m4lacka wrote on Nov 27
th, 2015 at 2:50am:
People are still convinced that solardawning caused ddo to become shit?
DDO was on the road to shit-ville before Feather-of-Sun got his job at Turbine. Shit-tastic management is responsible for him getting hired and for not training him (or anyone apparently), and for allowing him to commit changes to the game without oversight.
m4lacka wrote on Nov 27
th, 2015 at 2:50am:
Really? Whatever nice old weapons of lacerating u have u shud thank him...
I still have some lootgen weapons, armor, and accessories from the "lacerating" era. They were nice while they lasted, so "Thank you" for those, and
FUCK YOU for later making them BTC, raising their ML, and then removing them from the loot tables.
Also
FUCK YOU for removing blank Power Five (Banish, Disrupt, Paralyzing, Smiting, Vorp) items from the loot tables,
FUCK YOU for removing blank Search/Spot/Disable/OL gear (later added back),
FUCK YOU for removing Race Restricted and replacing it with "Masterful Crapsmanshit" that is even more rare than RR was and is never on blank ability items.
When was the last time you saw a Banishing of Greater Elemental Bane drop?
FUCK YOU for that, Feather.
Oh, yeah. I don't want to forget to tell him
FUCK YOU for the Burden of Sin (because figuring out how to make his new loot work the same way as the old loot was
too hard.
FUCK YOU for assing up the items from the original Risia and
FUCK YOU for changing the ML on the BTA items from chain rewards.
m4lacka wrote on Nov 27
th, 2015 at 2:50am:
The reason loot table got fucked was because of his leave, I am also sure it is out here on the vault, he was actually on our side as per with his support for powergaming!!!
The loot tables got fucked because he did a shitty job. He did a shitty job fucking them up with ghostbane. That was all him.
Feather of "Damn Good at his job" was NOT on "our" side and did not support powergaming. He was on his own side at all times. He worked on whatever the fuck he felt like and when it got too hard, he dropped it for the next shiny.
His enthusiasm was not for the health of the game, but rather for his personal pet projects, and only for those as long as they interested him.
He didn't check his work, he only fixed his bugs when his nose was rubbed in them, and he didn't give a fuck about the long term effects of his shit.
PersonaNonGrata wrote on Nov 27
th, 2015 at 7:03am:
Don't forget his parting gift of Tornado pots.
That was a big middle finger to his bosses.
Sure. Thanks for getting yourself fired, but making sure to say "fuck you" to everything as you leave your shit pile behind.
Tornado spammers were really fun to have in your groups.
Meursault wrote on Nov 27
th, 2015 at 8:07am:
I think he was a young guy with enthusiasm and (perhaps a bit too much) self-confidence who didn't get the mentoring and leadership to direct his energies in the right direction. He even pretty much admitted he thought it was shit too, but it was shit because management pushed it out before he was done with it. I find that completely plausible
I think you're being very generous.
I agree that he didn't get worthwhile mentoring or supervision, but his ass-hattery was completely his decision.
Meursault wrote on Nov 27
th, 2015 at 8:07am:
If they have code going into production and they don't know what it is, that's not the fault of the one coder. That's the fault of management that buys the "we're too special to have the rules apply to us" B.S. that has made Turdbin a collapsing 3rd rate studio for years.
All true, however it doesn't make Feather's behavior less despicable.
Fuck him. I wouldn't piss in his mouth if his teeth were on fire.