[Lazortag]

Originally Posted by Avon

I remember Lazortag making some retarded analogy about "If I'm selling lemonade, don't tell me to sell Iced Tea" or whatever. And being the brown-nosing nerd that he is, the GMs ate that shit up and loved it. ...

Here's the post in question actually: http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...49&postcount=3. I said "If I sell lemonade, don't tell me I should be selling apple juice". Heartbrand was basically saying that the server should be democratic, which would be a horrible idea, mostly because people like you would have a say in what goes on. This was a pet project of two guys who liked classic eq, and continually people were questioning classic aspects of the server. I think a better analogy might be, "if I run an emulated EverQuest server, don't tell me I should be running an emulated WoW server". By all means make polite, well-reasoned suggestions about how the server should be run, but don't question every little fucking thing about it and get mad that the majority isn't always listened to. The majority of players here are demonstrably stupid and have no idea what would make a good server, so it's a good thing the staff doesn't let them vote on every change that's made. The average IQ of a red player is probably 2 or 3 standard deviations below that of the average blue player, and you can see this just from browsing through some of the illiterate drivel that's posted on these boards every day.

I'll give a half-assed reply to the rest of your post since you obviously did a half-assed job of writing it:

So let me explain why that shit was retarded. Nobody was selling anything, it was being essentially given away with tips accepted. Why would someone give something away? The only way I could rationalize that is out of a desire to make people happy. So then if a large percentage of the people enjoying your free lemonade brought up that they would further enjoy a little more sugar, how is "FUCK YOU" a reasonable response

To further follow this silly analogy: there's a difference between someone politely asking for more sugar, and someone rudely demanding that they be given more sugar. The majority of players ruined it for the small minority who were civil and rational. By the way, the devs DID listen to the players for some issues, so I'm not sure what your problem is? Recharging, exp changes, and global ooc were put in at the request of players. I'm not sure even you know what you're talking about..