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shifted_ooc2015-02-22 08:51 pm
realitymods) wrote in shifted_ooc2015-02-22 08:51 pm
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Hello, everyone! I hope you're having fun with the little boat thing we have going.
This is about something else, though. I'd like to sit everyone down again, much like I did last August, and talk about the game once more.
RealityShifted opened a little more than eight years ago. It's full of a lot of great memories. It's gone through several mod changes, too. We've had so many fun plots and incredibly crazy characters over the years. It's a small game (and there's nothing wrong with that), but we haven't had any new blood in months. Many months, despite advertising. Close to a year. The game just gets smaller and smaller.
Even with a small game it's kind of a big responsibility to keep it going. Processing apps, coming up with original plots and running them, doing activity check and cleaning people out, npcing when it's available, general housekeeping-- it's a lot of work, and I'm sorry about my inability to keep doing so. It's time to close the doors. I don't feel it's appropriate to pass the game onto someone who wasn't part of the original creation, and this leaves... few options. I know how much this game means to everyone here, so I don't want to totally close it down either.
As a result, RealityShifted will be transitioning to a musebox after March.
Current and former players alike will be encouraged to play in it to their heart's content, much as it is now. There is no difference between the current RS and a musebox except applications and occasional plots. Characters will have the choice to return to their worlds and ignore the Plane, or live in someone else's world, or live on the Plane, or just whatever the hell they want. They can even go and live in a dropped character's reality and have their happy ending! It's up to you. You will be allowed to play in it as long as you want, until the end of time. And if enough players want to, the game will remain 'open' in the sense that you can bring in new characters and play out even more storylines if you'd like.
Of course, I'm not going to close the game without a bang. There will be a massive war plot for most of March, with plenty of opportunities for characters to set things right, answer questions, etc. I have the whole thing written up but I'm sitting on it for another week so everyone gets a chance to read this announcement.
We've been through so much together, and I appreciate each and every one of you for putting up with me. And once again-- I'm sorry. I know you'll be angry and disappointed and nothing is worse than disappointing your friends. But this is something I have felt a long time coming, and the other mods did too. Stepping down and turning RS into a musebox is not something I'm willing to reconsider.
Saffy
This is about something else, though. I'd like to sit everyone down again, much like I did last August, and talk about the game once more.
RealityShifted opened a little more than eight years ago. It's full of a lot of great memories. It's gone through several mod changes, too. We've had so many fun plots and incredibly crazy characters over the years. It's a small game (and there's nothing wrong with that), but we haven't had any new blood in months. Many months, despite advertising. Close to a year. The game just gets smaller and smaller.
Even with a small game it's kind of a big responsibility to keep it going. Processing apps, coming up with original plots and running them, doing activity check and cleaning people out, npcing when it's available, general housekeeping-- it's a lot of work, and I'm sorry about my inability to keep doing so. It's time to close the doors. I don't feel it's appropriate to pass the game onto someone who wasn't part of the original creation, and this leaves... few options. I know how much this game means to everyone here, so I don't want to totally close it down either.
As a result, RealityShifted will be transitioning to a musebox after March.
Current and former players alike will be encouraged to play in it to their heart's content, much as it is now. There is no difference between the current RS and a musebox except applications and occasional plots. Characters will have the choice to return to their worlds and ignore the Plane, or live in someone else's world, or live on the Plane, or just whatever the hell they want. They can even go and live in a dropped character's reality and have their happy ending! It's up to you. You will be allowed to play in it as long as you want, until the end of time. And if enough players want to, the game will remain 'open' in the sense that you can bring in new characters and play out even more storylines if you'd like.
Of course, I'm not going to close the game without a bang. There will be a massive war plot for most of March, with plenty of opportunities for characters to set things right, answer questions, etc. I have the whole thing written up but I'm sitting on it for another week so everyone gets a chance to read this announcement.
We've been through so much together, and I appreciate each and every one of you for putting up with me. And once again-- I'm sorry. I know you'll be angry and disappointed and nothing is worse than disappointing your friends. But this is something I have felt a long time coming, and the other mods did too. Stepping down and turning RS into a musebox is not something I'm willing to reconsider.
Saffy