State of The Game - Mark Jacobs

[Xuri]

I just spent some time constructing an elaborate joke that somehow managed to involve both Warhammer, Signe and strap-on penises - but luckily I came to my senses before posting it.

[Paelos]

I just spent some time constructing an elaborate joke that somehow managed to involve both Warhammer, Signe and strap-on penises - but luckily I came to my senses before posting it.

It's all for the best. Schild would have deleted it with his "30 minute work eraser" 

[Khaldun]

Oh my god, Schild's *in* that thread over there.

 

[Goreschach]

Oh my god, Schild's *in* that thread over there.

 

You've gotta admit, it would be kinda funny if he got banned.

[JWIV]

I'm LOVIN' IT.  The complete mind boggingly sense of entitlement of people barging in throwing up walls of text and when getting called on it, spouting off bullshit of  " Fuck you! I  registered to stalk talk to Mark and you can't stop me!"

[Tmon]

Yeah it is pretty funny to see them swoop in, make a post that contains more words than I have posted since I registered here in '04, and then get all pissy because they were not greeted (greetzed?) with hosannas and paeans to their intellect and acumen.     

[Nebu]

Oh my god, Schild's *in* that thread over there.

 

Someone give me a link... I beg you.

[Ingmar]

The thread was linked earlier, but it is already locked. Assuming its the same thread!

[Morfiend]

The thread was linked earlier, but it is already locked. Assuming its the same thread!

There are several.

[squirrel]

The thread was linked earlier, but it is already locked. Assuming its the same thread!

There are several.

At least two. And those, combined with watching the rapid banniation here, have kept me unproductive for most of the day. Some funny stuff - Itchee of the 1,500 word essay that went poof twice - is having a good cry. (Thread is the sans Schild one, the other is indeed locked.)

[JWIV]

Oh my god, Schild's *in* that thread over there.

 

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Schild, my son!
The forums banned, the posts undone!
Beware the Jewdian mod, and shun
The frumious 'Istration!"

He took his vorpal phone in hand:
Long time the manxome dev he sought --
So rested he by the forum F13,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Schild, with eyes of lame,
Came smoking through the tulgey wood,
And snorgled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The forums  went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Schild?
Come to my arms, my beamish noob!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled as he lubed.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

[Xeyi]

Someone give me a link... I beg you.

Probably this one.

edit - I messed up the link

[Kirth]

You should have kept Itchees around his a good replacement for grunk:

The whole argument against "walls of text" is idiotic, how can you do a well argumented point about the state of this game with 3 lines of text

 

[Lum]

The whole argument against "walls of text" is idiotic, how can you do a well argumented point about the state of this game with 3 lines of text

"Overall the PvP is great, there are some issues with server population and class balance, not many have explored the endgame as of yet, PVE is pretty boring if you're a veteran of these,  and the levelling curve in Tiers 3 and 4 need some looking into."

Oh, sorry, that was 2 lines.

[amiable]

You should have kept Itchees around his a good replacement for grunk:

The whole argument against "walls of text" is idiotic, how can you do a well argumented point about the state of this game with 3 lines of text

 

I think my favorite quote from him in that other thread is this:

So? theyd rather have what, a bunch of people posting witty images that have nothing to do with the OP, than my constructive criticism of the game?

It just so encapsulates the sense of entitlement...  "How dare they post funny pictures when I, random dude on the interwebs, has something important to say!!!!!!"   

[Kirth]

I'd suggest a 1 day delay on new account being able to post. Or not ... 

[Hayduke]

I'd suggest a 1 day delay on new account being able to post. Or not ... 

I don't think the mods do delayed gratification.  /ducks banstick

[Nebu]

Thanks for the links. 

I went over to WHA to see their side of the story.  You really can't understand nor appreciate the value of any community until you've spent some time with it.  Most of us have been rattling around the same posters for 10+ years... I'm guessing they don't understand that level of familiarity.  They're passionate about WAR and I can certainly appreciate and respect that.  Sadly, it's not really about WAR in this case.  It's about barging into a community that you aren't a part of and beating your chest.  I'm not sure they recognize this as the case... ok, some appear to.

I apologize for the derail.

 

[Kirth]

Thanks for the links. 

I went over to WHA to see their side of the story.  You really can't understand nor appreciate the value of any community until you've spent some time with it.  Most of us have been rattling around the same posters for 10+ years... I'm guessing they don't understand that level of familiarity.  They're passionate about WAR and I can certainly appreciate and respect that.  Sadly, it's not really about WAR in this case.  It's about barging into a community that you aren't a part of and beating your chest.  I'm not sure they recognize this as the case... ok, some appear to.

I apologize for the derail.

 

This thread went off the rails about 4 stations back. Its in hurt town now, and schilds the mayor.

[Nerf]

I'd be happy to rerail it for you -- for a fee of course. I've re-railed threads in brockway, ogdenville, and north havenbrook and it put them on the map!
No more questions about why the devs are here in this no-name forum, no siree!

