GreyMouser wrote on Jan 31
st, 2013 at 5:04pm:
We are the experts...be it Turbine on our game, the producer of some movie or TV show or what not. We are the gatekeepers.We are paid to live and breathe this stuff.
It's not believable that the people making decisions are experts, unless by "expert" you mean something other than "A person who has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of or skill in a particular area."
For example, an expert on itemization would not have released something that provides a non-stacking 2sp per melee hit or the other "Expert" who discovered that Conjuring 100 bolts per cast SUCKED and changed it to 1000 per cast
eleven months and two weeks after everyone else who plays an artificer discovered the same thing (don't misunderstand - the change from 100 to 1000 is certainly a quality of life improvement, but it should have been done 11 months sooner than it was).
Further, it's not desirable for you or the people at Turbine to "live and breathe this stuff" to the point that you believe you're so expert that you refuse to learn from the people play the game.
It's necessary to remain objective, receptive to criticism and to new ideas, and not only to learn from your own mistakes, but to make a sincere effort to prevent your peers and successors from making the same mistakes as you.
GreyMouser wrote on Jan 31
st, 2013 at 5:04pm:
The biggest issue with the internet is well, opinions are like assholes, everyone has them.Sadly most of the time it starts with ' Developer n is an assmunch...this is a better way.' Yeah, lost that dev at assmunch...that is human nature. Why would the dev read beyond it...and if he did, his defenses are already up and will discount any good ideas that may be there.That is just human nature. Try this. Walk into some restaurant and have the first thing out of your mouth be and insult. See what happens.
This reminds me of the
"Pretty Please, with Sugar on Top, Clean the fucking car" scene from Pulp Fiction.
If I walked into a restaurant and was served Scrambled Eggs with Rat Feces, I wouldn't make an effort to be polite, and it wouldn't matter that I could pick the rat feces off the plate or that there were less rat feces this week than last. Especially if I paid in advance for a meal that did not mention Rat Feces as an ingredient.
GreyMouser wrote on Jan 31
st, 2013 at 5:04pm:
See even writing that I'm asking myself, why bother, I know there is now 20 posts of dick jokes in my future.
There were 20 PAGES of dick jokes in your future before you posted anything. It was a sunk cost. Why would you think that NOT writing anything would change that outcome?
Here's a dick joke for you:
Q.) Why does a penis have a hole in the end?
A.) So men can be open minded