Electric-Knight

Thank you, Smeg!
I've been trying to explain this to people who've made these kinds of claims as well. I don't think I've gotten a single reply about it. People just keep on keeping on about how "females do the hunting and males don't do anything!! It makes sense!!"... which is just silly.

Anyway, nice to see some others out there replying reasonably to the madness!

Do you know how all those other origins - tech, science, natural, mutant - were created??

A Wizard did it!!

I've never used the forums ignore feature (my brain has had a good enough one so far).
In-game it has only ever been used for spammers (and for the Newsy NPC, but that doesn't work!).

You can't TELL US what to ignore!!!

Hehe, this place could use a bit more silliness (of the fun loving kind... not the ridiculously serious kind).

Here, this will get people to do whatever you want them to:

It'd be cool to have an offshoot arc based around saving Praetorians (while others are defeating Cole). Sure, the big fancy showdown is the blockbuster... but the real heroes are the ones carrying the innocent people on their backs and/or digging out survivors!

Depending on what really happens with all of this, that could be a fun additional arc (and if not from the Devs, some good AE work could be used).

Huh, it's funny... this made me fully realize something.
I was admiring some of the layouts people have shown, in how many toolbars they managed to spread out across the screen.
And I realized that I can't stand to have anything at the bottom center of my screen. And, actually, the same applies for the top center. I tap N to check/use the Nav window, but then always tap it again to keep it hidden.

I've been meaning to play around with individually-sized windows all around, to see if I can cram some more things into the corners to leave a wider viewing area without keeping things hidden so much.

Oh, I think it is pretty clear what has been said. You don't have to rexplain it to me (And I'm pretty sure I can speak for Arcana on that that one notion as well. She's likely got it).
The only reason I chose that one paraphrased quote was because it was just an example that was quoted earlier that lead into the specific discussion about beta testers (and their value, as opposed to their detriment).
You can replace the quote with any other complaint in here, it makes no difference, regarding what was actually being conveyed in the exchange we were having - people complaining about not getting the beta feature they wanted when they wanted it. Period.
Complaints about their decision is fine. They've been repeated ad nauseum, at this point.
We all know what went down and obviously they had a marketing decision/direction for the release order of the sets.
No where have I argued that BM first was better or right or anything.
The only thing I've talked about was that this thread was about April 3rd and the unsurprising lack of Staff Fighting.
When it was announced that BM was going first, in March, it was a surprise to many (including myself). And concerns and opinions were shared. That's the recorded past (and the opinions have likely been noted).
Now, another Tuesday rolls along (without a rough road map for releases, as we had in March, from WW's letter) and people are clamoring for SF, even though it's pretty obvious that a marketing team that divides up these power sets for timed release is not going to only wait 1-2 weeks between these two powersets (think about it).

Debate all about whether this or that should have happened, but today, the debate is just about what should go on sale this Tuesday (and the next, and so on). The whole, this or that should have, would have, could have been done has been hashed out and recorded... and now people are just bringing it back up because they're frustrated that they still don't have what they want.

I thought SF seemed more primed and more popular as well. As far as marketing decisions and schedules... you will get NO love from me for those things, lol. I've made my opinions on those aspects pretty clear... but it doesn't stop 'em from being the reality of how one can expect things to be handled.

Now the frustration from some posters has bled onto other posters trying to be reasonable and onto closed beta testers. It is just ridiculous and I have no qualms saying so and being attacked by more ridiculousness.

But yes, the paraphrased quote I used is certainly not what I believe the main arguments to have been... of course not. If it were... I would have mocked such comments earlier in the thread. I have no problem with reasonable dialog. It was the unreasonable that I was taking issue with.

Honest, serious question here:
Is there any rational reason why people should think that the unlocking of BM (if it is for sale or not, it is in the coding already, just as Staff Fighting currently is, if I'm not mistaken) somehow creates and/or removes a bug affecting all Pet AI?

Whether or not there is a pet AI bug that is worthy of being a show-stopper is another matter... but is there any basis within reality for blaming the release of Beast Mastery as the culprit of such a bug?

Wowzer! I didn't expect any info to be there.

Really happy to see the costumes that will be part of the issue!

Very interesting!

The majority of people that they usually invite into Closed Betas tend to understand that the things they see, test and play with, on Beta, may not come out on live for a long, long time.
Open Beta would have come with both sets already out and wouldn't be judged around ideas such as "we got Staff first and BM second... how dare they release BM first?!?!".