if
- if they cleaned out a majority of the current staff
- if the community relations wasnt a circlejerk on the shithole forums
- if the game moved forward instead of backward
It has been painfully obvious that the staff, for some time, has had their own goals in mind that have always been paramount to the needs of the community. every problem that occurs was greenlit by someone who should lose their job. evey issue that makes it live was programmed into the game through one mans incompetence, but reaches the live product through fingers of many. Anyone can make a mistake but only an asshole fails to care. How many people had to not care about any given issue, for it to go from code to catastrophe? I cannot justify investment in a project led or maintained by people with no accountability.
One of their main (if not only) sources of interaction with their clients, is the shithole forums. The forums are a host to wonderous levels of toxicity, inaccuracy, and censorship. Infinite and endless numbers of fanboys, waiting for a chance to agree or disagree with anyone, all for the sake of what i can only imagine is internet cred. Village idiots, who scream as loud as they can, incorrect information, to the point that such ignorance becomes self sustaining. Any form of truth or knowledge that goes against the desired public appearance is kneecapped and buried. As a result, The chain of communication between actual play experience and developer is so distorted with layers of cross translation that its nearly impossible to determine the realities in a game that is hard coded to be exactly what it is.
year after year, DDO opts not to crawl, not to run, but to fucking moonwalk into the umbra of un-progress. Rather than addressing old issues, they add more. Instead of completing systems, they make new ones that end up in the same state as the previous ones. Instead of learning from and reacting to the playerbase, they reject your opinions and interject their beliefs. languages and OS are being removed from support, not added. API's are being terminated, hardware is being downgraded. This is the opposite of progress.
IF i was to even consider trying to justify giving them money every month, just for existing, these issues would need to all be proven to no longer exist. there is no fucking chance. now i ask you, OP, to give me your time, as i have given you mine. what the fuck is the point of this thread?