Spoke to my injured ASM the other day, just to check out how she was doing. The Fracture Clinic have said it'll take 8 weeks for her toe to knit.
February 2006 Archives
I've always been amazed by the reaction of some players of MMORPG games. As soon as the server goes down for any reason that they weren't told about before they start mouthing off that its shite and that all the developers have been working on "broken content" and not bug fixes. FOR FUCKS SAKE get a freaking grip, I'd like to see any of them keep a system that supports 22,000 people at one up and running without any issues at all.
My personal favourite was from today when Eve went down:
these guys are morons. first they don;t do anything, like reply to our petitions. but they can perform unscheduled reboots of the cluster.
if there's more problems after the new server i'm quitting this. got better things to do then worry if i died or not while their servers crash. other than that this is a wonderful game. i'm loving it. but the problems are too many.
thanx guys. maybe next 10 patches will be bugfixes instead of new broken content.
How is that even helpful? or even reasonable or for that matter HOW does performing an unscheduled reboot make ANYONE a moron? If it goes down take the opportunity to go and do something else, you know what life is don't you...that thing that happens when you're not playing Eve? I'm sure you were able to fill it up with some other activities before the Internet was invented.
And before anyone gives me crap about "I've paid for this", just stop. Yes you've paid, so have I. Be reasonable, for your £15 per month you are getting a very complicated piece of software, the infrastructure and the content. This isn't a freaking board game, if it breaks it is a "little" bit more complicated to fix.
Having played a fair number of MMORPGs, CCP is much better at listening to their players than some of the other companies out there, many of whom have teams larger than CCPs. What you have them do? Reboot the server so you can get back to playing, or answer your petitions and let the game grind to a screaming halt?
So to the Noisy Minority, PUT UP AND SHUT UP. Your game will be back at the same time as the rest of us and we can do without the asinine commentry. As for the rest of us, lets start being less of a silent majority, putting up with the whining of the Noisy Minority.
Just my luck...
And everything was going so well. Last night one of my ASMs got injured. A section of rostra fell on her foot (ouch) and broke her toe.
I guess I have to look on the upside that it wasn't too life threatening and it had to happen eventually. I've been doing shows for 7 odd years now and this is the first major incident to have happened.
On the down side is that I kinda foresaw the incident happening earlier in the evening but it slipped my mind to talk to the people involved to get them to change the way that the rostra had been stacked. And it didn't help that just before I was the one saying that everyone else had bumped in to something and she hadn't. So not only did I not prevent the situation every arising, I actively jinxed her too.
Ironically someone from the NHS had tried to deliver a wheel chair to her earlier...
Anyway shouts out to her, hope she's taking it easy (and writing her essay) and I owe you...well...I dunno...a lot of alcohol probably.
-update-
Oh I should mention that another of my ASMs was clipped by the same bit of rostra but was much less injured, so props to you too!
I've decided that until AAP drops its rather(read very) stupid lawsuit against Google for Google Book Search, I'm boycotting any books published by members of the AAP. This includes:
- McGraw-Hill
- Pearson Education,
- Penguin Group (USA)
- Simon & Schuster
- John Wiley & Sons
For a full list of AAP members see here.
I'm thinking of an experiment in blogging, in which the posts are not so much posted but recorded. In the world of modern instant messaging its dead easy to capture the logs of a chat between any two (or more) people. So why not take those conversations and publish them as a blog?
Admittedly you have to think about various issues of privacy and editing the conversation prior to publication, whilst minimising the amount of "editing" required.
Maybe some sort of IM plugin that would allow you to "blog this conversation" at the end of it. Hmm must think upon this further.
