almost 4 years ago - /u/CM_Stormshade - Direct link

Hi Everyone,

It's been a long time wish of mine to be able to hand this community back over to itself. Today, we are beginning that process. u/TheMinion256 has agreed to start transitioning the sub over to his control and ownership, and that process is now underway.

What does this mean to you?

1) An actual moderator (or mod team?).

We've been very lax here on moderating as we work on Bless Unleashed and don't want to break rediquette where we can. To avoid the look of this, we really only moderate the most severe posts, and our community here has suffered somewhat due to that. Now, Minion is free to actually mod the sub.

2) It's still official.

We're not going anywhere. This is still the official sub for Bless Unleashed. We'll continue to maintain a presence, and maybe even increase our presence as well. Some of our GM team may fade out of the Reddit, but myself and several other key players will stay on for some time to help ease Minion's transition into leaadership here. Eventually, when he's ready, all BNEA staff will step down as mods here. I'm hoping Minion lets us keep our flair though. :-)

3) Why u/TheMinion256?

In his time here he's been posting regularly, is always fair, but positive in both his praise and criticism, and most importantly, he's been a positive influence in this community for some time. I've never seen him talk down to anyone, or be disrespectful to anyone on the sub. That makes him pretty good mod material in my book.

4) What's the timeline?

I really don't have a timeline in mind for this. As soon as Minion tells me he's ready to tackle all of this on his own, I'll ask him to remove my mod status.

5) Other questions?

If you have other questions about this transfer, please let me know as a comment to this thread, and please help me congratulate Minion on his new powers as our overlord on Reddit be low as well!

Thanks!

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almost 4 years ago - /u/CM_Stormshade - Direct link

Originally posted by soup_nice

It seems as if BNEA is actively trying to wash its hands of the Bless IP so to say. Not being a part of the upcoming PC release & now relinquishing the subreddit?

Any comment on that?

The business decisions regarding BNEA's publishing of the PC version are not something I can talk about. Neowiz and R8 have elected to self-publish the game to PC. That's all we can say about it really.

I have no intentions on abandoning the sub. This is something we're doing to be able to conform to Reddiquette, specifically, "Please don't Take moderation positions in a community where your profession, employment, or biases could pose a direct conflict of interest to the neutral and user driven nature of reddit".

As a Community Manager working for the publisher of Bless Unleashed, I clearly violate that guideline. It's something I've wanted to change for some time. Now, I am taking active steps to do this.

I'll still be here, I'll still be posting news and answering questions when I can. I'm not going anywhere.

The only real difference is that now we have a mod that can moderate the sub to that neutral and user driven intent that Reddit communities thrive under.

almost 4 years ago - /u/CM_Stormshade - Direct link

Originally posted by LJaybe

Not talking about shabiki village. The whole gameI have only seen 1 since event and it was in navarra. B4 salamander event i would have seen more by now without increased spawn rate.

The Salamanders and Shabiki share the same system. While I'm not 100% it's possible that their spawns are shared and that Treasure Shabiki spawn rates may have been reduced for the event.