by LetGodSort » 16 Jul 2018, 17:38
Greetings MTormo!
I'd like to add my two cents to the Diamond MacArthur T3 controversy.
The introduction of the Stronghold version of MacArthur was wholly disruptive upon the TCG: WWII playing community. When I first became aware of it, Global Chat was using abbreviated PROFANITY to describe what was happening. This is not the reaction you want to have. I thought it was just one of the many little bugs that happened when Stronghold came out, and that you'd fix it in time like so many other fixes you and Frozenshard accomplished. Then my Platoon Leader came on our chat a few days later and was, "What the ***?" He couldn't play not one card against John Wayne (JW)!?! So, come many weeks later, I finally get to play JW with his Diamond T3 MacArthur. We're friendly on Global Chat and talk about the U.S. where we're both from and about him being U.S. Air Force, our real U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, beam weapons, places in the U.S. we've mutually visited, etc. I have no disillusions of beating him as I'm a rookie player of TCG: WWII, but have fun trying to make my games against him last longer and longer than three rounds. So, we're having fun playing a game and chatting in Global Chat at the same time. I kill his MacArthur once, because of all the profane traffic I'm seeing within the game. I'm trying to be proactive. I'm having fun playing! Then it happens, "What the heck!?! I can't play anymore!?!" I can only resign myself and just press the red button???"
I am a player. I am in this game to enjoy playing. You are a developer. You are busy answering questions, meeting with others in Frozenshard, fixing bugs, developing new and exciting things, trying to meet deadlines, etc. You are not a player. You don't play this game to play. We do! Four, five, eight hours a day...everyday!!! It totally, and absolutely sucks when we're playing for the fun of playing and then all of a sudden we can't play anymore and have to throw away three action points and resign ourselves to pressing the red button without pressing anything else. Please make this game playable at all times, not, as a developer, "Hey! I've got an idea! Let's make a card where everybody can't play anymore and it finishes the game! Yeah, Yeah!! That's the ticket!!!" Bad idea from a developer. Awful reality for a player...
Sincerely,
Let Got Sort Them Out