@Thenomain said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
Am I going to stop pointing things like this out just because one staffer can't handle negative feedback from someone she doesn't like? No. Sorry. Arx is a fine game designed by a fine and level-headed man. It needs some serious work on its educational files (is there anything explaining the "reflection" or whatver the nickname for the land beyond death is yet?), but he knows this. He's failed to insult me, has talked me off the roof, and so I trust his judgement.
I clearly don't mind you making this about me, @Kanye-Qwest, but you really should stop. The game doesn't need this much defending, and certainly not from me.
It's not my game though. It's our game, and I include players in that 'our' too. Anyone that is contributing and collaborating on the story and investing their time is part of that, and by any metric @Kanye-Qwest are enormous and are a reason the game is as popular as it is. She spends all her time creating RP for other people, and constantly thinking of ways to help people with their stories, going out of her way constantly for people she doesn't know, and sure you guys flame each other on message boards but that doesn't make that any less true.
And I think her point is valid since she's protective of people being wrong-funned out of doing something, and it's so damned easy to do it in this hobby since everyone just runs on enthusiasm. Like for example, saying, 'I am not a fan of that color scheme. It's hard to read and don't care for it'. That's unobjectionable and even helpful. Saying, 'That is horrifying, never do ansi again. It is bad and you should feel bad' is mighty objectionable. Replace 'ansi' with writing or roleplay and you suddenly have people who hate each others guts and are chased out of the hobby and it's just so unnecessary.
I'm fine with people being extremely blunt in criticisms of me, but I would definitely ask people in game not to do it to others, and have. Like I see it all the time, and fortunately not much on Arx, but oh lord does it happen. Someone runs PRPs, they get bitched at, they stop. Head staff start out with the best of intentions, they run inclusive events open to everyone, they get bitched at, they retreat to private RP with just their friends and shut out new players. Head staff quit because of negativity. And so on. I'm not going to change how i do things because of people bitching at me but of course I'm sensitive to it since I see how incredibly destructive it is when people have to be practically begged to put themselves out there, and retreat the moment they get chided.
