Don't cater to FUD and DOOM

The title really says it all.

I have grown increasingly tired of the FUD that players who fear any change bring to the forums as well as the DOOM criers, who, after many years of success for this game, have apparently ALWAYS been dead wrong.

Yeah, I know I might as well be trying to stop a hurricane with tissue paper, but sometimes, I just get fed up with it.

Here we are, when the game has never had more ways to play, more things to do and more ways to them and all the Negative Nancy's can do is attempt to find fault with something.

It's sickening. It's one of the reasons that I am often embarrassed to call myself a gamer, lest I be thrown in with people that think it's a good idea to gather the pitchforks because a digit in the game got change from 2 to 1.5 and that the only appropriate response is to set themselves and everyone they can touch on fire.

Is every process in the game perfect? Of course not, because that is not possible, as the definition of perfect lies with each person differently for a fun pastime. Is it plenty fun enough to keep enough subscribers to be profitable? Apparently so, even when I recall posts determined to convince everyone the game would not be here for another month, pretty much from the beginning.

Now, constructive criticism is a needed form of feedback and there are plenty of posters who give great feedback.

But, this incessant need to degrade the work of the people pouring their hearts into this game is really unnecessary, immature and rude. I for one am simply sick of seeing it and post this to show current and future players that the Negative Nancy's are not only WRONG but are a small minority of the games population.

So, even thought there are those that will attack me, my post and possibly my heritage, I say to the Haters, you are WRONG. You have always been WRONG. The game is still here, still profitable, still moving in a positive direction.

If you don't like the game anymore, or never did, and yet you still play and or post your hate on the forums, the jokes on you. If you don't realize that, it just makes it all the more amusing.

"fud"?

And now, a song.

Speakers of the FUD
Speakers of the FUD
They want to chill your blood
"Your game is just a dud."
You were happy until when
You heard the FUD and then...
Speakers of the FUD
Yeah

They have come to bring the DOOM
In your brain it soon will bloom
If you play some other game
It's just more of the same
And you may not know it now
But it all comes back to WoW
Come to bring the DOOM
Yeah

Heh, felt appropriate somehow.
But yeah, agreed with the OP. I admit I do kvetch about certain things, but they are things that should be easily fixable, or things that have been broken for an inordinate ammount of time (glitched emotes, etc) rather than 'ZOMG game does not play way I want RAAAAGE!'

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

You know what I'm really sick of? People doing things. It's really getting out of hand. Especially now that all of those things have happened, you'd think people would be just happy and appreciative of everything, but no. They have to do things.

Now, I know asking people to not do things is like asking people to do things, in that it just never works, but at the same time, you always have to keep trying, because if you don't keep trying then you'll never get anything done. And it's really frustrating that it's like that, for sure.

Now, OK, I'll admit, some things are good, but we can never forget that some things are also bad. It's good when people do these things that are good and good and also sometimes good, but not so good when people do these things that aren't good, or in other words, when people do the things that are bad. Certainly, it's natural that people are going to want to do the things they want to do, and it's even good when people do good things, but let's be realistic here: When is the last thing that happened?

No matter what happens, someone will always do something, and we really should be better - that is to say more good - than that. Let's not be bad people and do these things, when these things really don't serve and purpose at all and are, in fact, very detrimental to everything just as a general thing.

But if you guys still feel obligated to do these things that you do that I don't want you to do even though we all know you shouldn't do them - and we do - then you do understand that you're doing the wrong thing, do you not?

*In other news: I smoulder with generic rage.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

::The old man totters out onto the stage. In the darkness beyond it, where presumably there stands an audience, only silence greets him interupted by the occassional cold and flu season discreet cough. The old man shuffles along towards the microphone, pausing only once to hitch up his pants. When he reaches the mic he glances around blearily then begins his prepared reply.::

You say you want the Doomcriers to stop. You say you want us to no longer complain or prophecy ultimate failure in what others attempt.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH DOOOOOOOOOOOM!!

I say before you now that we Doomcriers have held our place in history with pride! I say to you that without us the gears of history would have shuddered and stopped long ago! We are the squeaky wheel that gets the grease! We are the irritant that causes the oyster to make a pearl just to shut us up!

When Christopher Columbus said he'd find a shorter trade route to India a Doomcrier was there to tell him he'd never make it! And he didn't! That's right, you can thank a Doomcrier for the discovery of America you young whippersnapper!

When the Founding Fathers sat down to hammer out a government we Doomcriers kept telling them it wouldn't work. It was our constant complaining and pessimism that kept them hammering away at checks and balances until they gave up and said it was good enough.

And you know what? Danged thing STILL doesn't work!

If they'd listened to us, dang nabbit, maybe we'd actually have a government that didn't vote itself pay raises when the rest of the country was in a recession!

Don't dare discount the Doomcriers! Without us you'd have shoddy workmanship in everything you buy. Without us there's be no improvements, advances or dangerous product recalls. Without the Doomcriers you'd still be driving a Pinto and praying not to get hit by the other drivers because auto insurance wasn't mandatory and health insurance didn't exist in the first place!

::So vehement was his diatribe that he takes a moment to smooth his hair and tuck back in his shirt which had come loose during his gesticulations. He takes a deep breath and concludes.:

'Sides... if you complain about us... you just became one of us. Now get the hell outta my yard.

::He turns and totters off the stage.::

/agree with OP

Yeah, I'm sick of the doomsayers too. Blah blah blah it's all downhill from here yadda yadda dribble snerk splort.

Shut up and play the game.

The OP has a point. i once catered a wedding reception thrown by FUD for the daughter of one of its members. Not only were they loud, drunken jerks who harassed the waitstaff, they didn't tip worth a damn.

DOOM wasn't much better. It took them three months to pay because they "didn't think they would have to pay since the world was supposed to end two days after the party."

Never, ever cater to FUD and DOOM. They're jerks who aren't worth it.

The FUD and DOOM contingent have been going since I joined here (Just after I2), and I have on good authority they were here during the pre-launch times.

You would thing if the game was dying as it is always proclaimed it would have happened by now...

Forums exist for discussion be it negative or positive. Not just glowing praise. The devs want feedback, not yes men who think everything is sunshine and roses.

I don't think it's bad to air ones concerns as sometimes they turn out to be true.

First off...Thank you Steelclaw I really needed that laugh.

Second read my signature. It says it all...

just my two cents...

A little doomcrying every now and then is the price of doing business on the internet.

The Doom that Fudd Brings

Thanks for the support.

Some readers obviously understand where I am coming from and others do not...imagine that...

I freely admit that complaining about the complainers is hypocritical. How many of the doom-criers will come out and admit that, hmm?

I am well aware I am blowing off steam and it will, in no way, change how the haters hate.

I am, however, laughing even now at those people who post rude and immature drivel trying to attack the developers yet still pay them. Hilarious!

(and yes - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt is what I was referring to, but Elmer is my hero!)