Mercade
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Posted - 2005.12.17 16:20:00 -
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I think I'm gonna make this reply to each of these threads I see.
You are entitled your opinion OP, and no one here can dispute your opinion, that is the beauty of it being personal and subjective. However.
This is a fantasy game. Within it, the devs are gods. Anything that happens within it, of their creation, they are fundamentally responsible for. However it is not a utopian system and it relies not on fantasy to power it, but the reality of logical coding and server hardware.
If you can tell me you've had a gaming computer never ever have any problems or issues and then tell me your solution hasn't been wiping all of the data and taking a long time to rebuild it then you still have no idea what they are dealing with because their computer is 1,000 of your computers and their help desk doesn't exist, they build it, they fix, their issue.
However what you can do, when you sit in frustration, is reflect upon the opinion you are entitled and what it is you wish to achieve when you express it. You can imagine a group of developers sitting in a room, around a table, their attention expressed specifically upon you. You are frustrated and angry, you can yell at them about how your evening after work of 3 hours of killing virtual rats has been degrading.
What you will see is a group of gamers, who've had probably less then 3 hours of sleep the last few nights, staring back at you out of exhaustion, frustration and anger because the world they've built for you, is not made in a utopian world itself and beyond their control "s**t Happens". As you scream and yell at them, telling them how you pay for this game, remember that this expansion is free. Because they are gamers like you, and chose unlike every other broken expansion creating company out there, not to charge you for the content.
As you yell at them remember that though your 3 hours of npcing is in jeopardy, their livelihood is at risk. Their wives at home, their children. It is not without interest on their part for them to see you happy. When you are done expressing this opinion, you will have shown them nothing they do not know. Nothing they themselves are not already upset personally about. No way or means for them to resolve an issue that they are spending almost all their time working on, only pointing out the obvious issues that everyone is dealing with. And if you think that them having to look at your angry frustrated opinion is going to change anything anymore then them staring at the hungry eyes of their chilren, the servers of a world they've built by hand out of a dream, their fellow brother developers all bandied together like soldier for a fight for the common cause, then you are simply deluding yourself.
Your opinion does not have the power to help, if you question that single phrase then explain to them how it can, because I'm sure they would take it. If not then consider what many of us are doing.
-Waiting gladly because this expansion wasn't made in another game by a same company that resulted in several days of total gaming loss.
- Waiting gladly because we weren't asked to pay additionally for a look at their coding capabilities, just asked to be patient as best we can.
-Waiting gladly because we know, having either met or been around these developers for 2 years the quality of people they are. You can have arguments with people, but certain kinds of people you know, that it's not worth a small argument, you won't find these people elsewhere, value them.
-Waiting gladly because after 4 years of other MMO's. Simply finding one is like getting a girlfriend, after all the looking, you'll accept issues, and work towards something rather then say "If you can't give me perfect I'm looking elsewhere"
In the end, it's your opinion, but airing it here won't help them, your or me. And if you are adamant enough to leave over this, leave this genre, this is the best you're gonna get.
-blatant fan-
 Originally by: kieron
...possible causes for an extended downtime, I think playing WoW would be close to the bottom of the list, probably between shaving cats and having dental work done w/o anethesia.
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