are upset about the current state of AO as left by Mean's teams predecessors, then please write an email to Funcom "Corporate", in which you state that you are upset by the buggy code and broken promises of the parent corporation and former employees of AO (eg, if someones doing something wrong they should not be working on AoC or TSW ie new flagship products, they should be properly sent to some training seminars or let go.) and remember to include the fact that you appreciate all the hard work that the current under funded & under manned but dynamite team we have on AO now and to please give them more money to hire more people to speed along development so we can all enjoy bringing in all our friends for a glorious second age for AO.
Thanks.