As a PRO Developer and Project co-owner I can tell you few things. We try not to be focused on PWO happenings a lot, it's slowing us down sometimes. How many staff members are working on PRO? 19-20? None of those men was trained to show hate towards PWO. Some of them don't even know what PWO is. People focus on their work and that's it. If there are any lapses we try to fix them by talking to people. People should be talked with before decision is being made. Sadly, we can't control small groupies of people who are either people that likes the game or testers. If something is being said where PWO and its staff are being talked about means that there is a reason for it. Soon as you don't give reason to someone to joke with you it's ok (same can be said for both sides). I even made special rank called tester to test the game and it's not considered to be part of the PRO staff. It's not my fault or PROs fault that people from PWO are testing the game, I don't hold a gun on their head asking them to be testers for PRO. Something from PWO made them to leave PWO and seek those things they could never find in PWO. It's simply freedom of a choice. Nothing to hate there. One of the examples would be number of people who were PWO players for ages, staff even. Our system is made so that one can unlock their real skills. I was rather shocked when I saw some people and their work done in that short amount of time. Some of our mappers came to PRO with PWOs map editor and with PWO love, they were never discarded and thrown away because they are coming from here. We simply have that approach. Given the fact that we had no arguments inside of staff so far and that their work is breath taking tells me that the system might indeed work. To be frank, I couldn't even believe what some people are capable of where those same people used to be no1 on PWOs to ban list or throw away list. People needs to be talked with, they need to know that they work is welcome and that they are welcome. Only thing that can give you respect is pretty much what you do and how you behave. Making people aware that they are wanted..hell even make them feel special they will respect you too. Try to use that here it might help indeed. It's good to begin with.
