Derovius Vaden
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Posted - 2007.07.03 19:59:00 -
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 Originally by: Akita T
Developers changing stuff and not documenting the changes.
This is simply not possible, major changes can be easily documented, but if someone realizes that the guy who wrote the XYZ mission forget to put a space between the and ship (theship) and changes it, he should not have to log it. Why? Its inconsquential, and a waste of manhours.
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Promises made long ago, stuff we loved hearing about, promises that were not kept and stuff that never came out.
This is the same as any other company, people live beyond their means in terms of content. CCP dev's will all sit around their round conference room table and brainstorm ideas for content. The really good ones get handed to the PR guys who write it up in the dev blogs to get the playerbase all riled up and happy. When the ideas get down to the people who actually have to code/implement these things, they laugh their happy little Icelandic butts off and toss it in the waste bin as either (1) a threat to the balance of the game (2) coding nightmare (3) physically and psychologically impossible.
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Community managers not managing the community, and public relations not doing any.
Every minute they waste responding to every other thread about how much this content stinks, or allegations that BoB was founded by Oveur's second cousin in Norway, and backed by Dutch midgets in spandex, they'd get no work done. I'd rather see results sooner than have them tell me "We're working on it." and have it show up later. Stop asking them to hold your hand.
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Lack of transparency.
"Lets post our trade secrets on the website so our players don't stop thinking we care. Oh, while we're at it, lets list all those macro mining accounts we banned, along with their home address, credit card numbers and bust sizes."
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Lack of public feedback.
They respond as any representative of a company would; clearly and politically correct. They will not post in threads where players are fighting with each other, because someone will scream favouritism. They will not post in suggestion threads because it will convey the message that the idea will be implemented as-is. Players are sheep, if they see that the developers are paying attention they will harass and heckle the poor buggers to the point they just ghost the forums.
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