The problem is that it seems MM not understands that his game without features which they laid in the early - is just a non-competitive bul**it with bad graphics, ridiculous mocap and friezes.
The job of a community manager is to put a safety wall between developers and community and FILTER and sugarcoat information, not add to it. YOU don't want a community manager.
Its unfortunate that Atomic chose to bring up this quote out of context just to be snarky with his conspiracy theory. I encourage anyone who is upset by this quote to follow the link back and read the following several pages where Madmole clearly explained that he was simply musing about what might have been and also venting a bit about how difficult it has been to develop a game with voxels vs how much easier it would have been without voxels. He goes on to say that they will never remove voxels from the game and at most might create a static world as an option-- maybe for Horde Mode or something.
That's not what real Community Managers do. If you look at the work Community Manager Bex does for Grinding Gear Games, you see the potential of the position. She is worshipped by the community and makes GGG's often frustrating design decisions understandable and palatable to the raging masses.
It's really not. You shouldn't talk about somebody's work when you don't know what you're talking about. Bex doesn't sugarcoat anything. She just acts as a channel for clear communication of what the dev team is thinking and why they make the decisions they do.
Yeah, I don't really see the context meaning much in this case. So many times people bring things out of context with madmole's posts. I've seen it plenty of times. You can easily go back and see and say, yeah... that is definitely out of context.
Your example may be viewed as a bad thing though. While it is probably a change without consequences for most players, in your case it actually made a difference.
Game has been in decline for 2 years sadly. I used to rate it the best video game I've ever played (I'm 52, I've been doing that since 1979). These days it would be lucky to make my top 10. Heart-breaking really.
So publicly musing about how you might do things differently if you had to do it over again is on par with telling your children you wish you had remained childless? You guys are certainly emotionally fragile if you take his thoughts on the difficulties inherent with voxels as a personal attack against his supporters.
All of this back and forth over who said what is getting annoying and just shows that people care where the game is heading but are being left in the dark about it. The unknown and hypothetical are scary to some. So why not post a PROPER ROAD MAP!? Then people can prepare for what’s coming and the discussions have some kind of direction. I don’t think that’s asking a lot and it could alleviate some of the drama.
