The "Fire Aeralik" Petition Thread

[Vainamoinen]

Originally Posted by spyderbite

Best thread evah!

I love it when Armchair-Developers gather to lynch a Game Developer who is collecting a paycheck and doing exactly what those McDonald's fry boys wish they had 1/1000th the talent to do themselves.

Its especially enjoyable when majority of said "experts" can't even configure Outlook on their own without a call to their IT department.

Stop blaming the developers. You're a bunch of fucking idiots so full of ignorance, that its bleeding out of your eyes, if you believe that the Developers just sit in their cubes and come up with these changes all on their own.

Grab a Louisville Slugger, and go smash the skulls of the 100,000 people who are submitting /feedbacks instead of sitting on a website bitching and moaning between masturbation sessions.

Half of you prickless lemmings used to hump Gnobrin's leg before SOE hired him. After that you hammered him like the newest 120 pound inmate in Cell Block C. The last time I saw behaivor like this, I was waiting in line to be picked next on the kick ball team in the 6th grade.

Get it through your trailer park heads that game balance isn't decided at a board room table by the SOE development team. Its based on the /feedback received in game by your peers.

Yah.. the guy who posted above you is the reason you hate Aeralick so much. Go tell his manager at McDonald's and get him fired instead so he can't afford the $15/month and as a result will no longer be able to type /feedback.

This kind of post does no favours for SoE. Someone acting in your capacity should know better and conduct themselves accordingly.

Happy birthday, bitchface.

[Gaige]

Originally Posted by spyderbite

I love it when Armchair-Developers gather to lynch a Game Developer who is collecting a paycheck and doing exactly what those McDonald's fry boys wish they had 1/1000th the talent to do themselves.

Yup, its not like Aeralik played this game as a player at launch and was hired from his posts on a message board or anything.

Oh wait.

Aeralik is no different from the majority of us, except he works too many hours for not enough pay. The majority of SOE's current EQ2 team came from the forums or wannabe community sites. So in reality, SOE has enabled a bunch of former armchair developers to be real developers.

In fact, Aeralik is more like me than I'm comfortable with, considering we both fucked Laps. (I tagged that first, so he got sloppy seconds not me!)

I realize how badly you want to work at SOE, but after I talked to Zoltaroth and found out that SOE barely pays as much as Best Buy, I quickly got that out of my system.

Anyone who doesn't have their head shoved up SOE's ass can see what a disaster test is. They can see how shitty the team has become, how much the game as suffered since high profiled, experienced, talented developers have left SOE for greener pastures.

Given the choice between working on the EQ2 team and putting fat Mexican kids on ponies, I'll take the ponies everytime. I do not envy Aeralik his job at SOE, I feel sorry for him.

[Dethdlr]

Originally Posted by spyderbite

Stop blaming the developers. You're a bunch of fucking idiots so full of ignorance, that its bleeding out of your eyes, if you believe that the Developers just sit in their cubes and come up with these changes all on their own.

Grab a Louisville Slugger, and go smash the skulls of the 100,000 people who are submitting /feedbacks instead of sitting on a website bitching and moaning between masturbation sessions.

Get it through your trailer park heads that game balance isn't decided at a board room table by the SOE development team. Its based on the /feedback received in game by your peers.

You're kidding right?

/feedback says: "My class sucks", "That class is over powered", "That gear is overpowered", "Classes aren't balanced", "My tank dies when I'm on Offensive Stance and can't keep aggro in Defensive Stance", etc.

Devs then "sit in their cubes and come up with these changes all on their own". If it's something large then they most likely need to pitch it to their bosses "at a board room table" (conference room more likely) with "the SOE development team".

/feedback says the problems. A lot of them are probably fairly legitimate. It's what the Devs (Aeralik in this case) do to address the /feedback that we have issue with.

Let me use an analogy to clarify my point. Lets say Aeralik worked as a designer for a car company. They put out the 2008 model of a sedan. They sent out feedback cards to all those who purchased the 2008 model and asked if there was anything they could think of that could be changed to make car better. The overwhelming response was that it was difficult to see out the rear window using the rear view mirror. In the 2009 model they task Aeralik to fix this design flaw since that's what the people want. Most designers would reposition the rear view mirror, change it's size, provide more options to adjust it, etc. Aeralik, instead, decides to put the drivers seat, pedals, steering wheel, etc. where the back seat is, facing out the rear window. This way the driver gets a clear, unobstructed view out the rear window like they were asking for. Problem solved. What then happens is a small group of people learn how to drive while sitting in the back seat and driving in reverse and complain that the rest of the people just need to learn how to drive ffs.

/feedback just states the problems. If the developers are getting the "solutions" to these problems from the text of /feedback instead of looking at how the game works as a whole and actually doing the work to fix it properly, then they have no business being in that job.

And before you ask, no, I'm not an armchair programmer. I've been a full time programmer for over 20 years.

[Mr-Furious]

Originally Posted by spyderbite

Best thread evah!

Grab a Louisville Slugger, and go smash the skulls of the 100,000 people who are submitting /feedbacks instead of sitting on a website bitching and moaning between masturbation sessions.


Get it through your trailer park heads that game balance isn't decided at a board room table by the SOE development team. Its based on the /feedback received in game by your peers.

Yeah.. it was our /feedback that made Dark Elf Assassin/Alchemist the combo of OP-choice.

No, it was Aeralik's self serving nature that did that.

How about you close that tea kettle mouth of yours before you choke on more SOE ball sack, pal.

Sure the guy was overworked, but maybe if he was actually listening to our feedback he wouldn't have shot himself in both feet long ago. The last batch of bullshit nerfs was the last straw for many of us.

If he wasn't up to the task of improving this game he should have stepped aside long ago and made way for someone who was.. rather than continue to be an arrogant douche.

[Kall]

What's amazing is the majority of SOE is "overworked" because they can't do shit right the first time and wind up having to redo it 5 more times.

[Gaige]

LOL @ Spyderbyte getting the thread he made about his car deleted after his post from this thread was posted there.

[Hoss]

Originally Posted by spyderbite

Yah.. the guy who posted above you is the reason you hate Aeralick so much. Go tell his manager at McDonald's and get him fired instead so he can't afford the $15/month and as a result will no longer be able to type /feedback.

Who were you talking about here?

[dawy]

Good to see the halfwit Spyderbite is still talking shit

The world makes more sense now

[Projected]

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the only reason Spyderbite opens his fucking mouth in the first place is to keep his EQ2 website active so he can keep sucking in ad revenue?

I remember when I first chose to give EQ2 a shot and I rolled on Venakor and asked how the population is with a newbie character in 1-9 chat. Had about 8 people tell me it was fucking dismal at best. A few confided with me in tells that the only reason they stuck around was guild and friends. Spyderbite kept running his mouth saying the population was fucking fantastic and everyone's just full of shit which resulted in him getting flamed down. I ran my newbie around several lower and higher end zones while spamming /who on prime time and I could safely say I know what Robert Neville feels like.

[Morara]

Originally Posted by Pink Poodle

I wonder how much the devs make. More than I do of course, but...

High five figures, I'd bet.