Lol, its cute how you leap to his defense even though you're completely uninvolved.
I just wanted to note, that e2ekiel posted in this thread
before I did. That means he was involved even before I was in this debate. Not to mention he can involve himself if he wants to. As a forum mod, the one thing I can assure you is that the forums are there for everyone if they follow the rules, at least.
You apologize for it, then instantly slip back into the same tone. Fascinating.
The proper response would be an apology not instantly followed my more condescention.
I don't believe we're meeting up on the definitions here. Allow me to clarify:
sar·casm [sahr-kaz-uhm] Show IPA
noun
1.
a sharply ironical taunt;
con·de·scend·ing [kon-duh-sen-ding] Show IPA
adjective
showing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity or superiority: They resented the older neighbors' condescending cordiality.
There you have it, the two definitions. In the first, I am pointing out an irony in your post in a non-serious manner. Condescension would be implying that I am superior to you because I managed to find a hole in your post, which I most certainly am not. If you would like to express a dislike for my sarcasm, feel free. However, I am not condescending (I should hope).
In any event, as i belive you can clearly tell from reading along, i do not have exact dates, nor have i claimed to.
The timeframe is about four to five months. An acceptable generalization for that time period, if one were to make a generalization, would be 'about half a year'. i clearly made such a generalization.
Though nitpicking through things looking for minor things to be contrary about is a clear sign of a weak debater, if debate was your intention.
I am not nitpicking through things. I clearly and concisely answered your post about it being 4 months, specified that it was 4 months through sarcasm, and pointed out that you were incorrect about the timeframe in case anyone was unsure as to whether it was a "half a year" due to your post. I then went on to answer the rest, so it was nowhere near nitpicking.
Close, I am indeed saying the customer service i am seeing right here is, in fact, worse than that one would recieve from an establishment that would hire crackheads.
I suppose you can read into that whatever you will.
Agreed that I can indeed read into it what I've already said.
You arent a Volunteer, you are compensated with premium points to be a voice of the company within this server. Low paid labor certainly, but you are compensated for it all the same, and are a representative of innogames.
I earn in 1 hour more than 2 month's worth of premium at my job. I can assure you that I would continue to be a volunteer with or without the "compensation" I receive that doesn't even cover all of my worlds. I spend far more than an hour a day moderating, and Nauzhror put it better than I ever could.
As the title MODERATOR under your forum name would make fairly clear.
@ Undead billy mays. Cramming responses to all 3 of these posts together into one or two would be a bit crowded.
Yet i do not want to commit the unforgiveable sin of the trible post, so i'll respond to you later, once someone else posts.
For the record, double-posting is not allowed either. And if I volunteer at a nonprofit organization and get a nametag with the words "overseer" on it, as I watch over the other volunteers to make sure they are doing the correct things. Does that mean that because of my nametag, or because they pay for my food and water, that I am not a volunteer? I don't think so.
90% is pretty impossible to obtain with open registrations and restarts, this is why there's generally a process worlds go through as they progress into endgame, starting with the closing of registrations.
I bet world whatever that is 5 years old didn't get down to 600 active players with registrations still open either, only to see the population almost double when a world with almost twice the population closed first.
Well, even at 40% restarts and such don't close usually either.
Apples and Oranges
I'm not sure why random people are getting all up in arms and defensive, nobody demanded the server be closed immediately, nobody demanded it be closed tomorrow, all that was ever requested was a guideline that would be adhered to (we were already told to use .net as a guideline and then that was recanted once we blew past those requirements). If it would have been server pop must hit 500 (which would likely take another year considering all of the fresh w2 accounts that can't even be ATTACKED for 60 days) that would have been ok, as long as there was something set and obtainable, something that made it worth continuing to work for.
Communication is the key to all customer service and I'm not sure why 2 or 3 people are grasping at the fact that u6whoever that has had plenty of posts deleted for poor posting practice for a moderator said "you guys should have contacted x email address". He's also countless times said he doesn't know the procedure or protocal, he's grasping at straws here. The players used the expected means of communication in online games after submitting tickets to find out the correct process ig and requesting this information in private mails to staff and through posts. They used the forums. Notice that Aliyah didn't tell anyone posting they were using the wrong channels, that was only done by a moderator who constantly points out he doesn't know and has no actual influence. Aliyah has stated that it's taken her by surprise really because she was unaware of the issue, I feel sorry for her for having to inherit the unhappy community from w2 but the fault for this also lies on the staff. Is it not the moderator's jobs to observe their assigned forums and communicate issues that are beyond their power to answer? Alas, world 2 also has a moderator that only shows up once a month to troll and get his own posts also removed by the previous community manager for a lack of professionalism. Fantastic.
Basically it all comes down to a constant circle of poor customer service. You say that it's a poor business model for innogames to start ending a world this soon. Ok well then if you're looking at world performanace and size it would have been a better business model to keep the world twice this one's size at the time open and start closing the smaller of the two. Twice the size = more active accounts = a high likelihood that there are more paying subscribers on the larger world = more profit. Much like it's a bad business model to lose all of the top members of this world that pay for premium AND account manager every single month along with donating premium to the members that are too young or can't afford it. Please don't spout business models and profitability when you don't seem to fully understand the concept yourself.
I'm not going to bother, your personal attacks on me only further the fact that this post is not one that has nearly as much content to respond to. But here, allow me to begin anyways:
1) The Community Manager did not remove my posts, I did of my own free volition.
2) If all you're going to do is attack me on past situations, then I suppose you must also believe that if an 18 year old shoplifts once that he should be banned from all department stores in the future because he's done something in the past.
3) You don't know the full story on all of these things regardless, so I shan't hold that against you.
As for your profitability model and other points, I admit, I'm not all well-versed on Innogames policy. I am, as I said, a volunteer. But again, let me look at it this way:
You complain about the staff.
You complain more about the staff.
You complain even more about the staff.
But you won't contact the supervisors of these staff, to take your complaints to the appropriate people?
How is that justified?
Let me point out one more thing:
You are wrong, you never blew past the .net requirements.
The .net requirements stipulate that worlds close to new registrations based on their age, and have no set criteria. Hence why, if we were following .net requirements, W1 would still close before W2.
As for reduction of packets/coins, I don't think that's necessarily what you're asking for, as I doubt it'd make much of a difference, but I suppose you could say you reached the .net guidelines. However, proportionally speaking, you probably haven't due to W2 being much smaller than most .net worlds.
There hasn't been enough people gone to remove morale, there hasn't been enough dominance to end the world as well, and there hasn't been enough time to close the world. Therefore, even if we were going by .net guidelines, you're not there yet.