04-27-2012, 12:09 AM
It's the summer, people have exams, good weather, last weekend was D3 open beta, and D3 itself is imminent. A lot of the lost playerbase has nothing to do with the server at all.
That said we will strive to provide the best service we can with the time and resources we have available. Mass hysteria and people doomsaying on the forums doesn't help though. I know each person means well but if I was looking for a server and I looked on the forum to see 100 posts whining or panicking I would probably be put off. Just saying.
As for the issue of public chat, it seems to be split pretty evenly 50:50, which puts the staff in a difficult position. The solution is probably to keep it but perhaps we will add a .banchat command to ban people who abuse it from the public chat, or a .squelchchat # command for temporary bans. There is merit to both sides of the argument for and against it, I just hope the people on each side are mature enough to accept that there is no consensus and only a compromise would be reasonable here.
That said we will strive to provide the best service we can with the time and resources we have available. Mass hysteria and people doomsaying on the forums doesn't help though. I know each person means well but if I was looking for a server and I looked on the forum to see 100 posts whining or panicking I would probably be put off. Just saying.
As for the issue of public chat, it seems to be split pretty evenly 50:50, which puts the staff in a difficult position. The solution is probably to keep it but perhaps we will add a .banchat command to ban people who abuse it from the public chat, or a .squelchchat # command for temporary bans. There is merit to both sides of the argument for and against it, I just hope the people on each side are mature enough to accept that there is no consensus and only a compromise would be reasonable here.