Test down for maintenance.

[ex8404]

Well I, for one, have just about had it.

Being a tester is a big deal. I get that. I have argued that testers just need to stop complaining and just test. Either that or go play on the open server. But this is just too much to ask. Set back a day? OK. A couple of days? OK...sort of. But an ENTIRE WEEK? Without so much as a thanks, sorry or "brace yourselves"?

Exactly HOW is this designed to make me want to keep testing ANYTHING? I really just don't even want to try because I know that it means nothing. This ridiculous Groundhog's Day loop has really just sucked the joy right out of this update. This is a standard inventory system that looks like it came out of a 1995 RPG. But these guys can't even spell "Khaki" without messing it up.

And this body change thing. Two years of looking at the same kind of pirate. And now it's different. Without warning. And, I may add, completely out of proportion. My pirate looks like he has a little bitty upper body tacked on to a comically large lower body. And for NO reason whatsoever.

I might feel different in the morning but right now? I have exactly ZERO use for this game.

[MacIronhawk]

Originally Posted by ex8404

I might feel different in the morning but right now? I have exactly ZERO use for this game.

You should take it up with the pirates online guy in this video.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...9655998&hl=en#

P.S. I know this is a bit off topic, but if you watch the whole hour long video, this guy talks about animation in toontown and pirates online.

[ex8404]

Originally Posted by MacIronhawk

You should take it up with the pirates online guy in this video.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...9655998&hl=en#

P.S. I know this is a bit off topic, but if you watch the whole hour long video, this guy talks about animation in toontown and pirates online.

Does he explain why my pirate had to go from looking like a heroic, rough-and-tumble figure of a man to looking like an out of work house painter?

[MacIronhawk]

Originally Posted by ex8404

Does he explain why my pirate had to go from looking like a heroic, rough-and-tumble figure of a man to looking like an out of work house painter?

It's more than likely that the new body types are easy for animation than the older body types, and that's why they've been changed.

If it wasn't that, then there's no reason at all why they would take away the old body types.

[Beorn]

Originally Posted by ex8404

Well I, for one, have just about had it.

Being a tester is a big deal. I get that. I have argued that testers just need to stop complaining and just test. Either that or go play on the open server. But this is just too much to ask. Set back a day? OK. A couple of days? OK...sort of. But an ENTIRE WEEK? Without so much as a thanks, sorry or "brace yourselves"?

Sorry Mate, but they did say Brace yourselves. In previous release notes they said we may be reset while they fix the system. I took that to mean multiple times before hitting live and not just for the weekend chaos last week. Expected this to happen, and worth it for all of the good bug fixes.

[ex8404]

Originally Posted by Beorn

Sorry Mate, but they did say Brace yourselves. In previous release notes they said we may be reset while they fix the system. I took that to mean multiple times before hitting live and not just for the weekend chaos last week. Expected this to happen, and worth it for all of the good bug fixes.

I know. I get that part. And for some reason I want to point out that it is not the loot I care about. The progress though... going from level 41 to 42 and raising three weapons from 22 to 24 was actually a lot of work. I know what they are doing and I know why. But it is everything. Take that one quote out of context and I look like a test noob.

But it is the timing, the simple mistakes, the lack of communication, and the fact that no one at any time told me that my pirate was going to change shape. I am sorry but I really think that is what set me off last night. I don't get it. I don't like it and it might just be a deal breaker for me.