Comments on: The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Best Developer Friend!

By: Avoiding the Titanic « Bio Break

Avoiding the Titanic « Bio Break — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:28:31 +0000

[...] for computers to run, and saddled with scandal and heavy player criticism. By all accounts, the game’s improved substantially, and I’ve heard several people even praise how the new dev team has performed superhuman [...]

By: Petter

Petter — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:19:21 +0000

Oh, it’s like that everywhere – on every MMO forum, more or less. It’s what you usually get, and the mob can easily dissuade the more eloquent members of the community from ever setting their feet there again. Perfectly understandable.

In some ways, I think that when it comes to Blizzard, it is all a by-product of being such a famous company and the certain amount of personality cults which easily springs up around famous game designers. I’ve met Kaplan, he’s a nice guy an all, but his view on what a game should be can be very different from mine – add some forum warrior-ness to that, having a clear target…and that’s what you get.

By: Petter

Petter — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:16:37 +0000

I very much belive you on that, I am sure the current devs are working their asses of trying to improve the game. I really hope that it will pay off in the end. SOE is, after all, still keeping it alive – it could very well stay online for a long, long time. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for that.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:46:06 +0000

Reminds me of the unofficial Guild Wars forums. You would be in danger to get stuffed into the camp of the PRO-DEV FANBOIS and start forum wars with the COMPLAINERS who supposedly complain for the sake of complaining.

You also know that honesty never saved the messenger of bad news. Just ask the Spartans what they do. This is more a general forum thing. Just like the usual debate about Micro-Transactions in Guild Wars, it is always a hot topic.

Real “dev-hate” is what Tom “Evocare” Chilton and to some extent “Tigole” Kaplan generated over the years. Dunno how they managed to get into this position, but Ghostcrawler usually gets better press, even from those who criticize him. While Tom Chilton apparently is reponsible for the sinking of Atlantis, climate change, Trammel, e-Sports, failed balance, no housing and everything else that does not meet the players fancy. Regardless if he was involved or not, he is always a suspect.

By: Stargrace

Stargrace — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:38:48 +0000

I agree with you on this one. SO many times people think it’s the developers fault – when in all actuality they answer to suits – they get to make up the general game (ie: stories, lore etc) but they’re still told what to do. They can only do so much especially with a tiny little team like Vanguard has.

Let me tell you, the team is some of the most amazing and hardworking people I’ve ever met, and they LOVE their game. They’re only human, and can only do so much with money and resources available. They try, and they give 110% every day.

Hugs.