Overestimated? Ghostcrawler says yup.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Far too many times Ghostcrawler declares... you are wrong, you don't know, I have the numbers. What a cop out. What a failed liaison to the players. I am sure he is an intelligent man, but telling another person that makes an effort that they are just wrong, isn't the answer.

To encourage meaningful dialogue, there must be some interrogative aspect of that response that doesn't write off the individual but to say... why do you think that this is... how do you think it would be better... and if you did this, don't you think this would happen and is it good?

IMO, GC answers the way he does out of arrogance. He's not technically wrong per se but the way he deals with customers is asinine.

Let's use the /follow removal as an example. The rationale, as I see it, is that the business decision is to not reintroduce that feature for technical (easiest way to attenuate bots) and PR (looks good to the whiny masses of angsty PVP nerds) reasons. I suspect he doesn't say this because it ends the discussion. Instead, he chooses to string everyone along with his "reasoning" which leaves the door open for changing his mind. It's no different than the business changing its mind about features but most consumer folks won't realize that. Basically, his responses seem to indicate he is playing the role of PR Flack.

[F9thRet]

IMO, GC answers the way he does out of arrogance. He's not technically wrong per se but the way he deals with customers is asinine.

Let's use the /follow removal as an example. The rationale, as I see it, is that the business decision is to not reintroduce that feature for technical (easiest way to attenuate bots) and PR (looks good to the whiny masses of angsty PVP nerds) reasons. I suspect he doesn't say this because it ends the discussion. Instead, he chooses to string everyone along with his "reasoning" which leaves the door open for changing his mind. It's no different than the business changing its mind about features but most consumer folks won't realize that. Basically, his responses seem to indicate he is playing the role of PR Flack.

This has been my own experience as well.

Don't get me wrong, I have enough time wearing big boy pants, that if someone where to come right out, and say, "We are going to be doing X" in such and such game, or even in debate (Which I do a lot of in my spare time), I can respect that. What I can not, and do not respect, is someone coming from an elitist attitude but not backing up their points with facts.

Sure, IT's none of my business what any number in say WOW is, But then , one better have a damn good argument, or otherwise they better share their data to back it up. Ya know, Kinda like the IRS in recent news. (Yeah, I went there , sue me. )

Stephen