Bobbicus wrote on Nov 26^th, 2015 at 2:39pm:


I'd be happy that he can't ruin another game with his definition of "doing a good job".

Mr Reilly wrote on Nov 26^th, 2015 at 10:31pm:


If they are that bad, I don't blame anybody for sacking him. Long term, it's cheaper to revamp them than to keep somebody like that on the team. Can't vouch for short term, but if the last line is true, it doesn't matter anyways as everything has to be redesigned.

Sim-Sala-Bim wrote on Nov 27^th, 2015 at 1:34am:


Stalker

m4lacka wrote on Nov 27^th, 2015 at 2:50am:


There is one other thing that, if I'm not mistaken, was also his idea. Tiered loot. Expecting to get flamed for this but while not the best idea in theory, it worked really well. EE items sold quite well on both AHs and it gave you a reason to run EE besides just terrible drop rates on a lower difficulty. I miss that part of loot.

The part I don't miss is random stats. Don't know who's bright idea that was.

m4lacka wrote on Nov 27^th, 2015 at 2:50am:


Don't forget his parting gift of Tornado pots.
That was a big middle finger to his bosses.
And it lasted awhile too, before they nerfed them into nothing.

m4lacka wrote on Nov 27^th, 2015 at 2:50am:

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:

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 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:

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 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:

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.

Ah, the good ol´ times when we thought that DDO was fucked.
Feather's blunders looks like child's plays now compared to colossal amounts of fuckery vomited by current ddo team.
There was some trading and there were actually people to play with.
I just read on shithole DDO forums about that first EE DoJ on Khyber  - what the actual fuck, how low population has to drop before that clueless joke of a producer gets sacked for good.
Say what you want, epic GH is / was the best, even today stuff has some value.

Wipe wrote on Nov 27^th, 2015 at 12:29pm:

The guys who are left are making about the same amount of shitty decisions per unit time now as were being made prior to Feather of Suck, and the magnitude of them feels about the same as it always has.

Maybe I'm wrong.  I feel like Turbine is slowly poisoning me with their shit work and it's possible that I'm becoming desensitized to their outrageous behavior. 

If someone can devise an objective metric for assessing their fuckups with the game, perhaps we could use that to compare their performance at specific times.  The best I can come up with is the Oracle's login graph, the downward slope of which looks to be pretty consistent from pre-Feather, during Feather's time, and now. 

Turbine doesn't fuck everything up every time.  Some things they get right.  I wish it happened more often.

On the whole, my subjective perception is that about 40% of the time they fuck up hard enough to require correction (and it really steams me that most of these are avoidable).  Because these corrections require resources that could have gone into something productive, the game always feels like it's slipping backward (but Turbine's a special snowflake and managing Cost of Quality is apparently for chumps who want to find new and keep existing customers).


The thing with Feather is that nearly everything that asshole did had to be re-done by him while he was there and then again by someone else after he left.  It's not easy to overstate how costly and damaging he was for the game.

"Good at his job" indeed.  Turbine would have been better off paying that smug prick to stay away.

OldCoaly wrote on Nov 27^th, 2015 at 10:43am:


LMAO 

You're right, it was his decision and he was a pompous, incompetent ass, I just meant that he didn't really stand out in a sea of pompous incompetent asses. Yeah, he wrecked loot, but everybody there wrecks everything they touch. I gleefully encourage you to hate as many Turbine employees as you're capable of, I just feel others are more deserving of my limited hate resources.

OldCoaly wrote on Nov 27^th, 2015 at 6:35pm:

Don't have anything better except subjective measure :
Population and activity looks half compared to last year and 1/5 compared to "feather times" - U 15 - 17 I think.

I am gonna get shit for this, but idgaf about random loot really, but population decline is really obvious.
From multiple daily Fots and Citw, different guilds, new people in pugs to same 50 people I keep seeing today, no raids, no activity going on and really dead EU evenings.
Whole guilds gone.
I'd bet 3/4+ "hardcore" players left in last year or two. On every server.

I believe MajMal said 15k across all servers unique logins when he was leaving ? Surely looks like even less than that today. What 300 people on at once at any given time.
Dunno what else to check ? Steam stats ? Lotro has 4 times more activity and they are at the server merging stage I think.
Severlin idiotic direction will kill the game for good.
But hey, I am pretty disillusioned and bored with the game now so what do I know.

Alex DeLarge wrote on Nov 27^th, 2015 at 1:49am:

Wipe wrote on Nov 29^th, 2015 at 11:49am:

Players are leaving because game has no future, no new people are coming to the game.
I was hardcore player, every day few hours, you know population is shit when you know most of the players that pug above lvl 20.
Also rest of the players that are not 20 are trs that you also know.
It is a real shame that this wonderful game is being run by idiots.