Staff are doing a great job of late! I've been doing a lot of afk macroing the past few days and more then half the times when I check up on my character I see a message like 5 mins to ctf or reg, etc.
What people need to realize is that players are human too, and not everybody has time to log in for 5-10 hours every day. For example I'm playing hockey tonight so I probably won't be on til after 9pm or at all tonight, Thursday and Saturday there are habs playoff games so I'll be watching those and not running around brit, Monday I have tickets to a habs playoff game so I won't be on. I'm sure everyone has schedules and busy days in their lives where they don't log on. Don't put the lower player count on the staff being inactive, think for a minute that maybe the players are busy too.
Being a former staff I know you can go nuts after a while. Especially when you spend your time trying to entertain people and someone dies in a reg so you put them out, then they b*tch at you saying omfg i lagged to death, that's not fair, put me back in. When you tell them no they turn around and say omfg you're corrupt, I'm reporting you to staff!! Yes that's very appreciated to be b*tched at when spending my time to help you have fun.
Or when you do captains for a team event and people turn around and say teams aren't fair, that team is 100 times better. Well it's not the staff's fault the captains made bad picks. Or after an event someone says wow my team sucked, well again it's not the staff's fault someone left in the middle of the tour and just went afk.
This should help people see why some staff say they feel unappreciated.
As for always saying staff are doing a great job, from what I see on the forums it's 50-50. Last week people said 'great job we had 40-50 clients on, keep it up!'. This week it's 'staff suck, why only 3 events in the last 2 days?'
Sh*t if you page about smelting daggers and it's not answered in your self imposed 2 second time limit, come post on the forums and see if someone else answers it for you. Some of you guys are as bad as clients I deal with at work; I tell them I'll call you at 10:30, at 10:29 they call and say 'you didn't call me yet, wtf is this I pay for this support and you don't even call me back'. Back on topic; you'd be surprised at the answers you can get from other players. As a little tip, try answering other people's questions too and you might have a better chance of them answering your questions in return!
Siyanara, I got work to do people