Lets see if I can keep this short & civil.
Originally Posted by
sir
This is very wrong. With all due respect, the fact that you stay away from all the other staff by refusing to join Discord just keeps you in the dark. Literally whole staff team (including minor groups like ES/HS/MS) were aware of all the changes that happened within last 4-5 months weeks if not months prior to them becoming public. They playtest new game builds before public betas are released, they get to see/test new forum features before regular users receive access to them and so on.
Reminder - 2nd post did state that things have improved in that regard over the past couple of months.
Keep in mind that a couple of months isn't a long time in comparison to how things were leading up to it.
Regarding the Discord thing - I'll address that later.
Originally Posted by
sir
Discord is pretty much a standard way of communicating for any gamer in 2018.
Obviously it isn't the only way of communication between staff and playerbase - that's the reason why we still have forums. And hey there's also ingame chat.
And please don't tell me there's more people today who (at least) know what IRC is than people who use Discord. That just isn't true, no matter how much you may dislike Discord for whatever reason there is.
I never implied anyone would think of IRC instead of Discord these days, I never mentioned IRC at all. I merely stated that it's one means of communicating, and that I have came across more than a handful of people that weren't pleased when they were told they should use Discord to get hold of people.
[As a minor side note - There still users that appear on IRC for help, I assume they are using older clients or have webchat bookmarks since none were on stand alone IRC clients.]
Originally Posted by
sir
There is a reason why none of TBN gifs get posted by staff / hampa himself - they are not an actual depiction of what's going to be in the game. TBN isn't even in its alpha state yet, anything you might have seen was hampa or me goofing around with physics / VR / game engine. Once there are things that hampa wants to show because he's dead sure it's going to be in the final release - he will do that. But for now there are only images / gifs to tease the general outline of the coming game - and those are unlikely to get posted anywhere officially because they're not yet worth receiving publicity.
I'm aware of what the images are, but users aren't. Someone says they saw pictures of it, someone else looks for them... Chinese Whispers bud, what starts as one thing rapidly spirals into something else after it's been passed on a few times.
OMG TB NEXT HAS VR TEXTURE PAINTING INGAME CONFIRMED KJBSADIsadibfsadibagfs
If they'd been put up by staff with an explanation that they're WIP/fucking around etc then it'd kill two birds with one stone. Users get to see that things are progressing, feed back happens, good times all around.
I get that avoiding hype over stuff that may or may not happen is a thing these days, but it's not really something we've ever really had a problem with here prior.
You've been around long enough to remember when they'd stick up a random screen shot of something that'd probably get ditched, at most people asked why it didn't happen, when told why they were content with knowing the reason.
Maybe I'd get brought up later on, someone would tell them why I never happened, it then becomes a suggestion.
Transparency aint a bad thing when it comes to small communities, it's certainly better than leaving them in the dark.
But as I already said, things have improved in that regard recently.
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K so me + Discord; as much as I dislike having to repeat myself - I said why I wouldn't be on it before it was set up lol
I also told you all that I do have a Discord account, and that it was (and still is) running on this machine.
And the reason it's there is for work purposes, and for what should be obvious reasons it needs kept separate from other things.
Multiple instances are a good way to make a machine fall over, and the web version has some comical memory leak issues if it's left running long enough.
I
could leave a 2nd machine running for it, but electricity aint free.
K I'm done repeating myself over that. Guess everyone just forgot I had already explained myself prior to it.
Although yes, I dislike Discord. Wrapped HTML apps are pretty cancerous.