This is my, I'm gone, seeya, song

[Alestone]

To the various people that I interacted with over the past year:

For those of you that actually RP'd, thanks. We had some good times.

For those of you that were munchkins, I hope you at least enjoyed yourselves.

To the Devmins, in my honest opinion, if you keep going with the clique-ish behavior and beating people down when they disagree with you, I don't think you'll have a server worth the name this time next year. Do an honest appraisal and see why you are hemorrhaging the longest lived players/staff. I'll even give you a starting point: lack of communication / transparency.

When I first started here, the server was vibrant, even if it was unbalanced. Over time, I repeatedly watched the in-crowd slap down anyone that wanted to do something "different". I repeatedly saw or experienced, to the point that my wife asked me why I was still playing, different standards of acceptable behavior, to the point that a player was banned for posting evidence of misconduct of the staff. This past month has been more of the same. I have seen multiple staff members harass players for disagreeing with them where, if the situation were reversed, the player would have been tempbanned.

The overall behavior of the in-crowd is one of high school cliques. If you want to be big frogs in a small pond, so be it, but don't whinge when the pond dries up. There are other ponds to play in, and I will find another.

Finally, I considered posting that last sanction publically since I kept a copy of the post, but figured it would get the thread suppressed. I would have thought such blatant evidence would have been easy to rule on, but, it Was in-crowd players, wasn't it?