First, thank you for this. Even if I disagreed with every point you made (and I don't), it shows you love the game and are putting in some effort to understand the issues and speak up with some unpopular feedback.

To the people who will say to stop whining and you're beating a dead horse, I say simply do not read the post if it annoys you so much. People who care enough about CF to "bitch and whine" are not the enemy. As Tac rightly pointed out, the enemy of CF is apathy, not passion.

When it comes to the IMM/Player dynamics, a lot of the feedback he gave is his perception based on things that have happened. No one but the IMM knows his/her commitment, motives and feeling about the playerbase. More than a few players have similar perceptions. Do they match reality? If so, that's a problem. If they do not, the perception still exists and that is a problem.

I love me some Ishuli, but you cannot dismiss his feedback about an honest dialog after the way Halloween forms were cancelled and the resulting forum discussion. The initial IMM response was just the type of thing that caused the perception of disconnect/disdain in the first place, then the thread was locked. I give you credit for the damage control and starting another thread about it. I thought it was handled very well by Rahsael.

I'll stop, but I do have an honest question for the IMMs that is going to sound conspiratorial. I am just having trouble wrapping my head around something. First, I assume that you all know everyone of my characters if you have the ability to snoop from my prompt alone.

Shortly after the blow up on the forum over my Halloween form thread and it was locked, I was one of about 5 characters on late at night and there was a reboot coming. Then I see "A Gruesome Otyugh has restored you." Still sore from the forms being canceled and having played a 400+ hour Otyugh character from last Halloween, I felt like some one was rubbing it in. It probably wasn't personal. But, with so many disappointed players, the curt forum posts and the thread lock, why would anyone do a global restore as a Halloween form? That's how percaptions are made.