In response to TheLionsRoar
TheLionsRoar wrote:
I also wanted to say that a bunch of back and forth discussion about what Tom should and shouldn't do to improve BYOND is entirely pointless. At the end of the day, Tom and Lummox are going to continue their routine, and BYOND will progress as they see fit - whether any of us like it or not.

I don't consider it pointless, as I like to get a sense of what the community wants. I do want people to understand that in a small operation like this, it is just unrealistic to expect us to cater to every feature request, especially those that can be accomplished better in other ways.

One problem with the "customer is always right" mantra is that the customer doesn't see the work that goes into the things they want. So maybe they make a big deal over something that they'll use a couple of times, and that something ends up taking us a week to work out. To give an example from BYOND, a few people were talking about how in-game payments would really help out make them & BYOND money. I admit, the idea made sense to me and we ended up taking quite a bit of time designing and integrating this. To this point, there has been exactly one in-game payment sale. Now maybe this will blowup and some point but it's more likely this was a dud and we (and the customer) were simply wrong.

So in the end it is about judgement calls, and yeah, ultimately it us up to Lummox JR & myself to make them.
Gosh, every time i look at Tom's name i think of Tom and Jerry. Anyways, I wanted BYOND to be that way because I felt like we had more rights if we try to do that right now, the forum post will be blocked in a matter of seconds.
In response to I2edSmok3
Occupy BYOND. We are the 99%.
How about Tom you add to feature request some sort of up voting system so that you can sort out the most redundant request from the ones the community actually wants?
In response to King_LiOnZ
King_LiOnZ wrote:
How about Tom you add to feature request some sort of up voting system so that you can sort out the most redundant request from the ones the community actually wants?

Like the ++ system.
In response to I2edSmok3
Yeah but the most popular ones show up at the top until added and the non popular ones get locked or deleted.
In response to King_LiOnZ
King_LiOnZ wrote:
Yeah but the most popular ones show up at the top until added and the non popular ones get locked or deleted.

What, i ment is to implant a ++ or like system pretty much. That display the things that are most wanted in the community.
i have better idea. you have to pay $5 per feature request.

tom makes money, you guys get your feature requests ignored. in the end it works out for everybody
That's just sad. If it's too much why doesn't he hire more developmental staff like the super oldies from 1999-2004? Trust worthy ones ofcourse.
In response to King_LiOnZ
King_LiOnZ wrote:
That's just sad. If it's toouch why doesn't he hire more developmental staff like the super oldies from 1999-2004? Trust worthy ones ofcourse.

Tom prefers to work alone, or with only one other person. Kinda like Batman.

He's the Tom BYOND deserves.
In response to Crazah
Crazah wrote:
Occupy BYOND. We are the 99%.

I don't understand if you expect to make money you have to put the time in make things right. I understand that every single feature can't be added but c'mon some of the things people requested should've been added YEARS ago...
In response to King_LiOnZ
King_LiOnZ wrote:
I don't understand if you expect to make money you have to put the time in make things right. I understand that ever single feature can't be added but c'mon some of the things people requested should've been added YEARS ago...

In response to EmpirezTeam
EmpirezTeam wrote:
King_LiOnZ wrote:
That's just sad. If it's toouch why doesn't he hire more developmental staff like the super oldies from 1999-2004? Trust worthy ones ofcourse.

Tom prefers to work alone, or with only one other person. Kinda like Batman.

He's the Tom BYOND deserves.

Dan must've been Robin? Tom's sidekick that left him.
In response to Ganite
Ganite wrote:
EmpirezTeam wrote:
King_LiOnZ wrote:
That's just sad. If it's toouch why doesn't he hire more developmental staff like the super oldies from 1999-2004? Trust worthy ones ofcourse.

Tom prefers to work alone, or with only one other person. Kinda like Batman.

He's the Tom BYOND deserves.

Dan must've been Robin? Tom's sidekick that left him.

That's not how that works.

Tom joined Dan, who had a working prototype.
In response to Ganite
He went on to be Nightwing, except with physics instead of superpowers.
My final statement: BYOND has the potential to flourish financially. All you have to do is support the developers more.
The developers have everything they need. If an HTML5 client doesn't make BYOND flourish financially, nothing will.
In response to Super Saiyan X
Super Saiyan X wrote:
Ganite wrote:
EmpirezTeam wrote:
King_LiOnZ wrote:
That's just sad. If it's toouch why doesn't he hire more developmental staff like the super oldies from 1999-2004? Trust worthy ones ofcourse.

Tom prefers to work alone, or with only one other person. Kinda like Batman.

He's the Tom BYOND deserves.

Dan must've been Robin? Tom's sidekick that left him.

That's not how that works.

Tom joined Dan, who had a working prototype.

So Dan was Batman who retired and left the work to Robin who is Tom! And Tom became Batman and Lummox became the new Robin.
but then... WHO WAS BANE???
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