Continued Dev Silence on Continued Dev Silence.
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AncientGuardian,
Posted on: 2007-05-09 06:52 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
SSSHHHHH!!!
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Yes, I did know this was coming, so I asked the Devs in advance about it, before it was going to happen. Here are their responses:
Castle: ___
Positron: ___
Geko: "Hey, why are you asking me?"
Mysterious!
But seriously. Something as silly as "waah costumes dont drop" warrants a dev reply, but something that has entire now pointless systems developed around it has slid to the status of "Lock the official thread and hope no one notices"
I mean, seriously, If its gotten to this point, let us convert the 30000 metric tons of worthless base salvage to invention salvage since without a CoP, base raiding is pointless, so base defenses are pointless.
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I'm so disappointed ... I thought for sure that contained a secret message regarding the silence of the devs ...
The Horror ... The Horror ...
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I'm so disappointed ... I thought for sure that contained a secret message regarding the silence of the devs ...
The Horror ... The Horror ...
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I'm so disappointed ... I thought for sure that contained a secret message regarding the silence of the devs ...
The Horror ... The Horror ...
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The sounds, of silence
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I'm so disappointed ... I thought for sure that contained a secret message regarding the silence of the devs ...
The Horror ... The Horror ...
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Now STOP THAT !!!
I keep highlighting the nothingness
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Mysterious!
But seriously. Something as silly as "waah costumes dont drop" warrants a dev reply, but something that has entire now pointless systems developed around it has slid to the status of "Lock the official thread and hope no one notices"
I mean, seriously, If its gotten to this point, let us convert the 30000 metric tons of worthless base salvage to invention salvage since without a CoP, base raiding is pointless, so base defenses are pointless.
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This is hilarious.
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Be careful, if you keep highlighting the nothingness, it may start to highlight you.
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Mysterious!
But seriously. Something as silly as "waah costumes dont drop" warrants a dev reply, but something that has entire now pointless systems developed around it has slid to the status of "Lock the official thread and hope no one notices"
I mean, seriously, If its gotten to this point, let us convert the 30000 metric tons of worthless base salvage to invention salvage since without a CoP, base raiding is pointless, so base defenses are pointless.
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I think CoP is working as intended ... It's subtle, but it's working perfectly.
I mean you're hurting about this aren't you ???
Feel the Pain 
You beat me to it!
*shakes fist*
Edit: So dismayed, I'm posting a dev comment about dev silence.
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Reasons why devs might be silent on an issue:
1) We didn't see the issue. There are a lot of threads out there.
2) We are in the middle of looking at an issue, and saying anything at the time might be invalidated. Even something like "we are looking into it" can be read as "we are going to change it" if we look at it and find it to be fine, we would get blasted for not changing it when we said we would.
3) The answer is already being given by a lot of players already
4) The answer is obvious (and thus will eventually be given out by a lot of players, see #3).
5) It involves talking about stuff we can't/shouldn't be talking about.
6) The question is a "when" question. We rarely answer these, because even when we put disclaimers on it, our answer becomes taken as gospel, and if we fail to deliver, we look bad.
There's a secret 7th reason that I am not going to give you because of reason #7.
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7) Too busy making babies into mufflers and raking in the personal finances each dev gets with each WW sale.
I knew it!
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6) The question is a "when" question. We rarely answer these, because even when we put disclaimers on it, our answer becomes taken as gospel, and if we fail to deliver, we look bad.
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I'm guessing the Cathedral of Pain / IoP Raid status is one of these. :/
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There's a secret 7th reason that I am not going to give you because of reason #7
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I blame War Witch for reason #7.
Or Ravenstorm.
Or possibly Sexy Jay...in fact now that I think about it it was most likely Sexy Jay, maybe rule #7 is why they won't give him a red name.
I imagine a new cultish following around the idea of the 7th Reason now.
ZOMG that's it!! The 5th Column has been changed and they will return...as the 7th Reason!!!
I assume they were the 6th Vacation while they were gone.
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Reasons why devs might be silent on an issue:
1) We didn't see the issue. There are a lot of threads out there.
2) We are in the middle of looking at an issue, and saying anything at the time might be invalidated. Even something like "we are looking into it" can be read as "we are going to change it" if we look at it and find it to be fine, we would get blasted for not changing it when we said we would.
3) The answer is already being given by a lot of players already
4) The answer is obvious (and thus will eventually be given out by a lot of players, see #3).
5) It involves talking about stuff we can't/shouldn't be talking about.
6) The question is a "when" question. We rarely answer these, because even when we put disclaimers on it, our answer becomes taken as gospel, and if we fail to deliver, we look bad.
There's a secret 7th reason that I am not going to give you because of reason #7.
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Umm... now that the devs have broken silence on the dev silence regarding their silence... where does that leave us?
7) We do not talk about #7
But while your here Posi, please tell me you know about this thread. Please /e puppydogeyes
As for #2 just add No guarantees in the post and people can't hold it against you.
"We're looking into it, no guarantees though." problem solved but this should only be used for really big issues.
Like this one.
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4) The answer is obvious (and thus will eventually be given out by a lot of players, see #3).
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O.o
Ya'll might be over-estimating some of us a tad.
The mind boggles, but a few ideas jump out right away.
Too busy posting phony "Hey, when are the devs gonna..." to build buzz.
Just NOT going to get involved in the catgirls vs. wolfboys thing. There are no winners, only casualties.
Too busy getting ready for the next staff meeting's "Agenda Item 3a: funniest petition."
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6) The question is a "when" question. We rarely answer these, because even when we put disclaimers on it, our answer becomes taken as gospel, and if we fail to deliver, we look bad.
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I take this to mean we are definitely getting two new EATs in Issue 10, together with the long-awaited Crossover system.
Thanks for clearing this up, Poz!
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Umm... now that the devs have broken silence on the dev silence regarding their silence... where does that leave us?
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DOOOOMed.
Because you knew it was coming.
But nevertheless ... They are being pretty quiet about being pretty quiet.
Coincidence ??? I think not