Armageddon MUD crumples to the ground.

It's not the animations that overwhelms them. It's the endless resolving of requests.

I think they're right though. Most Arm people just want to skin scrab and sneak out to the water cave to fill their skins or play shitty grebber simulator or make modest skill gains regularly.

And then you have the less good ones who want to rule every IC clique ever and will use OOC means to do so.

Is no one going to point out how even Arms own staffers can't use their own public communication channels to communicate (ie their own boards) so they're literally coming here to communicate on an unaffiliated channel? Usiku literally has sway in keeping the actual Arm boards open and is opting to speak here instead.

Make it make sense. You could literally just hash things out publicly and openly with your own community instead of moderatoring them into the dirt.

As for Ammut's perspective on staffing the game, that sounds hellish and serves as another example that the game has gone to live well beyond a reasonable lifespan. With technology improving over time, logic would dictate it should've gotten easier, not more difficult. Again, the staff don't see that they are the arbiters of their own frustrations. Creating a convoluted karma system, costing players real-life years of their lives to advance in the game, stoking the fires of unhealthy playing levels, commitment from staff, and addiction to the point of neglecting and forsaking real life?  That didn't have to be baked in alongside the predators.  The devs are responsible for fixing that.  Ya'll get that right?

These are all attributes of the game that the stewards of it (not the players) had the ability to streamline and make more efficient. Yet, at every turn, they opted for more and more bloated bureaucracy. You took all of that into consideration and then created the most long-winded, convoluted karma system the game had ever seen.

Why are staff like Ammut and Usiku STILL lamenting the fate of the staff specifically? Are you guys all trauma-bonded from sipping and serving the escapism/addiction purple drink? (Look up sipping syrup non-Americans.) Ironically, it sounds like YOU also need a support group and are coming here to vent for reasons similar to those of the players.  But, as is often pointed out - you are volunteers.  You are doing this willingly, and unlike the players you are in a position to impact the very red tape and workload you lament - yet you insist on retaining and increasing it.

Even in the thread closing the game it's like I'm so sorry, staff!  Stay strong, staff!  You guys are doing this to yourselves.  Is there any level of accountability staff are willing to take?

Part of developing and running a game is fostering a healthy community, having good communication, streamlining processes, etc. It seems staff are constantly conflating being busy with being good staff members even as they're coming here to complain about the implosion of their personal relationships and lives at the hands of the game. This is ... disturbing to read.

If the game makes everyone this unhappy at every level - why does it still exist?!  Am I taking crazy pills?  What is the point?

Staff keep saying ya'll are just hating to hate.  I don't think that means what you think it means.  From where I'm sitting this game has turned into a destructive force that has very real negative impacts on people's lives from staff to player.  Anyone advocating for the continuation of this game at this point (to me) just looks like an addict rationalizing their behavior.  Genuinely.  I feel like I'm talking to a friend begging them to break up with their abusive boyfriend, trying to remind them that just because the sex is alright and there were good times, ninety percent of it is drama and abuse.

What feedback? It's been players whining to the staff about just bringing the game back up, and telling the producers to fire all of the storytellers.

The staff will post on Tuesday. At this point they have to, if only to tell players that the game is completely and permanently dead. Or to frame a staff member for the leaks and proudly announced the mystery has been solved.

This mehtastic guy really paints things in black and white and to the extremes. He can continue to toss around his view of course but I hope I’m not the only one rolling his eyes every time he makes such definitive claims.

To the casual reader, this “shadow board” sounds sinister and diametrically opposed to the main player base but it’s really just a haven for the disgruntled. Who all have reasons to raise their annoyances and concerns. They are definitely not unified or capable of any semblance of an “attack” on the main community or the game as far as I can tell. It’s like 4 daily posters talking in circles.

The main discord, at least as of last week, had pitched a number of ideas to help resolve some of Arm’s fundamental design flaws that contributed to its most recent downfall. Unsurprisingly, 200+ people do not have the same point of view and the community is far less an echo chamber than this one.

Some people are probably really sad and maybe even to an unhealthy level that their pastime is in danger of never returning, but definitely not at the scale this guy implies 😆

From an observers perspective this community seems more focused on retribution and the official community on resolution. That’s not to say there aren’t some actually aggrieved individuals here who deserve closure at a minimum, but it is the dominate focus of this board and largely attached to year or decades old scenarios.

Readers: Just bear in mind this is an unofficial forum with a micro-community rallying around angst.