Introducing the 2013 LOTRO Player Council

[Glumposneak]

Have people forgotten that LOTRO is not a democracy? Turbine doesn't have to make a player council. They don't have to listen to anything the players say. But they are making the effort anyway because they do want to make a game that the playerbase will enjoy. Making a player council doesn't make their job easier, it makes it more complex. The player council is for our benefit, not theirs.

Why then are so many people being so very ungrateful? Why is there so much complaining? Once again, Turbine and LOTRO are not a democracy. You are not owed any kind of representation and the player council is not for you, personally. It's for the game in general. Show some respect and gratitude for what Turbine and these players are trying to do.

The simple answer to your post and I'm not meaning to be rude to you personally when I say this, is because we simply are not that gullible.

A I said in my previous post, common sense says it will achieve nothing, therefore it's only been done for PR reasons and nothing else.

A players council doesn't make turbines job any harder at all.

Sure it's a little bit of extra work for Sapience but that's all. And anyone that's modded a forum knows how easy it is to set up new section etc.

So far he's had to pick a set number of names from a list, miraculously managing to include every server while doing so.

And he's had to draw up a few paragraphs worth of rules for them. He is the main customer rep on this forum, hence it makes sense he spends time on this, after all a fair few people really are falling for the idea it could make a difference.

All he has to do is put in an appearance from time to time (even a few times a day) in the players council section at the same time as he checks the other forums, tell them what a great job they are doing and meanwhile Turbine will go on doing their own thing and nothing will be any different as to what it would be if the council didn't exist.

As I said in my previous post, one CM member asked for questions/suggestions and all of them were the same things bought up day in and day out on these forums already.

I agree that Turbine and Lotro is not a democracy, that's exactly why having the player council is a pointless exercise, they will listen to them bringing up the same complaints/suggestions bought up daily on the forums just as much as they listen to those on the forums doing so.

My biggest worry (again as I said in my previous post) is that Turbine might use the players council as an excuse to get rid of the suggestion part of the forum and stop many of the posts complaining about how people feel the games gone downhill. Directing them instead to the players council where we cant get any feedback due to NDA.

Then the forum will look like everyone's happy with Lotro.

And again as I keep stressing, I would love nothing more than to be proven 100% wrong about the council, but sadly I somehow don't think I will be.