Grand Moff Boris wrote:
Also, since the people you speak of didn't share their stories first hand, I consider it just as "hypothetical" as the other. Yeah they may be real people but there will always be the proverbial disappointed person no matter what decisions are made. If it's not important enough of an issue to come to the message boards and discuss their concerns, then it's just other people bitching on their behalf, and that has no legitimate basis as far as I'm concerned. (I've been guilty of doing that very thing in the past, and learned the hard way why it's irrelevant.)
I am disappointed in this decision. Me.
Not hypothetical. I am voicing for myself.
This is not about what maps were chosen, or why. This is not about future hypothetical map list rotations. This is the fact that it was done suddenly, without warning, and right before GenCon.
Many people are upset by this - and specifically due to the timing, lack of request for input from the community (THIS time, I don't care what happened in the past) and lack of prior knowledge on most everyone's part.
This pissed off a lot of people.
If the map list had NOT changed July 1st 2012, most people wouldn't have even noticed, much less been upset about it. This is a community run game now, so we should do what's best for the community. Even if Brad's estimate is correct (which I think is not) that it's split about 50/50 - that is how people feel AFTER the fact. That changes things significantly. So something was done to piss off half the community, and had it not been done we wouldn't have this problem.
This was a bad decision for the community. It has divided us when it didn't need to. Nobody would be up in arms that the map list DIDN'T change right before GenCon, but many people are now. What does that tell you? Did we see threads demanding the banning of maps? No. Did we see threads talking about how certain maps are too broken? No. If there had been these things there might have been some ground to stand on, at least to get the conversation going.
The attitude of, "It's already done, deal with it" is absolutely the wrong one to have.
We need to try and figure out if anything can be done to salvage this NOW. It's not about what happens after GenCon.