kingcom posted:

I remember when goons gave advice that was simple and easy to implement to balance stuff in the game and it was ignored in favour of insane paul ramblings.


Also apparently that is really misS in which case I probably apologise for my many poo poo posts on mwoforums which probably caused you extra work but in the end I feel my shitposts were worth it cause we ended up with Kaetetôã.

Propagandist posted:

While we're unraveling this tangled web of spaghetti, what is "misS"

Propagandist posted:

While we're unraveling this tangled web of spaghetti, what is "misS"


Edit: gently caress, new page. Did everyone see this yet:

Propagandist posted:

While we're unraveling this tangled web of spaghetti, what is "misS"

Propagandist posted:

While we're unraveling this tangled web of spaghetti, what is "misS"

kingcom posted:

She was the lead singer of Sonic Youth, who was famous for being from the 80s AND 90s.

wid posted:

Another thing they don't get is developer interaction is hoghly important in projects like these. SC backers got fed info and development process by the devs so they feel like they're part of the whole project. PGI will inevitably alienate their customers and make them feel ripped off except for the dozens or so secret squirrels who are now backing trannyverse. PGI has yet to learn that it's not good policy to play favorites with crowd funded ventures. And yes, MWO is practically crowd funded at this point.

Russ the Bus posted:

"I think our community management could have been better at the beginning of the project. If I wanna throw ourselves under the bus a little bit. I think, we didn't, when those aspects under IGP control I think we could have been a lot more better at setting boundaries that we all want to live by at the very beginning at the project. Um, but we didn't do that as well, in hindsight, as we wanted too. So I think it-it created too much of an opening for, too much running room in the beginning and then it became too hard to dial back that running room and say that Uh-Oh, no we don't want this. And I think that and that we that to this day, there's a lot of internet culture out there as you know and this is hot topic in the game industry right now, that there's too much umm negativity and troll mentality out there gaming gaming more gaming, I think it's out of hand.... I think we need to set a boundary with our customers that is respectful and that hopefully they will feel listened too and the communication that is happening now...(four pillars poo poo)... I'd like to hit the reset button with those customers"

Propagandist posted:

I'm just dumbfounded that they're confident enough in their crowdsourced funding that they're making critical game components into stretch goals.

Neo Helbeast posted:

There was a line that Russ said on the mass bannings, that I'm going to have to paraphrase here no I'm going to write it down word for word, in the Town Hall that I think needs to have a light shown on.

On the recent mass bannings:


Y'all remember how bad those first wave of moderators were? And how goons basically had to browbeat PGI into actually forcing them to choose not lovely people? And all the threads of suggestions of things that should be looked at and/or fixed and how they were all either outright ignored or burned to the ground by Paul and then told our input wasn't valued? Because I do.

Chronojam posted:

Midnight on the east coast, and the final count for day one is 29 backers for $3,070 total. I don't have a great feeling about this working out for them.

Fil5000 posted:

"UE4 is a better choice than Cryengine".

Fil5000 posted:

You mean mods like Metro, who could barely write in English and was crazy? Or RAM who had to be removed as a mod after he was caught on FRAPS suicide farming? Those were quality moderators.

drgnvale posted:

Is MW4 mercs still available legally, or was mektek's demise the end of that too? I'd like to play some robots but I can't bring myself to log into MWO anymore.

Fil5000 posted:

(Also hi misS! You and Destined were the only tolerable parts of the mwo forums)

Xanax Madaway posted:

Thank you! I really enjoyed my job (unfortunately I/we had to leave) and thanks for all the lulz.

But I'd like to point out that Karl Berg and "Mike who likes to post in K-Town" are also pretty great!

Truga posted:

Have you seen this yet?

Xanax Madaway posted:

Thank you! I really enjoyed my job (unfortunately I/we had to leave) and thanks for all the lulz.

PoptartsNinja posted:

You're in a better place, now.

If the trauma's not too great, I hope you'll be willing to share some funny stories with us once the NDAs are up. I hope you haven't had any trouble securing new (and better) employment?

PoptartsNinja posted:

You're in a better place, now.

