The Battlefront Public Relations Fiasco

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http://www.flamesofwar.co...tabid=57&art_id=3380

In all the years we have been in business
we have had an open and honest policy about listening to our gamers and
genuinely taking their views on board to the extent of sometimes
changing our plans. We apologise for the confusion and angst our
announcement has caused as it was never our intention. We did not see
this change as a big problem as we were simply formalising something we
already thought was existing practise, albeit informally.


In the interests of compromise and fairness to everybody’s opinion we
will change the word “all” to “majority” (meaning over half) in the
tournament rules for the 2013 season. Although we were not clear enough
about this last week we did not consider die cast planes, scratch built
models or objectives (assuming they are the right size), terrain or
models we do not currently make to be covered by this. As is always the
case, if you are unsure simply get in touch with your tournament
organiser and clarify the situation but we are going to revert to the
best option in all cases, common sense.










The new season rules take effect from the masters in December this year and only apply
to the officially run Battlefront tournaments listed on our site.
Independent tournaments are free to choose their own system, as they
always have been.




One of the feedback ideas that did come back from our weekend
conversations that we really liked was to also further reward people who
came along with 100% Battlefront armies. This is an idea that we will
definitely work on for the future.



We are committed to supporting and growing the Flames Of War hobby
and want to invest more in the future, in events, the website and
programs like the Rangers all of which we are happy to spend money on to provide this to you for free.



We want to thank our moderators for doing such a sterling job this
weekend especially given they had no warning at all. We appreciate all
the civil comments whether for or against. We feel that our compromise
shows that we believed all views have merit. We hope this once again
proves that we do listen.

That's a relief. They did listen. I am amazed on how fast the problem was discovered and resolved.
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