contessor wrote on Oct 15
th, 2022 at 5:57pm:
WTF happen to Lynn. She was actually one of the more reasonable ones sans Tolero.
Tribal workplace environment mentality.
I recall getting a reply from Lynabel to feedback I posted somewhere (I think it was reddit post my mobo ban) and Lynabel ignored the actual feedback to inform me that he was ignoring me due to my previous beef with Steelstar.
My guess is the dev team as a whole has a massive 'Us vs them' subculture that gets worse with each update; as more and more critical feedback turns into people getting progressively less polite with them.
You can genuinely look at Lynabel's posts from the time he still played the game, to the time he started interning, to the time he was fully hired and see each level of how his responses to the community shifted.
Ironically, on the flipside of that I find that now a days Steelstar is the one that responds to genuinely decent feedback from players/or at least engages with players on Discord anymore. Lynabel flounced from actively using the discord because people were being 'mean'. Not going to say everyone was being cordial, but there's certainly some thin-skin there.
It's wild AF to think the intern I was happy to see on the team making changes and the narcissist that felt like my nemesis have changed places on my 'excitement to read a post/reply' from.