Ideed, operative, however, harrassment is one way to look at it, another is to look at it like, "we give you candy, joo pull some strings and get us more content and get more attention from soe kthx."
Rofl, are you guys being serious with the candy stuff? Noone will even attempt to open those letters with food in them, lol.
Stylish, but who gives a cr**. Otherwise, the website is a good enough idea, if only people had constructive ideas to post instead of "lolgief spawntools, i wanna rule maytricks". I still stand on my idea as to no story content revival attempt to be made, its pointless. Instead, focus on the things that might have a chance on holding a community together for a longer time period.
Hyperviolent wrote:
I still stand on my idea as to no story content revival attempt to be made, its pointless. Instead, focus on the things that might have a chance on holding a community together for a longer time period.
The story is what kept most people playing or have you missed whats been happening to the community since Rare's new approach with lack of LE's and his subsequent departure meaning no storyline at all?
Even if a new official (read: story by a dev) storyline went in a different direction to Rare's plans, it's better than none at all.
Rofl, are you guys being serious with the candy stuff? Noone will even attempt to open those letters with food in them, lol.Stylish, but who gives a cr**. Otherwise, the website is a good enough idea, if only people had constructive ideas to post instead of "lolgief spawntools, i wanna rule maytricks". I still stand on my idea as to no story content revival attempt to be made, its pointless. Instead, focus on the things that might have a chance on holding a community together for a longer time period.
The Live Events and Storyline is what held the community together this long. Since it's gone away, a higher rate of people have quit, than ever before.
As it has been said before, and shall be said again...
Its gone. Over. We don't even know what chapter we are in now, some kind of weird metastasis period with agents no longer attacking unauthorized redpills. A new dev will need to begin fresh, and there will be too much confusion and false leads to accept a new unconnected story. People will ask - "What about that wireframe woman, how did she fit in this", the answers are going to be "She doesn't, we had another dev doing that." Utter confusion, old returning vets will have no clue at all. People have grown used to the state of affairs created by Rarebit, something that can naver be repeated, too big shoes to fill.
You know its true. You want evens, some want crits back -on the basis of what? Were left in the nowhere. And as the community has proven once and once again - Rarebit deviated from the main known characters and his work was instantly dubbed un-matrixy. What would a nev dev do? He can't just make gray send machinists to kill ebil zion terrorists again, we need a lead that some people can relate to. And a new lead created by someone just entering the mxo scene has all the potential to be non-matrixy, thus unpopular.
There is an example - there could be an expanding lead from the Valkyrijar story snippet. Some new quests about defuct sexy Agent Pace prototypes - hooray, existing fanbase can relate. Oh but wait where's Pace then? Last she was seen threatening Ghost in the override construct - oshi thats another story. Confusing.
Please, let it die. Lets just have some easy official open-ended closure on the story development. Say the Machines have retracted the weaker (lvl100) agents to save power, rumors are they are building sentinels. The Oligarchs didn't find the BIP and retreated indefinitely, the executables are passively datamining for them, Cyphs and machinists are getting rid of the override traces. Zionites retracted their field officers from the simulation, the thermal images have been scrapped. Merv is... bored, mervlings too. Put it on an official cliffhanger instead of doing nothing and leaving as-is after rarebit left.
Or better yet- extend the Anniversary event. Say Smith is coming back, doing bad stuff to the matrix, so all forgot about their problems with each others species and are fighting the virus. Let it run that way till the servers close, wich sure sounds not far away.
And as I have said before, if some people do try this and you decide for whatever reason not to, what will you lose by it?
I personally don't think anything will come by doing this, but at least I will know that I have tried something, no matter how insignificant. I really don't care if some people aren't going to bother, that's their choice, but why feel the need to dissuade other people from trying?
