Only one i recognized/have ever heard was "working as intended". Never heard fo any of the others till now... so, can't be too common of phrases.... lol

Originally posted by jdm12983

Only one i recognized/have ever heard was "working as intended". Never heard fo any of the others till now... so, can't be too common of phrases.... lol

Well, they're antiques, and from way before my time.

In a way, it's nice to have them; they remind you of the evolution of the industry.  However, when all those quotes seem to come from the turn of the century, with nothing from after 2002, well, the choice is questionable -- especially when many of the quotes are just so vague as to be meaningless. 

I fear that if they tried the same exercise in ten years (so that we'd get all the "classic" quotes from today), the wittiest we'd get would be "Nerf pallys!".

The premise is great, but the execution is flawed.

Working as intended is the only one I have heard of....... But I have heard of a saying like...... Man that pizza is the cats ass.  Which basicly means it was Its really good.

Originally posted by cukimunga

Working as intended is the only one I have heard of....... But I have heard of a saying like...... Man that pizza is the cats ass.  Which basicly means it was Its really good.

"The cat's ass"?  Put like that, it sounds like someone went through a list of obsolete 1920's expressions and decided to give them a nudge towards the obscene.

 ah working as intented so many memories from City of Heroes

"Tankers are working as intended"

"Invunerability is working as intented."

"controlers are working as intented"

Which are then followed by, the global defense nerf, the purple patch, the control patch, enhancment disfunction...er Diversification, controler pet nerf, and then a invunerbility nerf or 3

Originally posted by Vetarnias

If I had to submit one quote, I would choose that of Isildur, lead designer of Pirates of the Burning Sea, six months before release:

"The people who want to gank are waiting for the Next Big Failure to come along, to let them grief noobs for a few months before it shrivels up and dies. This is because every sane developer has learned this lesson: griefing and ganking doesn’t just lose you the $15/mo from the person who was griefed. It has a multiplicative effect, creating an environment in your game, and a reputation outside your game, and people tend to steer clear. ‘Play to Crush’ as a selling point and marketing slogan probably lost SB twice the players it ended up bringing them." (Full quotation here.)

Anyone who played Pirates of the Burning Sea can fully appreciate the irony of this statement, and I wish Isildur had stuck a post-it of it on his monitor frame when designing the rest of PotBS.

 

I am sure Vetarnias remembers this, "Characters can be attacked by virtually anyone, and they can most certainly be ganked. That's the nature of the system, and we're not changing that system. So we don't want to hear any crying about it." This is another POTBS developer, DREWC's, infamous explanation of the POTBS mantra, there is no crying in the red circle.

Those words virtually guaranteed POTBS would be a niche title and never enjoy wide circulation, which has come to pass. What was amazing about this was the lead designer's understanding that griefing and ganking will kill a game, but yet they built the game for griefing and ganking. And the developer's didn't want to hear any crying about it? It's no wonder the game has failed on so many levels.

Originally posted by johnyjet

Originally posted by Vetarnias

If I had to submit one quote, I would choose that of Isildur, lead designer of Pirates of the Burning Sea, six months before release:

"The people who want to gank are waiting for the Next Big Failure to come along, to let them grief noobs for a few months before it shrivels up and dies. This is because every sane developer has learned this lesson: griefing and ganking doesn’t just lose you the $15/mo from the person who was griefed. It has a multiplicative effect, creating an environment in your game, and a reputation outside your game, and people tend to steer clear. ‘Play to Crush’ as a selling point and marketing slogan probably lost SB twice the players it ended up bringing them." (Full quotation here.)

Anyone who played Pirates of the Burning Sea can fully appreciate the irony of this statement, and I wish Isildur had stuck a post-it of it on his monitor frame when designing the rest of PotBS.

 

I am sure Vetarnias remembers this, "Characters can be attacked by virtually anyone, and they can most certainly be ganked. That's the nature of the system, and we're not changing that system. So we don't want to hear any crying about it." This is another POTBS developer, DREWC's, infamous explanation of the POTBS mantra, there is no crying in the red circle.

Those words virtually guaranteed POTBS would be a niche title and never enjoy wide circulation, which has come to pass. What was amazing about this was the lead designer's understanding that griefing and ganking will kill a game, but yet they built the game for griefing and ganking. And the developer's didn't want to hear any crying about it? It's no wonder the game has failed on so many levels.

Sure, I remember that one too.  Drew's quote is perhaps even more worthy of belonging in a Top 5 of quotes, perhaps in tandem with Isildur's, a la Laurel & Hardy.  One is far diminished without the presence of the other.

ones that come to mind for me are

Train to zone

No one expects the Seru Inqisition.

Come on, We can take <uber mob here> without everyone here.

<archer character> just broke mez.

Healer or Mage: I'll pull!

Quite a few classics forgotten:

Train to zone, Train inc, Train to exit and my favourite:

Lets train to DOT

- AO's Temple of Three Winds had a mob called Defender of Time which was halfway in and surrounded by mostly grey mobs which aggroed on sight but was easy to kill. They would instagank lowbies though. What you did was zone in the instance, which was shared with lots of players, no seperate wowie instancing here, and run like hell to DOT causing an extremely big train with 50+ mobs which where trivial to 55+ characters but deadly to 20+ ones.

