Sadly for CCP we can refuse to give them money.

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After years of getting genuinely angry at stuff like this, I grew out of it, because it's silly.

SooooGǪ T20? Good idea, or best idea?

I thought you had more taste than that Scultz...

Naming your alt IHaveCandyGetIntTheVan69.... cmon man.

I used to do something that was stupid
I have grown out of it and realized I shouldn't do it so I no longer do this thing
It is no longer stupid?

Just because the current dev has more backing than the previous one doesn't change the nature of what they're doing. It only shows that the cronyism has become endemic, which is actually worse than a single guy doing it on his own. They're not different issues GÇö they're the exact same issue with different layers of excuses to cover for it.

The only difference between the two is one of scale: T20 was a lot smaller in size and effect, and less troublesome in terms of policy.

When I was a kid, all manner of things were important.

Now that I'm just shy of 40, I can see those thigns for what they are and where. SILLY.

If you can't understand that, I don't know what to tell you. i used to get so many at FASA Interactive/Microsoft because of what they were doing with the Battletech IP. So mad at Lucas Arts because of the Star Wars stuff etc. Eventually, I realized that I was being dumb, there are rwal actual bad things going on in this world and none of it involves video games.

It's ok for a customer to dislike what a company does, but this reaction reminds me of a small protest I was assigned to work at a wal-mart a few years ago. It wasn't over workers rights, or child labor in China. wal-mart had littlerally stopped selling a certain brand of something and people were mad at that. Oh the indignity of having to be forced to shop at Super Target...

GǪand that just makes the second case worse than the first.

GǪand I'm saying that he second difference isn't actually a difference in what the issue is: devs favouring a single entity under a veil of secrecy. More of them thinking this bad idea is a good idea doesn't change what it is they're doing.

I'm calling it endemic because the notion that it's ok for the devs to hand out special favours to specific groups for no adequate reason has spread from just one person to a whole bunch of them. What was just a single dev being stupid is now endemic in all of them (and this spread of a bad idea is then trotted out as an excuse for this behaviour).

I am a smart and reasonable person.

But that's the point, we (or at least I) don't want to unsub, we are hoping (perhaps in vain) to keep from getting to that point by having our voices heard. If only there was some group who could represent us.

Thread has allways be in top. How this happens doesn't matter.

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I say "you fellows need to light up some of that "good green" and let your cares fly away" )

Tactical Trolling 101: Every time someone posts, the thread is bumped to the top. It doesn't matter what they post, since most people won't read past page 1. If you own the thread, this is good. If you're against the thread, this is bad.

If you had any brains at all, you'd let the thread die. But, please, keep posting.

Confirming that Chribba is a drama lama.

If Chribba is criticizing CCP, maybe they ought to rethink their policies.

A more extreme, but maybe easier to understand analogy would be this:

I used to do massive amounts of crack.
I realised (by growing up) that doing it was fricking stupid and was killing me so I stopped.
Does previously doing massive amounts of crack now stop me from telling people who still do massive amounts of crack that it's fricking stupid and is killing them?

That basically was Jester's point in a nutshell, Shut up or GTFO.

No point in trying to persuade anyone they are wrong kinda attitude, just ride this train and you don't complain about the conductor pissing in your soup whilst giving some other dude he likes champagne, super fine soup and caviar, if you don't like it get the **** off at the next stop.

No replacement soup and no conductor getting a severe beating to put an end to his shenanigans.

However, CCP have seen the error of their ways on many occasions following player protest and complaint, doesn't always happen immediately, and doesn't help that certain player councillors appear to be running interference for them these days, but why just give up without a fight?