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30.5 Days posted:https://twitter.com/micahwhipple/status/628234799535165442 He had the qualifications to be the CM for any company though, and picked Carbine for some god forsaken reason. Guy probably wants a break and figures a very small community is preferable than another huge one, regardless of how dumb and vitriolic it is.
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So wow is the titanic, and escape on the S.S. minnow.
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Aug 3, 2015 20:09
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Is Wildstar free yet?
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Aug 3, 2015 21:22
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Aug 3, 2015 21:34
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Hooooly poo poo. Seriously? How can you possibly go from Blizz to Wildstar? I literally cannot fathom any possible reason. Hell at least the people on the inside of Carbine have the sipping the flavor-aid too long excuse. But you can literally watch this thing sink.
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Saxophone posted:Hooooly poo poo. Seriously? How can you possibly go from Blizz to Wildstar? I literally cannot fathom any possible reason. Hell at least the people on the inside of Carbine have the sipping the flavor-aid too long excuse. But you can literally watch this thing sink. You say that as if this is the first time
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Maybe he thought leaving Blizzs sinking ahip would be a good thing, but no one but carbine would hire him with his experience
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Aug 3, 2015 22:01
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Since he's a manager can he reassign Timetraveller. Bashiok please reassign Timetraveller to another game. 
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Saxophone posted:Hooooly poo poo. Seriously? How can you possibly go from Blizz to Wildstar? I literally cannot fathom any possible reason. Hell at least the people on the inside of Carbine have the sipping the flavor-aid too long excuse. But you can literally watch this thing sink. If anything this will be hilarious, because Bashiok has absolutely no love for stupid customers. I want to watch him rip people to shreds on the forums. 
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Aug 3, 2015 22:42
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Came for the laughs, was not disappointed. 10/10 - Would read thread again.
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30.5 Days posted:https://twitter.com/micahwhipple/status/628234799535165442 lol, "Whipple"
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Aug 3, 2015 22:58
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Saxophone posted:Hooooly poo poo. Seriously? How can you possibly go from Blizz to Wildstar? I literally cannot fathom any possible reason. Hell at least the people on the inside of Carbine have the sipping the flavor-aid too long excuse. But you can literally watch this thing sink.
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-Inu- posted:I had the same thought but he actually went to NCsoft, not Carbine. So he'll be involved with Wildstar but won't be out of a job when it crashes and burns. Maybe he'll be the one who laughs at the despondent faithful when it's time to shutter wildstar. ...I originally spelled that shitter
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Mormon Star Wars posted:Since he's a manager can he reassign Timetraveller. Community Manager. Basically a paid forum mod, pretty much as low as you can get on the corporate ladder. It comes with the mindless worship of the people who post on the official forum.
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The best CM meltdown was Tseric though, that would be the perfect person for carbine.
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Unguided posted:Community Manager. Basically a paid forum mod, pretty much as low as you can get on the corporate ladder. It comes with the mindless worship of the people who post on the official forum. He said "Content Manager," that's still a forum mod position? Darn it.
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sword_man.gif posted:is that gross or profit Oh it's gross alright. 
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Mormon Star Wars posted:He said "Content Manager," that's still a forum mod position? Depends on the job description. It's generally in the same area; working as the editor for the news announcements on the website, making sure the website is working properly, maintaining the official social media accounts, basically being the person in charge of the company's public face because the company shouldn't be the kind of people who post winner.gif.
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He's a senior manager at NCsoft, not Carbine. He's also going to be involved with Blade & Soul, which is adding to the paranoiac Wildstar deadenders' worry that NCsoft is just trying to kill WS without technically shutting it down.
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Surprise! They kill WIldstar and use it's servers to bring back City of Heroes
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Byolante posted:The best CM meltdown was Tseric though, that would be the perfect person for carbine. I just looked this up. That is something.
