Take up the slack?
Had a tell from a player doing the 7 day trial. What this player told me I have heard before, and will probably hear again. They felt that the community response to new players was ... VERY poor. Let me relate what he said and see what you think.
He is a low level crafter ( of course, 7 day trial ) and needed some cargo gear. Asked around and was told to look for tinkers using search. Found a couple high level ones and asked if they could help. He was told, that they could not help him since they were too busy PL'ing. They wished him luck on finding gear.
That all sounds very believable to me. Currently, many are doing just that, PL'ing their metal crafts before the change to metals goes live. I know some are very good about helping the new players, but they can't be online 24/7. And since I keep hearing this same complaint from new players, I feel this is becoming a big problem again. Have we become so fearful of a coming change, that we are forgetting about the very ones we NEED to be here.
But now, I need to ask a few questions...
If we truly want new players to join and stay, would taking a short break from leveling not serve that desire better?
If we are not aware of the new players testing out HZ, could we not pay more attention to channels like General, help, and new player?
We DO want many more to start playing and staying in Horizons ... right?
Let's try to get back to being a community that is famous in MMORPG world, and try to keep aware of the new one in our midst. No need to do it all for them, but let's at least try to remember them a bit more... ( that includes me too! )
See you all in Help, and General, and New Player channels.