An Open Letter to Game Developers & Moderators & Support : Are We Asking Too Much?

[Evicted]

Dear Game Dev & Mod,

Are we, The game players, asking too much from you as developers or Moderators? When we cry and whine and complain in the comments about your game (which you have been working on from months), a game that you spent the last 2-5 years of your life working on, do you think that "you kids have no idea what we’ve been through"? Of course you will think only like this... i see so many thread daily complaining but no "THANK YOU" thread.. Why?

Developing games is Really VERY VERY VERY hard.

At first things are easy, you get the sprite and object moving according to button presses. Success. You set up basic weapons systems, a life counter, collision detection. Victory.

You finally get an assembly line working for power ups. Things are going great. At first. Then you get more ambitious, adding more and more complicated weapons. The variables in your player object (the controllable character) start to stack up, alarms on alarms, and so many Booleans you don’t know what’s true anymore.

I can’t imagine what it’s like to code along with a 50 man team, with a publisher deadline breathing down your neck, and entitled gamer’s on your back. One arm is pulled by investors (play it safe). The other by the consumer (give us something new but not too experimental or we’ll hate you). Oh and don’t forget that crumpled mess in your chest, remnants of a heart and soul, that wants to make something special.

You’ve seen this particular comments or messages before: The self-entitled gamer requesting developers provide some enigmatic, indescribable “new.”

I’m not talking about representational concerns that actually matter, but the consumerist gimmie gimmie.

I know you that you’re suffering, game dev, eyes burning as you code one last line so you can rush off and microwave some take-out. I’ve heard the horror stories of you working under dubious labor conditions, 16 hour days, the need for an in-studio team psychologist, the stressed friendships and marriages.

It’s ironic that such pleasure points, creations primarily focused on fun, are produced from such misery.

I’m not going to tell you your game is mess? Of course not. How would you grow as a creator?

Sure, I expect a lot from you, you are the expert after all, and I do want that “something new” no one is able to properly describe. However, I at times will Respect, Understand and Thank everything you do for us. Considering game development from the paraphrased perspective that French film director Patrice Leconte’s has on movie making: “Any movie that gets made is a miracle.”

I think something similar could be said about your own work, regardless of how flawed it may be or how much room from improvement there is, making games is Really Very very very very very very hard.

And How can we forget Moderators? They work very hard too.. Reading each and every thread, Messages, Thread Reports, chatbox is a again pain in butt.
Hardly 1 thread on forums has said Thanks to you for your Hard work, For Listening to us everytime, From the giveaways to the Guild Parties.

Support guys work Hard as Well, They get so many tickets a day, it is hard for them to get to the people that really need help when they have to go through multiple tickets like that after they've already said no. I am sorry if i made Multiple tickets ever.

And because of all this even on Holidays you cant spend much time with your families.

A BIG THANK YOU for everything you have done for us. Seriously Guys If I get in your boots even for one hour.. I'll Die...

Because YOU ARE AWESOME! <3

Thank you so much Devs and Mods team for giving. Us the toontastic opportunity to Play This Awesome Game. If you guys weren't here, there would probably be no more toontown. U guys are the best and work so hard every single day to see the smiles on our toons' faces (now that I think of it, do toons even smile?) and to keep the game alive. U guys give up hours and days of ur free time doing coding and scripting even though it must be super hard and boring and I really respect that, it takes a lot of dedication and determination. U guys try so hard every day. Thanks a ton once again for Everything and being so toontastic-

Thank you JustG, Samhayne, Flip, H2N, Remiem, Delphina, Gibber, Redstapler, Arpluvial, Seoratrek, Null_Void, Brandon, Alex, Chad, Mjolstin, Gnosis, asommers, Carapace, G-M, KahunaJake, Cinco, Thade, Fireed, and all the others I can't think of on the spot right now.


Credits for the Information about How all this works to - http://dialogwheel.com/2014/04/29/an...king-too-much/