The problem I have with this position is that it completely dismisses the work and effort the players put in to beta testing the game and discovering problems. Yes chadz is creating the game for free, but we are also beta testing the game for free too. Ideally an attitude of mutual respect would be afforded to each, however that has not been the case. Us, the beta testers, are often treated with at best a dismissive, and often contemptuous, attitude by the developers and in response the testers are rude back.
Take the spawn flag issue for example. When the bug was first reported the response by the development team was to mock those who reported it and call them disorganized noobs. Of course once the problem was proven to be wide-spread the playerbase immediately began to shove it in the developers face as much as possible.
So basically an adversarial relationship has been formed between the development staff and a large portion of the players, which is unfortunate because both need each other.
That being said, the devs response to issues with the latest patch have been much more prompt and professional than before and I think if that kind of support continues we might see some repair in player/dev relations.
First of all, thank you for your sincere answer, actually, you raise a good point, respect must be mutual, and it's true that devs team are the best troll of this community. I think it's an old tradition, when there was still little player, but this players was insiders (no need for devs to explain how the system and the mod work), now we have many many players and many many noobs, who understand a shit of this mod, but devs didn't understand that the community have changed and continue to troll...
Beside that, this new players are for some of them over-reactive when you touch to their precious uber-weapons or uber tactic to pwn noobs. Thus leading to many bullshit post each time a patch is released, and voice of reasonable ppl is stifled due to the noise.
Tbh, if i were a dev, i will rage quit or i would like to punish this stupid kids who spitt on my work.
Just a small nuance, when we test we are not working, we play for fun, you could say devs are coding for fun, which could be true but when we play, we play for ourself, when devs code it's for us and our fun (look at stronghold mod
).
On topic : looking forward for this war in the south, the desert is dry and need blood...
