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HaemishM
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f13 posts more derogatory/libellious statements daily in a public forum You goddamn right. Glad of you to notice. |
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HaemishM
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I wonder if she'd be taking less heat over what was a pretty tame post criticizing her previous employers if she hadn't spurned a job that so many here would have been thrilled to take, with a pay cut, just for the entry into the gaming industry?
Anyone willing to take a pay cut just to work in the games industry at HER former job (i.e. SOE community flak) deserves to get treated to EA-style hours, MickeyD's pay, and orgies she can't join in going on around him/her 24 hours a day. I mean, shit, there's working for peanuts, and working to be beaten severely about the head and neck with a purple King Kong dildo. |
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HaemishM
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Assuming Raph wrote a 65 page manual - why would he? Not that he doesn't have a talent for writing, but I'd have figured there's a manager over CS who would be better suited to the task.
Not based on SOE's track record before Raph got there. |
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El Gallo
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Assuming Raph wrote a 65 page manual - why would he? Not that he doesn't have a talent for writing, but I'd have figured there's a manager over CS who would be better suited to the task.
Well, they had him design SWG. |
This post makes me want to squeeze into my badass red jeans.
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shiznitz
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Everyone coming down hard on this woman should be ashamed of themselves. We all know that women who do porn for a living are perfectly well-adjusted human beings.
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I have never played WoW.
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Alkiera
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Everyone coming down hard on this woman should be ashamed of themselves. We all know that women who do porn for a living are perfectly well-adjusted human beings.
I think the green was overkill. Anyone who bothered to look at her bio knows she's got more than a few issues. Abusive drugged up parents, school peer problems, leaving home at 16, doing drugs herself... Yeah. Well adjusted. Alkiera |
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Shockeye
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Skinny-dippin' in a sea of Lee, I'd propose on bended knee...
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Everyone coming down hard on this woman should be ashamed of themselves. We all know that women who do porn for a living are perfectly well-adjusted human beings.
I think the green was overkill. Anyone who bothered to look at her bio knows she's got more than a few issues. Abusive drugged up parents, school peer problems, leaving home at 16, doing drugs herself... Yeah. Well adjusted. And she seems to be anti-Raph. |
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Hoax
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I think we should organize an online petition for her to remove all anti-Raph sentiment from her nudie and/or blog sites?  |
A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, then that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation.
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shiznitz
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the plural of mangina
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Everyone coming down hard on this woman should be ashamed of themselves. We all know that women who do porn for a living are perfectly well-adjusted human beings.
I think the green was overkill. Anyone who bothered to look at her bio knows she's got more than a few issues. Abusive drugged up parents, school peer problems, leaving home at 16, doing drugs herself... Yeah. Well adjusted. Alkiera This thread is overkill. I was trying to kill it. I failed. |
I have never played WoW.
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Alkiera
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The best part of SWG was the easy account cancellation process.
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Everyone coming down hard on this woman should be ashamed of themselves. We all know that women who do porn for a living are perfectly well-adjusted human beings.
I think the green was overkill. Anyone who bothered to look at her bio knows she's got more than a few issues. Abusive drugged up parents, school peer problems, leaving home at 16, doing drugs herself... Yeah. Well adjusted. And she seems to be anti- male. FIFY |
"[I could] become the world's preeminent MMO class action attorney. I could be the lawyer EVEN AMBULANCE CHASERS LAUGH AT. " --Triforcer
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Signe
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Try harder. Sing something. Post some hobbit pr0n. That usually gets someone right on it.
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Malathor
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This is the dumbest thread I've ever read here. What a load of sanctimonious bullshit. And she seems to be anti-Raph.
Then she's more qualified to be running SOE than the current management. Is there some other relevance to any of this? |
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Evil Elvis
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Then she's more qualified to be running SOE than the current management. Is there some other relevance to any of this?
Zing! |
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schild
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This is the dumbest thread I've ever read here. What a load of sanctimonious bullshit. Having started the thread, I have to ask, do you know what that means? Or were you not talking to me. Because, having read back, I was being anything BUT sanctimonious. |
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Malathor
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This is the dumbest thread I've ever read here. What a load of sanctimonious bullshit. Having started the thread, I have to ask, do you know what that means? Or were you not talking to me. Because, having read back, I was being anything BUT sanctimonious. We're not being callow dickheads. She's being the WindupNutsackette of SOE. She should have filed a lawsuit if what she says is true.
Oh, please. One line from a blog turned into a semi-serious discussion of sexual harassment in the workplace? |
"Too much is always better than not enough." -Dobbs
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Raph
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I honestly cannot believe how much attention the throwaway remark about the 65 page community relations policies manual has gotten. :P
I wrote it when I was asked to create a community relations dept at SOE. That happened shortly after I got the CCO job. Prior to that, there was no dept, there were CRMs on individual games, and there was no consistent policy. EQ had no forums, SWG had extnsive community stuff, other games were somewhere in between.
