Monday

Monday...kids are still banned, no email, no PMs, no calls from Draakass as he'd promised so many people he'd do.

There's a post on the Flurry forums from darkmelvader asking for contact info for me. I send him an email, he replies...eventually I call him as he requested. He wanted to tell me it was a no win situation, that Roger was going to win and I had no hope. Went on and on about how wonderful Draakass was and how I would be best to drop the subject and that he's an Influencer that plays on Eclipse with Roger as well and said he's a "good guy".

Well...lets face it...he might be a good guy to some of you, but he royally **edit**ed me! Go through what he did to me with YOUR account and tell me how "wonderful" this retard is. Draakass should NEVER have been put in a Community Relations role. He lacks the very basic of skills to effectively handle it.

All he really is, is the sad little man who just wants to be the "popular kid"...and the RED NAME he has gives him that. All our previous CRMs had the intelligence to use different names in-game than they do on the forums...Roger doesn't. None of our previous CRMs used their influence to build cities or promote servers...he does. I like that he plays, but I dislike that he plays as a CRM...not a "normal" player.

Anyway...Monday night...

Rich and Linda from SoE called me. We spoke on the phone for close to an hour about the situation...they were quite pleasant and they kept it quite professional. My removal from the Senate stood as they both felt I've been "excessively negative" and they (SoE) don't feel I reflected well on SoE.

Damn...imagine how stupid I felt. All this time I thought my job was to speak for the players and represent the players...not SoE. DUH! No wonder I **edit**ed up! Silly me...I thought the Red Names spoke for and represented SoE while Senators were supposed to represent player views.

Roger was to be investigated internally (read, has to buy his own lunch for a week) and the results of that investigation will not be disclosed (like he did with MY my account information).

Rich and Linda made it clear that it wasn't JUST my **edit** comment...it was the part that followed that where I said "John Smedley is about as competent at running SWG as Captain Edward Smith was at piloting the Titanic"...they asked me (Rich and Linda) "What were you thinking when you wrote that?"...I replied "I honestly thought it was funny as hell" (this was after an hour of discussions - before we hung up...not at the beginning ;) )

Needless to say, I think it's time I work on my "excessively negative attitude" in a more positive environment...another game.