Sigh... gonna have to step in to defend skummy here, I have been lurking in this thread watching and not saying much for about 2 years. Seen and read a lot. Skummy is...not a great PR guy. He tried his dandiest to keep us positive and give us info, and props to him for stepping in front of this garbage fire, but he was also extremely passive aggressive and at times very antagonistic which is a really big no no in PR land and makes me wonder if he was professionally trained. Didn't help matters at all and it's a bad look for the game. Most everything he has said has failed to come to pass but I would not call him a liar. I think he did his job to cover for BCs BS and ultimately had his chain jerked around just as hard as the rest of us. He was given vague ass info and promises to give to us and that info turned to ash. His entire job is to try to keep the community from imploding in negativity, and he is the one left holding the mob at bay when the promises amount to noting. The real issue here was, is, and always has been BCs inability to deliver content for and general refusal to be transparent to development or expenditures for what is essentially a community funded game. Well past the point of absurdity tbh.
Stay on target and lets not waste time shooting messengers. though I agree with the general sentiment here to return to focus.
If we really want to help matters, continue to demand accountability but also try your best to stay on track and celebrate the game for its positives. if we succumb to cynicism and aimless anger then the game is as good as dead anyways regardless of if development is actually happening or not.
I'm not professionally trained no, I'm just vaguely aware of a strategy of pacification and in failing that, becoming a shield toward the developer. I fully accept that I would get shit on for it. I am a cunt and willing to fight, but I did honestly make efforts to be nicer about it but when pressure rose, I dropped it again. I enjoy the defense, and respect you standing up to at least protect my credibility even if my technique was fucking horrid. I'll be blunt, I'm just a really big fan who took on a job that I was not qualified for all on my own and impressed it upon my friend.
I made it better, and worse, at the same time lol.
All that being said, when I'm not picking fights I be generally nicer. Realistically I don't wanna get banned, so I just walked away, and only peek out in times like right now to acknowledge stuff. I am the worst PR guy though. I'm too much of a belligerent when it comes to conflicts, and I'm willing to throw myself in the scrum rather than stay objective.
Now, after all of that, who wants to have some questions to get us back in the swing of things?
If given the chance, would you make Ecchi Sensei far darker? Would you have rathered the older build before Day 3 rework where it was more about trying to juggle everything in a more broad situation? Do you like the kind of on the rails situation it has developed into or would it be nice if in the future it broadens out again? If you could, would you change Matsu? Would you try to bring him down a peg from mary sue to having to answer to consequences?
Would you prefer Ecchi Sensei be different than what it is now? And don't be cheeky about the delays, I mean the game itself not the shit surrounding its development.
Stay Lurking, Stay Ecchi!
~Skummy Out