The manual says, in short form,
- if you're not into community, here's why you should do it: retention, acquisition, respecting your customer. Here's some hard data to prove it.
- the jobs you need are: mods, events person (if you will do that part), community relations manager, possibly assts to them, and QA/CS liaison. Here's handy job descs you can use when hiring.
- btw, the CRM for a game should be considered a lead on the team
- you need to meet regularly with the following folks: marketing, CS, QA, producers, team leads. You need to tell them what's up, what the community is antsy about, what stuff you're doing, and you need to hear what stuff they are doing with the game
- you should be doing the following: forum posts (multiple a day). Newsletters -- not marketingy ones either. Features on the website including behind the scenes stuff. Fun little contests and such on the forums. Showcasing player-made stuff, like art, fan films, roleplaying, etc. You really should think about having a correspondent program.
- btw, yes, you need to run forums. All our games will have forums henceforth. Here's the stock policies on bannings, etc.
- here's some advice on handling problems: always be honest, be prompt, don't overpromise, etc etc.
- here's the escalation process when something goes all woppy-jawed.
- here's some books and websites tht might be helpful (Amy Jo Kim's book, etc)
- now, the entire second half of the manual is the latest boring legal policies that you have to post on all the sites.
That's pretty much it.
We then proceeded to get forums for every game, CRMs for every game, and most of the doc implemented. And then Alan took over running the newly created dept.
The End.
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Shockeye
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Skinny-dippin' in a sea of Lee, I'd propose on bended knee...
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Sure you claim that's all there was, but you left out the neat-o cartoons on every other page!
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I honestly cannot believe how much attention the throwaway remark about the 65 page community relations policies manual has gotten. :P
Well, other than the boobies that was pretty much the most interesting tidbit in this whole teacup sized tempest. |
Speaking of marketing, we're out of milk.
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Merusk
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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schild
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ere we have a bunch of geeks who probably have never even laid eyes on a real woman whose last name wasn't Dotjaypeegee talking shit about me...why? Those are big blocks of text describing her current customer base. You know what she needs? Community relations. |
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Roac
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I honestly cannot believe how much attention the throwaway remark about the 65 page community relations policies manual has gotten. :P Well, honestly, the throwaway remark was the most interesting thing she said. Good points, btw. |
-Roac
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"Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us." -SC
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Strazos
Greetings from the Slave Coast
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Boring article.
At least she's kind of attractive.
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Fear the Backstab!
"Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion
"Hell is other people." -Sartre
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Signe
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We love Raph and need to know every aspect of his life. Especially the bits he doesn't want us to know. He has kind eyes and a sweet smile, too.
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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Surlyboi
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We love Raph and need to know every aspect of his life. Especially the bits he doesn't want us to know. He has kind eyes and a sweet smile, too.
But would you hit it?  |
Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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schild
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We love Raph and need to know every aspect of his life. Especially the bits he doesn't want us to know. He has kind eyes and a sweet smile, too.
But would you hit it? HRose would. Edit: We're talking about Raph, rite? |
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Surlyboi
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eat a bag of dicks
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Yeah, Raph.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Signe
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I'm a married woman. Of course I wouldn't "hit it". But he does have kind eyes and a sweet smile and I'm sure he gets offers from people wanting to hit him all the time.
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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Strazos
Greetings from the Slave Coast
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Are you taking bets on that? I could use some easy money. |
Fear the Backstab!
"Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion
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SuperPopTart
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I am damn cute for a stubby shortling.
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I'm a married woman. Of course I wouldn't "hit it". But he does have kind eyes and a sweet smile and I'm sure he gets offers from people wanting to hit him all the time.
Am I the only person here that hasn't seen what Raph looks like? Now I feel cheated. |
I am Super, I am a Pop Tart.
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Fabricated
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That is one angry attention whore, and just a whore in general. |
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SuperPopTart
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I am damn cute for a stubby shortling.
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I'd say she's a bit upset at the attention this has been getting.
Poor girl.
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I am Super, I am a Pop Tart.
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schild
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She's more upset that people insulted her ability to perform tech work.
I insult her ability to stay on the meds. Jesus. It would have been classy to say nothing.
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Signe
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Well, now someone has linked her site to this site. This will end in pear shaped tears.
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Slyfeind
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Am I the only person here that hasn't seen what Raph looks like?
Now I feel cheated.
Wow, surely you jest. But in case you're serious, http://www.raphkoster.com. See him play the guitar! |
"Role playing in an MMO is more like an open orchestra with no conductor, anyone of any skill level can walk in at any time, and everyone brings their own instrument and plays whatever song they want. Then toss PvP into the mix and things REALLY get ugly!" -Count Nerfedalot
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schild
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Well, now someone has linked her site to this site. This will end in pear poon shaped tears. Indeed. And I haven't even had the chance to say that the only nude "modeling" is in an art class. If someone's jerking off to you, it's porn. But hey, what do I know about semantics or art. Edit: Ooooooh, it was someone anonymous. We should hire a private investigator. |
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