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Who is Mark Dickenson?
Used to be Carrie, however unlike Carrie he doesn't interact with the community.
After seeing how the community reacted to Carrie, hard to blame him.
Cop out
How is it a cop out?
1) It's not his job to interact with the community, that's Crumb's job.
2) People were terrible to Carrie.
Given those two points, why would Carrie's replacement have an incentive to say anything at all?
(regardless of what his style is)
The belief that the person who’s job it is to communicate and interact with the community, shouldn’t do that because of how people react/reacted to that is a fallacy, I think.
I also don’t think Carrie was very good at interacting with the community and that someone more adept at communication and representing the game would get far less push back and abuse.
Maybe not you, but I’ve definitely seen this excuse used a lot as to why they don’t or shouldn’t interact and inform the community more. It’s a cop out and should not stop them from doing what they promised and know is right.
And that’s why I asked if that was even Mark’s role and if he replaced crumb.
I think Carrie spoke more like a player than anyone else who speaks for this game, which is a good thing IMHO.
Her words were taken out of context and misrepresented. That is not her fault.
She tried to walk that line of being both.
The main communications from CG should represent CG and why they do things and take feedback from the players.
The problem with the main community communications person trying to walk that line as player and employee, is that they are privy to many things and perspectives the avg player is not, which will cloud their own player perspective.
It’s better just to communicate what they’re doing when/if they can and why they’re doing it when/if they can.
Carrie showed a huge lack of professionalism in this regard and of course the result was a lot of people taking things out of context, you could see it coming a mile away.
I say keep it simple, like yesterday when crumb responded to several issues, it was pretty good and nipped a lot of speculation in the bud immediately. If we see more of that from him things will go much smoother, I believe this, I really do. It’ll never be perfect, but it can be a lot better.
