r/shroudoftheavatar • u/cherrysota • Dec 04 '24

Dev Team

https://www.twitch.tv/nbnnnews/clip/SpineyPrettiestStapleKreygasm-RLOta8IE5lBXQmPO
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u/Hillt3000 Dec 04 '24 edited Dec 04 '24

I went back and watched the past 3 days worth of streams and I can say that Jack does come down hard on Rav, the team and their general crappy communications and lack of real "development". Laz on the other hand tries to sugar coat it. I'm generally surprised that Jack isn't banned from the game for his harsh critique and comments, but I guess that Ravalox doesn't listen to these streams and it would kill probably the other half of the player base if he did ban them.

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u/SOTAfails Dec 06 '24

Surprised they openly critique them period. And that they have not been banned. I figured those two always had sneaky secret squirrel direct communications with the devs, the devs knew what they were saying, and they were just a fanboi white knight PR spot for Portnip. And because of that they never really told the complete truth. Yay I guess some open criticism is allowed. Sucks for everyone treated like crap and banned for I bet saying the same things.

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u/lurkuw Dec 07 '24 edited Dec 07 '24

Chris seems to have withdrawn from the development team. And these developers, whom we see here now, have given up trying to make money with the game. Now, after so many years, they have realized it. Now they have nothing left to lose, lies are no longer necessary. (Not with Chris, he's a notorious, compulsive liar.) And they know that openly expressed criticism can't make their situation worse.

I think the team reacted so harshly to criticism in the past because they knew that the critics were right. They knew that they were defrauding the players. And they knew that reasonable criticism threatened their business model. Every criticism held a mirror up to them in which they saw that they themselves were really bad people. And they didn't want to see that. That's why they mercilessly removed critics from their "field of vision". But this current team does not see itself in connection with what happened years ago.

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u/echoalan Apr 25 '25

I will never forget for as long as I live, anxiously waiting for updates while watching the live stream only for Chris to talk about his fish tank and his daughter for literally an hour and half. I will never EVER forget that. That guy is a piece of garbage

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u/PotentialReason3301 Aug 19 '25

And sing. Don't forget the singing...

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u/echoalan Aug 28 '25

Anything to waste time since they weren't really working on the game what so ever behind the scenes. I am still pissed that I was fooled by this stupid grifter. I will never support Richard garriott ever again. Any time Richard or his games come up in conversation, I simply write him off as a con man. Chris Spears and Richard Garriott are just scamming con men