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By: Developer Incentives In RMT Item Shop Games | MMOFire

Developer Incentives In RMT Item Shop Games | MMOFire — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:03:04 +0000

[...] short, as Sanya Weathers explains, the developers don’t hate anyone’s playstyle. They will occasionally hit you with [...]

By: Yeebo

Yeebo — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:21:30 +0000

Thoroughly entertaining. Even as someone that has watched devs ties the pooch down and sodomize it in a couple of MMOs, I have to agree right on target

I wonder what an MMO that was developed by a committee of message board whiners would play like? I think they could call it “Crap that makes no sense and isn’t as much fun as jamming your ‘nads into a fire: the MMO”

By: Katrina

Katrina — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:38:28 +0000

“This fifty page log of all the crap you spew in open chat channels, and the two thousand people who reported you, would suggest that a large number of the people on your server do in fact hate you. But we don’t personally care. We’ve seen worse. Amateur.”

Ahahaha. Thanks for triggering a CSR flashback moment.

Hi, by the way. I’m not sure how I wandered over here, but I’m glad I did.

By: Bishop

Bishop — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:33:59 +0000

Great read; one of your better pieces. And one I am likely to be linking early and often when the whiners come out of the woodwork.

By: Tikibeast

Tikibeast — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:08:29 +0000

I laughed, I cried, I ordered a pizza and read it again…

P.S. I think I know that guy and I do hate him and his entire guild of grade school idiots.

By: Smashed Goblin

Smashed Goblin — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:06:43 +0000

trackback!

By: Sanya bias! « kfsone’s pittance

Sanya bias! « kfsone’s pittance — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:26:26 +0000

[...] Sanya bias! Posted on January 22, 2008 by kfsone http://eatingbees.brokentoys.org/2008/01/11/qa-2/#comment-3638 [...]

By: kfsone

kfsone — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:25:19 +0000

If you were really sorry that things weren’t quite right, you would be spending less time in the forums and on blogs telling people whats up and more time fixing the issues. Your paying customers wouldn’t have to put up with post after post knocking their suggestions and trampling their ideas, they would be seeing readmes with “rogues should now be working as rogues expect them to and warriors, wizards and crafters etc will love them too”.

Sigh.

In my experience, the bulk of the “hate calling” around MMO cliques originates from older, embittered gamers from earlier gaming generations who have brought their perceptions and attitudes from their previous experiences and infected their particular communities with this a sort of new redefinition of the word hate:: “hate (verb): to treat differently than one had hoped for”.

C.f.: The IRS hates my tax return.

By: Andrew Crystall

Andrew Crystall — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:37:53 +0000

John – Try “when a company will not fix a common and overloud sound in their interface which makes the majority of their customers disable game sound despite YEARS of begging….” (And they ban people who drop their own sound in for hacking…)

By: Phaltran

Phaltran — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:15:42 +0000

It’s funny because it’s true.

I’ve been playing with all of those whiners for over 10 years now. Must be one of the reasons I gave up on community forums.