Has anyone else read this SA forums thread about Salem?

[MinionHPL]

Something awful boards thread about salem.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=3478224

There is alot of valid points about this game, and it's small playerbase, and the reason why. The camera, how our dev team is so elitist when people bring up solutions to single coding problems they have/timesinks they have, they become wary and mistrustful when they don't understand.. lol.

Give it a gander, all the camera posts...lol


They start so optimistic, then if your bored, skip to the end, for the real lols....

I'm sorry but if the ultimate pvp mmo permadeath sandbox game can't even attract goons...


houston, we got a problem here

[MinionHPL]

QUIZ TIME!

1. You are a developer granted nearly complete freedom in their development, tasked with making a game. It has been a month since your last milestone and your publisher is wondering what the gently caress you're doing. What are you doing?

A.) Writing my own website software
B.) Making the loving game
C.) Removing features so they can spend 2 months being reworked
D.) "Working" on the "unseen backbone" of the game

2. How do you keep track of bug reports?

A.) My code doesn't have bugs you retard
B.) A bug tracker
C.) Actively monitoring a bug report forum
D.) Actively ignoring a bug report forum

3. Expected release date?

A.) When it's done
B.) Once features A, B, and C are in a working state, plus a month for heavy QA
C.) Oh poo poo I forgot I had to actually release this game
D.) What release date?


lolled so hard

[dullahx]

yup

[darnokpl]

Something awful boards thread about salem.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=3478224

There is alot of valid points about this game, and it's small playerbase, and the reason why. The camera, how our dev team is so elitist when people bring up solutions to single coding problems they have/timesinks they have, they become wary and mistrustful when they don't understand.. lol.

Give it a gander, all the camera posts...lol


They start so optimistic, then if your bored, skip to the end, for the real lols....

I'm sorry but if the ultimate pvp mmo permadeath sandbox game can't even attract goons...


houston, we got a problem here

I think we don't have enough details about Devs job to say, so many bad things about what they are doing in there.
Maybe they have other tasks inside Paradox and Salem is only part of their job.

I can agree in one thing we all would love to see more things implemented asap.

[MinionHPL]

like write a webserver when it has nothing to do with the actual game?


take a look at the last couple pages again of the SA thread

quotes from jorb etc

[MinionHPL]

Something awful boards thread about salem.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=3478224

There is alot of valid points about this game, and it's small playerbase, and the reason why. The camera, how our dev team is so elitist when people bring up solutions to single coding problems they have/timesinks they have, they become wary and mistrustful when they don't understand.. lol.

Give it a gander, all the camera posts...lol


They start so optimistic, then if your bored, skip to the end, for the real lols....

I'm sorry but if the ultimate pvp mmo permadeath sandbox game can't even attract goons...

houston, we got a problem here

I think we don't have enough details about Devs job to say, so many bad things about what they are doing in there.
Maybe they have other tasks inside Paradox and Salem is only part of their job.

I can agree in one thing we all would love to see more things implemented asap.

If you can't see this going the way of Hnh 2.0, then your delusional

half finished with them never understanding the mechanics that make it fun


How can a game with no humor cap ever take off?

either your around at the launch of a new world, or your forever behind.
That world isn't THAT big.

Imagine joining 6 months from now, would you have a chance?

What does that remind you off? oh right, joining HnH right now and trying to stand toe to toe with 1k ua monsters. either you have a character already or your just a noob who will die his first time out foraging to a dhelmer.

it's stupid

.....obvious


how bad this....

[Potjeh]

There is a humour cap.

[Superiodity]

Never heard of "Goons" but they seem like some branch off of the 4chan/reddit generation.

It's pretty funny how pumped up they get to ruin peoples day and forming some secret society that people would fear but half way through they all get lost/confused in how to play the game and by the end of it they resort to complaining that it's a bad game/attacking the dev without making any impact on the world with their "secret society".

[baronbowden]

I want to know who these 7 people they talk about who own the entire server running around ruining everyone elses life are...

I thought we only had darworth and Chief.

Although the quote after the guy saying there is 7 people ruining the entire server is classic.

"Actually, the game only needs two people to keep you from playing. Their names are Jorb and Loftar. "

everyone is a critic.....

[MagicManICT]

Never heard of "Goons" but they seem like some branch off of the 4chan/reddit generation.

You know goons, but you just don't know who they are. They're the boogeymen that sleep in your virtual closet at night waiting to come and blow your stuff up.

How can a game with no humor cap ever take off?

either your around at the launch of a new world, or your forever behind.
That world isn't THAT big.

There's a cap. I couldn't start to tell you how to calculate it, but since there's a penalty for stuffing yourself with the same type of food in one event (decay speeds up) as well as a fixed amount of time to be able to eat an item, it creates a natural cap based on the purity of food available.

Besides, people whine about this all the time in EVE. Smart play negates any advantages a 200 humor player has against even a small group of 30-40 humor players, just like goons proved you could take down hardcore PvP vets with swarms of newbs in frigates.