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Old 03-16-2008, 09:35 PM   #131 (permalink)
Fade Languish
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Originally Posted by Sooz Pascale View Post
Why is that, I wonder? Are those people being unreasonable? Are bug fixes, indeed, being given priority over the array of wonderous and mind boggling new features that enhance our SL existence? I DON'T THINK SO!!! SL still lags like crazy when the hordes of free accounts sign on during peak hours, teleporting fails about 1/3 of the time. Inventory losses are ramapnt, financial transaction often fail and there is still that oh so amusing giggle inducing hair and shoes up the butt little joke that LL so enjoys.

I am a well mannered person. If I ever met a Linden in world or in RL or in a social setting, I would not, as a matter of common courtesy, bring up these problems. That doesn't negate their existence, though.

The simple truth of the matter is that (1) LL is demonstrably unenthusiastic about fixing ANYTHING; (2) Screaming about it is about the only thing that gets them moving, albeitly reluctantly to do, or more accurately pretend to do anything about bug fixes; (3) the expression "resolved" as taken its own meaning [we fooled around with the problem, didn't fix it but are going to pretend that it is to shut you people up] which is FAR different from its usual meaning.

Now about Phillip Rosedale. YES!! I am not one of those who signed into the halcyon days of 2003, 2004, 2005 or even 2006. I have never met him.

I'm a bit unusual though. I tend to make my determinations about people based on what they DO, not what they say. My opinion on Mr. Rosedale is based mainly on the following: (1) He is the GENIUS who opened the floodgates to millions of free, unverified accounts despite tons of advice that such an action would make the amount of users impossible or difficult for the hardware to service and that it would encourage anti-social behavior such as griefing, scams and frauds; (2) He said that LL would insitute some controls to prevent unverifieds from logging on when peak usage started to negatively effect performance. I'm still waiting; (3) He has continually promised better efforts toward bug fixing and grid stability and , to my viewpoint, has not delivered; (4) He is CEO of a company that has almost ZERO customer service and arbitrary and capricious enforcement of niggling TOS violations while turning a blind eye to an amazing array of scams because the perpetrators are capable of writing cool code. The list goes on and on.
Interestingly, you can visit pretty much any game forum and see the same themes. If I was to look at the Eve forums right now, they'll be screaming fix the bugs before adding new features, restrict the trials, stop growing the server canna handle it, zomg fix the lag, zomg griefers, that the customer service is non-existent and my personal favourite, the wait for the mythical competition, when all will be made right.

I can only tell the difference when someone says "can I have your stuff? - gb2 WOW."
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