Might as well go along with it ^.^
Croesis wrote:
Sending the 'bigwigs' letters and some jelly beans at work is one thing, but sending them to where they live, where they lead their personal lives away from work is a bad idea imo. Especially if a good deal of people do it in which case the entire idea could be deemed harrassment or an invasion of privacy etc.. and in fact be detrimental to the desired outcome.In fact I suggest that a list of actual departments or department heads be compiled and send it to their offices with a FAO tag. Plus I think that sending a few letters and jellybeans to SOE's Podcast department might be enough to get it mentioned on a podcast, it's a s!mall idea I know but attention is attention.
Sending the 'bigwigs' letters and some jelly beans at work is one thing, but sending them to where they live, where they lead their personal lives away from work is a bad idea imo. Especially if a good deal of people do it in which case the entire idea could be deemed harrassment or an invasion of privacy etc.. and in fact be detrimental to the desired outcome.
In fact I suggest that a list of actual departments or department heads be compiled and send it to their offices with a FAO tag. Plus I think that sending a few letters and jellybeans to SOE's Podcast department might be enough to get it mentioned on a podcast, it's a s!mall idea I know but attention is attention.
You Sir, are not thinking big enough! If its sent to thier homes, they will be scared I tells ya!, it will get them thinking, their kids and partners will ask questions....Maybe we can get together and protest like the Anom do outside scientology places. Maybe they would even help?
Viva La Revolution
(I coudlnt really be bothered to read the whole thead, but anything to do with getting MxO back on track is good, maybe an edit on the front page explaining where your at now with this Phrack?)
Ebola wrote:
give Player Event Teams and LESIG a chance
Would you like to know why this kind of organized effort wouldn't have worked two years ago?
Because people were screaming "give them a chance."
"Let's wait and see." "Let's not do anything extreme, yet." "Quit crying. It'll get better... we get another patch in a few days."
Well, we did all that... and look where we've ended up. We're bitter, angry, and tearing each other apart in every thread that gets posts, because we end up taking it out on each other, purely because we have no idea how to send those feelings up the line to the people who could make a difference, and not have them ignored.
Well, this won't be ignored. You have my word on that. This is going to be a legitimate movement of (almost) every player, and every former player we can get our hands on, to get the attention of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Sony Online Entertainment LLC, and any media outlet we can find. We'll get the attention of the public, even if it's a look of confusion, and make people take notice.
Believe me, I have more of a game plan than just jellybeans and letters.
Sometime tonight, the site will go live. If you still have contact with players that have left the game, send them a link to this thread. If you have any skill in photoshop, put together signatures and avatars referencing the Redpill Alliance. And if it fails, it fails... but we can stand back and smile, knowing that we didn't go down without a fight.
I'll have letters for you to print, sign, and mail in. I'll have a system set up, accepting donations for mass amounts of jellybeans to be purchased and shipped to SOE and WBIE. I'll have contact information for people to write their own letters and send them out, petitions for people to sign, and so on.
If you don't like this effort, make your own... or don't do anything at all. But I, for one, would rather do this than continue as I have been. Wouldn't you?
Mifune said it best, guys and girls.
But what do you want SOE to do exactly? Money matters to them, not people. Everyone cancelling their accounts at the same exact moment would probably have a better effect imo.
Wait for the site to go live Ebola. I'm not taking a break from it until it does.
You'll see.
Well okay, it seems the main purpose of something like this is to get noticed. Nothing wrong with that.
There doesn't even have to be any ideas behind it, its just a cry for help, in the light of our powerlessness.
Will sign whatever forms, big deal.. Shouldn't just be a US thing, euro WB office contact info would be nice.
Well okay, it seems the main purpose of something like this is to get noticed. Nothing wrong with that.There doesn't even have to be any ideas behind it, its just a cry for help, in the light of our powerlessness.Will sign whatever forms, big deal.. Shouldn't just be a US thing, euro WB office contact info would be nice.
Concentration is good. Deconcentration isn't. 1000 letters to the central office is better than 200 to 5 different affiliated offices.
In before legal papers telling you to cease and desist, and to have no further affiliation with Sony Online Entertainment?
letters to employees, or mass emails = bad idea. Just ask ininja.