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For those that are curious but don't want to look it up, here is Tseric's meltdown about the hazards of MMO communities.Tseric's first post posted:When you can understand how a group of belligerent and angry posters can drive away people from this game with an uncrafted and improvisational campaign of misery and spin-doctoring, then perhaps, you can understand the decisions I make. Until you face mobs of psychology, you will not see my side. Tseric's second post posted:Can't help it. Tseric's third post, responding to a joke about him posted:I'm sure you all think you're hilarious in your own space/mind. The job seems to test the limits of human patience. All MMOs seem to attract a very angry, implacable audience, but Wildstar's sounds extra unpleasant. Forsythia fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Aug 4, 2015 |
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Tseric was a case of someone who had some trouble maintaining the stark wall of separation between what people on the forums thought of him and what he felt. He legitimately set out to try and help people understand things, but the forums ground him down. He had to deal with some fascinating characters:Blast from the past posted:Originally, this web site was devised as a way to counteract the unfair censorship which was talking place on Blizzard Entertainment's World Of Warcraft forums. Back at that time, Tessera was leading a minor revolt of sorts, amongst hundreds of people who played the Mage class in Blizzard's popular MMO. During the course of that confrontation, Blizzard resorted to several underhanded tactics in their efforts to squash that mini-rebellion... it was an embarrassing (for Blizzard) spectacle, which Blizzard no doubt perceived as a possible threat to their revenues. The situation in early 2006 became increasingly heated and confused... finally culminating with Tessera being permanently banned from the Blizzard boards. Incidentally, it is interesting to note that all three of the public relations employees who were responsible for undermining Tessera's efforts were themselves eventually fired from their jobs at Blizzard Entertainment. It has even been alleged that one of them... a megalomaniacal PR agent known as Tseric... went completely off the deep end and ultimately wound up in a rehab. This rumor has not been verified, however. (I'm one of the three mentioned, and nope, I disappeared then because I moved into dev. Second one wasn't let go either.) Great guy to know personally, though, and I hope he's doing well out there. I saw just about everyone break in some way (including me) during my time on that team; his was just the most public. Regarding Micah, the Senior Content Manager position is mainly about getting copy out on the website and not so much about forum interaction. It's good to see him, though, and I trolled him with tree avatars on the first day as is tradition.
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You're a stronger person than me, since if I had to have that kind of job, it'd probably end in homicide-suicide.
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AlmightyBob posted:Surprise! They kill WIldstar and use it's servers to bring back City of Heroes Which would be incredibly ironic given the fact that City of Heroes servers are apparently being used for Wildstar's infrastructure. Edit: Oh come on, not everyone knows that hilarious tidbit. They wouldn't get it otherwise. Archonex fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Aug 4, 2015 |
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Archonex posted:Which would be incredibly ironic given the fact that City of Heroes servers are apparently being used for Wildstar's infrastructure.  v Don't you dare ruin this for me Morglon fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Aug 4, 2015 |
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Archonex posted:Which would be incredibly ironic given the fact that City of Heroes servers are apparently being used for Wildstar's infrastructure. I think that particular gossip ended up being bullshit.
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Pesterchum posted:I think that particular gossip ended up being bullshit. There was a screenshot posted somewhere that showed the servers being up on the login client but with no capability to make a proper connection. I think maybe on the fan forums that are obsessed about the game? It might have gotten reposted in the SA thread at some point. But ahahaha gently caress you if you think you're going to retain your sanity wading through who knows how many pages of rage and nostalgia just to find it. Not that I can blame them. I know a few people who still want that game to come back and will happily bitch about its closure at the drop of a hat.
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Mages were soo loving bad in 2005-2006
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Aug 4, 2015 06:58
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In a way I really miss the old wild west wow forums but looking back at them now I feel really bad for the CMs who came it to clean up the messes people like me caused.
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Spending two hours making water pre-raid will make you want to fight the power
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Archonex posted:There was a screenshot posted somewhere that showed the servers being up on the login client but with no capability to make a proper connection. I think maybe on the fan forums that are obsessed about the game? Yeah, I'm not willing to go hunting for it but I'm pretty sure someone looked at the code for that page and it was set to always show the servers being 'online' no matter what.
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Deki posted:You're a stronger person than me, since if I had to have that kind of job, it'd probably end in homicide-suicide. I'd probably get fired for heckling.
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The COH -> wildstar thing is hilarious since while it's possible that individual components might have been reused, the idea that COH was shuttered only because NCsoft needed more servers is dumb as poo poo. An action based "modern" MMO probably takes a bit more horsepower than a decade old dressup game. The real reason COH died is because Paragon studios was incompetent as poo poo and NCsoft was tired of throwing money at them with no real results. I do actually want COH to come back now since it's going to be like 90% obsessive weirdos and will be a hilarious trainwreck. Pretty much everyone tolerable has to have moved on now.
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Silent Fang
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Deki posted:obsessive weirdos They still have a thread and talk about stuff even though the game has been dead for 2+ years 
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:They still have a thread and talk about stuff even though the game has been dead for 2+ years We're kind of doing the same thing here, really
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