I respect you. Seeing as most of the community maps from CoH2 that made it into automatch rotation were from you, I can only figure you have done more than your part to keep the that game alive.
I spent a ton of time reworking maps for balance patches. Since I have a lot of freetime, I volunteered to make the changes people wanted to see done. That is more important than the maps I got into the game.
Seeing as Relic did actually put community made maps into rotation makes me think, even though you like to call them incompetent, they did go further than they'd have to to include the maps into a game that they logically weren't getting any new big sales from. From a management perspective you could deduct a couple of theories from that as well.
That is when I started to see cracks in the facade. Relic would announce some cool thing like reworking maps, balance patch, or even a mapping contest. Then trip over their dicks and execute it pretty badly. That is when people in the know start joking "Well, it is relic we are talking about".
I hate to piss on your bonfire as I see you really are passionate, but if you really want Relics leadership to change and you expect it to change with your current strategy there will be none. Zero.
Piss away, that is why we are here good sir. As I stated, as a consumer you can only do two things: Dont buy and bitch.
Here is a possible scenario for you. I work at Relic as a manager/producer. I am pretty good at designing games. But I have some flaws that make me not so effective. I am not fully aware of said flaws. People around me like me cause I am nice so they dont bitch at me. Along comes this douchebag named Rosbone questioning my abilities. He points out some of the mistakes I am making. Maybe I learn a few things about myself and start to grow as a person and become better at my job.
Most people are not dumb by choice. Sometimes they need to have a door opened for them to become aware. Most of us are so busy we dont stop to ponder the deeper things. And we find ourselves saying "Hmmm, I never thought about that".
I always say, I am not too bright. I am also very lenient with people. If I am legitimately questioning something, it has to be pretty bad. If I worked at Relic and someone had an idea or thought about something I was not aware of, I would embrace it. I would be grateful they said something. That is why the many are better than the few.
Again, I understand your position, I just think there is a better way to voice yourself into getting the results you'd want.
I always come across as negative in RL. People always look at me like I am insane. Because I explain things as examples in the extreme.
F**ING DOCTORS
Doctors in the U.S. for example are useless. You go to them and they say "Lets run some tests". You know for a fact they will do nothing but waste your time and money and be undignified assaults on humanity. So I say "Ok, but if it comes back normal I get to take a baseball bat to your ankles? Now do you think we should run the tests?" And like ALL RETARDS, they cant understand the thought logic and only grasp the wrong parts of the statement.
They hear "I am going to break your ankles cause I am a sociopath".
They should hear "I dont enjoy taking a day off work to come here so you can make me take another day off work to strip down to my underwear and get treated like a child by some retard all day as they poke and probe in some not very nice places. Just to take a 3rd day off to come here and have you tell me everything looks normal. Then repeat this cycle until all of my vacation days are gone. And the whole time I feel like complete dog squeeze. Now with the threat of you, the doctor, being inconvenienced with some quick ankle work do you still think we should do these retarded tests or should we do some real-world troubleshooting and maybe solve the problem?."
This world is full of people/retards too busy to stop and question anything. Dont be one of them. No one is in charge. No one knows what they are doing. No one is looking out for you.
We are all trained monkeys. We have not evolved past that yet. 99% of the day we follow a routine and respond to stimuli. Same as a single celled organism. Life becomes better for all during those 1% times when we ponder and use logic to improve things around us. From stupid things like "I should be nicer to my spouse" to the fantastical "Why dont we make the ketchup bottle work so it is already upside down".