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Jean Lafitte

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  1. Every new car has that same problem right now. There have been millions and millions of vehicles recalled due to design flaws. It's a given that both automobiles and games will have their design flaws. Refusing to assist a customer as result of these design flaws is not how a successful business is operated. There's an old saying in business, "A happy customer will tell a friend. An angry customer will tell 10 friends." Allow me to give you proof of this: https://store.steampowered.com/app/834910/ATLAS/ A poorly designed product is not an excuse for lousy customer service, whether you tell the customer it may be flawed or not.
  2. If I went out and purchased a new car and 2 days later the transmission fell out, I'd be back at the dealership pronto. If the car manufacturer told me, "We're sorry but we're not going to replace your transmission because we aren't spending money on mechanics, we're spending it on engineers to keep the transmission from falling out in the first place,"..... I'd go home and start cleaning the guns. Fixing a busted transmission in a new car is not immediate gratification, it's called a responsibility to your customers.
  3. There are successful MMO's and then there are those that crash and burn. In my many years of gaming I have found an axiom that holds true to most all of these. Game content facilitates human interaction which is the key to a game's survival. Nobody is playing single player games from 20 years ago. The content runs out and you're left with nothing to do. But, I can point you to a purely text-based MUD that has be running for almost 20 years. The reason it survives is that it has a deep content system that allows players vast choices in how they build their character. This depth then facilitates the PVP and PVE interactions. To me, human interaction, whether through triumphs or foibles, is more entertaining than anything the dev's can come up with. You can only whack a wolf so many times before it becomes boring. Your buddy flying naked across the lawn, slamming head first into trees because he accidentally punched an alpha pig who's now head-butting him like a soccer ball is priceless. There is a reason why streamers are watched as avidly as they are. It's not because of the game content they're playing. If it were, people would just play the game themselves. It's the comedy, the tragedy, the unexpected events in the course of their play that make you fall out of your chair laughing. It's the events that make you look close at your monitor and go, "oh bullshit." It's all about the drama. “What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.” - Alfred Hitchcock A good MMO facilitates drama. Atlas does that now. To succeed, it needs to facilitate it even more.
  4. Bitter? No, sarcastic. The game is less than 2 months old and people keep crying because they haven't gotten to that end-game content and 'won' yet. You have a tame that farms thatch. You're just too lazy to 'go out and explore the grids' and find places where the bear does it well.
  5. Never give a license to a man who can't build his own car. -out-of-work politician
  6. But wait, there's more! Claim land in the tundra and we'll throw in light green circles on a white island map that you can't see! Grab another claim now and we'll double that effect. And for a limited time, if you hold your map with the sun at your back, like magic, all of your claims vanish in an angelic whitewash!
  7. I'm sick of seeing people whine about perfectly valid solutions to their problems because they're too damned lazy or too full of self-entitlement. I built an entire castle... in the tundra... on and island with no fiber and no paste... with nothing but hand tools and a horse. You want thatch? Chop chop.
  8. The biggest problem I see from those images as that you are on the same level as the bear and trying to feed it. If you build ONLY your taming pen on foundations so that the floor of the pen is elevated above the ground, when you X to crawl you will be under their mouth where they can't bite you and you can still feed them. That works for wolves and lions as well.
  9. That's obviously an oyster you nubs.
  10. When I downloaded it on the 9th, there were 496 bans.
  11. Eh, go to the poles and solo yeti's without a tame. You'll get plenty of flashbacks from that.
  12. I'm starting to get rather fed up with this. In the past hour, I've crashed 3 times shortly after logging in. Yesterday, I lost count. Again, the game simply stops responding with no crash log requiring task manager intervention to get out of it. I then have to wait for my character, which is still logged in, to go to sleep in order to log back in. Otherwise, the client will just keep cycling as if it were trying to load into the game but never does.
  13. Ok, so obviously you weren't around pre-wolf/alpha nerf. The reason people are laughing at your post is because of how utterly absurd it sounds compared to just a few weeks ago. You were what? Out with TWO bears farming? Pre-nerf, you would have been called an idiot. Now, we'll just call you a newb.
  14. Ah, you mean those nice cushy little tropical islands where they give you free beach towels, sunglasses and umbrella's in your mai tai? The ones that you expect when you're born with a silver spoon up your ass? Those islands with a hundred shipyards packed around them to the point you can't land a ship? Those islands with people jammed so tight together than nothing spawns and you can't piss out your back door without pissing on someone's house? You mean those islands that are so crowded that you have to tolerate 10 minutes of lag every time you sail into your port because of all the crap scattered along the beach? Yea, I'm sure you can find one if you look hard enough. Yea, you won't wanna live in the tundra. It's not nearly that luxurious. P.S. Grab me a robe from the hotel. mkay?
  15. So, I went to this Mercedes dealership looking for a new car. And the salesman told me that, because of accessory limits that they were having to downgrade the engines to 4 cyl 100hp. And the leather seats are replaced by velvet. And the satellite stereo, AM... not stereo. Oh and the carpet... rubber welcome mats cut to shape. What's the point of investing in a gaudy, massive ship that has all the comforts of a Honda Civic???
  16. Right, but other than you, who does that?
  17. The official list of banned steam ID's for cheating/exploiting. http://atlasdedicated.com/pc/banlist.txt Yes, they do ban. No, they do not restore items. And I'm pretty sure there's another list from BattleEye that's not part of this list. I've never seen BattleEye put out any official list, just numbers.
  18. That was from a few patches back.
  19. No point in making suggestions either. The minute you do, yours is cycled straight to the bottom of the list. And let's be honest, who starts by reading the last page of suggestions?
  20. I have land on NA PVE you can build on if you don't mind a 20% tax.
  21. I am concerned about OTHERS being able to take items with THEM if they quit the company so that they don't resort to punching trees. Do I need to parse my words further so that you comprehend? Or should I just spell this out for you in monosyllabic grunts?
  22. https://www.forbes.com/2008/04/10/why-utopias-fail-oped-utopia08-cx_mh_0410hodak.html#2564739978dd
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