Vidi said:
I have noticed of late the dev team seems to be getting more and more angry. What is causing this I don't know. But posts seem ( at least from this side of the monitor ) to be laced with anger. Whatever is the cause of this, I hope that they can take some comfort in the fact there are TONS of us out here, who don't post everyday or even every week, who are grateful beyond words for their hard work.
There seems to be a growing divide among the dev team and those who release their own work. Maybe those who release their own work are getting an attitude. MAybe it's the devs. I don't know, I am not there to see what happens on IRC and most of the threads that get people banned end up deleted after a short time. But it is a shame, that everyone just can't get along and keep this community growing.
I run a very customized shard, which actually has been closed for the last 6 months due to creating a completely custom map as well as leveling system, many of the players that had requested most of what we are doing are helping out with things such as deco and building etc...I am the primary coder for all of the new systems and have the lovely job of trying to make everyone happy which I'm sure everyone knows just isn't possible.
I can say from experience over the last 6 months that I myself have grown short and somewhat ill tempered with many of those who are helping on our shard, whether they are staff members or testers. It's nothing to do with them personally, it's to do with the fact that there are a very few people that no matter what you do they take up 90% of your time pissing and moaning and bitching about everything, to the point that I finally look at them and tell them that if they think they can do a better job, then go start your own shard and do it. From the devs standpoint, I can honestly see why they tend to get attitudes.
A couple of days ago I had to release a staff member from my team, because he would not follow the rules. He insisted that he knew what was best and chose to go off and screw up areas that have not yet been spawned and decorated. Ok no big deal, when we get ready to work on that area we will just wipe it, the other work he was doing was good and his doing the other area wasn't really hurting anything right? Up until the other day I'd have said sure it was fine, but when he started pulling other members over to that area and setting up teleporter gates to it it was time to put a stop to, he lied to the lead decorator about it, and was basically doing things that are against our rules, so I removed him.
The point is that Asayre8 felt that the rules had been broken to the point that Wyatt had become a detriment to either the work they are doing, or to the community and therefore removed him. I for one applaud the dev team on this decision. Bottom line, if Wyatt thinks he can do a better job, then he can go off and write his own emu. Perhaps if people could leave things alone and stick within the bounds set by the developers they would have more time to work on the next release of RunUO instead of having to police the community.