Another favourite from the same place was:

Aztur at exit

- Aztur was the last boss in the same dungeon and one hardass mofo. Often players would aggro him, fail miserably and start to run towards the exit. Aztur followed them and stayed at the exit for a while ganking everyone that entered except the twinked-out 60's or GA fixers with the giant blue dildo of doom

Another good one is:

Heal you noob

-  You often get this when you play the main healer and almost everytime you see this, you're dead cause of stray aggro and get yelled at why you dont heal and what a nub you are cause you're dead.

Originally posted by Perdition_uk

My favourite (no matter how many times I see it) will always be...

Party:> Player1-"RUNwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww"
Player1 has died

 

Now that one has me ROFL!!! SOOOOO many personal experiences with that one.I had a vague recollection of "Catass"(but I know real life people who's house smells like cat pee:~{) and ya mostly just "grind" now. I am bad about forums so the others are also only vague recollections. But the "working as intended" has been in every game I have have ever played, and I have played since UO and it usually is followed by a *groan*.

I would have to say that they posts are better than the list as well. SoonTM (Groan), Train to Zone (which doesn't happen much with mob pathing and anti-kiting now days), Server will be up in x minutes (groan). PotBS and SB quotes are good. AoC another good one. All, I think, are more current and infamous than the list provided. But I would agree with (whoever said it in a previous post) that a clarification in the title about the list being a writers favorite list from old times might be appropriate.

"Originally posted by Perdition_uk

My favourite (no matter how many times I see it) will always be...

Party:> Player1-"RUNwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww"
Player1 has died"

LOL; that would have me laughing too...  :)

There's relatively good odds I might have been the one that said that "I dunno, maybe I'm living in a fantasy world but perhaps some people put their integrity and principles above and beyond the almighty buck. Some of us have to live with ourselves" bit, but I honestly can't remember the thread well enough to be sure.

It might as well have been.  I consider it a sad state of humanity that, "selling out your ethics for money is pretty underhanded" is answered with, "your mouth is full of man-dick" and the former gets pegged as the deluded moron of the two.

Originally posted by geldonyetich

There's relatively good odds I might have been the one that said that "I dunno, maybe I'm living in a fantasy world but perhaps some people put their integrity and principles above and beyond the almighty buck. Some of us have to live with ourselves" bit, but I honestly can't remember the thread well enough to be sure.

It might as well have been.  I consider it a sad state of humanity that, "selling out your ethics for money is pretty underhanded" is answered with, "your mouth is full of man-dick" and the former gets pegged as the deluded moron of the two.

so i presume theirs woman-dick now?

Originally posted by nekollx

so i presume theirs woman-dick now?

I'm not exactly sure what the expression means, either.  If you read the original article you would see I'm just repeating what was said in it.  It's probably something like, "well, you must be a pathetic sycophant so desperate to make other people like you that you are constantly fellating them."  Of course, this is a really pathetic way to answer any appeal for ethical behavior.

It's a bit off-base as to the point of "I disagree with what you're saying."  They're basically just saying a CSR can't speak plainly because, generally speaking, many customers are so over-reactionary that they can't handle the truth.  This, unfortunately, is a bit of an ethical override brought about by popular demand I cannot deny.  Still, two wrongs never made a right, so it remains a double-wrong that is an industry practice through lack of better alternative.

So I guess that, under a deeper examination of what happened here, I (if that was me) was not so much a moron as I was relatively bright to point out that this double-wrong exists and GBob's response (which I partly agree with) was so very moronic as to join a hall of fame of other incredibly moronic things MMORPG developers say.  It was Sanya Weathers's mistake to interpret it was the other way around - just because something is an ugly industry practice brought about by necessity doesn't make it a smarter course of action.

[edit: Actually, I'm going to quit while I'm ahead.  If I start spinning theories about how such moves like this undermined the economy, I'm sure I'm going to ruffle feathers without much of a basis to argue other than big picture conceptualization.]

Originally posted by geldonyetich

Originally posted by nekollx

so i presume theirs woman-dick now?

I'm not exactly sure what the expression means, either.  If you read the original article you would see I'm just repeating what was said in it.  It's probably something like, "well, you must be a pathetic sycophant so desperate to make other people like you that you are constantly fellating them."  Of course, this is a really pathetic way to answer any appeal for ethical behavior.

It's a bit off-base as to the point of "I disagree with what you're saying."  They're basically just saying a CSR can't speak plainly because, generally speaking, many customers are so over-reactionary that they can't handle the truth.  This, unfortunately, is a bit of an ethical override brought about by popular demand I cannot deny.  Still, two wrongs never made a right, so it remains a double-wrong that is an industry practice through lack of better alternative.

So I guess that, under a deeper examination of what happened here, I (if that was me) was not so much a moron as I was relatively bright to point out that this double-wrong exists and GBob's response (which I partly agree with) was so very moronic as to join a hall of fame of other incredibly moronic things MMORPG developers say.  It was Sanya Weathers's mistake to interpret it was the other way around - just because something is an ugly industry practice brought about by necessity doesn't make it a smarter course of action.

[edit: Actually, I'm going to quit while I'm ahead.  If I start spinning theories about how such moves like this undermined the economy, I'm sure I'm going to ruffle feathers without much of a basis to argue other than big picture conceptualization.]

When i say something like "woman-dick" your sumose to not your head and make a off the cuff joke.

Kids these days do i got's to teach them all the rules of forum Humour

Forum humor is for those who have yet to accept the responsibility of taking the red pill.