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[Sergarr]

Changing the poll options on the middle of the poll?

That sounds like it came from a third world "democracy". Do they like being associated with dictators and petty tyrants?

[MagmaMcFry]

Couldn't they just make it so you have an appropriately generic standard AI at the beginning, and then you can find other AIs in dungeons and such? That would pretty much satisfy everyone.

[Neonivek]

Couldn't they just make it so you have an appropriately generic standard AI at the beginning, and then you can find other AIs in dungeons and such? That would pretty much satisfy everyone.

Look there are many ways they could have handled this.

[PrimusRibbus]

To be clear, Molly told the IRC they were changing it. Her argument was that the poll results were one-sided in opposition of the horse-head before they started trolling away at the poll thread.

So they addressed a community grievance with a poll, got a solid answer, and instead of shutting down the poll and saying "we hear you" they decided to joke around and not tell the community? Do they not see how that would come off as patronizing?

Molly needs to quit or be fired right now. Either she is single-handedly undermining Chucklefish's big opportunity to reconcile with their community, or she does not have the authority to veto stuff like this and is going to be CF's scapegoat. This should have been a homerun, and instead they are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

I've really been trying to give CF the benefit of the doubt in this, but wow.

[Darkmere]

Yeah, that about sums it up. It's mostly that CF is utterly incompetent at handling the community, with a side helping of lack of directed progress. The sad thing is Molly seems pretty well-spoken about everything except managing the company's public image, which is the vast majority of what she's (not) doing these days. They should probably stick her on writing documentation or managing QA and get someone else for PR. I'm still kinda hoping a decent game materializes out of this mess at some point, though.

Thing is, they get constant positive reinforcement with the dolts who think everything they say is "hilarious."

I'm glad it got changed or at least an option, but that should be made clear to evero-why the fuck am I even bothering anymore. Damn it, every time I keep wasting mental energy imagining things could be better.

Look you are just one person with many interests and duties that you need to do.
It isn't like Chucklefish has someone whose sole job is to deal with this sort of thing.

Heh, yeah that actually made me feel better, thank you.

[Sergarr]

So, she's an Anti-PR manager?

[Tronak]

Aaand final post of the thread (from mollygos):

"Haha, you guys, it was never really going to be the horse. It was fun while it lasted, though.
The poll broke, so I'm gonna lock this up.

That's not to say the horse won't be used elsewhere."

It sounds to me like "haha-it-was-a-joke-its-obvious-it-was-a-joke-a-breasted-horse-would-have-been-stupid-wouldnt-it?"

I know this kind of response is somewhere in tvtropes, buy I can't find it now

[Neonivek]

Yeah I officially hate Chucklefish now.

Before it was just incompetence... Now it is actually outright blatant community harassment.

[Sergarr]

Aaand final post of the thread (from mollygos):

"Haha, you guys, it was never really going to be the horse. It was fun while it lasted, though.
The poll broke, so I'm gonna lock this up.

That's not to say the horse won't be used elsewhere."

It sounds to me like "haha-it-was-a-joke-its-obvious-it-was-a-joke-a-breasted-horse-would-have-been-stupid-wouldnt-it?"

I know this kind of response is somewhere in tvtropes, buy I can't find it now

So, she openly admitted in basically trolling the entire userbase of Starbound just for lulz?

[Iceblaster]

I know this kind of response is somewhere in tvtropes, buy I can't find it now

This most likely.

Or this. Can't tell which though. Nuuumber one.

[Darkmere]

Heh, someone in the poll thread was so close to catching on: "thanks for talking about this now instead of the 3 weeks this has been festering." or some such.

It would have been really, totally SUPER hard to say "Well, the vote went this way so we're keeping the wizard as default and putting horsetits in as an easter egg for players to find if you still want it!"

instead of... "LOL! amirite! horsetits leelz was joke yes?"

[Tronak]

This most likely.

Or this. Can't tell which though. Nuuumber one.

Haha, both are spot on. Good Job.

[Darkmere]

Poll thread has a new post.

I think the content speaks for itself.

[MaximumZero]

Meh. I'm going to mod it anyway.

[Neonivek]

Well I just deleted Starbound off my computer.

I wash my hands of this series. They can just go marry Capcom.