Generic Complaint

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The following mail was posted to the discussion list by Rick Cronan on 20041030

Tom,

The new feature you've added / are coding / have mentioned in passing as a possibility [delete as appropriate] is terrible. My character might be badly effected by this, and because of that it clearly ruins the game, even if it's not finished yet and you've announced no details of how it works. I suspect it's all because you hate the realm I play in.

I'm not just a complainer; all the new features you've added that did actually benefit my character are obviously great ideas, but some of them haven't, so they're really bad.

If I've misunderstood the feature, and it does benefit me, then it's a great idea.

PS. I fear change.

PPS. Can I play an undead, fairie dragon?

PPPS. Can I have a second account?



Also see the Generic Rebuttal.


Generic Complaint III

posted to the D-list by Rick Cronan, 5/7/07

Tom,

Oh noes!

A bug, or the game mechanics, or something has caused bad things to happen to my realm! Either that or something someone did has caused it. Or maybe it's that the code on the testing island hasn't been tested yet! (Crazy!) I know it happened across the entire island, but my realm is a) the most important one, and b) worst hit, definitely, so it's unfair and I demand that we either get lots of gold, or every other realm on the island is punished, because if it wasn't a bug, it was probably them, and how's that fun?

On the subject of troops, the game mechanics suck. We totally role-played winning a battle with some undead, but the game mechanics decided we lost! That's such bs! How can the undead win without posting any RP at all? Anyway, we're going to ignore the fact that we lost, and pretend we won instead. So please give our armies back and make them invincible so our RP makes sense, because otherwise you're ruining our RP.

You have to realise that you must do what players say because of the social contract, and it's against American consumer laws not to refund our realm more gold.

- rick [with an implicit smiley for the hard of thinking]