I unsubbed for the following reasons (in no particular order)

DOC's hostile attitude

The Spawn Delay

The over-moderated forums

The mobile spawns, frus and other magical box teleporting stupid things that make other aspects of the game unimportant or useless.

The low population

The Antwerp incident

CRS handing out pity maps.

The launching of Rapid Assault while the main bugs remain in wwii online.

Add all this together and there is no reason to subscribe... at least not for me.

Why did YOU unsub ?

Originally posted by hoober

I unsubbed for the following reasons (in no particular order)

 

DOC's hostile attitude

The Spawn Delay

The over-moderated forums

The mobile spawns, frus and other magical box teleporting stupid things that make other aspects of the game unimportant or useless.

The low population

The Antwerp incident

CRS handing out pity maps.

The launching of Rapid Assault while the main bugs remain in wwii online.

 

Add all this together and there is no reason to subscribe... at least not for me.

Why did YOU unsub ?

If your unsubbing over Antwerp and "pity maps" I will simply lol at you and say farewell.

Low pop? Welcome to 5 straight maps as allied, did we unsub and complain?

The ONLY thing I agree( tho doesnt mean im unsubbing) is RA. I feel those funds should of been put into the main server,but as ive said before,its not my business or my call so.

Originally posted by CeTheGreat

Originally posted by hoober

I unsubbed for the following reasons (in no particular order)

 

DOC's hostile attitude

The Spawn Delay

The over-moderated forums

The mobile spawns, frus and other magical box teleporting stupid things that make other aspects of the game unimportant or useless.

The low population

The Antwerp incident

CRS handing out pity maps.

The launching of Rapid Assault while the main bugs remain in wwii online.

 

Add all this together and there is no reason to subscribe... at least not for me.

Why did YOU unsub ?

If your unsubbing over Antwerp and "pity maps" I will simply lol at you and say farewell.

 

Low pop? Welcome to 5 straight maps as allied, did we unsub and complain?

 

The ONLY thing I agree( tho doesnt mean im unsubbing) is RA. I feel those funds should of been put into the main server,but as ive said before,its not my business or my call so.

I wrote "Add all this together", but you must have missed that.

And this thread is for those of us who actually did unsub... and you did not so I lol at you. Read better next time.

DOC's attitude would not back me quit a game I enjoy.

Last year DOC sent me a pretty straight forward PM filled with his usual pleasantries.

I got pissed and unsubbed.

In the comments when unsubbing I stated DOC as the reason.

Once I cooled off I resubbed because I wasn't going to let him ruin my fun.

I take stabs at DOC in the forums when he becomes arrogant or posts one of his Confucious/Mike Brady or degrading responses.

I just laugh inside and wonder who is really smarter.....

Originally posted by pittpete

DOC's attitude would not back me quit a game I enjoy.

Last year DOC sent me a pretty straight forward PM filled with his usual pleasantries.

I got pissed and unsubbed.

In the comments when unsubbing I stated DOC as the reason.

Once I cooled off I resubbed because I wasn't going to let him ruin my fun.

I take stabs at DOC in the forums when he becomes arrogant or posts one of his Confucious/Mike Brady or degrading responses.

I just laugh inside and wonder who is really smarter.....

 

 Would love to see you post this on the official forums.  Guess what?  You would have a week vacation and the post deleted as well.

Originally posted by Silky303
Well to be fair, it's CRS' forum. Why would they want subjects that are detrimental to their game hosted on their forum?

Would you want a billboard of your issues and mistakes planted in your garden?

It would be logical for them to internalise all the negative stuff on their close forums so public forums are all positive (unlike here). Gestapo forum policy helps nobody in the long run.

Likewise CRS is not a 'house' but a business. A business needs to take the good and the bad, listen to it's customers and regulary evaluate itself.

Originally posted by Silky303
Well to be fair, it's CRS' forum. Why would they want subjects that are detrimental to their game hosted on their forum?

Would you want a billboard of your issues and mistakes planted in your garden?

...because allowing it on an already  "Only For Premium Subscribers"-Forum you still have SOME control over it with all that that implies - deleting / closing / locking / banning everything and everyone in an otherwise pretty open environment (internet) is a really bad choice - see this forum here. You can't make people shut up and pretend that all is good and well and problems don't exist by doing so...

Hence people come here, f.e., and post it again, but not under crs control anymore and where EVERYBODY can read it, incl. the handful of potential subscribers.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer - something that doesn't seem to have sunk in yet

PS forums as of late are more like the communist party headquarters atm - giving out short Communiques which everyone has to accept, critics/questions get silenced IN silence, no discussion allowed. All thats missing atm is a painting of  certain crs employees in Kim Jong-un  fashion standing taller like the 2nd coming of christ, surrounded by certain members of the PB which shall remain unnamed by their feet getting padded on the head..

I unsubbed because I have absolutely no confidence in the company anymore. Updates were annual or semi-annual with little or no significant content back when they had all their personnel, now they have no one who can code the game and we're supposed to believe that once they get a coder we'll have 1.35 and bunch of other improvements? Please.

They dicked around for years with no real vision. Their updates were half "copy this other company's product" and half "how do we raise money to get out of this genre?". They had God knows how many producers and ancillary personnel but they could not afford to hire anyone who could build new tanks or aircraft, or even a freaking player placed object. They absolutely refuse to go back on any of their failed development decisions.

