Irfidel (atys)
Agree with all that's been said so far here.
I'd like to add more emphasis to the point that the quill beat the sword: If making exploits of bugs public on a 3rd party website that much accelerate their fixing, maybe it is time to publish some other serious exploitable bugs?
Dainan, maybe you could change your point of view a little, take it as a compliment, and make use of the apparent ability to improve Ryzom that way.
I enjoy reading your blog anyway (although I'm careful to try and skip any advice that's too detailed), and hope you're around much longer to tell your stories!
Thanks! I should probably clarify a few points while I've got a minute:
- I don't have a problem with bugs being fixed and, actually, submit quite a few bug reports myself. However, I have been told on these kinds of things in the past that they're not bugs so much as they are "features", and since knowledge of this particular trick was already out there I didn't see it as such and therefore posted a walkthrough.
It would have been appreciated greatly if Winch Gate had made the fix (if it was indeed a bug to begin with - still no official word from Winch Gate on that) and said as much after the fact, rather than making quiet fixes and having players discover mid-trick that it doesn't work as I posted it (thus impunging my credibility as a writer, which I find intolerable).
- I would love to be able to take it as a compliment, but I can't. Again, my credibility as a writer is very important, both to me personally and to what I do for a living. I can't risk that over a game. That's just silly.
- I'll be around still, but nowhere near as much and, certainly, not blogging about it. But that's no big loss. There's plenty of people out there that have tons more information on the game than I ever would have had anyway, and I'm happy to step aside and let 'em do what they do since it seems more palatable to Winch Gate.
Hope that helps! Now, if you'll excuse me, Dainan's just made quite a splashy entrance - literally - back in his hometown of Narak, and he's due at the Oasis with Morris and Dacia to finally get a real Godsdamned steak after so many months away.
And, of course, he's got stories to tell his friends! :-) -bp
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