Dear players,
I am writing this letter to everyone as part of the community, and from a unique vantage point. As you all know, I have been hired as the community GM, and as such, I have been trying my best to bridge the gap between the community and the GM team for this great game we all love. Therefore, it is my duty to communicate with the community that is motivating me to write this letter.
There have been many rumors that quite frankly, disappoints me. Yes, that is corruption and incompetence charges against the GM team. I will be honest and say the community has every right to doubt the GM team, after all we had such a bad experience in previous servers, NR, and previous international servers. I will also admit we as a team has made some mistakes that would lead people to believe such falsehoods.
First, there are those who believe we favor one nation or one particular guild. There are also those who believe we are targeting specific guilds because we "don't like them." While this may seem plausible for a few, I have no way to express how ridiculous those claims are from my point of view. To be fair, I see things and hear things many of you can't. However, just because we banned someone from your guild because that person AFK leveled or hacked does not mean we are out to get your entire guild. Just because one GM is in one guild does not mean we favor that guild. We have rules and processes in place which prevents or at least makes it very hard to carry out corrupted actions. In any case, we can only give you our word that we will never favor a particular group of people nor will we target a particular group of people.
Second, there are numerous, if not vocal charges that we are incompetent when we ban someone. I can say with complete confidence that is not true. As I have said earlier, we have rules and processes governing our action when we take the ultimate step to ban players. Banning a member of our community is always a painful process and decision. We would like to see a vibrant community and it is that vision that forces us to ban players who break the rules. Part of being a vibrant community is having fair competition in the server. When someone AFK levels or hacks, that fairness goes out of the window. We do not care if you have done it once or for a few brief moments, when you carry out an unfair act, you will be punished accordingly.
We are all here in the hopes that we can finally have a long, prosperous and successful DR server that we can all enjoy playing until we are 80 years old. I assure you, the charges brought against us goes against our goals and hopes to see a prosperous and successful server. All I can hope is that the community can give us the benefit of the doubt and trust us as guardians of this server. While this may be just words to you, I promise you if I ever see the GM team stepping away from the vision that we all share, I will be stepping down as the community GM. I make this promise to you because it is not worth my time and effort working for a GM team that purposely acts against the vision we share.
Sincerely,
GMSignBreaker