BUGS AND BOYS, MORALS AND MEN
SUN is still around, in case you still cared. (I don’t.) Apparently many of them were on 48 hour temp bans which expired, and are busily crowing about how they did nothing wrong and 0wN uS aLl. Of course, I don’t imagine they’ll be too terribly popular when wandering around Sosaria. Not that I’m suggesting any course of action (kill them all) or anything (kill them all) like that (kill them all). That would be (kill them all) wrong.
Moving on to the aftermath, drtwister.com has actually been an interesting read the last few days, for those interested in human dynamics at any rate. Basically the Minions and Henchmen of The Dr. Twister NeTwork, Inc. (MHTDTNTI – ah hell, just call ’em Twisties) are in disagreement, between the Post The Damn Dupe faction and the Um, That Would Wreck UO faction. The Post The Damn Dupe faction apparently won, and the details of the dupe are slowly starting to leak into the dewdish consciousness, as anyone who tried playing UO through the monstrous lag this weekend could tell.
My take? Well, glad you asked.
Dr. TwisTer posted that his job was to post bugs, and implied that it was the best thing for your own protection (yes, you), since most people check his site to protect themselves against other bug exploiters and “only a few” seek to use them for their own gain.
Um, *koff koff* BULLshit. No one wants to know how to dupe “to protect themselves”. How do you protect yourself against a dupe? Dupe yourself? The only people who wanted to know how to dupe were people who wanted to dupe. Period. End of sentence. Any sort of highminded sentiments, such as “This is for your own protection” and even better “This will force Origin to fix the dupe bug” (um, I think they already have it pretty high on their priority list) are just crap. It smells like crap, it looks like crap, and I sure in hell ain’t eating it. Dr TwisTer proved, to the three people who weren’t already convinced, that he cares more about his “rep” with the kEwLdEwD community than for the game (if you believe his press releases) that he so valiantly and heroically tries to save. So now, thanks to the details of the dupe being out, we now have every shard crashing and burning on a regular basis and lagged to hell and back when actually up and running from I0WnZj0o trying to manufacture 30000 castle deeds.
Meanwhile, Origin has been fairly quiet. I only hope it is because they are knee deep in source code, and not because they took a page from Verant’s book and decided that the loudest 5% of the community no longer needed to be coddled.