Well, I guess I should try and set the record straight on this. Let me preface this by saying that while I am friends with Savin, I’m not saying this on his command, nor do I intend this to be entirely exculpatory; but he did legitimately try shoring up the corrupt hive content.
I’ll be clear: I’m pretty late to the party, at least as a writer; even as a community member, I only really showed up around 2020. But I can say with confidence that the Corrupt Hive’s sorry state was mostly a stopgap for promised content, that never ended up materializing. He’s not kidding about writers expressing intent to flesh it out, then disappearing. There’s been a LOT of faces that just disappeared over the five years I’ve been around. That stopgap turned into a holdover as time went on. The last thing the corrupt hive got was, genuinely, something Savin explicitly directed Tobs to do, in order to give it SOMETHING for content, and that was Love Knight Bimbo Azzy as an enemy.
Lessons were learned from that disaster; Corrupted Khor’Minos exists solely as a handful of futureproofed parsers, never so much as implied to exist without ripping up the floorboards to check under the hood at the code.
So, do I think it was handled a bit sloppily? Yeah, 100%. Do I think there could have been a cleaner solution? Sure as hell not any I can think of. Savin was kinda holding a shit hand for this, and this was the best way to play the cards. I guarantee you that hindsight is 20/20, because a LOT of stuff was learned from development of this project.
Then again, I don’t really have a horse in this race, since I don’t jive with corruption content. I guess I understand why folks are upset, but I personally won’t be holding this against Sav. The hive was always a bit of a dumpster fire, and at least now it’s out, you know?