Story Railroading.

[Lemon]

What I find most tragic here is that, despite all the discussion in this thread, and despite all the outcry and concern, this changes absolutely nothing.
Story will continue as it sees fit because they've been handed all the cards. The roleplay environment is dictated by the people with all the power, and all that power is in the hands of people who don't care what others think.

Unless the team actually starts talking with people before things are set in stone about what could be done to make things better, this will eventually end up becoming a wasteland of mundane thoughts and ideas with zombies roaming around shooting each other with fancy engine effects.
Preventing situations like this was the whole reason the DWG existed.

Yeah lol, I'm not even sure why I bothered replying - I am just very tired IRL. We are just wasting our breath here plain and simple, this has come up many times before, nothing will change, it's just calmer and easier to ignore the community and do your own thing as a Story Dev. Admins and Balance work very well I feel with working with community, Alex is too to some extent, Systems are on and off but mostly major concerns are discussed etc. Story never has cared and won't care becuse it would make their life more difficult. I can't blame them a it's their hobby at the end of the day - but doesn't mean we won't complain about it and wish they weren't just ignoring people like they are


ALSO: TL;DR: I have learned to live without story, expect absolutely nothing from them, and just try to cross fingers and hope they don't fuck up too hard as we work with actual community on player driven story arcs that don't get any pixels. Because at the end of the day it's a game, and as leaders we can take a responsibility to drive our little stories - so what we don't get solars afterwards.