Every MMO should have strict rules and permissions that prevent any developer from interacting with the game world.

I've seen firsthand what happens when developers abuse their powers in MMOs. It's not good for the game.

ESO is a business not a developer playground.

AH, the days when Devs loved to interact with the community. Now they don't because they would sure as heck get some players complaining about something and demanding something from them. This type of thing used to happen a lot in those first-gen mmo's. I remember in Firefall the Devs used to do this kind of thing randomly all the time. In Anarchy Online the lead Dev would do this all the time. Today if a Dev showed up in-game you can bet some players will want to ruin it for everyone else.

ButternutJam wrote: »

There has been devs wiping people out on dolmen grind on console cause there were lots of bots on there. And back when the game was sub based there was interactions with so called “GM”s that dont exist anymore, there only interaction you’d get is through them actually playing eso like everyone else as a player.

Wait, they don't exist anymore? Man I remember one getting angry at me because I hadn't noticed he'd spawned near me and I kept running and being teleported back to him... Way back when Cadwell's Gold was bugged.

How do you know he *actually* does play the game, rather than a nice curated shot for whatever social media platform?

EdmondDontes wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

EdmondDontes wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

EdmondDontes wrote: »

It's painfully obvious the devs at ZOS don't play ESO.

I mean I have literally watched Rich do it but sure, they never play. Heaven forbid they do play but simply don't agree with people on this site.

Oh, you mean the "WAAAA WAAAA WAAAA", "We're working on it" with no results for 5 years guy?

No, I don't. He never said that and was clearly embarrassed his wife did. I don't blame people for things they didn't do.

He plays the game. He works hard on the game. And he has been one of the most helpful and best sources of information for the game. I don't always agree with his decisions but it's obvious that he cares about the game and plays it himself.

I wouldn't mind him coming in as a world boss or any other developer. Sadly I think the playerbase might be too toxic towards them to make it fun for them too, so I don't see it happening.

The wife wouldn't have said it that way if the husband doesn't come home every day complaining just like she did. That's why she thought it was OK to talk like that in the moment. It's the same as the words came out of his own mouth, not just posted on his stream.

That's an assumption you have made, to assign him blame for another's actions. It can just as easily be she sees he's stressed at this server re-architecture they are doing, (which players cannot see but is a massive undertaking that is likely stressful for the team) specifically for PVPers and got overprotective. It's also possible she was offended at when the question was asked, as it was asked at an inappropriate time and she could have been fed up. It's also possible she was fed up with PVP questions personally in general as they get asked constantly when he streams and she sees them. She could have just been cranky that day over stuff unrelated and she stress rolled and exploded on someone and didn't even mean the junk she said.

There are many different things it could be that don't involve her just being a parrot of Rich. And regardless if he did, he's allowed to complain when his job is stressing him in the privacy of his home. And it in no way means he has an actual problem with his clients. Every working adult has complained about their job at some point, even if they love it. Given his instant shock and embarrassment that was extremely visible on his face, assuming that his wife only said what he wanted her to is very unfair. It completely ignores he very clearly did not expect her to do that and also ignores her own agency.

Ultimately it was his stream so he does share some of the blame. He clearly should have set boundaries on the stream with his wife, so that she actually made an effort to filter herself. But it's extremely unfair to say it's anything more than that just to assign him additional blame for something he did not do. They are their own people and you have absolutely no evidence she was speaking for him.

This kind of thing is exactly why devs don't interact with the community more in any game. People try to make mistakes (and obviously it was disrespectful of her to say that) even bigger than they already were, generally don't have postive things to say about the things going well, and generally always assume the worst of devs. It is not just this game either but true of the industry as a whole. Even other industries like fast food have noted a shift in hostility for the worst in customer bases. So it's not like it's unique to gamers.

Why bother when people are gonna go out of their way to make every mistake even worse than it already was, while doing little to acknowledge the good efforts they put in. Just push put your product, say the least you can in only the most inoffensive and uninformative corporate speak and then hope for the best. That's the general modus operandi of every game company these days and stuff like this suggestion have fallen by the wayside. It's not hard to understand why.

This kind of stuff actually happened in Star Wars: Galaxies, but then SWG actually paid GMs to progress broken quests, address things that require human judgement, monitor chat for abusing behavior, and otherwise do all the essential GM tasks that ZOS considers not worth paying for.

Sometimes those GMs would get bored and decide to show up at Mos Eisley as Darth Vader. You could even attack them. It wasn't going to be pretty, but it sure was funny.

But you have to pay GMs in order to have bored GMs.