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(07-01-2013, 08:32 PM)Trickery Wrote:(07-01-2013, 08:11 PM)Asyria Wrote: The reason membership was closed is to prevent people from joining just to vote and alter the votes of people who have been showing some degree of interest and participation in the community so far.
I understand the reasoning behind closing off registration, but at the same time I think it was somewhat of a foul move, since I don't recall there being any warning that registration would be suspended.
Doing that basically makes this an in house RPC only vote which doesn't take into account anyone else in the "RP community" that this actually supposed to be creating. I'm pretty sure anyone could have told you that Gilgamesh was the RPC favorite going into this, but outside of RPC, on the Beta forums where the rest of the community lies, Gilgamesh wasn't nearly as popular.
Not being able to register has effectively cut off all but two members of my Free Company from voting. That's 20 something votes.
If there was warning of some sort issued, than I retract this statement as it would simply have been my inattentiveness at work and my inability to tell my FC members to register early to ensure their vote.
If there wasn't any warning, though, then I have to cry foul.
If the intended community was purposely supposed to represent the RPC and not any of the members that work outside of it, then have at it. If your intent was to reach ALL RPers though, and not just members of the club, then I think you went about this wrong.
Please refer to - http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=2227
Especially note Regarding A Non-Legacy RP Server. Everyone had ample warning of registration restrictions.