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I will try to be uncharacteristically succinct in my response. Let's see how well I can succeed in that endeavor.
There are many reasons why people choose to take up a position to be helpful to other players. Whether that be producing or assisting those who produce complicated and popular mods, content to share and the methods by which they are produced, stories to inspire, dispensing tech, EA Store strategy, or gameplay advice, sharing in-game experiences, making people laugh (frown, cry, ponder something new, any kind of emotion really), any combination of those, we all work with what we might have to offer. It's all good.
Cannot speak for everyone and would never try to. But being the recipient of gifts does not factor highly into our motivations in many cases. And in some, maybe only a few, the prospect of being required to be such a recipient (yes, I realize that was an exaggeration) is actually not pleasant.
If one would like to express one's gratitude to NRaas or to any of our management team, a better way to go about it might be to participate in the community over there, over here, wherever one hangs out, and help others in their journeys through their games. Just chatting about and sharing experiences, with or without the mods, is enough to get started. Doesn't have to be anything formal or require long-term commitments or everyday attendance records.
As for more tangible expressions of gratitude, I would prefer that if gifts must be a part of the equation then they should be directed towards those who cannot otherwise afford them and whose days they would truly brighten.
As an aside about NRaas. If I were to disappear tomorrow, nothing different would happen. My colleagues would take up the administrative slack over there and, given that we're kind of tight on warm bodies temporarily right now, my "position" would probably have to be restaffed as would the one of a colleague who left us a year ago. If NRaas in its entirety were to disappear overnight without warning (let's say for the sake of argument we lost our mod developer/soon to be webmaster in the process as well), we would undoubtedly pop up again somewhere else pretty soon. It's not 2014 anymore, the vast numbers of players and available talented script mod developers have thinned out in number a bit, but there is still enough energy and enthusiasm for the mods around for anything like total obliteration off the face of the Internet to not really be a possibility.
There are many reasons why people choose to take up a position to be helpful to other players. Whether that be producing or assisting those who produce complicated and popular mods, content to share and the methods by which they are produced, stories to inspire, dispensing tech, EA Store strategy, or gameplay advice, sharing in-game experiences, making people laugh (frown, cry, ponder something new, any kind of emotion really), any combination of those, we all work with what we might have to offer. It's all good.
Cannot speak for everyone and would never try to. But being the recipient of gifts does not factor highly into our motivations in many cases. And in some, maybe only a few, the prospect of being required to be such a recipient (yes, I realize that was an exaggeration) is actually not pleasant.
If one would like to express one's gratitude to NRaas or to any of our management team, a better way to go about it might be to participate in the community over there, over here, wherever one hangs out, and help others in their journeys through their games. Just chatting about and sharing experiences, with or without the mods, is enough to get started. Doesn't have to be anything formal or require long-term commitments or everyday attendance records.
As for more tangible expressions of gratitude, I would prefer that if gifts must be a part of the equation then they should be directed towards those who cannot otherwise afford them and whose days they would truly brighten.
As an aside about NRaas. If I were to disappear tomorrow, nothing different would happen. My colleagues would take up the administrative slack over there and, given that we're kind of tight on warm bodies temporarily right now, my "position" would probably have to be restaffed as would the one of a colleague who left us a year ago. If NRaas in its entirety were to disappear overnight without warning (let's say for the sake of argument we lost our mod developer/soon to be webmaster in the process as well), we would undoubtedly pop up again somewhere else pretty soon. It's not 2014 anymore, the vast numbers of players and available talented script mod developers have thinned out in number a bit, but there is still enough energy and enthusiasm for the mods around for anything like total obliteration off the face of the Internet to not really be a possibility.
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