Allow Us To Take Our Final Bow...

[cerest]

We, your North American support team, wish to express our best wishes to you all. Rather than me speak for the entire team, as in the past, we’ve decided to let everyone speak. So take it away guys…

Originally Posted by GM Annunaki

Ryzom Players, you are some of the most understanding and patient people I have ever had the honor of dealing with. I only hope that I am fortunate enough to have players like you in the future.

Originally Posted by GM Azhrarn

"It was great working with all the testers through the beta and FBT, and seeing that the group that Takashi and I selected for Melinoe during the testing is still mostly together and going strong. We'll be lurking in the shadows for a while.

Hope all the North American players enjoy the increased population, it should allow for some interesting events at all hours of the day. And be nice to your friendly European GMs, even if they speak British instead of American. Fight the tyranny of pants! VIVA LA REVOLUTION!

Originally Posted by GM Mindadar

Fare thee well. We have ascended to a higher plane; you may see our likeness in the sky! Hug a yubo in my memory!

Originally Posted by GM Mintaka

Hello Homins,

You have all been a great community and it has been a pleasure to get to know you all in my time as a GM of Ryzom. I have met a lot of great people and consider you guys the best community I've seen in MMOPRG's. Like many of you, I was saddened when I heard the news and I consider it an honor to have had the opportunity to work as a GM of this game. I wholeheartedly wish Nevrax success in all present and future projects. Jolt has a bunch of great guys and gals among them and I know you all will be in great hands. Farewell everybody and good adventures to you all.

Originally Posted by GM Plangent

Be good, and don't give the limeys too much sass. And remember old GMs don’t die, they just lose connection.

Originally Posted by GM/Events Shadowthorn

I'd just like to say thanks from everyone. From my first day, this community has had some of the best people a support monkey could hope for. From Team Heph to watching huge zergs of you careen around when Takashi and I ran invasions to your surprised shrieks the day we assassinated Mynias, it's been nothing but fun. I thank you all for all the good times and hope we run into each other again.

Originally Posted by GM/Events Manager Takashi

My dearest homins,

As they say, all good things must come to an end. Alas, it has been too short as far as I am concerned, you have all made my experience as a Game Master and Events Manager more than just a job. It has been a great pleasure getting to know each of you, and despite the differences I've had with some, they have been as important in making my work mean something to me. It has been a good run and I am honored to have had the privilege of working with you all. There is no sense in leaving with anything less than a happy heart that, although not nearly as long lived as I may have liked, it was an unparalleled privilege to serve such a fine community. I know many of you more personally than others, and I regret not getting to know more of you this well.

To the special few that I have known since Beta, just short of a year ago now(wow! that's a long time!) I hope that you got as much from our lasting interaction as I have. Beta was a hard road to travel, you know that, you were there. From the skybox to the disappearing packers, you hung in and tested things with me, sometimes at more than a small expense to your own dapper collection. So to you I say, Kudos. You have brought the game from where it was in Beta to the developing beauty that it is today.

To my FBTers. You guys will always have a special little place with me. I don't know if it was you, or if it was me, or some grand combination of the two, but FBT Melinoe was by any standards an incredible group of people. Highly dedicated to testing, seemingly tireless in your ambitious search for bugs, and most importantly, friends to each other, and to me. So to my FBTers, you know who you are. Cheers friends. And we'll meet again, that I can promise you.

Until next time guys,
Cheers!

Originally Posted by Fadinaway

Hi everyone,

As I am sure most of you have read, the English speaking servers (Windermeer and Arispotle) are merging. These servers will be handled by Jolt after the merger. On a decision level, this definitely makes more sense, as Jolt currently manages the server farms.

On a customer service level, this means the NA GM team will not be handling the CS on the Arispotle server. The Jolt team will be taking over all Windermeer duties. I want to assure everyone, the Jolt team is very capable and a great group of people. I have worked closely with them over the past 10+ months and I know you will all be very happy with their support.

I want to let everyone know how much I enjoyed being part of the Ryzom community, as a player and a GM. I have enjoyed watching the growth of the players and the strength of the community. I am sure I will continue to see you in the game as you blend in with the European players. I will still be around in the game, but you won't see me as Fadinaway. Scared yet?

Best regards,
Jerry "Fadinaway" Godwin
Senior GM, Ryzom NA

And lastly, I would like to say a few words. I’ve said it in the past but I’ve taken great pride in this community. You’ve helped new players out, heck some go out of their way and even roll a new character, and you have one of the more mature outlooks in an MMO community I have seen to date. I am proud and honored to have been allowed to be your community liaison. I will miss logging in to the forums every morning to see what you have come up with while I’ve been asleep; and some of it has been downright hilarious.

Now you will have a new community liaison, Lawrence. He is one of the more organized and competent people I have met. He takes his job seriously and it shows as he does it well. Along with the rest of the customer service team (GMs, SGMs and guides) at Jolt you will be in very good hands, I have no doubt. I’ve met quite a few of them and they’re a great bunch.

Although you will not know it’s me, I look forward to our future encounters in Ryzom and the greater MMO world.

Au revoir…till we meet again,
Kara “Cerest” Japhet
Ryzom NA Community Liaison
GM Ceas

[raynes]

Even though I have complained I know that all of you did what you could with the circumstances surrounding your job. I wish you the best of luck in whatever you do.

And just to make you feel good, I have already started to be a pain the in side to the EE server players just as I was to the NA server players. lol

[forever]

Thank you all at Themis Group for all your hard work, you are the best support team I have ever seen in an online game. I will miss all of you.

I hope you will continue to enrich the game as players now.

[jurism]

Thanks Guys and Gals!

I had a wonderful time on windermeer. Hope to see you all on Arispotle in the near future.

Good Bye. ;(

[ambika]

*hugs* You all shall be missed.

I'm gonna be paranoid when I meet new players....(could this be Cerest?! ). ^_^

[zumwalt]

Thank you all, we shall miss each and every one of you, I hope to see you in the digital world again one day!

[navra]

Although I have not met all of you online, I have had the privilege of meeting most of you. You have been the most helpful, considerate, professional CS people I have ever dealt with in game. I wish you all well.

[dazman76]

'All the best and farewell' guys Although I wasn't a part of your community, it's still a sad thought to know that you'll be leaving that community behind.

May your next community be as good as the one here

PS - You could always join the Arispotle gang for some play time, I'm sure you'd be more than welcome on Atys.

[vguerin]

Best wishes to you all, the Jolt crew will have a tough time living up to the standards you all have set in patience and reliability. Having been one of the fortunate ones to have been along since nearly this point last year I truly respect the work you have done to help us all along.

Though Melinoe currently wears pants (sorry Azhrarn) we did truly want to keep the name in honor of the group we had, that spent endless hours chasing down some crazy bugs for Takashi & Azhrarn... We also had 'hella fun...

Bon Voyage...

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[rrwfreak]

I'm going to miss you all, although I hope to see you all or at least some of you the Arispotle server as players. You did a wonderful job, and I wish you the best of luck.