Half my friends left the game. How devs are making my group feel.

[TheAlicornSage]

To save us both wasted time and effort, just list your games so I can safely avoid them please. That way I'll get some value at least from your drivel. We can then cheerfully avoid each other.

I am curious, why do you assume so much from so little? I honestly don't understand why you think I'm such a horrible and terrible person, nor why you think nothing I create deserves to be judged on the creation's merits rather than your opinion of me. Do I really seem like such a bad person that I deserve to starve to death from everyone refusing to pay me to do any work?

[Hawkwier]

Exactly. As long as THEY feel it's not affecting THEM, then they don’t care. I have friend who plays a PM. This update made his MRR & choice to use Medium Armor, along with a severe nerf of negative healing/power, which has vastly helped his survivability is basically useless now. Yet... paladins got relatively better, and DPS vs Caster DPS for melee is better. How is that “balance??” Me? I’m 20-30% less likely to hit a hold, stun or freeze now w my caster. The spellpoint pool. went down from the stat squish, yet spell costs are the same, holds are less effective five and damage is down 30-40-% vs Pally damage of 15-20, all of which means spells COST a LOT more relative to the pool, AND you have to use more spells to get the same effect either with damage or CC. So that, as far as I am concerned is pretty damned SPECIFIC. It’s also pretty concerning that people think that everyone is a reaper god, or even has access to raids. I don’t. I can get MAYBE an hour a day average tops. I can wait easily 2 hours or more on my server and NEVER EVEN START. The fact is public grouping sucks. That’s drips people out of getting LGS. It drips them from raids and raid gear. Not everyone can play 3-10 hours a day. It’s taken me almost 5 years to get 24 reaper points on ONE character. ONE. People seem to forget that there are people who can’t DDO 24/7, and yet we still contribute monthly revenue and deserve the same respect as any R10 basement dweller.

Calling folks basement dwellers isn't very helpful and doesn't help advance your cause. I can appreciate you may be frustrated at the recent changes, and that you want to make that point. I do sympathise with those who have lost out on these changes. Unnecessarily bashing other players isn't the right way to go about that though. There are plenty of R10 players who are great folks to group with. Like in life in general there are always a few exceptions, but those really are exceptions. Denigrating them as a group will as often as not alienate them to you and the point you are trying to make.

[Hawkwier]

I am curious, why do you assume so much from so little? I honestly don't understand why you think I'm such a horrible and terrible person, nor why you think nothing I create deserves to be judged on the creation's merits rather than your opinion of me. Do I really seem like such a bad person that I deserve to starve to death from everyone refusing to pay me to do any work?

Aye, I'm a monster now and you'll likely starve because of it. Sorted. So, you gonna back yourself sufficiently to list them or not? Would be quite helpful.

[TheAlicornSage]

Aye, I'm a monster now and you'll likely starve because of it. Sorted. So, you gonna back yourself sufficiently to list them or not? Would be quite helpful.

So you don't believe in helping people get along nor to help people improve themselves and fit in better with society? How utterly evil and dismissive of you. Yet you claim I'm the worthless one, try looking in the mirror.

Don't worry about the games I make. I doubt someone like you would bother to play them, they focus on intellectual thinking, philosophy, moral integrity, and teamwork. Most of them are rpgs that I run as gamemaster anyway, and obviously if I disgust you that much, I doubt very much you wouldn't recognize me if I was your GM. And someone as judgemental and dismissive as you seem to be would probably fail hard in my games and ragequit. It takes more than numbers to survive my games. At least I try to help people.

[Hawkwier]

So you don't believe in helping people get along nor to help people improve themselves and fit in better with society? How utterly evil and dismissive of you. Yet you claim I'm the worthless one, try looking in the mirror.

Don't worry about the games I make. I doubt someone like you would bother to play them, they focus on intellectual thinking, philosophy, moral integrity, and teamwork. Most of them are rpgs that I run as gamemaster anyway, and obviously if I disgust you that much, I doubt very much you wouldn't recognize me if I was your GM. And someone as judgemental and dismissive as you seem to be would probably fail hard in my games and ragequit. It takes more than numbers to survive my games. At least I try to help people.

Aye, quality, you're a real saint.

That'll be a no then on the listing I guess. Ah well, was worth a try. It's the hope that kills us, but that gone I can now at least ignore your drivel in peace.

Anyway, found my pitchfork so I'm off for some breakfast - those wee puppies won't eat themselves after all...

[TheAlicornSage]

Aye, quality, you're a real saint.

That'll be a no then on the listing I guess. Ah well, was worth a try. It's the hope that kills us, but that gone I can now at least ignore your drivel in peace.

Anyway, found my pitchfork so I'm off for some breakfast - those wee puppies won't eat themselves after all...

Did you honestly expect me to treat you better than you treat me? When you are a jerk, you should expect people to be a jerk in return. At least I gave you plenty of chances to show yourself as better than that (since text is so very prone to misunderstanding) , yet you continue to be a jerk. So why do you expect more from me? Do you believe that only you are allowed to be a jerk, that you should be a jerk to all those around you and yet have them still be super nice and polite in return no matter how much you spit on them?

And I don't have a specific list since most of my games have generic names or no names at all. I.E. there's at least two other hexchess versions out there so it's rather pointless to list it since you won't know which is mine or someone else's. Or did you expect me to be some studio with aaa titles ascribed entirely to me? News flash, publishing games takes lots of money.

[Cordovan]

Thread closed due to fighting and insults. We hope to see your friends return to the game in the future, OP.