Lord_Trekie
Bah Humbug!
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Sounds interesting, I'd be hard pressed to imagine they could make things worse, but as for improving things, only time will tell eh?
Hello and welcome to MSFC. We are a small and close knitted community who specialises in modding the game Star Trek Armada 2 and the Fleet Operations modification, however we have an open field for discussing a number of topics including movies, real life events and everything in-between.
Being such a close community, we do have some restrictions, including all users required to be registered before being able to post as well as all members requiring to have participated in the community for sometime before being able to download our modding files to name the main ones. This is done for both the protection of our members and to encourage new members to get involved with the community. We also require all new registrations to first be authorised by an Administrator and to also have an active and confirmed email account.
We have a policy of fairness and a non harassment environment, with the staff quick to act on the rare occasion of when this policy is breached. Feel free to register and join our community.
Majestic said:Thank you Freyr and the Starfleet Kid, for clearing things up. Obviously being staff you know more than we do and rightly so.
-----Original Message-----
From: Freyr [mailto:freyr@a2upgrades.net]
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 2:31 PM
To: "Jeff Mills", FileFront Community Manager
Subject: Break
Jeff,
A number of people in our community are concerned about the following
points. I was wondering if you could give me a definitive answer that I can
quote to settle concerns on the following points:-
1) There is strong concern that FileFront is going to get less "family
friendly" because Break's existing sites are strongly "male-oriented"
and Break may not appreciate that the different demographic needs a
different approach to management.
2) People are concerned that Break might choose to close some of the network
sites down.
3) Could you confirm that Break won't require a paid membership to download
files.
Regards,
Freyr
-----Original Message-----
Date : Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:16:43 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
From : "Jeff Mills", FileFront Community Manager
To : "'Freyr'" <freyr@a2upgrades.net>
Subject : Break
Hey Freyr,
I can answer each of these questions and you will be delighted at the
answers.
1) While there are sites on Break Medias network that are more 'male
oriented', we have emphasized that we must maintain a level of content that
is suitable for children 13 and older. They have no problems with this and
agree with our stance that when we begin doing additional content that the
age appropriateness of what is shown remains what you would expect to see on
FileFront.
2) They have expressed no interest in shutting down any of the current
network sites, including the ones that are no longer being updated. I have
maintained that point to them that even those sites no longer having staff
are still driving traffic. _If_ this is changed and they do want to close
down certain sites, it will only be towards those sites who no longer have
staff or an active community. We have shown that our sites have very strong
and loyal communities and doing anything to upset them would hurt us in the
long run.
3) There have been talks of a paid membership, but what is being discussed
would not remove the free download option nor restrict bandwidth of
downloading files but be focused on other options we can now provide.
Possibility of ad-free content, upgraded file sizes to upload, etc..
absolutely none of the options are confirmed though and everything is still
far from being completed, however the above mentioned free downloads and
unrestricted bandwidth will not be touched. I cannot promise completely this
will change but we're all in agreement as of writing this that to maintain
what FileFront is to the gaming community we cannot remove any current
option we provide, only add to them.
I hope this helps clarify some questions about what's going on and calms
ruffled feathers about a new company taking us over. They've been bending
over backwards to make sure that what will happen with FileFront is
something that the current management will be a part of 100%. Think of it
this way, they see us as a car they just bought and now they're going to go
add new rims, interior design, overpower the engine and give us a new paint
job. They're not taking away any part of the car, just either adding to it
or upgrading it.
Thanks,
Jeff