Confluence Loot - Per Character Daily Cap

[Astray]

It's only poor management if you aren't doing it on purpose.

I just imagine Wyrom and Whatley trying desperately to justify why they don't hire coders while pocketing a shit ton of money.

[Stumplicker]

The one upside to Gemstone being run completely into the ground is that Mario will end up out of a job. So at least there's that to look forward to.

[Simu]

There's no reason to fold on Gemstone completely. It costs very little to actually keep the server up and running. They'll just run it into the ground and let it die of natural causes. I doubt they'll take the server down unless they straight up run out of subscriptions. Even Legends of Terris still exists, with a pricing model very similar to Gemstone. You can play for free up until level 35, with reduced capacity, and then you buy a subscription. And you can log in right now, and there are zero people online. Basically, if the company still exists, it doesn't cost them much more than an electricity bill to keep a computer running in a closet with its all volunteer staff while they develop shitty mobile games.

QFT

[Taernath]

The problem is that if Wyrom wasn't doing it, they'd hire someone else to do it instead.

Wyrom/GS casino is just a symptom of a bigger underlying problem that has a 99% chance to be ignored by upper management in favor of short term gains at the expense of the game's long term interests.

I don't know. We only really started to see development being pushed towards paid events when Wyrom took charge. At one point he had a bit bragging about how much he increased Simu's revenue on his LinkedIn (which I can't check to see if it's still there since you have to log in now). I don't think Wyrom is just a cog.

[Stumplicker]

I don't know. We only really started to see development being pushed towards paid events when Wyrom took charge. At one point he had a bit bragging about how much he increased Simu's revenue on his LinkedIn (which I can't check to see if it's still there since you have to log in now). I don't think Wyrom is just a cog.

Fo sheezy. He has a lot more power and sway than people give him credit for. They don't want to see him as making these decisions because he used to be a member of the community and people had some modicum of respect for him at some point. He's a living sunk cost fallacy.

[Simu]

I don't know. We only really started to see development being pushed towards paid events when Wyrom took charge. At one point he had a bit bragging about how much he increased Simu's revenue on his LinkedIn (which I can't check to see if it's still there since you have to log in now). I don't think Wyrom is just a cog.

Absou-fucking-lutely.

Wyrom’s pitch to Whatley went probably something like this:

OK Whats, listen here. There’s a shit-ton of money sloshing around in the secondary market you were never a player so you wouldn’t know. But I can triple or even quadruple your revenue no problem boss man. There’s a shit-ton of suckers playing this game swiping their mommy’s CC to re-mortgaging their house - let me try!!

[Taernath]

Fo sheezy. He has a lot more power and sway than people give him credit for. They don't want to see him as making these decisions because he used to be a member of the community and people had some modicum of respect for him at some point. He's a living sunk cost fallacy.

He has a tendency to say what he thinks people want to hear. You don't get to be the PM without drinking the kool-aid.

[Astray]

Wyrom is the ultimate jobber.

[Methais]

I don't know. We only really started to see development being pushed towards paid events when Wyrom took charge.

True, but after Stillfront took over is when they really doubled down on it IIRC. Either way, even if Wyrom quit tomorrow, whoever replaces him would just be Wyrom 2.0.

At one point he had a bit bragging about how much he increased Simu's revenue on his LinkedIn (which I can't check to see if it's still there since you have to log in now). I don't think Wyrom is just a cog.

Regardless, the whole thing is retarded and short sighted as fuck and will be the thing that finally does kill the game. Whether Wyrom's intent is to eventually put himself out of a job, who knows, but it's extremely likely to happen if they continue to wreck the silver economy.

[Methais]

Wyrom is the ultimate jobber.