This is likely in reply to Mat (Sniped) sending us two emails recently.
1st Email (November 21st, 2012):
Dear Buildandshoot,
It is great to see that you have started a community around Ace of Spades. We want to support every community we can that surrounds Ace of Spades and over the coming months we will be formalising a fansite program which should benefit these communities greatly.
As you are one of the first communities to develop and a relationship is starting to form now, we wanted to make initial contact to ensure that when the fansite program launches we have as strong a relationship as possible. With this in mind we believe it worthwhile setting out some key rules that we would like all fansites to follow:
· Advertising of the fansite on the official forums can only be through a signature
· Each fansite primary focus should be the release version of Ace of Spades
· Fansites should not dissuade its community from taking part in other Ace of Spades communities or actively drive traffic away from the official site
· Each fansite's primary focus should be on supporting the overall community
· Fansites should not encourage illegal activity
Looking at your community, you are very close to meeting all our requirements. We would like to see a more developed section for the release version of Ace of Spades. The posting of anti-Jagex sentiment on the official forums and encouraging it on your forums is something that we believe is dissuading others from joining our community and is something we would like you to address as a community. Although we love to hear feedback but it is needs to be posted in a constructive way.
Once we have stopped support for the prototype of Ace of Spades we may need to revisit the site again and look at the situation, however that is something we can talk about closer to the time.
Hopefully these small things should be easy to change and we can look forward to a long a fruitful future together.
Yours sincerely,
Ace of Spades Community Management
Mathew Kemp (Mod Mat K)
Jagex Games Community Manager
Jagex Games Studio
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tl;dr He completely fails to recognize the reason behind BnS and insists we focus on 1.0 instead of the "prototype".
2nd Email (November 26th, 2012):
Dear Buildandshoot,
After reviewing your site, I can see that there is still some way to go to have it meet the key rules that we set out below. If you can get back to me by midnight tonight (PST ) with any progress you have made and what your plans are to meet these rules, we can start moving forward.
Yours sincerely,
Ace of Spades Community Management
Mathew Kemp
Jagex Games Community Manager
Jagex Games Studio
Needless to say we didn't respond to him. No point in wasting our time on somebody who can't even see what a community is gearing towards (including ours and their own).
