Sure a tread about a 9/11 conspiracy might not be suitable on a gaming forum, but the reaction of Kim|MindArk was just way out of line if you ask me. Sure he might still be angry about the Jan situation and it was a tragic day 10 years ago, but this is not something I expect of a official of a game and by the forum rules he should probably even be banned. Kim|MindArk: "You should be ashamed of yourself for spreading this terrorist propaganda. Please, go to hell."
Looks like he is giving out loot secrets :O Im taking some amps to Hell right now! he said thats where the next ath is right?
Eek, "You should be ashamed of yourself for spreading this terrorist propaganda. Please, go to hell." Lol. I have to say my respect lessens every time I have a look at EF but that has nothing to do with Kim directly. Anyway, I would like to take this opportunity for a general criticism of how information is shared by official sources. We always asked for communication to improve. Now, did it improve? We have an employee of MA who volunteered to sign up on EF and... and... do what? Have a little chit-chat with a small percentage of the player base? I would say the signal-to-noise ratio is still suboptimal. Snippets of official release notes, possible future developments and personal opinion all mixed in a way you cannot really tell them from each other in the end. Also blatantly sharing the climax of the next major release (boss mob dealing 95% of current HP damage to everyone in a specific distance, it can be spawned in a cave only at the end of a quest with items dropping from other semi-boss mobs, the cave is PVP, no flying vehicles or MF tp'ing is allowed) spread over a few forum posts is another thing I don't really like. This was better once, example: The previews we got on the new Hadesheim Crater/Harbinger Event embedded in a storyline, like: Ominous Surveillance Photo. And then, of the many and good questions people asked only a few got really answered. Unpleasant questions still get ignored or get answered after weeks with actually a non-answer: MindArk Controlled Entropia Universe Accounts This can also be done better, example: The Q&A with/by ND: May 2011 Q & A (Not even mentioning that EF still seems to have a post deletion policy any totalitarian regime would be proud of) Then, sharing images look-what-cool-mob-I'm-working-on style in post #126 in a thread on some forum is also not what I would prefer. Way to do it: The high quality images with proper descriptions by Planet Cyrene: Oceans of fishes from Planet Cyrene And then, why not making important information like the release date and content of the next major VU easily accessible for everyone, for example on the Latest Buzz on the official website instead of post #247 in a thread on some outdated commercial forum that wouldn't have any activity otherwise. Yes, we have more communication from MA now, but I personally would prefer not generally "more" communication but professional quality communication. Sometimes less information is better information. That's what I say and I'm an infomation junkie...
