Wrong_Number

You perfectly summed up how I've been feeling and it makes me very sad.


WN

It's kinda sad that the "silver lining" is that at least people can't play our arcs. Oh course, the the arcs that people altered to get them playable still can get slammed. I'm waiting for a comment on my use of "Marcus Cole" as a contact rather than Statesman for example.


WN

Bleak,

This has been ongoing for over a year. Just read back through this board and you will see a full on effort to get many facets of MA attention. Besides the countless threads of suggestions and detail analysis with solutions for how to fix the various problems there are repeated efforts to promote MA. Examples include the MA Super Team, Arrowrose's Excellent Arcs thread, PW's Contact Tree, the numerous excellent review threads, Contests, the annual Player's Choice Awards (which btw has STILL not even been stickyed) to name just a few. These have clearly been completely ignored.

Case and point: during the video chat I asked about us getting more arc slots, something that has been loudly requested for at least a year. The answer (and you can go back and watch this yourself) was along the lines of "Hmm...interesting idea, we will look into it". In other words, it was the first they had heard of it! Want another? Someone asked about more DC's and HoF. The answer was that they are "in the process of banking some so they can be released over time in a steady fashion". Sounds good except for the fact that the last non-contest DC was given in January of 2010 and none have been given from the three different (they restart it every six months or so) "Make a Recommendation for DC".

The frustration has been building for a very long time and it's not due to lack of people caring or trying to improve MA.

WN

Helping how? I don't think understanding what has transpired is the problem. Several have posted articulate, well thought out, intelligent thoughts on the mishandling of this "patch" and MA in general. Most notably Venture, PW and Bleak Wanderer. I'm pretty sure most everyone is beyond the "give them a break, they are doing the best they can" phase. The word, to me, that best summarizes this last kick in the teeth to MA was used by PW...Soul-crushing. That pretty much sums up how I feel.

Had this been a critical emergency patch to fix some game breaking issue it would have been a different story. As it stands, many arcs in MA are crippled because of the addition of software that was totally unneeded in the first place. Additionally, as I've said from the beginning, when this issue was discovered the "patch" should have been IMMEDIATELY rolled back until it could have been implemented properly. That's not even accounting for the fact that it should have went through proper testing BEFORE it was implemented and the community should have been aware of it as well as the future attempted fixes. For many of us, I think this was the final nail in MA's coffin. As much as it hurts and we hate to admit it, one of the best features in the game is on it's deathbed and the family has given the OK to pull the cord. Soul-crushing.


WN

Now imagine you have over 50 hours of work on an arc, it's so well received that it's rated 5 stars since the day it was published with over 300 plays, it's praised in several reviews, is publicly recommended for a dev's choice over a dozen times and wins the 2010 Player's Choice Award for "Best Heroic Arc". You one day find out it's suddenly unplayable because it used the word "Paragon" in it's title and in the name of the group the arc is about. Also the main villains, the 5th Column, a dev made villain group's name can't be used. Then imagine that this continues to go on for weeks (at least so far) with the arc sitting there unplayable and loosing out on the normal in flux of plays it gets on reactivation weekends. Frustrating does not begin to describe it.


WN

The above stuff is all perfectly reasonable to expect. It's perplexing as to why these updates/fixes are not being handle properly and why the MA community is kept in the dark or is not being utilized as a resource.


WN

Same here, "Paragon" is NOT fixed and still is flagged as a "bad" word. Also "5th Column" is still an issue.


Also, may I second Zamuel's suggestion that in the future when a patch is applied that is intended to affect MA a dev posts something here to make the community aware? We could have told you in a few minutes that the patch didn't fix the things it was supposed to fix.


WN

Ditto x 1000

Same here. Renaming "The Golden Age Secret of the Paragon Society" is not going to happen. I'm thrilled though with the reactivation weekend since it normally generates new plays....oh wait, the arc is STILL BROKEN.

WN

There is always going to be something new/shiny either in development or just launched and in need of attention. If that's the reason for no attention being given to MA, then please stop patronizing us and just say what we all already know: MA is not on anyone's plate. Sixteen months since the last non-contest DC. Getting close to two years since the last DC given by someone other than Dr. Aeon! How long does it take to post in the forums once in a while? Too busy to comment on critical issues to MA like the lack of slots or the problems with HoF. Too busy for that? Too busy to not run an annual event? Sorry, time to face the facts as distasteful as they may be.


WN

It sure should be if the installation is planned/done correctly. Rolling the TM/profane filter back to where it was before is not going to negatively affect anyone.


WN

Exactly how I felt with "The Golden Age Secret of the BLEEP Society".


WN