One more suggestion that I can't believe I did not think of earlier.
Marco if you are listening:
Why not have a polling place that is officially from
MA asking one simple question:
Are you happy with your
EU experience as it exists right now?
A) Yes
B) No
If no please explain briefly what you would like to improve in 150 characters or less:
Text box here:
I know people will say "we have done that on the forums", but as has been stated here many times these forums DO NOT belong to
MA. If it was something that was presented by
MA it may hold more water.
Also, have you ever thought of "as has been mentioned many times" letting the community choose the direction of
EU? Hell, I would even pay a PED to vote (hear that more money for you). Turn the vote terminals back on and give us a choice of what we want implemented. This would at least give the appearance of
MA listening to our requests even if only by implication.
I think
MA could get even more world wide press by being the first, one of the first, or only RCE universe to be completely customer guided. The votes would not need to be free choice as to direction but give us a finite list of things to choose from. One of those choices being "bug fix ONLY vu. Make a contest out of it. Give small 0 tt items to people who identify a bug that gets fixed etc. You could have Solomate Tasmo BF (BugFixer Edition).
This will allow people to feel they participate and help at the highest and most intimate level.
Just some thoughts. It is the customers (us) that keep
MA (you) alive. Why can't we change that to WE can make things better. IMHO there is enough us/them mentality in the world already.