True then and now

[Von Earlmann]

A comment I made on June 8th 2008. This was in reference to variable visibility being thrust upon us, without option, in version 1.03. Eight years later we fight the same fights and are met with similar smugness.

I have not changed my belief. And it may just be intensified by that same imperial smugness.

"Pardon my comments. I'm not as much beating on anyone as I am trying to defend the game I love.

Does your "Beta Team" need expansion?
Do they need to understand "game scale"?
Do they think that all of "us" others will accept the evolution of the game into something it was never intended and something that kept us all playing it for so long?

I am puzzled by some of the changes and how we are told to wait for what is to come.
I am saddened that those who play it are not as involved and accepted into the "inner circle" that is attempting to alter what we thought was "pure" and "good".

It is like my analogy of the '57 Chevy having chrome added to it to make it a Belair. Wow! It just devalued the value of the '57 Chevy?
You can make a lawn mower go 60 miles per hour but, it will no longer work as a lawn mower.
They make Tractor Trailer "tractors" into drag racers and circle track racers but, they no longer can haul freight?

I am hoping that the "team" can take a step back and see that they are painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa?
If there are many more similar changes I may have to take a step back from the game and reload my old Talonsoft disks.
I feel we have too much that is now shoved down our throats that is making the game ... not THE game!

Please do not do things "out of scale" and make them part of the game engine. Make them an option if you are dead set on doing it? But, do not make it the "kings law" that will drive some of the most loyal customers out of playing the newest version of the game."

Nothing has changed in eight years?
Though we have been "told" that our wishes do not count unless they conform?
It still stands that comments do need to be made. However unaccepted by the team?

The above quote was over variable visibility and game scale. One that was initially offered as not optional and made part of the game toward the end of beta testing (similar to extreme assault) without much, if at all, testing.

Eight years later. The more things change the more they stay the same?

And, for those who do not like my analogies ... tough for you.

Also, I won't be using my old Talonsoft disks.




HSL

I'm a bit confused here ED.........I thought Variable visibility and extreme assault were optional rules basically because of the above discussions?

VE