Having been in pretty much this position, I will state that vicious and deliberate attempts are not being made to rewrite what has been written.
Rather, what is happening is that plot team members are being drawn from the ranks of the faction players, often the longer term players who remember with fondness the plot lines they themselves played through and enjoyed. These plot team members are paying homage to those plot lines, and attempting to both preserve them as part of the setting and also bring a measure of the enjoyment they had to the newer players.
Unfortunately, these plot team members don't have access to behind the scenes information; what they have is information that they and other people uncovered IC - and although we know how unreliable that is, it's still very difficult to acknowledge that what you "know" as "fact" could well be a tissue of lies.
One way or another, whether through lack of communication or through a corruption of information caused by the chinese whispers of NPC replacing etc, the definitive info is not available, and those of us who know you respect your wish to remain LT-negative, therefore making it very hard to approach you for advice on plot lines that you wrote. So the plot team member goes ahead with it anyway, because it's now part of the history, part of the story, and part of legend and because they want it to remain so.
It's not an insult, or deliberate revisionism; it's an attempt to preserve what was written. Misguided, perhaps. But no one is perfect.
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Date: 2005-11-29 09:28 am (UTC)Rather, what is happening is that plot team members are being drawn from the ranks of the faction players, often the longer term players who remember with fondness the plot lines they themselves played through and enjoyed. These plot team members are paying homage to those plot lines, and attempting to both preserve them as part of the setting and also bring a measure of the enjoyment they had to the newer players.
Unfortunately, these plot team members don't have access to behind the scenes information; what they have is information that they and other people uncovered IC - and although we know how unreliable that is, it's still very difficult to acknowledge that what you "know" as "fact" could well be a tissue of lies.
One way or another, whether through lack of communication or through a corruption of information caused by the chinese whispers of NPC replacing etc, the definitive info is not available, and those of us who know you respect your wish to remain LT-negative, therefore making it very hard to approach you for advice on plot lines that you wrote. So the plot team member goes ahead with it anyway, because it's now part of the history, part of the story, and part of legend and because they want it to remain so.
It's not an insult, or deliberate revisionism; it's an attempt to preserve what was written. Misguided, perhaps. But no one is perfect.