A beginning, I hope.

[LordIllidan]

As many of you know, it's my personal belief that the fight for VMK is impossible to win unless we network with the Save VMK teams at other fansites and unite under a common banner.

Those of you that've heard me say this probably also have heard me speak of a particularly troublesome fansite (Which, out of respect for both their forum and the forum rules here, I shall not name) where the ratio of Save VMK'ers to those that actively try to put down Save VMK'ers is approximately one to eighty bajillion.

I just posted this over there. Hopefully it'll stir things up a tad.

If [Unnamed fansite] is your only base of operations at the moment, I'm greatly afraid you've set up camp at the wrong time and the wrong place.

Don't get me wrong. I don't mean to deter anyone away from these otherwise great forums, but the majority of the community here obviously treats the idea of renewing the game that started these forums as folly.

I don't mean to sound discouraging, but... The way I see it, the fight to get VMK back was, is, and always will be, a game about strength in numbers (pun not intended, of course). Disney, as we all know, is one of the world's largest corporations. As such, many of the people here have felt insignificant in their efforts against it's mistake (If they even bothered to make effort against it at all), and have quit and want you to do the same. However, keep in mind that Disney is just that: A corporation. And you are their target audience. As a corporation, it is Disney's legal obligation to make decisions they believe will rake in the most money for them.

The reason why they've ignored us for so long? There's not enough of you going at it. VMK was most likely closed because cost for maintenance became greater than the estimated amount of income that it brought in. (I say "estimated income," of course, because Disney refused to let VMK see it's full potential as a standalone game with it's own easily visible flow of money, and instead ran only as an advertisement. Another mistake on Disney's part, but that's an explanation for another call to arms.) However, if Disney sees enough demand for VMK's return, there's a great chance that it may begin to consider bringing the game back. But right now, the Save VMK movement is scattered into a bunch of tiny groups across multiple fansites. We need to regroup and recruit.

Now, one may think "Now, Illy, when VMK first closed, we had hundreds and hundreds of people going at it!" Yes. You're right. Hundreds. Hundreds of people out of VMK's estimated player base of, what? Several tens of thousands? I'm not saying you're going to need that many to get it back, but if you really want it, you're going to need three things: More of the old players who want it back, a bit of new blood to show that, even after death, it has the potential to grow, and a bit of cooperation with the other outposts out there.

To summarize... Defending this position is a lost cause. However, I'm not asking you to abandon it, as every person we can bring to our cause here is just getting us that much closer. Instead, I'm suggesting you all to expand your presence to the other fansites and help network whatever's left of the squad. You'll also need to get some of those previously unexposed to our little world out into the field as well. I'll advise from there if and when I ever see this happen.


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Finally, excuse me for the abundance of military metaphors. I could not resist.