Devs are losing their cool.
I don’t know what to think anymore, is it warranted, sure, should he be doing this tho, not so sure. If i replied to one of my clients like he just did, i’d be fired in a heart beat, just saying. h...
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@MandatoryIDtag Devs can say whatever they want, but they should also expect those statements to have an impact on an already volatile player base.
Making fun of your players on a personal level, and then backing it up and digging in and attacking even more, isn't just about the words. It's basically telling the player base "the situation you're going through is humorous to me and I could honestly care less what you think."
One final distinction that should be made is that the player in question never @ the dev or told him to do something to himself directly. He was responding to/conversing with another player, not the dev. There is quite a significant difference.
It's like if the government were discussion sanctions against Amazon's workplace conditions and then Amazon's official twitter feed started making fun of their drivers having to pee in bottles.... oh, wait. Yeah, that turned out well.
Making fun of your players on a personal level, and then backing it up and digging in and attacking even more, isn't just about the words. It's basically telling the player base "the situation you're going through is humorous to me and I could honestly care less what you think."
One final distinction that should be made is that the player in question never @ the dev or told him to do something to himself directly. He was responding to/conversing with another player, not the dev. There is quite a significant difference.
It's like if the government were discussion sanctions against Amazon's workplace conditions and then Amazon's official twitter feed started making fun of their drivers having to pee in bottles.... oh, wait. Yeah, that turned out well.
The level of entitlement the playerbase has nowadays is far too high. I think it needs to come crashing down asap, otherwise it will end up ruining all gaming. It's good that Ryan responded, he's human, not a machine. He can't just endlessly sweep the trash under the rug.
For how much revenue this game makes it shouldn't be having these technical issues. There are pros and streamers who basically rely on games for their revenue too. Its getting better, but around the time when he made the comment about Facebook, you would lose the max RP per match every 1-3 out of 10 ranked matches due to being disconnected. I think the server issue might have been addressed by now. If that is the case, then a "We acknowledge there is a technical issue and we are working on it" is the only real response.
@DoYaSeeMeThat's a biased dev supporting dev opinion if I ever heard one
Not unreasonable or ''entitled'' when the game is broken and getting worse each update with constant crashes they won't release a fix for till next season drops, while still pushing predatory microtransactions.
All players have wanted was some communication and kept in the loop but they got silence as usual. When devs do show up a month later after leaving them to fester on the thought they're cashing out before 2042 and halo release, they focus on one comment and go on the assault claiming ''victory'' on twitter afterwards.
It's pathetic.
They should take notes from warframe devs who communicate with their community once a week and there's many other examples too of establishing and keeping good relations with their communities and building games both players and devs love to play.
Looking at the twitter comments from a lot of respawn staff, imo, it's the devs who are entitled, toxic and becoming complacent.I think it's just their social media manager or whoever this guy is. He saw people on social media saying bad things about the servers, Facebook's servers went down for like 6hrs, he tried to make some comparison or something in his mind and tweeted it. @Systemexe20
- @B0n3SawMcSizzla Ryan is Respawns director of communication. He's meant to be the bridge and voice between the community and the devs and should be setting an example, if you don't want a toxic community.
I saw the post regarding FB, comparing downtime for couple hrs that happens once every half a decade to their seasonal server slaughter while mocking players lack of understanding on game development concerning operation health suggestions and server tickrate, which was also a bad call imo.
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