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Old school RuneScape is an mmorpg where each game update goes to a vote, and if it doesn’t get 75% approval the updates are not worked on by devs and don’t get released. The community feels a strong ownership and connection over the game. So much so that when the development company (Jagex) makes a wrong decision, it’s common for users to “riot” in game. They go to a specific world, at a specific town, place down spe…
https://www.wired.com/1997/11/chaos-in-britannia-ultima-face...
Old school RuneScape is an mmorpg where each game update goes to a vote, and if it doesn’t get 75% approval the updates are not worked on by devs and don’t get released. The community feels a strong ownership and connection over the game. So much so that when the development company (Jagex) makes a wrong decision, it’s common for users to “riot” in game. They go to a specific world, at a specific town, place down spe…
wait, you're telling me Runescape is still alive?
Fun fact, JaGex at some point decided they wanted to ban the RuneLite client, riots ensued, and now RuneLite is actually listed on the official website.
Old school RuneScape is an mmorpg where each game update goes to a vote, and if it doesn’t get 75% approval the updates are not worked on by devs and don’t get released. The community feels a strong ownership and connection over the game. So much so that when the development company (Jagex) makes a wrong decision, it’s common for users to “riot” in game. They go to a specific world, at a specific town, place down spe…
The Ultima Online postmortem session from GDC 2018 has some similar stories about in-game protests. The stories in said session are quite entertaining, and there is a lot of other interesting information too in the session. The whole thing is worth a watch.
Old school RuneScape is an mmorpg where each game update goes to a vote, and if it doesn’t get 75% approval the updates are not worked on by devs and don’t get released. The community feels a strong ownership and connection over the game. So much so that when the development company (Jagex) makes a wrong decision, it’s common for users to “riot” in game. They go to a specific world, at a specific town, place down spe…
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>technically-mandatory-but-not-mandatory-if-you're-in-a-hurry :/
In my experience, the software development profession could spend a long, long time doing some self-reflection about this one. It's eloquently stated, and something a lot of developers could learn. Too many times, I've seen overly restrictive inputs cause users to hate and distrust the software. Ironically, overly restrictive inputs cause users to think that the software doesn't properly understand the domain, which…
We used to have this in Ukraine but the war successfully halted all the strikes. To tell shortly, any shop which sells anything must report on any buying to the authority. This is kinda stupid because if you are selling something on weight, you need to jongle with too many devices: a weight-meter to weight (it can accept a cost of something being weighted), then a calc to sum if number of goods is more than 1, then a laptop to fill a message to an authority, then a terminal to let client pay with card. The programs the authority gives us just can not deal with goods which are selling on weight, so we are cheating them kind of I can not tell the government that I have sold a one kilogram of rice for ₴60 but I can tell that I sold 60 candies each per ₴1 (the fact that ₴60 is going to my bank account is definitely visible by thems and this number requires to be grounded). Imagine a girl who do not like to be a technician and she goes to be a seller in a grocery shop, and what she gets today? A lot of typing job. Guess how many seller girls in Ukraine can touchtype if there are no mandatory touchtype lessons in our school even now.
And do you know what the laptops are doing in Ukrainian grocery shops? They are running an account software in browser.