The dev team needs to lose this attitude that the only real problem is all the players keeps complaining.
Quit knocking down strawmen.
There are plenty of problems, yes, I do not think anyone denies that in BM. The issue is not one of people-complaining being a problem, but of not enough people-fixers for the people-complaining, and a growing paranoia and division between devs and players, as if they should be two separate bodies. I even had someone suggest to me that it was wrong that devs 'are allowed' to play regular accounts, as if we were devs before we started playing or that you shouldn't get to play if you volunteer. Either way, I'm not playing these days anymore from general discouragement...
But let us review this thread.
- Problem reported
- Inquiring question by dev
- Clarifying information
- More clarifying information
- Update of ongoing problem; methodology insistence
- Sympathetic statement by dev
- Not happy instant fix not provided instead
- Limited knowledge and experience, cannot really help, by dev
- Exhortation towards standards
- Reminder of civility and limited time by dev
- Strawman
- Defending contributions by dev
So, you shared your problem, didn't get it fixed before, and attacked those who might possibly look into it, resulting in them spending time to
point out where they have been contributing to the game instead of continuing to contribute in defense of your accusations of doing-nothing and ignoring-complaints.
BattleMaster is a game in permanent beta, with active development and testing. We do not work for BattleMaster. We do not get paid. Tom does not profit. Sometimes, a dev likes to play their character. When we can, we contribute fixes and improvements. We do not sit around working on BattleMaster for hours at a time.
As I've said before, need more volunteers. Yes, yes, I know you've offered to return, but with the way you left, your recent issue with Tom's attitude, and dispute with Anaris, it does not seem likely. I could probably care less whether you do or not either way, so long as the drama was low. But I do not care for people-politics, especially right now in life when my OOC life has way too much stressful people-interaction as is. I'm just stating what is. I wish everyone could get along and we could just focus on improving BM instead of sniping at each other, but that doesn't seem likely. Anyway, having headed off your expected response, my point is you are not the only potential-volunteer. There are plenty of potential-volunteers within BM. There is only ever going to be so much responsiveness in fixes, refactoring, and features with fewer devs than with more. This is not saying that there aren't plenty of issues to be tackled. No, just stating we only have so many hands and so much motivation. Motivation that is not encouraged by belittling beration.
Titans. I'm as disappointed as you. New Titans were added earlier this year. Like many areas of BM, development volunteers, development projects, rulers and religious leaders keeping continents fun, Tom fixing the server email issue, et cetera, it just doesn't happen or happen fast-enough. They're volunteers in an online-game. We can't force anyone to do anything. How many times can you replace people before you run out of those who understand the rules, are willing, trusted, have time etc.? Which has probably contributed to my own melancholy the last few weeks, and subsequent withdrawal, jadedness, demotivation, and exhaustion.
