BMC Telling it like it is...I guess?

Tell me again how someone spends over $100,000 on Portalarium virtual products feels this way about Portalarium again?

Please? I totally can't see the connection.

It's great, he essentially admits to getting special favors for their pledge rewards and then attempts to justify it.

Also, I guess good on including bblackstone ? Didn't he leave saying people were being given favors or something similar? Wasn't Ezekiel one of the dudes he included in his later deleted post?

Keep fighting the good fight, Sir Hemlock.

It had to be done:
insanemembrain.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/shroud-of-the-avatar-vip-member-admits-preferential-treatment/

Ahaha I was actually watching Scrubs when I saw that, dewd.

William said,

So people have to pay $60,000 AND do the coding for the game themselves? What a bargain!

What did I do? Well I gave feedback, sketched out alternative designs for systems multiple times, submitted some Cow heraldry, hinted a few times I'd worked on UO as an EM so I was very familiar with how their quests work, submitted a poem for a then shut down fiction contest... The problem is, unless you're prepared to constantly get in the dev's faces and force yourself into their awareness, they have no way of recognising talent except sucking up or forking out. They might have tried, but there's no sense they were truly open to actual crowd-sourcing.

That's why gigantic baby-men like Envy became the defacto voice for PvP, he has a monstrous ego and decided his voice was more important than any one else's; and no one else wanted to post videos of themselves killing people who can't fight back, because they were trying to test the actual game. You can see the true value of listening to just the most noticeable voice though with his ridiculous response to "We'll offer you a private forum, but do you think you could be a little less..." WAAAAHHHH NO MOMMY TAKING MY BALL AND GOING HOME!

But even so, the only reason he got access to all the content was because he'd spent multiple thousand dollars again. THAT is why players are leaving. No matter how much you help the dev team, you're still locked out of the only content stream there is unless you keep spending. And anyone behind the spending curve realises they can never catch up no matter what they do. Even if you help Portalarium move with free slave labour. Which for an MMO is deadly, because levelling up, achieving, collecting, is the main gameplay draw. Much as I despise Elite Dangerous for it's cash grabbing expansion designs for instance, at least it understood that you have to keep in game progression separate from the funding model. Portalarium have lost that separation, and that's what's tearing the soul out of their community, NOT that people weren't willing to put their souls in originally.

Great post, and this jumped out at me. Even giving a lot of money in funding and developing resources for the game, for free, didn't do anything for someone like Joviex whose only "crime" was telling the bald truth.

You can buy lies and deceit, and contribute for free to your heart's content, as long as it pumps the game sales & doesn't make waves. But tell the truth about the lies the devs tell people, forget it.

For someone to say that customers should both pay and develop the game, that guy is a mental case.