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My problem with it is the bullshit way that the rollout was handled.

Pando handing out viruses.
Turbine adding Akamai to Llama by accident without telling anyone.
Turbine promising that this was a mistake and that it wouldn't be rolled out to Live.
Turinbe rolling out Akami to Live.

Par for the course.

NOTpopejubal wrote on Mar 31^st, 2014 at 3:59pm:

Exactly this.

I keep wanting to believe them, and they keep lying to us and being jerks. Isn't this right after they formed the players council so they could listen to us? And I drank the koolaid, yay players' council, Turbine is finally on the mend. Only, they're not on the mend, they just found a new way to get some of us to believe their lies.

To any Turdbin lurker, you aren't getting credit for "communicating" or "listening" for many months before or after a jerk move like this. I just can't believe anything you say because you keep proving that you are duplicitous scum. It makes me want to give my gaming dollars to your competition out of spite.

Please keep this in mind the next time you are tempted to lie, equivocate, or just silently sneak in something you suspect we will not like.

Meursault wrote on Mar 31^st, 2014 at 8:13pm:


Just remember, it's your fault that he hits you.  People don't understand him and he can change.

With folks like Fran on the council - how could you still cling to such hope?

Majmal has a katana. I'd rather place hope in the katana. If we all raise our hands to the sky, and will our spiritual energies together - the collective spirit ball can empower our champion.

Robairee wrote on Apr 1^st, 2014 at 11:03am:

If by "abuse" you mean "Suffering the consequences of their bad decisions" then yes, they are. Otherwise, not so much so

I missed this one today... It might have enlightened my boring afternoon to answer it... Instead I'm doing that between the desert and the wine.

*shrug* Oh well, shit happens. ( I was really bored this afternoon )

NOTpopejubal wrote on Mar 31^st, 2014 at 3:59pm:


There's several fails from Turbine :
- First one is that as soon as Pando went under, they should have updated the update process so that it removed Pando from the computers that still had it.
- The Second one is not the Akamai Fail on Lammania... If you look closely at what Rowan said, Akamai Netsession was intended to be inserted into the Launcher...
   But they inserted the wrong one. ( with P2P active and no warning. )

What was not Failed is the following :
Rowan never promised that he would remove Akamai Netsession, he just told that there was a versioning issue on it. ( in layman term : the piece of crapware you were given is not the one that will actually ship in the end )

Meursault wrote on Mar 31^st, 2014 at 8:13pm:


The Akamai Netsession Debacle started before the Council was formed... but it wasn't by much. ( a week at best )
I did warn Turbine on the player council board ( ok, Sunday Afternoon for me, so Sunday morning for Turbine... so really late ) that if they hadn't addressed the Akamai Netsession Problem in the Monday Morning update they were going to be in a world of hurt. ( I plead Guilty here : I should have warned them earlier... 1 Sunday before hell breaking loose is not enough )

Meursault wrote on Mar 31^st, 2014 at 8:13pm:


Honestly, we just have been shown today some of the result of our feedback... and I have to say that all the time spent giving feedback ( mostly by other PC members in that case ) have had nice results...
Now I know I'm saying that right after several paragraphs of Pure Turbine Fanboi-ism, so I know it will be taken with a huge grain of salt.

ThE PhAnTOM GoD wrote on Apr 1^st, 2014 at 1:17pm:


Because it's great for business to push out a change that has a significant segment of the playerbase enraged and alienated?
Of course it's their game and they can do whatever they want to it - run it into the ground so they can move on to the shiny new Infinite Crisis if that's what they want.

But they should at least have a chance to see how much damage the choice did, so if they ever do decide to really change they'll have some data (i.e my reaction as one of many, not my reaction as "the one to listen to") to make informed decisions from.

Flav wrote on Apr 1^st, 2014 at 2:16pm:


I do appreciate what you do, Flav, but "listening about a few things" isn't enough. It's not the sacherine fanboi posts, it's the fact that doing a few nice things doesn't make up for even one bad thing. A tablespoon of wine in a barrel of sewage is sewage, but a tablespoon of sewage in a barrel of wine is still sewage.

NOTSunnyshadow wrote on Apr 1^st, 2014 at 8:10am:

Fran quit