This is not a troll, Ken. This was posted with complete sincerity. If need be, I'll post names and e-mails of those concerned if it will prove my point. What these guys want to do is just plain wrong, and it undermines this community.
KM
Well "KM". Wouldn't you be Kelly Meyers the head of the EA/Gamestorm game-ops? A payed employee of a competitor? Only he would call me by my first name under these circumstances. I don't even think anyone here even knows my first name let alones uses it. If so I see a huge breach of etiquette in what you've done. Otherwise that's why I called you a troll. And being how you may be apt to really PISS off alot of people by posting that personal email that you claim to have been sent around. Tthere could be no positive brung about by this post. Well, other than forcing some folks to have to stay with AW or go to Fighter Ace. Hence this smelled fishy due to the sore subject matter, the very questionable posting name and that if true you're about to ruin alot of peoples day by ruining these "negotiations" as it will piss off a boatload of currently paying customers here and at the least pissing off alot of your frien___, er potentially ex-customers, who had hopes of "moving up."
So say it's true. A bunch of AWiers appear to be asking HTC for a cheaper rate. I do not see form your post where HTC has approached you folks or answered anyone at all. Being negotiated could mean that someone from the Nomads and the Damned have emailed HTC asking for this. And that is all I see. Doesn't sound like "negotiations" at all unless someone at HTC answered that "they were all ears, what did you folks have in mind" or even counter offered. So I call your bluuff and say 'pony' up your incriminating emails.
You would have been better off waiting to have something in email from HTC before blowing your cork.
As it is, if this IS Kelly Meyers aka "Culero" from EA I see major ulterior motive here. This is a hostile and belligerent act. You don't give a rats bellybutton about the Nomads, the Damned or the AH community. You're here to stir up a toejam storm in hopes of saving a little bit of AW to keep yourself secure.
AW is dead. It's on artificial life support from here on in till someone finally tosses the switch.. So I gotta chuckle a bit when in reality there is really no room for 'negotiations' as I see it. Now it's either join here, less of a sim at iEN for .16 cents less per day than AH or for a real aracade, along AW's line, there is The Zone for $10.
I think at the most HTC should offer each indivdual member of these squad members a free 60 day account. Then they have choice of paying what the rest here do for the new or go back to, well, going back to what folks used to play, years ago.
-Westy
[This message has been edited by Westy (edited 03-24-2001).]