If the trauma's not too great, I hope you'll be willing to share some funny stories with us once the NDAs are up. I hope you haven't had any trouble securing new (and better) employment?

kingcom posted:

We actually already made her mod of your game thread so.....

quote:

Kraxous... these aren't new goons. MWO's goons are particularly tenacious, and have migrated over here in an attempt to make PGI crash and burn.
They're operating under the delusion that somehow, someone else will take up the Battletech IP if PGI goes under. Nevermind the fact that it was barren for 10 years before MWO because it's a legal minefield... now it has a community that's earned a reputation for actively trying to tank a company when they're not happy. So not only does it gently caress over PGI, it fucks over everyone who's trying to enjoy the very solid offering that PGI has already put out for MWO without being swarmed by goons, AND it fucks over Battletech fans.
Seriously, these goons are out of control.

Xanax Madaway posted:

Also I'm now free to be a goon, officially.

Xanax Madaway posted:

Until recently I have been mostly either gardening-away-from-the-Internet or travelling (Nevada, Ibiza, Barcelona and sailing on the mediteranean sea ).

I'm still floating and already planning 2 more trips for this fall (thanks gold mechs - I'M KIDDING).

In the mean time, I'm planning on either starting my own thing or find another gig in the gaming industry. It's most likely to be option #1 tho even though I plan on offering services related to gaming and social medias.

Will be happy to give more details soon™ ETA: end of 2014 (This is my position at the time).

Also suscribed for an interesting certificate at the University and have been offered to write for a french tech website mostly about Internet culture, this will be interesting.

Trauma? Yes a little bit, I still need to rest for some time.

NDA or not, I've decided to remain professional as much as possible and some things I prefer to keep to myself in order to stay classy and as I do have a lot of respect for some folks still working on MWO but I do plan to share my experience from my personal perspective eventually. No ETA.

Tl;dr Things are loving great and promising! Also I'm now free to be a goon, officially.

Wat?

RiperSnifel posted:

Niko posted:

Hey guys,

On the whole, the SomethingAwful Goons just really aren't as bad as people tend to think, though many certainly entertain the idea of gamers holding them in infamy. Most are great gamers, which is why we generally avoid making decisions to moderate players based on their affiliation to that or any other group. We recognize that some Goons do tend to run amock just as any other player though. When they do, you can rest assured that they will be handled according to our Rules.

RiperSnifel posted:

Had some good drops earlier with Rufus and Eatpants, completely rolled groups of clanners six games in a row using uncompromising tactics for glorious goon victory.

Got some good rage going from a couple of anti-goon players before we even squawked. Then we proceeded to murder the everloving poo poo out of them.

This thread is getting kind of silly. Nobody should be even remotely surprised by PGI being inept / scamming people out of money.

PGI is and has always been a bunch of loving clowns. Anyone making a game on a pay to win structure is a loving clown as far as I'm concerned. If you play games that subsist on micro-transactions and take them seriously at all, you're very well a loving clown too. It's our responsibility to go to war with the player base the best way that we can - playing the game and doing so on our terms.

Too much stagnation in play styles I say! Earlier we had a triumphant return to what I fondly recall as real goon style game changing with the use of our humble three man team dropping all in DDCs and acting as shocktroops, disrupting enemy blobs - perhaps dying quickly - but doling out enough hurt to make our stupid pubby team have enough of a foothold to win.

I want to see more of that. I want to see our 10 man drops consist of front armored alpha damage heavy bullshit robots. I want to see more pushing. GOD HATES A COWARD. There is no pride in survival. Your KDR matters not.

We need to focus on what's important in this thread: being a bunch of loving jerks in MWO.

wid posted:

Being a bunch of jerks in the game will net more sales as the fanboys desperate for a win will shell out cash to get clan mechs so they could compete with goons. So good job, you're being a good little content provider for the whales and making money for PGI so they could develop their new scam. You do realize the only time MWO considered a failure is when enough people stopped playing that the die-hards can barely find a match? They literally have zero content other than the players themselves. Even Counterfuckingstrike and TF2 can be played without other players if you just want to shoot some mans.

Captain Keene posted:

Functional AI is lostech.

axelsoar posted:

Has this been brought up yet? Niko in the 'oh no, what if goons come!?' thread.


Guys, we need to step it up, this is unacceptable.