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foundationmods) wrote2020-05-31 11:35 am
foundationmods) wrote2020-05-31 11:35 am
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Round 5 critpost
Hey there everyone! It's your mods here.
We have put up this critpost so you guys can give us crit you have on how round 5 went. We're always seeking to improve, so we will gladly listen to anything you have to say! However, before you leave any crit, we ask that you read the following and keep it in mind.
1: This is a place for crit. We do have a love meme going on now too that can be used for positive comments, and we certainly appreciate positive comments mixed in with crit. But if you have no crit to offer, then we ask that you please use the love meme. (The love meme can be found by clicking this link.)
2: Please read though our comments below first. All three of us had some things we wanted to talk through individually first, regarding our experiences with this round. So we request that you read through our words first before you comment.
3: Please respect that we may not accept your crit. We mention this because we have gotten crit during this round that boiled down to "You are doing this in X way, I prefer Y way." You are certainly free to like having things done a certain way, but any crit that is about a difference in opinion like that will get a "I'm sorry, but we are choosing to run the game in this way" in response.
4: Please be respectful. We have had problems in the past with people getting inflammatory with us. Please use respectful words.
5: Please be patient. Depending on how much crit we get and how our schedules line up (as we want to talk through everything together before we respond to anyone), it may take a couple days to get a response. But we will get back to you, even if it takes a little while.
6: Only players in SCP please. We would like the opinions of those who participated in R5 with us, either as a participant in the 2000s side or a participant in the 2020s side.
7: This crit post is public. If you would like to talk to us in private, feel free to leave a comment on the mod contact page.
Thank you for sticking with us and participating in SCP round 5! We'll have more information on round 6 sometime in July.
We have put up this critpost so you guys can give us crit you have on how round 5 went. We're always seeking to improve, so we will gladly listen to anything you have to say! However, before you leave any crit, we ask that you read the following and keep it in mind.
1: This is a place for crit. We do have a love meme going on now too that can be used for positive comments, and we certainly appreciate positive comments mixed in with crit. But if you have no crit to offer, then we ask that you please use the love meme. (The love meme can be found by clicking this link.)
2: Please read though our comments below first. All three of us had some things we wanted to talk through individually first, regarding our experiences with this round. So we request that you read through our words first before you comment.
3: Please respect that we may not accept your crit. We mention this because we have gotten crit during this round that boiled down to "You are doing this in X way, I prefer Y way." You are certainly free to like having things done a certain way, but any crit that is about a difference in opinion like that will get a "I'm sorry, but we are choosing to run the game in this way" in response.
4: Please be respectful. We have had problems in the past with people getting inflammatory with us. Please use respectful words.
5: Please be patient. Depending on how much crit we get and how our schedules line up (as we want to talk through everything together before we respond to anyone), it may take a couple days to get a response. But we will get back to you, even if it takes a little while.
6: Only players in SCP please. We would like the opinions of those who participated in R5 with us, either as a participant in the 2000s side or a participant in the 2020s side.
7: This crit post is public. If you would like to talk to us in private, feel free to leave a comment on the mod contact page.
Thank you for sticking with us and participating in SCP round 5! We'll have more information on round 6 sometime in July.
Eski
But, a big issue this round, at least for me, has just genuinely been how we were treated. We're humans and we'll make mistakes or forget things - especially me - but it felt a lot like we weren't really allowed to do that this round without major kickback from certain parts of the playerbase.
It also didn't help that sometimes, people would just...do far reaching things without telling us the full extent of what they wanted to do. There was a lot of pushback against us for saying no or 'you can't do that', esp when it came to 'please don't try to inherently break the rules of our game/the setting.' I understand that it can be frustrating to get that, but a lot of the time we were saying it in order to not have to break the inherent 'rules' of the round, due to lore constraints. Which leads into my next point:
I also felt pretty discouraged how it felt like some people genuinely lost faith in us being able to deliver on the plot, or that there was a reason behind why we kept saying no. We weren't saying no just to shut down cool ideas - the intent behind that was often locked in with what was happening behind the scenes, and that meant we had to shut down some avenues. Seeing people continually try to keep going with things we'd explained or said no to felt a lot like 'well, we don't actually care about why you're doing this, because we're just here to have our own fun.' And that is an awful feeling to have, especially in the pentultimate round of a multi-round, story focused game.
All in all, it felt less like we were mods/fellow players this round, and more like we got treated like fun dispensers - and it's worse because it really wasn't the entire game treating us this way. Most of the playerbase were genuinely good and worked with us, but lord, sometimes it felt like we were in unpaid customer service, and that's not fun. Especially when you don't get a paycheck for it, and you're doing it it have fun with everyone.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to bring them here or to me, personally.