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    Dear Developers, We` d like to talk. A community initiative



    Dear Campfire Games Development Team,

    As dedicated War of Rights players who have been accompanying the development of your project for several years, we together have experienced both highs and lows in gameplay and development progress. Yet, throughout this process, we remained at your side when it came to advertising the game and expanding its community, much of which was only possible through the dedicated passion of the players and the efforts of the various companies that constitute the backbone of the War of Rights Community. We believe that this attitude of players and community has not changed to this day. We desire more than ever before to see War of Rights as the unrivalled pioneer in Civil War Video Games with all its unique and amazing features, the development teams dedication to the historical authenticity and the stunning graphics which truly enable us to experience the Civil War like no other product has managed it before.

    We have written this letter as an expression of our worries and anxieties which have accumulated over the last couple of years and have been the topic of many discussions and heated debate within the games community and player base. We enjoy playing War of Rights, yet within the last couple of months it has become more and more difficult to truly enjoy the experience and commit to the game as a community, a sentiment which is heartbreaking for us as we had placed so much hope on the project. For many players, their motivation to play War of Rights is at an all-time low due to the constant interference of major technical issues which have driven many dedicated veterans away from the game and its community. This process will first be noticed within the companies as more and more players shun the weekly events with the reason of technical problems preventing them from enjoying their time with the product. Although the loss of veteran players and long time fans and supporters of the project might be undetectable on a short term basis, for the long haul it will impact the games community greatly. As such, we fear that the ongoing technical issues could potentially cause a decline within the consistent player base of the game, hence endangering organized community events and the longevity of the game's lifespan overall.

    Desyncs, screen freezes, complete failure of the in-game voice chat, glitched passwords which can ruin entire events, high ping issues, invisible players, frequent crashes to the desktop, rubberbanding. The list is nigh endless and constitutes the true killers of this unique game.

    Announced and advertised game features, some of which players desperately cling to for the hope of breaking up the monotony of the current gameplay experience, are nowhere to be seen. Similarly, solutions to the aforementioned issues which plague the game to this day are wanted yet not provided, leaving us with a shallow taste in our mouth after almost every event. At the same time, the limited communication paths the community has available to address these concerns with the developers (e.g. Steam and the War of Rights forum) are filled to the brim with ideas, concepts and reasonable proposals which would help War of Rights become the game that its community wants, the game which was initially promised to us during the Kickstarter campaign. Additionally, the forums are filled with smaller ideas and features which would enhance the player experience on a short term basis. Yet no significant changes are being made or it takes months to get basic changes implemented into the game. Why all of this takes an immense amount of time is a mystery to the community. Sure, there might be good reasons, yet on further inquiry into this matter, one tends to run into a wall of silence. The community has come to expect zero communication of the development progress from Campfire Games, yet it fosters insecurity and anxiety about the longevity of the game that we pour our heart and soul into every weekend and breeds rumours and mistrust towards the development team among the players. An open developer-community communication has been a long-lasting wish within the community which to this day has remained unanswered.

    Now, what do we intend to achieve with this letter? We would like to cordially invite the developers to sit down with members of the community to discuss the needs and concerns of the player base. With this discussion in person via discord/TS etc. and not the official forum we intend to work on bridging the gap between elements of the community and the development team as trust between these entities has been brittle throughout the last couple of years. We would like to work on repairing the damaged relations between the developers and the War of Rights community that we represent in this letter by showing the developers that both sides can benefit from each other through respectful and constructive discussion, communication and dialogue with one another. For this purpose and to show that the issues we see with the game and the developer- community relationship are not believes held by just a few individuals, we have written this letter as part of a community petition supported by some of the largest organized communities within the War of Rights community, all of which have cooperated with us and lend their support to our petition. In total, 30 Units/Communities with roughly 3600 players have joined our undertaking and eagerly await the developer's response to our plea. The following Units/Communities have graciously lent their support to our cause:


    We hope for understanding among the development team for our letter and hope that together we can approach each other with respect and mutual appreciation in the future.

    Sincerely,
    Your Community.

    Supported by the following communities:

    • 18th North Carolina Infantry Co.A (100)
    • 52nd New York Infantry Co.A (129)
    • 8th Alabama Infantry Co.G (144)
    • 20th New York Infantry Co.E (228)
    • 95th New York Infantry 1st Battalion (28)
    • FA-7th West Virginia Infantry Co.F (50)
    • CA-21st North Carolina Infantry Co.A (91)
    • 8th Florida Infantry Co.A/C (83)
    • 39th New York Infantry Co.A (31)
    • 69th North Carolina Infantry (460)
    • CA-14th Louisiana Infantry (57)
    • FA-3rd United States Infantry (100)
    • JOEHOVA (War of Rights Youtube Channel)
    • Pixelated Apollo (War of Rights Youtube Channel)
    • IX-9th New York Infantry (180)
    • 1st Texas Infantry (254)
    • CA-1st North Carolina Cavalry Co.E (72)
    • 1st Main Volunteer Cavalry (200)
    • II-18th Mississippi Infantry (60)
    • II-13th Georgia Infantry(150)
    • II-6th Louisiana Tigers 3rd French Battalion (30)
    • IX-51st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment(28)
    • MV-33rd Virginia Infantry Co.G (50)
    • FA-4th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry (157)
    • 2nd United States Sharpshooters Co.C (11)
    • FU-1st Georgia Infantry Co.B (649)
    • II-5th Virginia Infantry (40)
    • 1st Virginia Cavalry Co.A (9)
    • 42nd Pennsylvania Infantry (59)
    • 51st New York Infantry(150)


    Last edited by The German Volunteers; 04-19-2020 at 10:46 AM.

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