Why do you get to decide the intentions of the writer
Why? Because I moderate this forum. If I was unable to determine what a user's intentions were, every post in every thread would be left as-is while I sat here frozen in indecision. Who knows, maybe the next guy littering his post with racial slurs and pornography is doing it satirically. Who am I to decide that his post isn't intended to be comical?
Likewise, when someone suggests that the company is so woefully incompetent and bassackwards in their decision-making that they are undeserving
of their own property, which they themselves made, and says as much in their post, it's hard to take that in good faith. Who on Earth genuinely believes that a third party with no knowledge of the code base, no familiarity with the engine, and no experience working on titles like this (as you know there are still no others in this niche except those licensed by TW), would somehow
improve the development process or timeline? It's asinine. Plus, from the perspective of an outside company, it would be an investment not in this product, but in future products for the IP. The majority of Bannerlord sales have likely already been made. There's likely only the loss of continued development costs left to be made with a small bump of sales on the official release day. The sensible thing then would be to push a couple stability patches on BL, call it release-ready, and start working on the next title. There's no reason an outside company would actually shoulder the burden of meaningfully changing the direction of BL.
Though I can see why you would care for neither the motives nor the veracity of his statements if your job was to safeguard TW's name from being pissed on at any chance you get.
I recognize this as bait, but just because it's convenient at this time to demonstrate otherwise, here's a recent thread of
a moderator's thoughts on the current state of MP. Tell me again how our job is to protect TW from any criticism & kiss ass. Should I dig up some of my own posts or threads as well?
Which also explains why the notorious "appreciation posts" (which are uniform in format and even posted several times by single individuals) are welcomed with positive staff reaction when all the discussion they make for is sensible but probably insane people making the case for the game being a catastrophe.
I can't seem to find any of those. They'd be on this same board, right? Let's take a look-see.
Nope, not on the first page. Maybe the surge of activity surrounding this thread and the one I locked bumped one onto the second page?
Oh look! There
is an appreciation post on the second page, but it's for Bloc. Understandable. Maybe you're referencing something a bit older, though. I'll keep looking.
Well, this isn't baseball but I still think three strikes is enough. Also we got another thread boosting Bloc at the bottom there, so at least we're ending our search on a positive note.
You might think I cherry-picked a board when looking for these ubiquitous appreciation posts you mention, but I assure you I checked more than one. I found a thread titled
Patch 1.7.3 will be great on the third page of the SP board, but I regret to inform you it was not actually an appreciation post. The OP was less than earnest (or am I not supposed to decide that still?), and the creator was banned shortly after for saying TW spent all of their BL money on cocaine and the opportunity to fellate others.
Thank you for your sacrifice. It is among the greatest injustices of our century that all 150 of our South American comrades can't experience the atrocity that is Bannerlord MP with acceptable ping.
You joined this forum in 2021, so I forgive your ignorance of the fact that South America's competitive Warband scene was on the rise while North America and Europe were tapering off. They had enough players formed into enough teams to run sizeable tournaments internally, which means they were large enough to warrant consideration by TW for BL servers. What bothers me most about the situation is that they actually want to play BL but have no servers, while the two main server regions (NA and EU) are ghost towns. It's the easiest win for TW and they won't take it. Still, at least TW isn't condescending in their few posts about the issue. Imagine being the guy coming in second to TW on the South America response.