When you said it takes 2 hands to clap, that was precisely what Xellie is doing. She did her part to voice out important issues that could help Classic be a better server, and at the same time she doesn't just complain, she helps new players. In your post you stated about helping newbies too, that was a really important thing. One of the main things that kept me playing iRO is that I have found the community to be far more helpful and generous from where I come from. I am used to extremely selfish and greedy players on a different server back in the days. I am a much more independent player, that rely very little on partying to level up. In fact, I leveled up mostly alone when I was a novice - > high wizard with no great gears. The most I had was someone giving me a +7 Staff and I thought it was the best thing ever! I still have it in fact.
1.) Unfortunately, the game IS a business itself. When I see the GMs pushing out Kafra boxes that I felt are too expensive, too greedy, I just refrain from buying them. No one forces you to pay money.
2.) While I think TIs are fun, it's high time for them to evolve it. It is what is killing RO. There's a lot of lores and backstories in the actual maps, but TIs are distracting players away from it and I can't believe people cry and say there's no story in RO when all they ever do is TIs and ET instances. I love TI don't get me wrong, but I also think it's not what RO is about. So limiting some players from taking 2 TIs at once without paying VIP might be a bit of a good balance actually. Take a breath, go see the RO world out there.
3.) Refer to 2.)
4.) Actually, that's where you come in! If you feel there's lack of people being warm hearted, you can be the one to do it. =x And some day someone talks about you being a great person. lol.
5.) This I agree with you, but you know I found it amazing they were extremely backlogged just a few months ago because of RO2, and they have manage to catch up a lot. Still, I am quite sure this is an area they can continue improving on.
6.) I thought Oda is pretty friendly! Didn't he just spawn a bunch of MVPs on the live Q and A the other day killing anyone that comes by??
7.) This is about players though, so it's people like you and me rather than the GMs.. But yes even as a late comer to this server (just last year), people were still using the booking system and I have found parties that explored Juperos, Noggroad, Niffheim etc together through it.
8.) Most of the bugs always existed, it's just people learned about it as they play the game more and exploit it. >.< This comes back to being the players that are the ones who are killing the server when they do this. They don't care though.
9.) There's always tons of bots on Valk server that I remembered. >.< But yes I agree this is something that should be a top priority for the GMs to fight them.
10.) Refer to 7.
11.) Agree with you.
I heard Ygg Server was small but filled with content players! And it was nice. I do agree that I enjoy playing on Valkyrie server more than Chaos. While there were a lot of bugs exploits and such, it wasn't as blatant as after merge. At the same time, I understand it's an inevitable move. It's really difficult for the GMs to save Ymir then. I don't know what else to suggest honestly. And comparing to Pservers is not fair because Pservers have very little commitment to them in the first place, they can close anytime and they don't always last a long time. restart everything and players have little to lose as they didn't need to spend a lot of time on them. The real servers often have challenges that maybe many players can't handle, it's a lot riskier to also reset everything if they screw up. I have known a number of players who never (and couldn't) spent a dime and still made it to their highend gears on this game. It was just a 'Hard Mode' for them and they took that challenge.
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