White Panther, on 10 January 2014 - 06:38 PM, said:
New product/content, I don't care... you could go over the definition of it all day, doesn't matter to me. Never once did I say I'm not getting what I'm paying for
Really? You didn't? Hmm. Thanks to the power of the internet and the quote system lets have another look shall we! Doo doo doo. Dee dee dee. Ahhh here it is!
White Panther, on 10 January 2014 - 05:35 PM, said:
Ahh... So what you are saying is we shouldn't be waiting for the product to be released first, we should always pay first and I guess expect(hope) for the product later. Many have already done so and for a lot more than 200$, including myself. There comes a point in time where the content actually has to be delivered.
Well it looks like your right. Never once did you ever utter the phrase "I'm not getting what I paid for." However you did happen to say that you and many others feel like you have piad for a product that has not yet to be recived. Oh that sounds like "I'm not getting what I paid for" to me. Yes it does.
Now I'm going to let this go here and now. I've made my point and at any further in this this is just me bullying you. Because as you said. You don't care.
So you know what? That's fine. Go on not caring, not making logical choices, having unresaonable demands, and feeling entitled to the hard work of others. Keep being part of the problem. Keep being the reason publishing houses put so much preasure on game devs to make money. Keep being the reason that this is happening exactly as you despise.
Cause you are. You really really are. Cause for every dollar in the red Piranha starts to go Infinite Game Publishing is going to twist the screws. Tell them to focus more on making money. Twist their arms till they give you some more bobble heads to complain about. Ya know why that is? Cause they are going to look at these forums. They are going to look at your uneducated and irrational posts and demands and blame Piranha for it.
You and everyone else who throws a little temper tantrum when a sale is anounced is making the problem worse!
IGP: "Well there's nothing wrong with our marketing, and our sales. Look here! On the forums! It's cause you can't do your jobs!"
Piranha: "But we keep having to pull developers off for to make these hero mechs and the paint schemes. We can't keep up with the timetable."
IGP: "Hmmm. I'm sorry. What was that? More hero mechs and camo schemes? Glad I thought of it. Pull another few devs off the stuff not making us money and work on the stuff that sells or well find people who can!"
Every rant, every rave, every half witted attack, every incitement of boycot, every little tyraid, does more to hurt Piranha and their ability to get these features they obviously want to get to you out to you.
Now White Panther I'm not soley at you with this. I'm not focusing all of this obvious rage on you. No no no. There are so many others out there that are worse. Worse by far. You just happened to be the one who presented their thoughts in the most clear way for me to go after.
We all play this game. We all want it to be better. We all want these features that haven't come out yet. We all want this to be the best damned thing since sliced bread. Hell I grew up on battletech. We all need to be better, do more to help. These flame wars, mine included, are nothing but useless and pointless distractions. What we need to be doing, all of us, is not crying our eyes out but getting involved.
Provide constructive and logical feedback. Make Piranha want to reach out and work with us. The players. Make them want to bring us into the development process. Let us take a look around and offer our opinions, not our hate. They know we are going to be disapointed when a feature gets pushed back or removed. Trust me. The hardest meetings I ever attended when QA was watching the developers get the news that they won't be making it on this release. That it's getting back burnered. Hell features getting canned are the worst. All the hard work and time that goes into it...
Developers... They all want to make a game the best they can. Give you everything. The best thing you'll ever play.... all that is pie in the sky... cuts get made, priorities change, and things get back burnered. I wasn't with SOE when DCUO went free to play. I'd moved on to a much higher paying, less hours, and less stress job of being tech support.... for a major cable provider... any who! So I don't rightly know how hard producers are riding these guys. In a game that's free, with no promise of money from every player that logs in... Think about that.
No way to garuntee money. No way to make sure there is pay day. That's scary as hell business wise.
So in closing. What we ALL need to do, is get out of this thread about a bloody sale your either gonna buy or not, and get into one of the feed back for upcomming features threads or one about current mechanics and strat providing constructive feed.
There! All done and wrapped up! Made my point, lashed out on someone on the internet(yes yes I'm a ****), and hopefully provided a tiny bit of insight and guidence on game developers and why these rants and hate is not actually helping.