45 replies to this topic

[Garth Erlam]

Hey Guys!

You may recall awhile back I made a post asking people to please, if at all possible, send suggestions to the suggestions forum, and only send me messages that have to be straight to me.

Now, I realise it's awesome to talk directly with the people who work on a game you like. And I, as a Community Manager, am fully willing to talk to you. However, I want to show you some numbers. First: I answered almost every single message from when I was gone, and these numbers are very recent.

New Messages (since Sunday - and I have answered 75): 102
My Conversations (total, ongoing): 1245

So you are free to message me, but please, understand why I may not reply. It's not I don't care, or don't want to talk but... (177 messages in 2.5 days).

Since I started writing this, I have received another 15 messages. The CMDS is under heavy, heavy deluge. Please be patient.

[Khanahar]

We love you Garth!

Although it's really not in your best interest to tell everyone that the best way to get ideas through to you is private messaging.

And is there any chance we could get logs of any of that? I'm sure you address some of the same things again and again, and often things that could be easily cleared up on this forum.

[Kraven Kor]

You need a Rotary File.

Just sayin'.

[Stoicblitzer]

idk how you do it.

[Tennex]

SHOW US THEGARTH MOBILE

[KinLuu]

Give us Battlemech #20 or your soul shall be doomed forever.

[Voridan Atreides]

Stoicblitzer, on 20 March 2013 - 10:51 AM, said:

idk how you do it.

Edited by Voridan Atreides, 20 March 2013 - 10:58 AM.

[MustrumRidcully]

Garth Erlam, on 20 March 2013 - 10:28 AM, said:

Hey Guys!

You may recall awhile back I made a post asking people to please, if at all possible, send suggestions to the suggestions forum, and only send me messages that have to be straight to me.

Now, I realise it's awesome to talk directly with the people who work on a game you like. And I, as a Community Manager, am fully willing to talk to you. However, I want to show you some numbers. First: I answered almost every single message from when I was gone, and these numbers are very recent.

New Messages (since Sunday - and I have answered 75): 102
My Conversations (total, ongoing): 1245

So you are free to message me, but please, understand why I may not reply. It's not I don't care, or don't want to talk but... (177 messages in 2.5 days).

Since I started writing this, I have received another 15 messages. The CMDS is under heavy, heavy deluge. Please be patient.

I PM you with an idea how to solve this issue, so the forums are not so cluttered.

[Trauglodyte]

So, what you're REALLY saying is that we message you more because they're not getting to you due to you driving through a tunnel on the cusp of cell range while changing towers during a lightning storm? I'm on it, boss!

[Gregory Owen]

any clue why your ( the devs) post have become untrackable through your profile in the last couple days?

[Garth Erlam]

Gregory Owen, on 20 March 2013 - 11:05 AM, said:

any clue why your ( the devs) post have become untrackable through your profile in the last couple days?

ECM.

[Belorion]

PGI will just have to clone you. That is the only acceptable solution.

[Tice Daurus]

These responses by Garth are full of WIN. Now...if I could just get Bryan and Randall to respond back to me about my story I submitted months ago....

Edited by Tice Daurus, 20 March 2013 - 11:54 AM.

[Mike Forst]

I'm just going to PM you now instead of sending you an email or chat message. Is that ok?

[Karyudo ds]

Mike Forst, on 20 March 2013 - 11:53 AM, said:

I'm just going to PM you now instead of sending you an email or chat message. Is that ok?

This is how all office communication should work...

[Roland]

Folks should appreciate the fact that Garth is the only game development team member I've seen, in any game, who would even consider appologizing to the forums for not replying to every single nonsense message he receives, immediately.

[stjobe]

Garth Erlam, on 20 March 2013 - 10:28 AM, said:

177 messages in 2.5 days

That's only... where'd I put my calculator... 9 messages an hour, 8 hours a day.

Or 6 minutes per message.

Surely TheGarth can handle that?

[Tarman]

Roland, on 20 March 2013 - 12:00 PM, said:

Folks should appreciate the fact that Garth is the only game development team member I've seen, in any game, who would even consider appologizing to the forums for not replying to every single nonsense message he receives, immediately.

He gets a lot of street cred from me for this. They've upped their facetime appreciably since the start of the year, really.

[Kooler]

Some say that if too many messages overload his brain, he will release mech #20 and info regarding CW

Edited by Kooler, 20 March 2013 - 12:13 PM.

[Hedonism Robot]

I think it would really help if the developers replied more of the Balance and Suggestions forums. I understand that they peruse them occasionally, but people would be more encouraged to post there instead of the general forums if there was more interaction. We only post and spam you folks because we enjoy this game and want MWO to be the best it can be.