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Originally Posted by salesman
Most of the complaining I've seen on the forums is just some whiny ***** trying to make a staff member or update look bad.
This type of complaining isn't productive at all, and just leads to developers wasting time on something that isn't important just to quiet the complaints (usually something small, and unimportant, like helicopters being too noisy -- cry a ****ing river, please). In the end, said developer ends up burning out after dealing with all of the stupid complaints, or ends up getting removed because he ignores the stupid complaints, thus becoming labeled as a "bad staff member". Yeah, complaining gets **** done.
Chris is a perfect example of how complaining gets **** done.
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All types of complaining are constructive. Graal is not a polished game, its players are not critics. It's geared to children and casuals as players, and tries to exploit developers be claiming to be geared to them as well. That said, for the game to make a (good) profit, those developers are going to need to cater to the children and casuals; people who aren't expected to have in depth, sophisticated synopses on what's wrong with the game.
"'x' sucks, it's too loud" is perfectly appropriate for Graal. In fact, "'x' sucks" is pretty appropriate. If someone (a dev) can't look at a something receiving complaints and determine what's wrong with it and how to fix it to be better enjoyed, then that someone is not the type of person who should even be in a position associated with players, because obviously they're not on the same wave-length. Let's dumb this down a bit: the helicopter does nothing except randomly flies around the server making noise. Was this a good development decision? Was this an efficient use of time and resources? Why has no one looked at this before and realized it was a useless, tremendous waste of time?
And what of the small things like this single sound on a single gani that rarely occurs? They're still a big deal. Don't try to claim nit-picking such as that is unnecessary. Graal's servers are very rarely positively changed by some overhaul that takes place on a broad scale. If you want to improve the server, you start small. You still work on the big things, but you make sure everyone knows the management will go out of their way to tone down a single annoying sound or fix a minuscule error. If these little things are too much work and nothing more than "stupid complaints", than I shudder to think of how people with that line of thought can be trusted to run Graal's flagship servers.
e. obviously this has nothing to do with Era, or the helicopter, both of which I don't give a **** about, more so directed at the type of incompetent that frequents administration positions in general