What we can control and how we choose to act
Owlx
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Happy Mother's day to all the players and @HPWUTeam who are Moms and to those celebrating their own mothers.
To my fellow forum witches and wizards and the entire @HPWUTeam,
I was one of the many -Singing in Ursula's voice from the Little Mermaid- Poor unfortunate Souls - who started prestiging stuff before the warning. After doing ALL my challenge pages, and some of my registry pages I realized this isn't working as intended, a stopped. I don't understand the new change. I filed a bug report I have before and after images. That was all I could do. I am waiting patiently to see what the developers can do for a fix. I have faith that there will be a fix. Until then...
I can't control what happened to my game. I can't control the the in game bugs.
I've have intentionally stayed off this forum since 2.13.0 update knowing the forum community would be in chaos. I came back to 500+ notifications. I skimmed a few threads.
Wow the hate and anger are overwhelming. That demonstrates a few things. That players are immeasurable passionate about Wizards Unite. Being a fan myself I get that. I understand the anger. It stems from... I didn't want this change. I don't understand this change. Change this back! The game has massive bugs affecting in game life playability. I lost a massive amount of fragment progress.
What I don't get is the hatred and personal insults directed to individual players and @HPWUTeam.
Hate spewing and name calling are against the TOS we all agreed to when we all joined. Hating the update and it's is change is fine and understandable. Attacking other players, name calling, personal insults to the developers and the forum moderators is.......
well I am at a loss of words for forum citizen who are choosing to attack others.
I would ask of all forum citizen to control what each of us CAN control...OUR words and actions.
THINK before you type.
T- is it True
H- is it Helpful
I- is it Inspiring
N- is it Necessary
K- is it Kind
Players and forum citizen you CAN absolutely voice your options and rant about what you hate about this new update.
I am asking and imploring that every citizen here to stop insulting and attacking each other.
WE ARE STRONGER UNITED
Exercise patience, compassion and understanding, barring that at very least be respectful.
The developers never intending the update to do what it did. It is going to take time to correct.
Brainstorming ideas for a fix in a positive constructive maybe more helpful to getting a solution. Maybe just maybe most of them are silent here because it's all hands on deck at HPWU headquarters trying desperately to fix this ASAP. Maybe just maybe their time is better spent working on an actual solution than over talking it here.
This community is growing by huge numbers now because of players looking for answers, wanting, and needing help.
We can control the atmosphere here to be welcoming helpful and positive. Or we can choose to spread anger, fear and hate.
Please choose wisely
For those who read to the end thank you
for those TL; DR summary be nice be kind no name calling
I'm off the forum today to enjoy family time.
As always Be healthy, be well, be safe and Happy Pottering,
Owlx
Comments
Beautifully said!!
And as an aside, like you some of my challenge pages could have advanced to silver or gold, they are still bronze but I am still better off than before because I got so many red books during the rainstorm! And it will take a lot fewer challenges to get them to gold going forward, regardless if the developers are able to retroactively credit or not.
very well said @Owlx
As disappointed as I am (I waited and still lost stuff) mistakes do happen. It isn't their fault and the way many people are choosing to express their anger and frustration is appalling. They are people too. I always appreciate reading your posts on here trying to calm everyone down so thank you for this👏🏼 I'm sure they will address it in the coming days because it affected so many people but not until at least tomorrow
Well said @Owlx. It's pretty clear that this update went poorly, and lots of people have been confused or negatively impacted by the changes. There is a range of responses to the update from outraged to happy, passionate to indifferent. That makes sense, we are all entitled to have and express our opinion. Just please, think about the way you're expressing that opinion before hitting the "post comment" button.
I always re-read what I type online and ask myself two things: Will a reader read this in the tone I intended, and How would I express this thought if I were face to face with the person? In this online world, it's very easy for our words to come across differently than we intended. And as upset as some people may be, remember that you're directing your comments to human beings on the other side of the screen. I think that most people would at least be polite if they were face to face with a member of the HPWU team, but it's easy to forget that and let our anger take over when typing online.
Emotions are... difficult. In essence, they are "Energy in Motion". Whatever "energy" you carry within you causes and shapes the action you take. But said energy - sadly - is prone to active and passive manipulation. When surrounded by negativity, by hate, by criticism, it is almost impossible to be unaffected.
As we all see the forum and the conversations in it shift towards a **** tornado, it affects each and everyone of us. Even the very best and strong-willed aren't protected from wording a comment more harshly than they would've done otherwise. Even the most kind souls are prone to mistake a nuanced comment for negativity. Even the most calm person isn't safe from rage.
We're all human. Love and hate are both within our nature, as are kindness and harassment, understanding and riddicule, support and bullying.
Admitedly, when faced with such overwhelming negativity, there's the urge to speak up, to oppose the haters. But at the same time we need to ask ourselves if we add to the hate by doing so? Bullying the (perceived) bully doesn't solve anything, it just causes more harm, more frustration, more hate.
Forgiveness is hard. And as all of reality seems to spiral into a mad oblivion, I encourage each and everyone to first and foremost nourish the love in our hearts - even if that means to let the haters run rampart. And once the dust has settled, and it will, we can rebuild with love and kindness.
Thank you @Owlx as always for your kind insightful and grounding post!!
Today, it seems, has provided another opportunity to remind each other
Please don't harm yourself. Please don't harm each other.
Please be considerate in the coping mechanisms you chose.