It's difficult to gauge what our next move as a community should be.
A PR outrage and revenue decreases is easily one of the best ways to make a company change tactics. The latter is practically impossible since the servers are so heavily disconnected and there's no universal chat room where we can tell all the whales to stop.
The former, if we are to do it, must be done very calculatedly and carefully. Anything that Oasis deems over the top is deleted for "inciting drama", though a large amount of these posts would help foster change through a PR outrage. The system's completely against us. We can't get the whales to stop and we can't get an outrage loud enough to be impactful, otherwise posts will be deleted.
I don't mean to criticize the mods who are doing the deleting, but rather the policy as a whole. It's just built against the voice of the player.
If you want your post not get deleted then you should know first the Rules of this Official Forums, and also, you should figure out how to express your feelings and thoughts in a way that you will not target anyone, especially the game and company itself. Be reminded that you are using its Official Forums, I don't have to elaborate it, you should know it by yourself.
>especially the game and company itself
I already tried to explain why this system is detrimental to player voice. It's essentially a loose equivalent of an Industrial Era company banning its people on joining a worker union, and therefore disallowing them from going on strikes. A huge amount of voice is lost, and Oasis can basically do whatever they want because they can shut down any PR outrage that sparks into something of a sizeable amount.
Again, this isn't meant to be a criticism of the mods per se as they're just enforcing the rules handed to them. It's a critique of the rules in of themselves.
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