So...Spontaneity...

[Tashan]

It is not our responsibility to get anything done. We are the consumers, the customers, the audience.

Should you choose to present feedback the best way you can present it to the institute of interest is to be as honest as you possibly can, in whatever form you wish to.

Trying to understand the development team is perfectly fine, but never put yourself in someone else's shoes as you skew feedback towards being unrepresentable.

Help the developers by being a honest player, not a mini-mod.

Case in Point - Payment adjustments.

[SpankWustler]

It is not our responsibility to get anything done. We are the consumers, the customers, the audience.

Should you choose to present feedback the best way you can present it to the institute of interest is to be as honest as you possibly can, in whatever form you wish to.

I'm going with this. Camate has even posted things in topics related to Thief that imply he relates the tone along with the message, so if players really hate something than that will presumably be conveyed.

[saevel]

It is not our responsibility to get anything done. We are the consumers, the customers, the audience.

Should you choose to present feedback the best way you can present it to the institute of interest is to be as honest as you possibly can, in whatever form you wish to.

Trying to understand the development team is perfectly fine, but never put yourself in someone else's shoes as you skew feedback towards being unrepresentable.

Help the developers by being a honest player, not a mini-mod.

Case in Point - Payment adjustments.

And in a perfect world each of us would have our own personal developer to cater to our very own wish's. Complete with rainbow unicorn sprinkles.

Now back to reality where people have lives and are working constantly under demanding timelines. Demanding stuff while stamping your feet and saying your a "consumer" will just have the cook add their "secret ingredients" to your order. CM / Dev's are not robots to cater to your ever whim, their people with family's and lives. Refusing to adjust your thinking to better communicate your desires just goes to show a selfish attitude. That gets absolutely nothing accomplished, and while you may feel a sense of smugness for getting nothing done, but doing it your way, to the eyes of dev's and admins you just look like a fool.

And btw this is coming from someone who's run an MMO before.

Protip, don't assume dev's know what player created acronyms mean, especially when they don't speak your language. Take "Programmed Random OcCurrence" for example (PROC), we use it all the time to describe when something random happens in the game, but to most developers the term "PROC" is meaningless unless they've been involved in the english speaking MMO community. Thus when explaining something having to do with proc's you instead use the term activation rate. It translates easier and will make your message clearer.

Effective Communication 101, when communicating a message always take your audience (the receiver of the message) into account. Phrase and parse the message in a way that the audience has the best time understanding and relating to. Otherwise you sound like the teacher on Charlie Brown.