Enepttastic

Not going to mutter about the livestream since I tend to stay away from em regardless of the developer. Tend to feel like a waste of time to me. If others enjoy them, that's fine. However, I do wish what I read about the info given was more promising.

That said, there is a reason I ceased my lurking and I'm going to apologize in advance for how blunt it's going to be...

Arwoo wrote: »

In the distant past, I was a player emotionally attached to the game I was a Community Manager for. That commitment to the game was a powerful tool when it came to finding all the issues affecting our vocal player base. Making claims that this emotional attachment is something that isn't desirable within any publishing/developing company is difficult for me to accept. Making speculations that I'm no longer passionate is also difficult for me to accept.

I really hope that there's a failure to communicate here because being able to accept the fact that there are going to be negative views about you and the company you work for, valid or not, is very low on the list of downsides to the job you've taken on.

Everything you say will be critiqued, quoted(in and out of context), misinterpreted and more. There'll be people who think the worst of you, your dedication to the job, your dedication to the game, and your employers. Many will go beyond merely thinking the worst and will flat-out state it and manage to persuade others to believe them. You will be laughed at, mocked, taunted, and worse. You will never please everyone and even if you were completely perfect at the job, there will still be people thinking you should do more.

Then there's the fact that you are now the liaison between the developers and the players. Developers do something that irritates the player-base? You are the one with the job to deal with all of the abuse. You're the one who's supposed to wade through all of the vitriol, placate the masses while looking for feedback within it.

If you truly can't accept the idea that people are forming negative opinions of you, I'd honestly recommend looking at a different career path because being a CM for any game with a decent-sized population is not going to go well for you and by extension Maplestory and its players. I will reiterate that I do hope this is more of a issue of miscommunication and this post wasn't needed though.