Divorzio tra Promods team e Poland rebuilding team!
Dear community,
One and a half years ago, we announced that Poland Rebuilding joined our team. The main goal was to get a better co-ordination between the developments in Poland and the rest of Europe. We joined forces, tried to be ever greater than we ever could be alone. And at first, this was the case, as ProMods 2.0 had proven to be a turning point in ProMods’ future developments and quality standards.
Unfortunately, things haven't worked out the way we hoped…
Tensions were rising between the former Poland Rebuilding team members and the rest of the team. Initially, we thought that the language barrier and the fact they were using a different communication channel than the rest of the team were the main causes of the problem. The Poland Rebuilding members can barely speak any English, so we needed someone to interpret, but we also needed to integrate their communication into our channels, so we knew what they were doing and could help them out whenever trouble arose. We spent our efforts to let them get involved in the rest of the team. And we even have two Polish members now that can speak better English so they could interpret the messages between us. But despite all our efforts, it was their choice to isolate themselves. The reality that we were still two teams instead of one was troubling…
But this was not the only problem; the other main reasons where artistic disagreements. As a team, we want our product to fulfill a set of norms. We strive to be the best and to be innovative and try out new techniques. These norms became more elaborate over time, to help new and current team members obey the norms and give them tips on how to do things better. This was a good solution everyone agreed upon… except for the former Poland Rebuilding team, who told the rest of the team not to interfere with their work. Unfortunately, it was certain aspects of their work that we were concerned about. But since we were not allowed to interfere, this became a big problem.
Combined with poor communication, this was the main source of frustration, where one party tried to enforce the norms and the other party refused to change anything. This hurt the team spirit and was quite bad for co-operation. It was getting increasingly difficult to find common ground. It was clear that this setup would no longer function properly. Things had to change or the team would fall apart. Concessions and compromises were offered, but without avail…
… and on February 9, Poland Rebuilding decided to pull the plug…
What had been started one and a half years ago, came to an unfortunate and brutal end. It is sad to see things go that way, especially when we know that deep down we failed to work as a team. And it will not look good to you, the members of our community.
So, the obvious question is: what will happen to Poland now? We will continue to work on it, but this has to be done by different people in our team. While we can apply our norms on this part of the map now, we have to divert the man-power from elsewhere.. But rest assured, development will continue, with or without Poland Rebuilding. We do have some locals from Poland in our team and they will help the rest of the team to keep the look of the country authentic.
We sincerely hope we could bring you some good news in the future. But bad things happen every once in a while...
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NOTE:
If, however, the Poland Rebuilding team decides to take a grudge upon us and publish our work unauthorised, we will take measures. If they release previously unreleased content to the public, we will take action against that. If you ever find such an unauthorised copy (which we hope there won’t be any), please let us know and please don’t use it; these products will not be supported by our team, since they were never meant for release in this state. Any unauthorised copy user will be banned from our website if we find out, since it’s a violation of our EULA.
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