Wow, so little activity

[ReluctantSamurai]

Could be If that's the case, then it's the fault of The ORG for not doing something to attract those players to come here. I would certainly not point fingers at anyone, as I realize that ORG staffers have real lives to deal with, and hosting a MP server takes lots of time and probably cash along with it...

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

As companies have got wise to the internet and online communities there has been a trend away from large fan-sites to boards administered by the company itself.

Take a Look at the Paradox Interactive boards for an example.

A big draw for the Org in the early years was that the Devs posted here, now they basically don't.

We're just obsolete, is all.

[Axalon]

I might as well say it here… I'll try to be brief...

To me, it looks like its primarily the Org-administration self who has - unintentionally, yet decisively - made this site obsolete and severely crippled. This more significantly and more persistently then anything else that comes to mind in regards to all this. It is things like the administration losing focus and not standing firm on what the site is actually about and was originally about, and what it should be about. It is how the core-values and fundamental priorities have been changed, screwed up and skewed to a fault. Its how these newer priorities were formed, the supposed grounds for it, the reasons for it - and the often strange and backwards logic behind it. Its the too many bad choices made, the too many poor practices used, the too many stupid doctrines and policies stubbornly enforced, the too many bad actions and destructive changes allowed. Its the continuous presence of wishful thinking and screwed up ideas and notions – being left unchecked and unquestioned. Or what happened if scrutiny and healthy perspectives was even attempted, and how it was then ignored and overruled by the administration (unless it was favourable) – this time and time again. Ever playing the trusty "admin-wins" card, as soon as their arguments ran out or was clearly lacking, or simply fell apart. And all of this, for far too long (several years), and with far to too little reversal, if any at all. That's my take...

Yes, it is possible that I could be wrong or even unfair on some note or detail in all this, but I doubt it. Its also possible I forgot to mention some vital part. Regardless, I can totally imagine that this post will not sit well with site-management, that is, assuming they actually bother to ever read it, but I doubt that too. They have showed little or no interest and desire to actually listen to me or others like me, on all this, if they had, they would have done so long time ago… They have not (with little exception)… Anyhow, I expect that the local “party-faithfuls” will try their best to scramble and screw up the overall message here or the general idea of this post. Hating it for all the wrong reasons… Utterly squandering the intended point of it all. This I don’t doubt, or at least I would not be surprised.

All the same, how exactly is this site to ever somehow improve if we can’t even begin openly
recognize, examine and discuss the problem? Or what is causing it? It isn’t RTW2 (or some
other sorry game), you can all be sure about that.

- A