(07-17-2016, 08:40 AM)sindroms Wrote: This thread makes me wonder how long will it be until the staff ''wins'' by pulling the "I am taking my ball and going home" approach and we will be staring at a DNS error the next time we try to open the forums tomorrow.
Seen exactly this chain of events happen on a certain other community. Ultimately, it's the coder's ball and the coder's ballpark and the admins are replacable (esp. if you aren't picky). It would certainly piss off a lot of people, though, because on a ten year old persistent server there's a lot of players with a lot of time invested.
If you want to look at that kind of escalation, though, then it all boils down to who has the keys to the server - who pays the bills, who can take it offline. Whomever has that has the nuclear option, but dear god please don't use it