I find this topic, in it's entirety, to be counterproductive to both development and the community as a whole.
Regardless of what anyone thinks or feels, we are here to play and enjoy the game.
The best thing about this game is that we as a community have considerable input into game development. This has both benefits and drawbacks, although I feel, and hopefully CJ agrees, that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.
The benefits are that the community impacts game development thus development circles more around what the player base likes rather than a unitarian decision from afar with no player input.
The drawbacks are obvious. This discussion. The impression that certain players are provided favor over others.
Now, as CJ is the Administrator and apparent owner (he could admin and develop for a parent org.) of this game, what he approves of and disapproves of is his choice and he can certain do as he wishes. Something that the dev team approves of could be rejected down the road by him or vice versa (Dev rejects but he approves), and he has every right to do so.
Now, as a member of the player development team, I will follow up on what CJ has said. The player Dev team, at least myself, do not take any preference to any particular player or guild requests or comments in the development. Objectivity is a must in development, and while we each have our opinions which brings different view points and benefit to development, we (Dev Team) should not be biased to anyone or groups opinion in particular. So when CJ said that he doesn't care what VUDU thinks, I concur in the sense that VUDU's comments hold not more weight to the conversation than ATCs, MERCs, SSTGs, SHLD, or any other Guild or players opinion. That's the interpretation I take it as. Any interpretation outside of that I think is flawed and asking the Admins to make special considerations for a particular group of players.
The dev team doesn't get any special considerations. I've provided many comments and opinions to CJ as part of the Dev Team that have garnered no response or have been put on the side. My opinion matters no more than yours. The only influence I have is in providing a vote and opinion to discussions and suggestions in effort to get development moving forward in a more efficient manner. The ability to provide a vote is open to anyone willing to apply to the team.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC English isn't CJ's Native language, so there are some phrasing and word usage that will likely come off and be interpreted in a manner not intended to by Native English Speakers. Please take this into consideration.
As it appears, you provided comments on a topic that were off topic. The thread was moved as the main topic held no baring to current game development. The Dev Team would likely have done that same regardless of what other points were made in the topic. And while there is an option to split topics into others, the time and effort to do so is counterproductive as the Dev Team would be doing it constantly. I have already done it once and I could have done it for several others where discussions went on several different discussion points. It's beyond a nuisance, especially on topics that have lots of posts that veer off topic. If you feel a particular point of discussion needs to be brought forth from a archived or rejected topic, please post a new topic that covers that point. In keeping neutral and as an example, you can't expect a topic about bears that is no longer relevant to still remain open because someone decided to veer off and discuss mountain lions.
If you feel that my opinion is incorrect, please PM in game or in Slack. I don't see the need to continue this discussion in public as this is giving a poor view of the community to new players as seen in the following post:
Camiam wrote:I am a new player.
I am wondering at what point any of this becomes fun. I may have really missed something here - but it does not appear to be a level playing field in discussion.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
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