Comment Submitted By: plamzi
Author Status: Staff member
Started on Bedlam: 2009
Submission Date: Apr 23, 2012
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[plamzi] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
I am the dev/head admin of Bedlam and I feel there's a strong need for a
rebuttal here. This review was written by someone with a chip on their
shoulder, someone who is clearly fishing for negative things to say
and coming up short.
First off, we are a game in active development, with two coders working
very hard for no other reason than to make the game balanced, complex,
and more fun today than it was yesterday. We certainly don't make changes
to confuse players--we have much better reasons! Crashes are only
frequent on the day when major new features are released (e. g.
ranged combat, player shops). They are fixed as soon as they are
discovered. Between major updates, typically we have long periods of
stability, with uptimes often exceeding a week.
We respond and act on every meaningful feedback we receive. The only
feedback we politely ignore are variations on 'Make my favorite class
stronger or I'll quit!' and 'Not fair, you fixed the issue I was
exploiting!' The fact that the person who left the above review seems to
be a mid-career player who is bothered by changes in the game (new
features that most players would consider exciting) seems to suggest that
they fall in the latter category. We will continue to strive for a
balanced game even if it means a hundred more negative reviews by
people who feel targeted and wronged by our fixes.
Finally, please stop by and see for yourself why the above review is, at
best, inaccurate, at worst, unjust.
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