@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Kushiel's Debut:
Sunny's account of what actually happened as far as the plot goes isn't, to me, that awful. It's not great, but these kinds of oversights happen and, in my experience, they aren't malicious a lot of the time. I'm also fine with the GM not involving the entire game in something (though something world-changing when you aren't running other events regularly is something else).
But the FB comments and that email posted here come off as nasty, whatever happened, and the responses in this thread from KD staff have been really tone-deaf. I'd like to think this is a heat-of-the-moment response that they'll look back on when things have cooled down and regret, but it still isn't good.
I concur.
For starters the moment I think a L&L {tm} MU* is bound to have some people be more special than others. It's just the nature of the game, it attracts players who want to play that sort of role - when I made a character there, something which I enjoyed, I pretty much took it as a given. There are no objective ways to stand out and when everything is very subjective a lot of social ladders become popularity contests both IC and ultimately OOC.
A plot like this was, to my understanding, never possible to include too many characters directly. It was always going to involve a few. I'd even go as far as to say some of the people complaniint the hardest now, had they been part of it, would not be championing the complaints of those who didn't - in fact I'd expect their protests to be worded similarly to what staff on KD did.
But contacting people to bitch them out outside the game and after they left was inappropriate. As for the demand that such players go back and subject themselves to the inherent authority of staffbits on their own games rather than engage them on a public forum, that was not the best thing to do.
I mostly dealt with Asherat there and she seemed like a very reasonable person so I don't know @Skaldia that well. But the impression he's giving me is that he's the kind of staff who will very rarely admit to making mistakes and who might be very unused to people talking back to him without the recourse of shutting them down. That... is a problem.
I liked my time on KD. Which makes all of this sound pretty disappointing.