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[Cest7]

Its been over a year since i've seen a PGI tag in game. Paul stated he plays 5 different dev builds on his machine, I'm pretty safe to assume that no devs play on live servers.

Playing against your dev team in house is OK to test individual features but every once and a while you have to go out and smell the flowers.
Dear Devs,
Play your game on live servers.
Thanks.

[Sug]

Was just in a match with Sean Lang the other day. They're still around.

[JohnnyWayne]

I didn't even read more than the topic. [Redacted]

Edited by John Wolf, 31 July 2014 - 06:23 PM.
Unconstructive

[Adiuvo]

Sug, on 25 July 2014 - 01:32 PM, said:

Was just in a match with Sean Lang the other day. They're still around.

Sean Lang is a contractor and not a dev. He's part of NGNG which helps put together a lot of the media PGI releases.

I see actual devs occasionally though. Karl Berg especially is VERY active. Russ plays somewhat often as well.

[CDLord HHGD]

I see devs in quite frequently... Was in a match with Alex and he rocked. Having a PGI tag in game with a bunch of vultures is worse than a gold tag, they get focused and ridiculed etc... They don't HAVE to play to get that kind of abuse, they can just come here..... Gotta wonder how many devs have a normal "civilian" account though....

[-Natural Selection-]

A few are on my list. They drop with us on occasion, but see them online quite a bit.

[Racklesnack]

Russ has already stated that he and a bunch of the other guys down at PGI have alternate accounts that they use to play on the live servers.

[JohnnyWayne]

Devs sure are playing. But testing these 5 builds of MWO with different content levels is more important than shooting a dev.

Mr Titan, on 25 July 2014 - 01:35 PM, said:

Russ has already stated that he and a bunch of the other guys down at PGI have alternate accounts that they use to play on the live servers.

Thats new to me, when and where? All I heard was that they would NOT have such accounts.

Edited by JohnnyWayne, 25 July 2014 - 01:36 PM.

[Felio]

[JohnnyWayne]

Isn't that video getting o.... Can it ever get old?

[Bhael Fire]

Paul and the gang probably play under non-PGI affiliated alt accounts to avoid having big targets placed on their head...which would skew the results of testing.

That said, I do see the devs out on the field occasionally.

[B L O O D W I T C H]

OTT: Dunno if troll or bs.
I see some PGI-tags here and there while pugging. last one wasn't so long ago either.

[vettie]

Paul was on last night

karl is on ALOT (look into 12 mans sometimes)

Alex - purty (<-- southern word) damn good pilot

I have seen Niko a few times, Russ at least once a week and some IGP folks too

So yes they do play in the same servers you and i play on as well as their 'other builds".
I am happy to see them on our servers, but having them on their "other builds" insures that they are working on 'stuff'.
IF I had to choose, I would pick for them to be on the other builds working on stuff with the exceptions being when the have some community event, or if the Devs formed a 12 man and ran in the groups queue for a night or 2.

Short answer, They DO play in the live server(s).

Edited by vettie, 25 July 2014 - 02:08 PM.

[Ngamok]

Cest7, on 25 July 2014 - 01:26 PM, said:

Its been over a year since i've seen a PGI tag in game. Paul stated he plays 5 different dev builds on his machine, I'm pretty safe to assume that no devs play on live servers.

Playing against your dev team in house is OK to test individual features but every once and a while you have to go out and smell the flowers.
Dear Devs,
Play your game on live servers.
Thanks.

Alex is on Regularly and I saw Paul on last night. I saw Russ on about 3 weeks ago in one of my matches.

[El Bandito]

Do devs still run silly builds? I mean, it has been over 2 years, so one would think the devs themselves had finally figured out which build is optimal, which is not.

JohnnyWayne, on 25 July 2014 - 01:38 PM, said:

Isn't that video getting o.... Can it ever get old?

It will get old once the 6 MG Spider joke gets old.

Edited by El Bandito, 25 July 2014 - 02:59 PM.

[Daneel Hazen]

Fookin devs in their fookin rose tinted cockpits! Lol

[KuroNyra]

Cest7, on 25 July 2014 - 01:26 PM, said:

Its been over a year since i've seen a PGI tag in game. Paul stated he plays 5 different dev builds on his machine, I'm pretty safe to assume that no devs play on live servers.

Playing against your dev team in house is OK to test individual features but every once and a while you have to go out and smell the flowers.
Dear Devs,
Play your game on live servers.
Thanks.

I've faced Paul a week ago.
***** his butt in my Yen-Lo-Wang by the way.

[Davers]

I've done group drops with Niko, and I have seen some PGI/IGP tags in game. Not often, but it happens.

[XX Sulla XX]

They are indeed playing the game I see them in game also.

[Angel of Annihilation]

Cest7, on 25 July 2014 - 01:26 PM, said:

Its been over a year since i've seen a PGI tag in game. Paul stated he plays 5 different dev builds on his machine, I'm pretty safe to assume that no devs play on live servers.

Playing against your dev team in house is OK to test individual features but every once and a while you have to go out and smell the flowers.
Dear Devs,
Play your game on live servers.
Thanks.

They are still around, they just don't play under their PGI accounts.

Just two nights ago for example, there was a guy running around in match with an 8-10 ms ping time. Only way you get that sort of ping is if you have a direct connection to the servers so I guarentee he was a PGI employee despite being named waki waki (or something like that) and not having a PGI tag.

Sug, on 25 July 2014 - 01:32 PM, said:

Was just in a match with Sean Lang the other day. They're still around.

Yeah I played against him the other day and beat him up something harsh...then got KSed at the last second grrr.