Hallowed

No bueno!

Please make that a priority.

Yes, yes and probably come G_R.

Methinks she speaks the truth.
Of course, P_P won't be the only one...

She's just an excited lil puppy.

In the abstract, I completely agree. I will say that in the case of the situation under discussion here, what you are talking about doesn't really apply.

Most customers are not familiar with the full saying. The saying is "The customer is always right... except when they're not." At least that's how I know the phrase...

Of course, you did try to seperate yourself from this particular discussion and just seemed to want to vent.

Feel better now?

Yes, that's exactly what I said. <eyeroll>

Here's the deal: Jay is not just some random poster. He represents the company, and as such, he should think a bit more carefully about what he posts. Any post by any dev criticizing the player-base, (or seeming to) should be given some serious consideration before the submit button is hit.

I didn't say he shoudn't post. I didn't say he shouldn't have fun with his posts. As a matter of fact, I said I enjoy his crazy, random posts. I specifically pointed out that a post that (even jokingly) points fingers at the players is probably a bad idea. If you can't understand why... <shrug>

But you don't.

GIT OFF MAH INTARWEBZ LAWN AN' BACK IN YER CORNAH' FRIGG'N ALIEN! Betch'er eeeleeegahl too!

In all seriousness, I hope they fix this, if for no other reason than it will affect at least one of my SG mates.

Aaaand.. so was that.

Though, in truth, most uf us have a 25% chance of finding you. Those that realize you're not in the ocean have a 50/50 chance.

Ok... that was [WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS] funny.



And I'm American.

you see... dealing mith my SG mates has lent me the understanding of the random mind.... which is why I get JLove...


I think

Jeesh Mistress o' Math... retract thy claws.

I'm pretty sure that the term spy was meant more along the lines of "special operative". Think "special forces" as opposed to being a "shock trooper". At least that's how I read it.

You know... I was thinking the same thing.

And yes, no surprise, I have epic rants from time to time, as any of my friends will tell you. They areusually verbal.

I commend you on the deletions. I'm a "I'll stand by what I've said, but apologize if I need to" guy, so I'll let my posts stand, but I respect the retractions.

I also won't pretend that i wasn't trying to agitate you. My main purpose was to refute/discredit your position, but... well... I ain't above a lil' agitaitin'.

Also, I have no idea how to turn off rep, or I would have done it a while ago. It's rather silly.

But yes, I'm totally with you on the idea of having some form of resistance armor made available to players. More importantly (to me) I want costume pieces with glowy bits in general. I don't care who we have to poke (though not in the biblical sense... I have some morals) to get it done.

So peace, yes?

Your response indicates a lack of understanding of Jay's sense of humor, thus A)

"Kindly leave my mother out of this" implies I said something negative about your mother. I didn't, and wouldn't. I simply derided your assertion that you could do Jay's job better than he could. You can take it as a personal attack if you choose, or you can view it as an attack on your silly assertion, which is what it was.

Good communication is not a requirement, nor a norm in game development. It's not Jay's job to communicate with you. It's his job to make in-game art. You may, or may not like his work, but you'd be hard-pressed to find examples of a lack of professionalism there. I, and many others, find his postings to be humorous (if very odd) for the most part. If you look at one of my previous posts, you will note, however, that I think this particular post was not particularly smart.

That having been said, it is the job of the community reps to effectively communicate with the player-base, and one of them should have said "uhm... (many of) the players seem to think this is a PC costume set... we really should immediately correct that misconception" or, if they didn't know, they should have asked Jay/WW if it was an NPC-exclusive costume or not. As much as I like our CR team, and appreciate Ocho's follow-up post, they didn't step up to the plate quite fast enough this time. I don't expect a fast reaction to all threads. I do, however, think a thread started by a dev, should require more careful monitoring and rapid response.

On the matter of personal attacks, if you don't like them, don't use them (which you most assuredly did in your "anti-Jay" posts).

Usually, I tend to be a bit of a good-humored smart-[WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS], but if I think someone's acting like an [WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS], I have no problem pointing it out. In this case, the hypocrisy and personal attacks against Jay caught my attention. I still tried to keep my responses somewhat light-heated. I may or may not have succeeded. Clearly you think I did not.

I think my criticism on this thread has been pretty even-handed. You can, of course, disagree. That's the beauty of the forums.

Your lack of understanding does not Jay a bad dev make.

It just means you have "No idea".

And the irony of someone who claims he can do Jay's job better complaining about "his ego" is priceless.

A) Please have your humor-detection circuitry examined. It's faulty.
b) Sure you would. Is that what your mommy told you? /em pat... pat... pat...

LOL!

Over the years, there have been so many instances of player uttering the phrase "the Devs slapped me/us/the players in the face", or variations thereof.

In no instance did I ever feel that perception was warranted.

You can't believe that the discussion of a costume reveal with a feature most players would love (glowy bits) turned to disappointment when it was revealed that they would not, in fact, be able to access them? Especially when it took quite some time for the fact that it was NPC only to be revealed?

Clearly, you are in the minority. At the very minimum, most people hoped they were PC costume pieces. And again, it took quite some time for this to be proven untrue.

Amazing insight... really.

On this, we agree.

One could make similar statements about the judgmental nature of certain posters here... but that might be a tad... hypocritical.

I would also point out that, unlike in other situations, the amount of over-the-top outrage has, thus far, for the most part, been pretty minor.