MasileinDE wrote:
I get the sentiment
like, this doesn't just go against people who just started designing, but also something every single long term designer at some point will be "to blame for"
sometimes designs are arguable less well executed than they could be but people still hype it up and in the long run, it just brings more negatives for everyone
(you might get a short ego boost as a designer, but first of all, we all know when we design crappy stuff, no need to sugar coat it, second of all, even if we were to believe anything, we'd then never feel motivated to improve; and both sides really aren't that great for the users as well)
to delve a bit further into this, because I actually am someone with a bit discussion about this matter:
you probably noticed that like the last 3 months all the german shop updates were like really old sets of mine. now granted, they aren't utter shit and if considered from when they actually were, they for the most parts are actually pretty decent. but compared to what people in general and me specifically as well put out right now, the designs are severely lacking. and this is something I had many discussion with Voldemort about. We kinda need regular shop updates, because let's be real, VP would suck with even less shop updates than we already have. The whole principle of this game is to collect clothes and build a wardrobe. But, there is a major lack in sets, which is more true for some servers than for others. So it's either not upload anything at all and barely have any german designs in game (which is also kinda political, because we now already get so many salty comments about why there even is a german design team and that we kinda don't deserve to be around and like ... fuck you people, we work for you, thanks for saying we are useless?? so it's important to still work at our utmost capacity to just try and keep up with the other servers. Because guess what, if we would keep relying on the other servers to cover for our slots, they at some point will get pissed and would then be rightful to question our existence.) or just not uploading stuff and not bringing new sets to the game. but this kinda leads to sets getting in game that in the end, only 10 players throughout all the 3 servers really care about
I might have lost my train of thought here, this is me basically just ranting about what comes to mind first, but it is a serious issue and we still don't know how to cope with it, like server wide and on all the servers and ultimately, the users are the ones paying th price for it