Comments on: Voices of the Gods http://www.mobhunter.com/?p=326 A delicate blend of sarcasm and spite. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:34:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ferrel http://www.mobhunter.com/?p=326&cpage=1#comment-93160 Ferrel Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:26:14 +0000 http://www.mobhunter.com/?p=326#comment-93160 The thing I like about the industry is that what holds true for the developers often holds true for the players. I can relate to your experience because when I was just an officer in Iniquity our guild leader was an Unstoppable Force (of idiocy). On a daily basis the other officers and I worked to build our positive reputation. Weeks of work would go in and he would swoop in and tear it all down. Ultimately we pink slipped him and some other jerk took over (me) but that doesn't tend to be a valid option in an employment situation. If only it were! I suppose if you owned enough stock in the company... anyway. I think management can always hinder a game. The creatives want to do X and the accountants want to make Y money. Tough situation. In my less than professional opinion everyone who works on a game should have to be the community manager for a few weeks. It creates a different kind of developer. It tends to force them out of the "this is MY content" box. Its the same method by which I became a guild leader. I was a recruit (for 11 months, which was standard back in EQ1), then a member, then a class leader, then a member again and finally an officer. After that I got the God complex and became a leader. Woe is the world! It all relates to experiences though. If you haven't shoveled poo before you have no business mucking with the chap who has to do it these days! The thing I like about the industry is that what holds true for the developers often holds true for the players. I can relate to your experience because when I was just an officer in Iniquity our guild leader was an Unstoppable Force (of idiocy). On a daily basis the other officers and I worked to build our positive reputation. Weeks of work would go in and he would swoop in and tear it all down.

Ultimately we pink slipped him and some other jerk took over (me) but that doesn’t tend to be a valid option in an employment situation. If only it were! I suppose if you owned enough stock in the company… anyway.

I think management can always hinder a game. The creatives want to do X and the accountants want to make Y money. Tough situation.

In my less than professional opinion everyone who works on a game should have to be the community manager for a few weeks. It creates a different kind of developer. It tends to force them out of the “this is MY content” box. Its the same method by which I became a guild leader. I was a recruit (for 11 months, which was standard back in EQ1), then a member, then a class leader, then a member again and finally an officer. After that I got the God complex and became a leader. Woe is the world!

It all relates to experiences though. If you haven’t shoveled poo before you have no business mucking with the chap who has to do it these days!

]]> By: Steve http://www.mobhunter.com/?p=326&cpage=1#comment-93143 Steve Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:24:38 +0000 http://www.mobhunter.com/?p=326#comment-93143 "Let’s randomly choose the initials" Made me lol “Let’s randomly choose the initials”

Made me lol

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]]> By: Zarniwoop http://www.mobhunter.com/?p=326&cpage=1#comment-91862 Zarniwoop Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:45:23 +0000 http://www.mobhunter.com/?p=326#comment-91862 Nice to see you posting under Mobhunter.com again....good times :) Nice to see you posting under Mobhunter.com again….good times :)

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