A Q&A from Etaew's 7th March Livestream Answers Transcript.

[Amack]

As I've read through a few of the most recent posts in this thread, I'm reminded of that age old statement...

"Perception is reality."

Perhaps that does apply to real life... but this online game, is far from real life...

If you are going to perceive things as reality, then your reality will be very distorted.

I can't see atoms, but I am sure they are there.

No one has sailed around the world yet... so that must mean it is flat.

[N3gativeCr33p]

Perhaps that does apply to real life... but this online game, is far from real life...

Seriously... what color is the sky in your world? This has everything to do with real life. We're not trapped in the Matrix here, Neo.

[Amack]

Seriously... what color is the sky in your world? This has everything to do with real life. We're not trapped in the Matrix here, Neo.

Read the edit.

I should ask you the same question, no?

Ignorance is no excuse for your reality.

[N3gativeCr33p]

Read the edit.

Yeah, and you still make absolutely no sense.

Enjoy that Kool-Aid while there's still some left. I'm done trying to talk to someone who lacks common sense to begin with.

Buh bye.

[Arsenic_Touch]

The vehicle disappearing problem is a symptom of overloaded shards, I am almost positive about this, but don't quote me on it. Once the shard system is properly setup and populated, hopefully (crosses fingers) it will fix the vehicles as well.

So tell me why vehicles disappear on the alpha client with only a few people testing it?

[Amack]

So tell me why vehicles disappear on the alpha client with only a few people testing it?

Oh boy.. lol. If you want me to say that I don't know the exact cause then... I don't know the exact cause, do you feel better now?

I was simply stating that my vehicle disappears constantly when I play on the busy shard for whatever reason, yet in the past few weeks of playing on the quiet shards, it hasn't left me once.

I specifically said don't quote me on it since it was just my observation, but you did anyway, haha.

Yeah, and you still make absolutely no sense.

Enjoy that Kool-Aid while there's still some left. I'm done trying to talk to someone who lacks common sense to begin with.

Buh bye.

Maybe I have no common sense, but I do have something that was enough for me to figure out shards were spawning infinitely. That is good enough for me.

I find issues... serious issues... unlike bungee cords for example. Is that why I get treated this way? I think it is! Dats Otay...

[crasher]

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I don't particularly "like" the way that Trion treats its own players when it comes to Defiance... but I am resigned to the fact that I can do nothing about it and don't waste my time trying.

If North Korea and/or Trion wants their people to be happy, they will change their procedures, it is that simple.
I can't force either of them to make it so.

If TRION wants my money, they can choose to listen to me or not, and accept the consequences of the path they take.

Do I tell TRION what to do?
No, of course not.

Does TRION know what I, and the tens of people who still play the game, want?
No, not without being told. (clearly they didn't have a clue when the majority of the people who were playing just stopped logging in without ever saying a thing about why. One can infer it was because of things conditions that were extant.)

Am I willing to speak once, hope for the best, and just shrug and quietly walk away from something that I like/enjoy?
Why should I let something I like/enjoy turn into something that even FEWER people like and enjoy with me, after multitudes of people already called it quits?

You/TRION want me to have no opinion, or to just shut up and take 'it', or maybe just quit?
Say the word.
Drive me away.
Pull my access.
Pull my access to the game.
This isn't a threat, I hold no power over anything but my own time and money.
And one fewer player will be there in the desolate wastes of a dead shard when that one other person is deciding to try and play or just log off because no one is on line.

A school of fish is made up of uncountable individual fish.
It's not impossible to run out of fish.
All you have to do is kill them just a little bit faster than they are replaced.

[Bonehead]

My question is "was the above post productive?"

I vote yes.

I mean if we were voting.

[Amack]

If I wanted you to go away Crasher, I sure as hell would not be here right now.

When you say I don't want you to have opinions, the American in me becomes very insulted.

When you say the "tens of people", it does not help your arguments since that number is so greatly under exaggerated.

How long have you been repeating the same thing about people leaving? I think the fact that this game still exists gets on your nerves sometimes. I will be the first to admit though, that is only my perception of it, and that my perception does not reflect reality very well does it?

[crasher]

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I think the fact that this game still exists gets on your nerves sometimes. I will be the first to admit though, that is only my perception of it, and that my perception does not reflect reality very well does it?

Dude:
I love this game so much, you don't even know.

Sometimes I play this game in the middle of the night just to watch the sky, and listen to the wind, with the music playing in the background.

Sometimes I go to the New Freedom, just to watch what the devs and artists all came together to create.

I love watching the ground as I walk over it.
Watching the sunrise.
Watching an ArkBreak come crashing down.
Watching the sky during a night time Ark event.
Just watching a scrapper mongral is amazing.

Go to Head First crater, and dance with the skitts (after you kill all the warriors, first.)
Amazing.

This place is skruggin beautiful in so many ways.
I wish it would go on forever and everybody could see it.

I'm still willing to spend money on this game the way (I'm willing to bet) the next 25 new players combined wouldn't even consider.