[konidias]

Here is my opinion on this, and trust me, I know quite a lot about this subject:

Staff are working for Graal to help out the server. Sure, they don't get paid, but this is not an excuse to goof off with toys that they make on the server. Birdbird would ALWAYS use this as an excuse "liek I'm just bloweng off steem! i werk hard!" This is not an excuse to warp players around, play with toys, and do things that have negative impacts to the players that are paying for this game.

Now, I don't really see any problem with this as long as it's kept HIDDEN FROM PLAYERS. It's bad enough they're goofing off with toys anyway, but then they do it IN FRONT OF PLAYERS. They also involve players in their "horseplay" and screw around with things like warping everyone to them, killing people by giving them 0 hearts, going on a killing spree using a zalactic gun and calling that testing. NO. That is not testing. Testing is a select group of people in a private level, that have agreed for you to kill them to test the gun. Not going out and testing your latest npc on the people that play to enjoy themselves.

The biggest problem isn't the affect it has on players, and the overal professionalism of the game, it's the fact that when staff play with toys, that is all they do. They don't work on new quests, new things for the server, etc. They just script toys that they can show off and use on players. It gets to the point where they might as well be labeled "Staff Toy Maker". I think when it gets to the point where a staff member makes something solely for themself to use, it's going too far.