Recent Drama, Part of the Game?

[Rithy58]

Again, how is it justice to take it out on other? Is it because you couldn't take it out on him?

Sincerely,
Rithy

[Champie]

Claeyt just had to put down his ego and stop posting on the forums, and they wouldn't kill any noobs. Instead, he starts posting, telling everyone to hide their **** in a nuclear vault, and demanding high purity hummus. (jew gold)

I think the OP is right on. The game is brilliant and no rules are being broken IN GAME. The last 24 hours has been a lot of fun, but as ass-Kraken helps me demonstrate, it's all about how far someone should go. For example, ass_kraken says "jew gold," and I say "rat faced, blood of children drinking, **** gold." See what I mean?

User was warned for this post

[materia]

basically this is what's happening in roanoke

[colesie]

basically this is what's happening in roanoke

So I take it that you were killed?

[materia]

nope i wanst, at least not yet

[ZtyX]

The developers seem to be those type of people who doesn't care if no one like their game...or rather if the game isn't popular. In a way, I feel like they approve of the drama that has been going on.

I would be lying if I said that there wasn't at least a slight sense of disappointment on our part with Salem's relative non-performance of late in terms of user numbers and whatnot (and obviously that feeling comes with a fair amount of self-criticism) but rather than brood on that and beat ourselves up over it, we'd much prefer to focus now on the things about our new-found position that we do find to be positive, the bottom line of which is that all outside pressure on us to deliver anything in particular is now off, which -- considering how we follow the user graphs much like anyone else -- feels like a relief. We strongly feel that this freer vantage point leaves us in a vastly better position than previously to judge where development on the game is actually needed, and where the game in its present state fails to entertain. It also allows us to actually go back and revisit older implementations with fresh eyes, something that we under the previous regimes have found difficult to do, as reasoning freely about older implementations may lead to conclusions that may in turn come to imply development time spent on rewrites of already existing content and relatively long stretches of time without visible and immediate improvement of the game.

The two quotes are not related - but it at least shows that of course they do care.