And the fact that players have the right to disagree is the other half of why I do, at times, choose to make things like this public, because otherwise everyone stews and gets resentful because no discourse is open.
But my suggestions are, primarily, based on my experience with other games. Including some very large games indeed. I've been in games before that have absolutely insane levels of detail and involvement from the mods--to the point where I don't know how those mods even pull it off. And I'm not expecting that here. But what I am expecting, and what I don't think is too much to ask for, is that the basics, at least be met.
Much of your argument hinged on the misconception that this is a large game. As I pointed out, it's not. We don't even necessarily have a new IC post every day, and not every month has an event that includes any mod involvement beyond putting up the info post and logs. None of this is inherently bad... but the fact is, that there's still tons of out of date information out there that hasn't been addressed in favor of doing shiny new formatting, and on the occasion of events that required NPC interaction, the consistency has been spotty. And so on.
So yes, obviously this is all my opinion, any sort of criticism would be so subjective. But I'm basing it, comparatively, on what I've seen in other games of a similar size or larger and have come to expect as the bare minimum needed to keep a game running and its players engaged.
As for the comparison, why is it insulting? The lack of communication and spotty updates really were the main things that bothered me most before. To a worse degree, yes, but based solely on what I've been able to see and verify here, there are unfortunate parallels. Why should it necessarily be insulting to point those out?
no subject
But my suggestions are, primarily, based on my experience with other games. Including some very large games indeed. I've been in games before that have absolutely insane levels of detail and involvement from the mods--to the point where I don't know how those mods even pull it off. And I'm not expecting that here. But what I am expecting, and what I don't think is too much to ask for, is that the basics, at least be met.
Much of your argument hinged on the misconception that this is a large game. As I pointed out, it's not. We don't even necessarily have a new IC post every day, and not every month has an event that includes any mod involvement beyond putting up the info post and logs. None of this is inherently bad... but the fact is, that there's still tons of out of date information out there that hasn't been addressed in favor of doing shiny new formatting, and on the occasion of events that required NPC interaction, the consistency has been spotty. And so on.
So yes, obviously this is all my opinion, any sort of criticism would be so subjective. But I'm basing it, comparatively, on what I've seen in other games of a similar size or larger and have come to expect as the bare minimum needed to keep a game running and its players engaged.
As for the comparison, why is it insulting? The lack of communication and spotty updates really were the main things that bothered me most before. To a worse degree, yes, but based solely on what I've been able to see and verify here, there are unfortunate parallels. Why should it necessarily be insulting to point those out?