
Originally Posted by
NaniRima
This may completely be out of topic but hear me out..
Getting volunteers (and some very young too) to manage a game can be good and bad.
Good because you get people to manage a game that they love and care about, bad because you get people who are not experienced in managing a server and a business (which games are). For this reasons and many other I am not surprised at what happened to you.
You see, bigger companies have professional people that know how to manage, have a protocol of how to, and they have to follow it because otherwise they lose the job that pays for their expenses.
In Era it is different because the only person that is getting paid is the manager. GFX artist, GANI artists, Newspaper Staff, Player Relations; none of them get paid, and if they do get paid with igm it is a ****ty amount in my opinion. I am probably wrong but I think it is something like 15k graalants and 1EC?
You know, a lot of people believe in the "The customer is always right" phrase, which is actually wrong. Many successful business people believe that putting their employees before customers lead to a more successful business and customer service as well treated employees tend to have a greater performance on tasks.
A game cannot function properly if the staff members are not treated fairly. They are not being paid, and they have to deal with **** from players ALL THE TIME. Because Era has a very young demographic with some kids not being able to understand basic morals/respect. Not only that but they have to deal with things like yours, where people are firing other just because.
I think that most of Era's problems comes with how the community treat admins as well as how admins treat other admins. Maybe once we fix that we can see how to solve other problems regarding the game.
Because like someone around here said, a successful game is not only about getting new players and making money from it, but making the community enjoy the game (as well as staff members).
Now I am by no means saying that the Admin system they have for the graal games is bad, and I am not targeting any current admin. We have had very good ones, some who are still with us and some who have unfortunately resigned. I am just saying, there is definitely an ongoing problem, specially after the mass resignation.
I also wanna point out that my facts regarding in game payment may be wrong, it is something I read once a while ago so I can't remember well.
Anyways,
It's unfortunate to see you being fired, I wish we could do more. If someone stood out from the newspaper team it was you. Definitely.