Hi Aetolians,

You may or may not know me, but I'm Matt Mihaly, the CEO of Iron Realms.

You don't hear from me often, at all, so I'll get right to the point: I
know there's a lot of discontent over Aetolia's direction this last
year, with much of what was promised at the beginning of the year not
materializing. I fully understand that discontent, and agree that this
state of affairs is unacceptable.

Recently, Razmael/Mike and I had a talk, and we agreed that he would
step down as producer of Aetolia. I'm not looking to cast blame at
Razmael here though, and neither should you. He was thrust into the
producer role after we fired Galleus/Eric Lamy, and was never really
thrilled with it. It's my fault for leaving him in a position where he
wasn't comfortable for so long. He was originally hired as a coder, and
would vastly prefer to go back to being a straight-up coder, so that's
what we're going to do. He'll continue on in Aetolia, but not as the
producer going forward.

Now, what we don't have is a permanent producer to replace him with yet.
That's something we're going to work on at the beginning of 2017, but in
the meantime Oleis/Riley Pagett is going to come back and serve as
acting producer. He's not available to be full-time producer going
forward due to other things in his life, but he'll fill that role until
we find the right person for the job.

Riley's going to be making a statement himself, but what we're going to
be focusing on is identifying where we can make the most impact in
Aetolia in the next, say, 6 months. Riley will be talking to the
existing staff, volunteers, and you - the players - at some length, to
gather sentiment on what's important to get done rightr now.

He's got some pre-existing commitments between now and the end of 2016
that'll limit his time in Aetolia more than he'd like for the next two
weeks, but he's already back and he and I are talking about how to
approach this and really give Aetolia back the energy it deserves.

In any case, the failure here is mine and I apologize for letting you
down.

If you've got any comments, I'm opening a forum thread on this, or you
can email me directly at matt@ironrealms.com, or Oleis at
oleis@aetolia.com

Looking forward to righting this ship, and you'll hear from Oleis/Riley
in a post soon.

--matt

Penned by my hand on Tisday, the 3rd of Severin, in the year 463 MA.