Out of premiumFollow

I got caught. I'm a poser.

Meh.

Not really.

Don't say I never done nothin' for ya.

Edit: I see Kiki was made during the 100x100 days

Edited, Nov 13th 2006 at 5:06pm PST by Jophiel

We finally finished up the filter settings on our new interwebs security system at work, therefore I can no longer even visit this site while being paid. I foresee a serious downtrend in my visiting and posting here as a result, I simply have other things to do when I get home. I'm quite certain once my premium expires (in roughly 10 days) I won't be re-newing. However, if that damned Vanguard game ever launches and it turns out to be half decent, and this site does more than just have a token forum for it, I may reconsider. I'm hoping it will garner the attention and support that WoW did when it came out, but obviously that also depends on the success of the game itself.

At this point, I'm not holding my breath.

Allah to hire me, IMO.

My premium ran out about a month ago, now, and I don't miss it at all. Never really used the special WoW stuff, I can live without avatards and smilies, the pop-ups are blocked by Firefox, and the site doesn't live off of user support anymore. /shrug

Just not as tantalizing as it used to look.

Making the EVE site fully operational might help a bit, wink wink.

I figured I'd throw it up one last time.

Kao, while I can understand everyone is busy busy busy, balls have been dropped in many cases, and people are working on "it", for me what speaks volumes has been, until now, the total lack of communication to the community. And this isnt the first time or issue it has happened.

Look to the EQ2 forums and check out the thread, the state of the boards by OBD, one of the most vet posters you guys have at this site.


http://www.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=19;mid=1163184800279666471;num=12;page=1#1163475587108741979

Go through forum feedback and look at the timing between Z's first and second post:
http://www.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=3&mid=1158762222150449390

8 fekking days and not even one comment until I finally bumped and that was never commented on either. Z's OP was very polite, kindly asking for ANY fekking information on the stat of the EQ2 DB which had been previously promised to us to be finished by August.

Kao Im not angry at you. Im not angry at Pikko, or DF, or anyone in particular. No one is. But many people are angry that it's come to this. I was talking with another poster earlier today and we thought how sad, that Allas, such a great place for gaming info and that close knit feeling the admins and regular posters had, has come to the point where people are leaving in droves, new people are finding other places to go, and many many loyal people are finally unrenewing in disgust of the lack of communication to even the most basic of gaming info questions.

I stay at Allas primarily for the Asylumites. I enjoy their banter. I used to love actually using this site for what it was meant for years ago, but I cant do that now. I use Ogaming, or the O boards because they have the info I need. We can be promised rainbows coming out of Thundras ***, but that doesnt mean we're going to see it. We've been promised a completely overhauled DB for EQ2 and have only gotten a blank wall of silence when asked only what is going on. So why should anyone pay for premium unless its for the goddamn smileys or avatars, unless they play the one game that is the baby to this site?

Sure, go ahead and throw away 490 people's contribution to your paycheck. It must be nice to have that kind of money.

I pay for premium so I don't have to see the fraken ads and to put up annoying 'tards, that being said it's very, very fucking sad that Allakh's gone the predictable route and stoped worrying about us once it went corporate. A 10% effort in letting us know whats going on would let you get away with 10,000% more ignoring us, because we would feel special, understood and respected. Despite the truth.

On that thread with no responses. It should have had one. The main reason it didn't is that we were kind of at a loss on what to tell you. "I don't know, eventually?" wears thin very quickly, and given how busy the Dev team has been, it is difficult to get status updates out of them sometimes. Not because of any reluctance to provide information on their end, but they are literally swamped. Another complicating factor is the new corporate structure. We're technically supposed to have a public relations type person to officially pass along such information. That person is not me. I try to do it anyways, but figuring out the new world order here has had some growing pains. In hindsight I think some things would definitly be dealt with differently, but alot of the hardware issues at least were really out of our (the core allakhazam staff) hands. Same with the server move scheduling, etc. If a post like that has not been addressed, PM me. I may have missed it too.

To be honest, a response like "eventually, but just know we're working on it" is a good reply imo.

It was just the fact that the last bit of info we had, was the "halfway August something should happen" and then nothing untill now.

I'm glad that things are still going to happen, looking forward to the changes!

I dob't give a wet slap about the EQ2 site but, if nothing else, this episode is showing how deeply the mystery parent company's fingers are into the Allakhazam pie. Get new servers? Corporate won't let us. Hire some staff? Corporate is dragging its feet. Answer questions? Corporate hasn't gotten around to it yet.

Ignoring the elephant in the room of whom exactly "Corporate" is, I'm detecting the beginnings of a sea change around here.