103602-the-devs-are-listening

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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche


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Kinda? Maybe? Well, you are. But that's not what I was saying ;) I was just teasing CunningLinguist for using a couple of logical fallacies since today of all days he posted this thing about logical fallacies :)


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Been listening to George Carlin?


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To be fair, I don't feel like I'm on some end of a divide, unless you take that white knight v. hater thing seriously. People aren't afraid to disagree, but it's not often that someone literally comes out and starts insulting me. At the same time, while people can be dismissive of criticism, you don't get nearly the vitriolic stream of bile for saying so. If there's one thing I'll say about it, people on this forum can be a bit polarized in their presentation. Everyone here has a few nagging issues that bother us, but overall almost all of us love the game. You don't know that if you read people's forum posts because all people usually make topics about are their few nagging issues. It's trite but true, it's a boring conversation to say 95% of the game is working perfectly for you and that Carbine should keep up the good work. What tends to get brought up, and what we tend to talk about at least here on the General Discussion forum, are the things that we think should be improved. It just gets more mileage as a topic when we can bring up problems and talk about possible solutions. Hell, you can credit a huge portion of Sabotage!'s fixes and features to conversations we've had right here about PVP. Are people a little histrionic? Maybe a bit. Do people expect a bit much in regards to the time table for fixing whatever they think the most pressing issue in Wildstar is? Probably. But are both of those levels a lot more rational than they are on most game forums? Oh, you'd better believe it. Here, at the very least, if you walk into every conversation thinking every person loves the game but has this one thorn in their side bothering them, you'll make a lot of friends. There are very few people, despite appearances, who are on here to troll or just bad-talk everything about the game. About the most common crime on this forum is people turning every thread they possibly can towards their one pet issue, which can sometimes make them seem a little more negative than they probably are.


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To be fair, it says the devs are listening, Chillia is a mod ... she doesn't have to listen.


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Exactly brotherman. Game is still fresh so hopefully they work toward something like this.


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They don't always need to use the non-answer spin. The last time I directly followed a "we think this is a critical bug" and "we're working on the fix ASAP" they pushed "path abilities actually benefit from leveling your path" to the PTR six weeks later and kept it there until Sabotage. It predates launch. And now I can't stop laughing because they didn't actually fix it.


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I understand that. Just think of the possibilities if Tony and Frost talked in the forums though. I think it would help breed a better environment. One of the things the devs have proved with wildstar weekly and the nexus report (which I find the production value to be one of the best I've ever seen in the mmo industry) is that the devs have a personality and it really helps to humanize them. When in forums all you see is a It is a known issue when people are thowing up 50 dc posts is a bit discouraging. I remember when we were all having login issues at launch and there was a tweet that made me laugh where it said something like "First off, its a chompocambra not a hamster, there are plenty of these in game that you can take your frustration out on." It doesn't take much to spin a situation.


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