They take so little pride in their work and yet you still see DOC moaning on the forums about how no investors will give them the time of day because CRS has had one very small online game in 12 years. There are many respectable companies out there with just one or a few products, but in those cases they've continually updated their games. Those companies have a portfolio they can be proud of(even if it's slim) because they've continually improved their game(s) instead of abandoning them.

Finally they have virtually no grasp of marketing, their web presence is abysmal, and the few remaining employees can barely hide their contempt for their subscribers. They say that everything to do with the game is infinitely complex that none of the players could possibly understand or assist with, when they have to get people from the community to build their website, critique their ad design, and as said before no one left at the company knows how to work on their own game.

Originally posted by BodkinBarber

Originally posted by Silky303
Well to be fair, it's CRS' forum. Why would they want subjects that are detrimental to their game hosted on their forum?

Would you want a billboard of your issues and mistakes planted in your garden?

It would be logical for them to internalise all the negative stuff on their close forums so public forums are all positive (unlike here). Gestapo forum policy helps nobody in the long run.

 

Likewise CRS is not a 'house' but a business. A business needs to take the good and the bad, listen to it's customers and regulary evaluate itself.

Originally posted by 1.AR-GSC-XXX

PS forums as of late are more like the communist party headquarters atm - giving out short Communiques which everyone has to accept, critics/questions get silenced IN silence, no discussion allowed. All thats missing atm is a painting of  certain crs employees in Kim Jong-un  fashion standing taller like the 2nd coming of christ, surrounded by certain members of the PB which shall remain unnamed by their feet getting padded on the head..

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Originally posted by Stug
So when DOC says they listen to feedback, what do you think? Do you think he is lieing? Do you think he is ignoring you?

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Yes and yes. They don't listen much to current subscribers(much less critical ones), only to exit polls. They ignored everyone's complaints about everything from the price to the lack of content until 1.34 when a bunch of players unsubscribed.

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Originally posted by Stug
Personally I think calling there policy Gestapo like is pretty silly. Did they come to your house, take you away, against your free will or did you willingly sign up to a code of conduct that just meant if you bash the devs/flame/rant etc you'll loose your right to participate like an adult?

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It's funny when you say that "Gestapo" is a silly description of their community because when someone here criticizes the company or their decisions the first thing you guys do is obsess over what that person's game name is. You don't even address the criticism, you just belittle the poster and dismiss them as some unhinged hater. It's the standard CRS response except you cannot lock or delete discussions here like you do on their official forums.

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Originally posted by Stug
P.S. The threads above provide a great example off the sort of posting that will not win you any favours, because it's pretty much to the degree of an attack of interemashed personal opinions related as facts you really don't need to go to if you are interested inn maintaining a link with a community.

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They have no left who knows how to work on the game's code. They've lost a lot of subscriptions. Rapid Assault is dead in the water. They've had to be explicitly instructed by long time players that their web pages are awful and their ads are poorly made. The game is quiet except for a few select periods of the day, and a few longer periods on the weekend.

These are all facts, not personal opinions of mine but if you bring them up you'll either get a seething post from DOC about how mean you are for stating the obvious or the post will be locked/deleted. The company is incredibly insulated, which is probably why they seriously thought that people would be willing to pay $17.99/month for this game and that a low-res remake of Call of Duty 2 would be popular in 2013.

Originally posted by david06

They've had to be explicitly instructed by long time players that their web pages are awful and their ads are poorly made.

I must say the Ads do look cheap, were they a community effort or a company one?

Originally posted by david06

They have no left who knows how to work on the game's code. They've lost a lot of subscriptions. Rapid Assault is dead in the water. They've had to be explicitly instructed by long time players that their web pages are awful and their ads are poorly made. The game is quiet except for a few select periods of the day, and a few longer periods on the weekend.

These are all facts, not personal opinions of mine but if you bring them up you'll either get a seething post from DOC about how mean you are for stating the obvious or the post will be locked/deleted. The company is incredibly insulated, which is probably why they seriously thought that people would be willing to pay $17.99/month for this game and that a low-res remake of Call of Duty 2 would be popular in 2013.

David, you've got to see that comments like that - questioning the competence of CRS - simply can't sit on the official forums. Whilst you might see it as valid opinion, the impact it might have on new players or passing visiting players would be pretty poor.

Better to try and engage with CRS by email, or some other kind of personal channel.

You know, I could write volumes on WW2OL. I was a day one player, a member of Lafayette and ‘The Legion’ ( if anyone remembers those). I ran tank columns back in the day.

I’ve left and returned a few times over the years, most recently this past August.  I played for two months then un-subbed for a number of reasons.

1. DOC
2. Bugged 1.35
3. Lack of Coders
4. Player view limit
5. Random CTD’s after mission spawning
6. Lack of players
7. DOC

How a company can continue to employ a guy with his attitude just astonishes me. After reading one too many of his spiteful, arrogant diatribes to the very people who pay his salary I finally just said to myself—no, my money is not going to his pocket anymore. I can deal with the game itself, but not his attitude.

 When and if they let him go, and if the game is still around, I’ll rejoin as a paying customer.

 For now, I have a F2P account that I occasionally use.

 Papagulf

Originally posted by pittpete
Isn't  DOC an owner/original creator of WWII Online? 

I have no idea.