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This is what happens when you work for SOE... people hate SOE. People hate what SOE has done, is going to do, and what their business practice means for their games. Some people don't know how to handle such hate. People like me that hate SOE blog about it... write about it. I don't point fingers (except at Smedley because I am a firm believer in chopping off the head of the beast). I point at SOE as a whole.

OK not everyone is the devil at SOE. They do try hard. They do have good ideas and even some of them make it into their games. They are a business though and their business practice directly conflicts with good game design... err IMHO.

Lum's link here talks a lot about how it sucks and how people just need to quit an MMO they are unhappy with. Yes this is true :) Nothing sucks worse than trying to help and getting beaten over the head with it. Its obvious the SWG crowd blasting Freeman doesn't get the whole concept of what SOE wants in their developer blogging. Hell they don't really understand blogging... the whole point is to have a place to post musings and ideas to share. Not to post factual hardlined data about what you currently work on.

Freeman isn't Koster and can't just point to some long winded post he wrote a year ago that pretty much calls the cry babies dumbasses. Most people get Koster... that he posts to his blogs general thoughts. Koster never really points towards any project or game he is working on... and its rare that a comment inflames him enough to do so.

This is where SOE kind of flops with their blog idea. They are advertised as something attached to the game. Kosters blog doesn't link to any game. Freemans blog is directly linked to the fact he works on SWG. That is a mistake. If you want your developers to blog... let them get their own webspace.