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I'm in complete agreement with you. Your argument and the argument that by not spending As on AChat, you could risk the opposite effect … that the company goes out of business….. (very standard argument which, I'm quite sure, the AChat team/owners offer at some point). However, the period of time in which they observe their profits slide, quarter-by-quarter, will offer them the time to consider real action on the matter. All I have seen to this point is little interaction from the 'devs' …. but, in my opinion, they are only interacting in the forums to 'appear' to care about the users of the system. Moreover, they use this opportunity to 'appear' that the development of poses is such a tremendous effort that it takes sooo much time to produce more poses et al …… far from the truth. If the system was designed well enough (which, I'm quite sure occurred judging by the graphics work), they already have what they need to quickly develop new poses with ease. The only thing slowing down their progress is the decisions based solely on ROI. Trust me, they're making money hand over fist …. it's all a matter of their bottomline …. the less money they have to spend on graphics artists (for new clothing and such) and the less 100k/year graphics programmers they have to pay monthly (which is probably not the case, most likely paid in contracts) … the more money they see flowing into their coffers.
Unfortunately (and for obvious reason), AChat is currently designed so that no one user can hold an open discussion amongst all users in the system (yes, yes, yes, sure, you could say it was 'by design considering the graphics et al'' … but as a former programmer … no, I know that's not the real reason). The only solution to this problem is the traditional route of conveying this protest to non-forum users …. by Word of Mouth. The more people you tell, and the more people they tell, the more people will volunteer to take action. Just as it is in real life, it is the 5% that drive change and spread the word to others (and yes, it does seem like the old days before the telephone existed to do this). But, if I'm not mistaken, haven't we seen many protest actions in this world (i.e. Egypt et al) formulated into action by each person talking to 5-6 people they knew who spread it to 5-6 other people (and all via one-to-one text messaging devices I might add).
Each of us is an investor in this system in some way (I know, myself, that I'm still collecting poses in different areas) and would like to see this system continue to grow in both number of members and feature sets. Although, it appears that only 5% of the users may participate in the forums, there are alot of people who chose to read what's going on with AChat and offer no feedback in the forum … BUT, other users are reading this forum ….
I know that there has been alot said about the lack of foresight on the part of the development team in AChat. They are AT LEAST …. seemingly consistent.
Their consistency has nothing to do with the equity of all in AChat (my shoutouts to the LGBT community here). Rather, most of the decisions are based, for the most part, on the return value that they see in new developments. From a marketing perspective, they are simply playing the numbers game (which shows them that the MF audience is a larger community by societal survey). Therefore, unless the total number of LGBT community members increases beyond that of the heteos (both m/f), they will always have little incentive to develop for the LGBT community.
Upon joining AChat, I was initially impressed by the “Pantless Friday”'s protest. However, upon reflection, this form of protest means nothing to the dev. team nor the AChat investors. If you truly want to see change on this system, STOP BUYING As …. period.
The LGBT (and any other supporting members) community need to hit them where it really counts … THEIR BOTTOMLINE.
Rather than forming a protest in the system (which the devs may/may not view/have no real decisive powers to change things) … you need to organize a protest that effectively demands action … form a protest to stop buying As for a period of time.
And, of course, the most effective form of the protest, is to get as many members to join in this action … 0 profit
100% response pushed by those who profit from AChat and want to see their early retirements resume.