Post by johnmwhite on Apr 8, 2012 11:46:16 GMT -5
REW is dead. The StarMaker arena has burned to the ground, the final card has ground to a halt, and the flashboard has gone quiet. A couple of old faces came back from the mists of the past but nothing really was achieved. Nobody made an effort to save the fed or the building.
Sirius and I had a plan to raze this place to the ground and begin again with a new name, new history, and we were going to bring in an independent third party to actually run the place. One definitive ruler, one definitive ruleset, and no more having six cooks in the kitchen all trying to throw different ingredients into the pot. It was to be a leaner, quicker game style, with its roots in the Ring Wars/Cyberslam method of roleplaying but without the baggage of old school bickering. It was, essentially, to be a fresh start.
But we're not going to go to all that effort if nobody is going to post. I have killed the fed in character, but frankly you guys have killed it in reality. You had a chance to show that the fed actually meant something to you, and with scant exceptions, you did not. There's only so much one can do when posting cards and trying to encourage activity. Eventually, the individuals on the roster have to take some responsibility for not ever getting around to posting. Over the past year or so we have made many attempts to stoke activity, but it just has not worked. You won't fight with me, you won't fight against me, you won't take part in RP activities, you won't challenge for titles, you won't create stories with one another, you won't get involved in the stories that the few active people we have here will start themselves. There are, of course, exceptions to this, but it is all so granular and infrequent that we just never build momentum.
Now I don't want you to think this place is a job and I'm your boss. It's a game, a voluntary one, and you get out what you put in. That works both ways - no one should feel under any obligation to post or to play, because that won't make it fun, but at the same time you cannot expect to get much fun out of the game if you are not going to be playing it very much.
So here we come to the question - do you want to play? We've asked this several times before, we have had roster threads and people will post in them, but then very little activity results anyway. This time it's for good. We need to see some serious interest in activity in order to reignite this place under the new banner of Phoenix Pro Wrestling. Are you in or is it time for us to all move on and let REW rest in peace?
Sirius and I had a plan to raze this place to the ground and begin again with a new name, new history, and we were going to bring in an independent third party to actually run the place. One definitive ruler, one definitive ruleset, and no more having six cooks in the kitchen all trying to throw different ingredients into the pot. It was to be a leaner, quicker game style, with its roots in the Ring Wars/Cyberslam method of roleplaying but without the baggage of old school bickering. It was, essentially, to be a fresh start.
But we're not going to go to all that effort if nobody is going to post. I have killed the fed in character, but frankly you guys have killed it in reality. You had a chance to show that the fed actually meant something to you, and with scant exceptions, you did not. There's only so much one can do when posting cards and trying to encourage activity. Eventually, the individuals on the roster have to take some responsibility for not ever getting around to posting. Over the past year or so we have made many attempts to stoke activity, but it just has not worked. You won't fight with me, you won't fight against me, you won't take part in RP activities, you won't challenge for titles, you won't create stories with one another, you won't get involved in the stories that the few active people we have here will start themselves. There are, of course, exceptions to this, but it is all so granular and infrequent that we just never build momentum.
Now I don't want you to think this place is a job and I'm your boss. It's a game, a voluntary one, and you get out what you put in. That works both ways - no one should feel under any obligation to post or to play, because that won't make it fun, but at the same time you cannot expect to get much fun out of the game if you are not going to be playing it very much.
So here we come to the question - do you want to play? We've asked this several times before, we have had roster threads and people will post in them, but then very little activity results anyway. This time it's for good. We need to see some serious interest in activity in order to reignite this place under the new banner of Phoenix Pro Wrestling. Are you in or is it time for us to all move on and let REW rest in peace?