Ep139 WTF in Vanadiel Is CatsEyeXI

WTF in Vanadiel - An FFXI Podcast

A revolving door of an ill-fated server. With a comical absence of balance, over customization, a destroyed economy, to a lack of reason to do too much besides a third of the server AFKing in Jeuno. CatsEyeXI had all the promise in theory, but wasn't going to ever live up to it.
From mismanagement, to favoritism, instability, ineptitude, dysfunction, upstream issues, or corruption it has no real future besides going further down the hole it dug itself. None of this substance with the server do I really even bother to discuss in this episode. For this is about how I came to the server, and left the server. The amount of stress and dysfunction was off the charts, and it didn't need to be that way.
Now there is plenty of blame to go around, and that includes myself, but ultimately a shortage of responsibility from the top and the rifts of enabling one dev to lowkey "carry [take over] the whole server"or respond to if they tested something with how that question "was stifling their creative freedom". It was a choice that would clearly never end well.
From multiple offerings to hand over the whole server when stressed by the situation ultimately caused by the owner. To a couple suggestions of completely wiping it out to start over in order to cleanse the server of certain corners it was backed into from past poor choices. CatsEye has all the problems you'd expect of a private server. Be it demanding respect they can't command internally or externally, blaming others for the situation they fostered and failed to solve, absentee admins, and on. There is a long list that adds up over time, and this is but a taste.

A minor error that I later correct in the episode, but I use "Head GM" instead of "Senior GM". It isn't really important, but I was misspeaking.