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How can the development team expect us to help expand the number of registered users by referring people onto the game if we're not being listened to? A GM tell us that "If a parody quote is going to stop someone from playing a game, then they didn't really want to play anyways" is not a helpful responce to feedback. Do you want people to come and join in and play the game or not? Do you want to expand the player base?
I really am passionate about this issue, it is not a moot point. I've tried to get ten or so people playing and everyone one of them have come back to me almost straight away saying how stupid those quotes are, and a lot of them didn't go any futher. They gave up playing before they saw the brilliant game lying on the next page. These people wern't "not going to play it anyway", they, like me, saw something really *stupid* on the front page and decided the game wasn't for them.
I don't understand how you can bold-facedly claim to want real feedback from the community in one thread then in another completely disregard it. You have not given any real reasons as to why they shouldn't be removed, all you have done Juice is borderline insult the people who are trying to help grow the game.
Having it there as some sort of acid test of humour does NOT help the community grow. Not giving real answers to legitimate questions does not help either. Why should people spend hours posting on forums, telling their friends and so on if you're not going to help us help the game. I understand that if the game grows significantly then revenues will also grow. I understand this leads to a better gaming experience for us all and i applaud the design team on their efforts, it's a great game.
Either give a real reason not to or suggest it to the BB's and get it changed (this is the job of a community manager, am i right?). We deserve more than just being brushed off your shoulder. If it's not changed you will keep getting post from players on the issue, until they're changed or removed, because they are a much bigger block to expanding the player base than you're giving them credit for.