Oh, yeah. I hate this April Fool's bullshit they pull every year. Don't they have better shit to do? I mean, I know it's just Cordovan doing this, but seriously - even he should have better shit to do than this. If he doesn't, then they don't need him as badly as he would like to think they do.

5 Foot Step wrote on Apr 1^st, 2016 at 2:17pm:

Well, when you put it that way, yeah, great job with the April Fools threads! 

Digimonk wrote on Apr 1^st, 2016 at 2:29pm:

Well, I'm not really sure what you expect him to do on weekends. It's very unlikely anyone is working on solving the lag problem on the weekends. Hell, I would expect Turbine's SLA with their new datacenter doesn't allow for tech support on the weekends except in very limited circumstances and anything outside of those circumstances is probably exorbitantly costly - all in a bid to keep their expenses down otherwise.

As for the off-topic posts, he must be preventing those from hitting the dev tracker - or I'm just not checking the dev tracker often enough.

I've seen the favoritism and it is truly blatant. It's complete bullshit.

As for the compensatory and conciliatory steps they're taking, I don't think they're taking any. Though, I'm not sure what they could do that would really help change people's attitudes.

Mostly, I figure he's just a keyboard jockey and is pretty much the lowest minion possible. So, he probably just takes his orders about what he can talk about, how he says it, and that's the end of it. Because he probably realizes that if he pushes back,  they'll take his peanuts away. Or because the entire corporate culture is utterly rancid shit and nobody gives a fuck - so why should Cordovan give a fuck when nobody else does?

and whenever that butterball 'plays' with shit he shouldn't, he breaks it ...... cookies, forums down, etc etc

nowAvaultie wrote on Apr 1^st, 2016 at 2:52pm:

When your company's core revenue-generating product/system/application is essentially unavailable and causing you to bleed customers, if you're the person in charge of community relations with said customers, you'd damned sure better be actively communicating with them and do everything in your power to provide assurances that fixing the problem is the top/only priority until the problem is fixed.

Or you can do what Cordovan did and take the "no fucks are given" approach and check out for the weekend while the community you supposedly manage goes ballistic.


nowAvaultie wrote on Apr 1^st, 2016 at 2:52pm:

The multitude of lag rage threads has put his previous flurry of posts on oatmeal cookies, pie time, etc. multiple pages back.  Prior to the lagapocalypse, those posts were more numerous than his posts in threads involving actual game updates, bugs, issues, etc.

Lest you start to think that the lack of cookie posts on the first page of the dev tracker indicates that he is taking it seriously, look closely at the actual responses and you'll see that they're just fluff and vague, hand-wavey promises that they're fixing things.   No real communication or details.  Sure, it may be better than nothing, but it's the absolute bare minimum better than nothing.

NoGoodDoc wrote on Apr 1^st, 2016 at 4:56pm:

This sounds like it's probably the real reason for the Kobold forums.

NoGoodDoc wrote on Apr 1^st, 2016 at 4:56pm:

And here I thought it was a honeypot to find the next generation of bootlickers and brown nosers.  They have to replace the ones that rage quit from the lag fiasco.

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