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[Glacier Peak]

I think the title says it all, again. 

Edited June 14 by Glacier Peak

[Glacier Peak]

Look at that title edit.

[cranebump]

‘Nuff said

[Sovera]

For a moment I thought I was clicking on a manga.

[Glacier Peak]

3 minutes ago, Sovera said:

For a moment I thought I was clicking on a manga.

It's actually a sequel. 

 

 

[Apogee]

you need a tl;dr for the title...

[Techwright]

I...did not know titles could be so long. 

 

I now expect to see an outbreak of excessively long titles, especially Snarky reports on PUG events.

[Herotu]

Do we have to sign this? Is it a petition or something?

[BZRKR]

Indom leading the way on post title excellence and correctitude!

[Bionic_Flea]

Obviously, it must be code for something.  Look at the first letter of each word, GwbtHtastktrssmaol  Aptwcquatetomvgssstf.

 

OK, maybe not.

[Glacier Peak]

46 minutes ago, Bionic_Flea said:

Obviously, it must be code for something.  Look at the first letter of each word, GwbtHtastktrssmaol  Aptwcquatetomvgssstf.

 

OK, maybe not.

But if you invert the letters, close your eyes, then say the sentence backwards, it actually says: "Indomitable is the server with no lag and double XP, come join us weekends for awesome badge runs, theme teams, and slow and steady teaming - brought to you in part by @Glacier Peak, @Lunar Ronin, and the Theme Teamers of Indomitable"

 

Sort of like when you see closed captioning/subtitling for a really long dialog scene in a foreign film, but the english translation is just a one word response 😄 

[Bionic_Flea]

LIES!

[Lunchmoney]

I swear that title has got longer since this morning....

[PeregrineFalcon]

Agreed.

 

And it's so quiet on the forums today. I sense closed testing is happening again.

[Seed22]

Ooooh boy I’m gonna get dislikes but uhm. 
 

 

I don’t think other studios should look at what HC does and follow it. It took YEARS to get to the level of transparency we have now, and there’s still a mountain of work to do on that front. Case and point, only just now are they starting to put design goals on sets to better paint a picture of what they hope to accomplish with changes. Ff14 has been doing this for years.

 

Also how HC handles sets to me seems too much like it was done in a spreadsheet and not what’s actually fun. Definitely not something other studios should copy. 
 

At first, HC to me was the beesknees, now? They’re alright. I mean they haven’t completely ruined the game which is great but they are in no way shape or form a shining beacon in the industry. Not even close.

Edited June 14 by Seed22

[Glacier Peak]

19 minutes ago, Seed22 said:

Ooooh boy I’m gonna get dislikes but uhm. 
 

I don’t think other studios should look at what HC does and follow it. It took YEARS to get to the level of transparency we have now, and there’s still a mountain of work to do on that front. Case and point, only just now are they starting to put design goals on sets to better paint a picture of what they hope to accomplish with changes. Ff14 has been doing this for years.

 

Also how HC handles sets to me seems too much like it was done in a spreadsheet and not what’s actually fun. Definitely not something other studios should copy. 
 

At first, HC to me was the beesknees, now? They’re alright. I mean they haven’t completely ruined the game which is great but they are in no way shape or form a shining beacon in the industry. Not even close.

I think that player criticism is a necessary and healthy component of this community. Thank you for your reply.

[ZemX]

1 hour ago, Seed22 said:

Case and point, only just now are they starting to put design goals on sets to better paint a picture of what they hope to accomplish with changes. Ff14 has been doing this for years.

 

On the one hand, this is a perfectly fair response to the OP's title boast saying for-profit companies should follow HC team's example.  

 

On the other hand, no for-profit game publisher, especially one that made over 2 billion dollars last year, has any excuse NOT to do better than a 20-year old MMO run for no-profit by volunteers in their spare time.

[Glacier Peak]

21 minutes ago, ZemX said:

On the one hand, this is a perfectly fair response to the OP's title boast saying for-profit companies should follow HC team's example.  

 

On the other hand, no for-profit game publisher, especially one that made over 2 billion dollars last year, has any excuse NOT to do better than a 20-year old MMO run for no-profit by volunteers in their spare time.

There's good and bad examples out there. I look at a gaming studio like 343 Industries and their abomination that is Halo Infinite and think how many billions of dollars went in to that product, how many developers sunk decades worth of development hours in to it (and it still feels like I'm beta testing it when I play), and how the care of a previous studio's intellectual property (Bungie) was so mismanaged, that I think I can accept this comparison.

[DoctorDitko]

There should be a goddamn law that says any company discontinuing a game -- especially one that needs to be online to play -- should have to open-source both the game and the server code.

 

Unfortunately, the chances of this happening are an order of magnitude less than those of Doctor Who returning after being cancelled in the 80s.

[Ukase]

On 6/14/2024 at 8:03 AM, Bionic_Flea said:

Obviously, it must be code for something.  Look at the first letter of each word, GwbtHtastktrssmaol  Aptwcquatetomvgssstf.

 

OK, maybe not.

That looks a bit like one of the questions on Patton Oswald's new "1% Club".