there were people with multiple gold capped toons that spent tons of gold on carries long before the token was a glimmer in blizzards eyes.
“Keep playing, keep using your voice, understand the power of creativity, the power of community,” Spencer said to IGN. “And the other thing I would just say is, let’s respect creators. I think it’s very often that creations can be kind of weaponized and used in battles between platforms and other things. I look at everybody who is brave enough to create something, put it out. Have their peers, the industry, players, play and analyze and talk about what they do, and let’s just celebrate the fact that so many great games are coming out from so many creators, and realize that’s such a foundation for where this industry is going to go.”
I’m willing to give some wiggle room once the transition has occurred. Being a developer for a AAA company is probably rough and folks criticisms probably hits your moral and passion for development.
What he said isn’t unreasonable and it’s a pretty good message overall. I’m not really a “respect is earned” individual since I believe that folks should be shown respect with it diminishing when earned.
I read that article and I think about people ragging on games and what kind of ragging is being done.
I agree, if people are talking crap about a game because the art sux, the stories suck, etc. then that should be done constructively and with respect.
I see people complaining about the anduin cinematic, which I haven’t seen yet, and I think they could be a little more respectful.
On the other hand, it’s very hard to respect the wow devs when they produce SL. Timegate, conduit energy, locked covenants, reduced loot drop rates, etc are all systems the devs put in place to cause friction and slow people down. They are t there for entertainment. They deserve zero respect for that kind of stuff.
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Thing is I don’t know the developers personally why should I show respect to a stranger that I don’t know. Yes manners exist but I don’t revere someone. I’m a customer respect me then I’ll in turn respect you
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I am glad you’re back to RP’ing
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I generally give folks standard respect until I see them kick a dog.
You do you. Until they earned disrespect, I’ll give folks respect 
i misread what you said. ill hide post. you’re usually such a good poster that i thought someone had hacked your account.
These posts are top notch lmao
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what? can you clarify what you’re asserting here and provide data to support said assertion?
It’s wasn’t well written to be fair.
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If that’s the case, sure, yeah I agree… No way that kinda behavior is acceptable.
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BOOO that man 
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That is such a bullcrap statement
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It isn’t but at same time I don’t need to respect a stranger I don’t know about the fact that I know these developers don’t respect the game and want respect shows they really don’t understand the meaning of respect in general. But that’s living in a bubble for ya
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i want blizzard to respect my pitchfork and angry mob tbh
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Even just looking at WoW as an example, I feel like there’s a really toxic relationship between the developers and the players currently that could at least be partially alleviated by an increase in honest and earnest communication by the developers.
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It doesn’t feel like Blizzard respect’s it’s players. Does a company that gives us Reforged deserve respect? Does Ion after some of the things he said. What about when Ion purposefully tanked Demo Warlock to make them bad on purpose, was he respecting Demo Warlock players? How about our time, does WoW respect our time? What about “You think you do but you don’t,” remember this is the same company that gave us that. “Don’t you guys have phones!?” same company. This is the company that is getting drunk and performing cube crawls on their fellow employees. This is the company that replaces in-game art the community liked to cover their own butts for their lawsuits.
I’m sorry, but they don’t just get respect because they worked hard. They need to show some in return. They don’t treat their fans with the dignity they demand. The problem is deeper than “Gamers Are Mean.”
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Starting this bit up again?
No it isn’t. You earn things in life you work towards. You want to be respected by someone show your worth being respected.
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showing respect is just basic manners. you don’t have to grovel at someone’s feet just don’t be a duck. it isn’t difficult.
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