{"id":440,"date":"2004-12-31T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T02:38:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-12-31T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2005-01-01T02:59:09","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/440\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Age of Team Leaders (and friends)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the new year also some now DAoC-bashing. This time not from me, but from another former Team Leader: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinman61.com\/fuu\/2004\/11\/all-good-things-come-to-end.html\">linkage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If someone remembers, Mythic&#8217;s behaviour toward the community was the main reason why I also canceled, even if on the site I&#8217;ve mostly wrote my rumbles instead of explaining the reasons behind. A bad habit I have. I explained some more from a broader point of view <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/355\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About the link above: leaving the game and the &#8220;privileged user status&#8221; because they didn&#8217;t hand out freebies is quite hypocritical. But it is not enough to dismiss the relevant arguments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>This last time though, things &#8230;. changed. There was a slow, insiduous coldness that crept into things.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>we were told that getting in beta early was a reward, that being able to use the TL room tools and being able to have our characters bumped was a benefit.<\/p>\n<p>A benefit?<\/p>\n<p>Helping a company to test their game for them &#8230;. basically without getting paid. Putting time and effort into helping their software become better.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s a &#8230;. &#8220;privilege?&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the new year also some now DAoC-bashing. This time not from me, but from another former Team Leader: linkage. If someone remembers, Mythic&#8217;s behaviour toward the community was the main reason why I also canceled, even if on the site I&#8217;ve mostly wrote my rumbles instead of explaining the reasons behind. A bad habit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-daoc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}