Its always something...i hope weather in Croatia or my family crisis wont effect the engine update....
Xarr 220/30/70 Atrox Keeper
Xarrdas 220/30/70 Solitus Engineer
Wrathwithin 220/26/70 Atrox Agent
Drimarcus 220/22/60 Opifex Shade
Mycurse 214/18/42 Solitus Soldier
Backend 150/20/40 Opifex MA
Leethium 200/20/60 Opifex Bureaucrat
RK1: Flipyap
I duelled GM... AND WON!!!
well... the 2-3 weeks traveling from oslo to montreal and setting everything up again really makes a release delay of another 1 year plausible. and the temperatures might slow it down by another 6 months.... but yeah.. .patience please... means dog destroyed the only existing engine code... doh...
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Originally Posted by Means in Friday with Means - February 24th, 2011 - The dust is settling
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Traderbr - 180/0/0 Trader Nanomage - / Kaoru - 60/0/0 Meta-Physicist Nanomage - totw semitwink
Proud veteran of Spartans
To devs: You failed redesigning MPs as NTs with pets. I want my debuffer back.
Dreamer: Basically - I wish THIS much effort was put in to ALL profs rebalance docs.
Kintaii: Genele is more hardcore than you, your guildmates, and anyone else you've ever played with
Anarrina: Trust me, I'm not that scary in real life.
Advisor of Lumen Orien
Now, one of the reasons we’ve spent the last month arguing about the debt ceiling is that half of the "teabag" Congress signed a vow to never raise taxes. Someone just handed them something and it wasn’t a gun, a crucifix or a fetus — so they signed it. Why? "Because we’re rugged individuals who love freedom. Now excuse us while we sign this document swearing to do as we’re told." --Bill Maher
There is furniture involved, I'd like to rumor its IKEA stuffz. Have you ever read those instructions? That's hard compared to rebalancing AO. You always have one part left and you start thinking... Why???
A few weeks later you'll get the epiphany at the point when the cat jumps the closet and the complete thing crashes and you see a small predrilled AYZ slot B connection E size 5 unused...
"Going to try" does not feature the words "promise", "certainly", "definitely" or anything other than a statement of intent to attempt. I know you guys love finding random stuff to complain about, but again - "Going to try".
Goooooooiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnggggg toooooooo trrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
If a doc takes longer to get out than expected, that means that we're actually working on improving it and making it better, and we'll release what we have to release when we're good and ready to. Will it make it out today? Maybe. If it doesn't, will it make it out tomorrow? Might. May be next week - May even be that it doesn't get released for another few months (note: this is not going to be the case :P). Either way, when we said "going to try" we meant "going to try", not "we promise that it'll be out on this date".
We're human beings - While I'm sorry that there are those of you who have a difficult time seeing or understanding that we're real people too, with lives to live and bills to pay and things to take care of, I'm not going to apologize for members of our team having lives outside of the office and attempting to get themselves settled into a new home after having moved halfway across the world. If someone on the team having a place to live and a bed to sleep on means that the release of a nano document takes a little longer than expected then that's more than acceptable - It's just a part of life.
Edit: I mean, I could just pop on and tell you guys "Nope, 'doc is delayed - Will let you know more later" rather than taking the time outta my day to explain precisely what's going with the team and why things are happening. Means and I both tend to take a very open, personable stance in dealing with the community - Unlike most other studios, who won't tell you "The patch got delayed for a day because Bob came down with food poisoning", we actually take the time to tell you about the stuff we deal with, both good and bad, in the process of working on Anarchy Online. Does this mean that people can get more 'ammunition' to use in their ceaseless tearing down of the hardworking individuals behind this game? Sure. But for those with a more rational mindset it means they get the chance to understand what's happening and why, instead of just a random "Sorry, not happening" notice with no real explanation. We take the time to tell you guys what's up because it gives us the opportunity to explain the hows and whys of what we go through on a daily basis; I dunno about any of you, but when dealing with communication from an official source, I'd rather have a more personal approach than something robotic and corporate through-and-through. I won't apologize for my sense of honesty, nor that of the team's, and while I know that there are those who bemoan such an approach I also know there are just as many who enjoy and prefer our methods of communication, and I see no reasons to change the way we handle communication in the future based on the words of a few detractors.
tl;dr: Haters gonna hate.
(and for the record it wasn't ikea - some local place. i'll probably be hitting up the local ikea myself, though, when i actually find an apartment)
Brad L. McAtee / Kintaii
Former Senior AO Designer & Jack of All Trades
(2007 - 2012)
~~ Twitter :: Facebook :: Norse Noir ~~
human peoples at my work would get their ass kicked for taking 5 years longer for a gfx engine than announced... guess that's what most people think =)
Kintaii:
For the record, I didn't mean anything by my comment. I was just throwing mindless comments around the forums.
Also, I am *very* excited to see the advy docs.
RK1: Flipyap
I duelled GM... AND WON!!!
Brad L. McAtee / Kintaii
Former Senior AO Designer & Jack of All Trades
(2007 - 2012)
~~ Twitter :: Facebook :: Norse Noir ~~
Kintaii,
The issue is that the players are real people too, with their jobs/schools/lives aswell. They know that in any business, continually missing deadlines and appointments with clients or customers is not going to go down well. Seeing blaze and unapologetic excuses week after week does not help the company-customer relationship at all.
These things do happen. But we all know that it has been happening seemingly every single time a date was given. It doesn't matter if it's a promise or not, it's an appointment with your customers. If you can't keep it, it's understandable, but it's not something people want to put up with time and time again with no apology offered.
Advisor of Lumen Orien
Aeliniyah Opifex Doc | Venkula Solitus Doc | Rohtoiivari Trox Doc | Yutheron Solitus Trader Ianamura NM Crat
Technigyro Trox Enfo | Gizmoplex Trox Keeper | Icarya Opi MA | Vinetto Opifex Shade | Retku Solitus Engineer
Geraplex Trox Sold | Tuulispaa Opifex Fixer | Wertion Solitus MP | Kemoplex Trox MA
And a fleet of other alts...
poor Bob. food poisoning is brutal. I hope he feels better soon.
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In this case, subscribers pay bills, meeting deadlines keeps subscribers, and the things to take care of are deadlines. It's the ciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife. Or something. Have you ever thought about the inefficiency of all these posts about delays? It would make much more sense to make a post when something is on schedule.
/troll off
(just kidding)
Now, one of the reasons we’ve spent the last month arguing about the debt ceiling is that half of the "teabag" Congress signed a vow to never raise taxes. Someone just handed them something and it wasn’t a gun, a crucifix or a fetus — so they signed it. Why? "Because we’re rugged individuals who love freedom. Now excuse us while we sign this document swearing to do as we’re told." --Bill Maher
"The first draft of the Adventurer Nano Docs have been released to the Adventurer Professional representatives. After initial feedback and possible adjustments, we will be releasing the documentation to the general public as soon as possible."
Make a template from that or something similar, save yourself the grief.
Yeah if a version was sent to the professionals and it is taking longer to get to us than expected, maybe there was something that needed to be changed to prevent a million threads of hate spam?
I think a flame-retardent advy documentation with a slight delay is better than a full out cry fest over some change, which ofc I would be more than happy to take part in and stir people up and increase my "forum haunt" status. Besides what is everyone's hurry? Most of you guys are either scared to death or ready to emo-rage-slashwrists then quit over this stuff anyways. Masochists I tell yah, MASOCHISTS!
Shadow Atlantians
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PVM all the way