Re: Bugs and cheating - From the Times

Wayne Sheppard (mrwayne@mindspring.com)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:32:48 -0500

From: Tom Schmidt <tschmid@stud.uni-goettingen.de>

>
>
>Dragon Lord schrieb:
>>
>> Is this entire story going to start again ??
>> I think Rich is doing a great job running the
>> turns and since he is the GM, he will decide when
>> a bug should be fixed and when it is not nessecary
>> or too difficult to fix a bug.
>
>He does a good job in running the turns. And I do thank him for that.

Luckily for us, Rich probably has the turns mostly automated. In fact, the
turns run even when Rich is out of town.

>
>> So please let him do his work instead of always
>> complaining.
>> My thought is that if you don't like then quit or
>> start your own PBM if you think you can do it better

You are absolutely right. If anyone is unhappy with the service they are
getting for their $2.50, they can quit.

>
>You get one thing totally wrong here: Rich is selling his product to us,
>and we are his customers.
>I've heard no one complaining, that he could do it better.

You haven't been listening. Many people have complained about Rich's lack
of participation. He hasn't been publicly heard from, either on this list
or in the Times, in over four months. We cannot even get a status update
from him about the bugs. We have players keeping lists of bugs that have
been in the game for over a year. You would think that for $882.50 a week,
we could get better support than we are now.

But it does little good to complain. History has shown that.

>
>An analogy comes to my mind (and I'm gonna get crucified for this):
>
>Microsoft produces and sells OS's. They do their job. Still they get
>blamed for not fixing the bugs in their products.
>No one tells those who complain: "Why don't you write your own OS".

I guess you never heard of Linux. There are hundreds of programmers out
there devoting spare time, working together to write this free operating
system. Many people already say that it is better than Windows.

>
>Bye, Tom
>
>
>> Dragonlord
>> PS: my thanks to Rich for this great game and all the fun
>> that I have had in the last year and a half

I too have had much fun. Rich did an incredible job creating this game.

Wayne

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