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Jan 2, 2002, 9:34pm

http://www.petitiononline.com/pilman/petition.html

Jan 2, 2002, 9:35pm

Please don't spam the Newsgroups.. we understand how you feel but this isn't
the place to post this kind of "garbage" for lack of a better word.

--Bowen--

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Jan 2, 2002, 9:39pm

we all know....and you people signing these petitions (if aw is dumb enough
to listen to them) will make them run out of moeny afaster and then bye bye
aw. so "fighting back" basicly means "making aw go out of business"

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Jan 3, 2002, 2:37am

Well if AW dose this they WILL go out of business, they will loose tons of
money.
many citizens will not renew, many world owners will not renew, many
universe owners will also stop if there renew prices go up.
AW needs to rethink there actions.


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Jan 3, 2002, 5:55pm

id rather wait for them to see the flaws (we dotn have to start payign the
new thign until ours expires) then abolish it now and have them go out of
business even faster

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Jan 3, 2002, 6:39pm

I did sign, but only for AW to rethink the scheme. As it is right now they
chose to price their chat program along sides with actual games like
Jumpgate or Everquest, and when it comes to what program gets my $10, I
would pick Jumpgate or EQ over AW. If they raised the citizenship yearly
cost a little and tried to make more of a presence maybe that would
help...heck I wouldn't mind paying $40 for AW until they get their finances
back on track, maybe they could loose some of those artists they talk about
(well I guess if you want to amuse the people who visit your sight with
pretty graphics instead of the scenes from AW like in the old design, fine
with me), and I know the programmers weren't necessary, but they could have
gradually added them (first add one or two, and then get the money going,
add another, AW evolution gets faster, more people come, hire another
programmer).

According to my dad, who has been at the helm of corporations before (big
and small), if AW can keep just 30% of their customers they might be able to
survive, but maybe if they just didn't hike the prices so high they could
keep more. Besides, according to the GKs in AWGate (who some I keep nameless
didn't exactly seem to fully grasp my questions about my 2003 renewal) did
say that if you were to renew now AW would charge you the regular rate. I
just don't think that $10 a month and 2 weeks to test it out is really worth
it...I mean even with Jumpgate you pay the $20 for a CD but they at least
give you a month to get your account going, but most people who play are
college-age and above (there are some below-18 people like me though), so if
AW does ever hike up the citizenship rate for existing citizens I would
worry that some of the younger ones would cancel (Thats including me if it
gets rediculous). Though here is my idea of what could be done to AW to make
it somewhat worth a montly charge.
-Fixed encroachment issues of move and rotate so they are allowed in all
worlds
-Redesign of rendering engine to make more realistic, i.e. meshes instead of
clumped objects for avatars and no cracks in builds
-More objects
-More objects
-More objects
-Higher/more efficient cell space (fit more into a cell)
-Possibly interactive objects (things you can pick up, use on other people,
throw, etc.)

But first and foremost...fix the damned bugs >_< (That would be encroachment
issues, dunno if 3.3 fixes them, 3.1 lighting again, fixed MP3, fixed
graphics bugs in DirectX and OpenGL mode, etc.)

So I sort-of remain neutral, but we do all have to realize that AW IS a
company that is somewhat failing and even though we're all wanting to go
back to the $20 plan and cussing and swearing (if you all really knew
business you would know cussing and such is the WORST way to communicate to
a company), yeah we'd all like to save a little money, but we do have to be
flexible. And AW knows they will loose customers (hopefully) and maybe if it
gets too bad they may reform with lower costs or a very simplistic tourist
mode. I also just don't want to see all that talent lost....I've seen some
good tourist builders who couldn't really get citizenships, and this just
shuts them out unless they pay $120 a year to use AW.


--
-Captain MAD Mike

Jekyl and Hyde...or Android?
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Jan 6, 2002, 1:10am

If the owners of AW can't afford it anymore, well maybe they should sell to
someone that can!


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