[WindupAtheist]

Whoa, epic thread in progress and I didn't even know. We need that "F13 OMG" Bat Signal.

except that EA wanted to shut down UO when they gave it to us but I convinced them to spend more money on the game

You are now officially cool in my book forever. 

[Venkman]

I went over to WHA to see their side of the story.  You really can't understand nor appreciate the value of any community until you've spent some time with it.  Most of us have been rattling around the same posters for 10+ years... I'm guessing they don't understand that level of familiarity.  They're passionate about WAR and I can certainly appreciate and respect that.  Sadly, it's not really about WAR in this case.  It's about barging into a community that you aren't a part of and beating your chest.  I'm not sure they recognize this as the case... ok, some appear to.

I think that's a valid observation in general, however I don't necessarily think it applies in this case.

They're a fansite that feels slighted, one-upped by a bunch of nobodies in some site they had to google. It's the entitlement thing mentioned by others here. They're Warhammer Alliance, only doing one thing. So of course they should be the eipcenter of all things WAR and how dare Mythic send official representation anywhere else. So instead of accepting that they didn't do things well enough and maybe, ya know, changing, they lash out. Introspection is hard and stuff.

The icing is just the irony of them thinking we're doing something better over here, in a sub-game forum probably graveyard'ed before Christmas  

[Lantyssa]

Except for not wanting to innudate the poor mods of WHA <waves at Garthlik>, I'd love for a horde of people to register to write thousand word essays to ... a poster whom shall remain nameless ... which will promptly be ignored, because we'd all be new posters with no connection to the existing community, nor doing anything but spewing our supposed wisdom.

Egads, why aren't trolls a playable race!?  Wallateks hits you for 1000 points of word damage!

Forget RvR and all that other stuff.  We need trolls, stat!

[spud]

Mod edit: Man, I bet this was a lot of effort.

[Venkman]

I'd love for a horde of people to register to write thousand word essays

Serious question: why?

It's all been discussed. Everyone with a valid opinion has stated it already, and probably a large percentage of them did it in Beta. Mythic is going to do what they want. In this era of the genre, even the WoW newbs need to recognize these games will only move as fast as the one group of people actually accountable to that game will move it. Everyone else is either an active account or not.

Every single possible thing that needs to be said at this stage has been. We're just repeating ourselves while the neophytes come in, ignore everything they said before and we said here, and repeat it all again. It's cathartic or something

[NiX]

I have nothing to add to this thread. I just want to point out that it's funny how they come charging in and address MJ directly, like he's the dear abbey of giving a fuck.

[Megrim]

I have nothing to add to this thread. I just want to point out that it's funny how they come charging in and address MJ directly, like he's the dear abbey of giving a fuck.

Well, to be fair, so did we. But you know, opinions are like arseholes. Everyone has them, and everyone uses them for pretty much the same purpose.

[Lantyssa]

Darniaq, you're so innocent.  I'm talking about registering at those other boards.  For a very specific poster whose feelings are hurt, to drive home a point 'cause the schadenfreude is strong with me today.

Yes it's all been said, probably in beta.  That's why all these people registering and posting after Jacobs here is so funny.  They're not saying anything we didn't cover when he commented.  We'd be doing the same there, only to a nobody.  Which would be amusingly ironic, but mean to their mods.

[Montague]

WTS:

1 F13 posting account. 625 posts.

Write walls of text to Mark Jacobs without grinding posts and rep!

Only $1500. Paypal only please.

[Soln]

I wish I was in WAR if only for this thread.  The only thing it's missing are holocrons. 

[Venkman]

I'm talking about registering at those other boards.  For a very specific poster whose feelings are hurt, to drive home a point 'cause the schadenfreude is strong with me today.

Oh, that, heh. Yea, carry on 

This has been fun, but it's just another unfinished MMO waiting for the eventual tight player community coalesce around its future. Ya'all have fun now, ya hear? 

(we need a straw hat toothpick eatin' hand wavin' goodbye emote...)

[Wasted]

But but but, even though everything has been said before, the right combination of words, with the right resonance and timing can move the world.

The world ... of warhammer.

The internet is the 1000 monkeys at their typewriters made reality, one day such a work of perfection will spring forth from the most obscure of threads that we will all be born to a new age.

The chance that that magic post will contain the name Mark Jacobs is increasing.

[Fabricated]

WTS:

1 F13 posting account. 625 posts.

Write walls of text to Mark Jacobs without grinding posts and rep!

Only $1500. Paypal only please.

SChild is a griefer. He'll PK ur txt

[WindupAtheist]

Mark does this thing where he seems to keep a relatively low profile, but then he comes here and shoots from the hip a little, and the crazies flock over here to scream for the attention of their master. It happened with the "UO dev team shitcanned" story when some Stratics retards came over here to yell at him for not posting there.

[fuser]

Mark does this thing where he seems to keep a relatively low profile, but then he comes here and shoots from the hip a little, and the crazies flock over here to scream for the attention of their master. It happened with the "UO dev team shitcanned" story when some Stratics retards came over here to yell at him for not posting there.

And in the end, we all win! 

The funnies haven't stopped all day!