Our creativity as players

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Its a shame that we as paying players aren't allowed to talk about how we could contribute to this game. I know most games ask players to just play and shutup. But Ryzom was conceived of differently.
Probably alot of new players don't remember or know, but originally much of Ryzom was going to be opened up to player and community development and help. That was their original idea, and continued to be untill they (nevrax) found that they had to make the creditors happy before thay could do anything else.

We the players were going to be allowed to port the game to native linux, and Mac. We the players were going to be allowed to contribute to the Ring and possibly the actual game world.. but creditors get impatient, and developers need money. So it never happened becuase they never got out of debt. That doesn't mean the original ideas got shredded in the shredder. Just put on indefinite hold.

We have payed for the game, we have a love for the game, we have supported it thru the years, we should atleast be allowed to talk about its development, whether how we think the devs should do it or how we would do it..

This is in response to Boroshi's clamping down on what i saw as freespeach. Maybe hes new enough he doesn't know of Ryzom's beginings, or of its dreams.