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Indeed. And much earlier than I expected. Someone must've been up in the wee hours, dragged from their toastie warm bed and the bosom of their family so that we can play. I feel guilty now...| Anyways, explanatory post aside - it was all fixed before 13.00 UK time, so it's something of a moot point. |
Yes, it's all true that the men and women with the means to solve our problems have been asleep, but that doesn't do much to make many frustrated Union players feel any better, I'm afraid. I too, miss the Brighton office but I don't know that if it still existed they would have been able to do anything to resurrect Union before California woke up. I do, however, believe that in the past Rockjaw or someone would have posted a line or two to say "We're aware of the issue and someone will fix it as soon as is humanly possible", or words to that effect. Sometimes, a little word of understanding and reassurance from a red name is all it takes to calm folks. It's a pity we no longer have that to the extent that we used to, which is infuriating for many of the EU playerbase who remember Brighton fondly. Please make allowances for some of us crotchety wrinklies who keep looking wistfully back to days of yore...
Especially the bit about me and "reason".
Joking aside, yes, I agree wholeheartedly that when we had an active EU community team who were in an EU time-zone, we could be confident of getting at least a one or two line response about something like this - and the personal touch we got from our very close-knit EU community and EU Community team is notably lacking these days (and yes, I would love to have Rockjaw, Aero, GhostRaptor and the rest still around, it is a great shame that they're not). I'm also pretty sure that if a thread like this popped up on the old EU forum, the Community guys could have done something about it, because they would have been in the office to call the right people to give Union a kick or feed the hamster.
However, we have the community team that we have, and allowances have to be made for the time-zone difference.
Do I want to have to wait until 4.00 in the afternoon before being able to guarantee someone is in the NC office to read the forum posts? Not a chance in hell.
Do I blame the rednames for the situation we have? Nope.
I love this game too much to let my money do the talking, so I'm not going to ragequit or anything silly like that, but I am more than happy to make my feelings known hereabouts.
I said that I'm not sad that we have no redname response, for exactly the reasons I gave earlier, but I'm not shy about saying that I preferred having a community team that was active during the working day in the EU, and if it was proposed to recreate such a team, I'd be the first to shout loudly in agreement with the idea (well, assuming I could post that quickly).
Anyways, explanatory post aside - it was all fixed before 13.00 UK time, so it's something of a moot point.
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