Thread by @SecretGamerGrrl

... Holy crap I just stumbled across the knowledge that the latest big funnymunny craze was sparked off by the stupidest person on the planet having a temper tantrum an absolutely no conception whatsoever of how video games work. polygon.com/22709126/ether…

So as a quick disclaimer, this has nothing at all to do with how this turducken of scams has actually played out since, where someone charges you a ton of money for a tinyurl but the tinyurl goes in the funnymunny registry so we have to burn down another rain forest to note it...

But apparently, this is the thought process involved in what the real vision was:
- A balance patch to World of Warcraft changed how this guy's favorite ability worked (and honestly I'm not even going to call it a nerf, it was changing a self-healing spell so it doesn't pull down

the biggest monster in the area to finish off your already hurt character, so I assume this guy was playing an MMO totally solo).
- This adult baby threw a fit over this, and concluded that the only possible reason this change was made is because the designers of the game are big

meanies who intentionally decided to screw him over (again, by making it so that playing the class where you're supposed to summon monsters to kill things do less direct damage, thwarting what I have to assume was his strategy of just never learning to play his class and only

fighting things too under-leveled for him to be damaging him in the first place).
- He then decided that said big dumb meanies shouldn't have the ability to tweak gameplay like that, and rather than just switch over to playing some other game that doesn't have active support like

that, for which I must stress one of his options is LITERALLY A VERSION OF THAT SAME GAME the developers set up extra servers for with 2 decades of balance patches rolled back PRECISELY to pacify this exact sort of guy whining about every minor tweak like that, what he wanted was

- A new system, wherein rather than employ game designers to, you know, design and maintain this specific one of the two branches of this game he has a problem with, they instead I guess just... let anyone who has the coding skills and desire to do so write individual modules for

equipment and character abilities, with absolutely no oversight or quality control, and submit them through some sort of automated process to be integrated into the game, with absolutely no option to ever remove them or tweak them if they think better of it or misplace a decimal.

- And then I guess also retroactively put all current game data (wait, no! NOT current! It must explicitly be version 3.0.9, from February, NOT April of 2009, the exact moment when he thinks the game was perfect, despite what I assume to be the tweak he actually means being from

either version 4.0.3a or something he just completely imagined because version 3.0.2 changed the visual) and I guess also freeze the state of class structuring to prevent moving anything around to retroactively unspill his milk.
- To circumvent the obvious problem of how he would

get these absolutely un-nerf-able weapons and abilities, rather than being earned in-game, they would be purchasable... using a special currency that he also personally created, rather than actual money, by just copying preexisting funnymunny technology. That way those mean game

devs are totally cut out of the equation.

Again, it's just STUNNING.

He of course didn't actually do this, because that's just fundamentally not how programming, data structures, game design, networking, or basic quality control work, and instead settled for tinyurls that could

I guess in theory be pointed at like, an old screenshot of a stat breakdown, or the wiki I spent all that time trying to point out the specific ridiculousness of before realizing just now he's also apparently confusing the syphon life TALENT with the drain life SPELL, which was

folded in as a rider effect on an existing damage over time ability rather than a whole separate thing to activate so I guess he was actually mad about not having to spend as much MP?

Anyway, if he HAD actually created this ridiculous framework, there would be no reason at all

the company behind the game to actually implement it, because again, he had no relationship with them beyond apparently playing their game rather poorly, and his STATED GOAL is to screw them out of their revenue source here.

And you know, had that not all been true, rather than

keep his experience playing the game the same it would... completely destroy the game in however much time it took for someone to reverse-engineer the engine enough to implement a "prevent anything bad from ever happening to me and kill everything else on the server constantly"

always-on passive ability, after first heavily wounding the game as 10 minutes after implementation less creative people learned the hard way if damage values are signed in the code as they hastily tried to give themselves infinite damage swords.

Also someone is already replying

to this thread with the interesting bit of trivia from recent general news on this subject that some other idiot actually DID try to make a new game using a SLIGHTLY more reasonable variation of this astoundingly stupid idea, with predictable results:

https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1465768966589083649

... and come to think of it none of this is even getting into the specific hell that is the whole "personal ownership" angle of the original unworkable plan meaning technically it isn't even that "I want this version of this class ability preserved in amber for all time" it's "my

personal instance of this ability," which also can be "sold" to someone else I guess in exchange for the fake money this guy started minting on his own as part of this whole boondoggle. So, even if A- It was actually possible to implement this, B- someone actually wanted to, AND

C- somehow the entire population of the world embraced a spirit of fairness and mutually agreed upon standard of game balance such that no one immediately broke everything, AND D- nobody accidentally broke everything with an oversight in this no-correcting-mistakes environment...

the necessary data structuring just in managing personal character data and having it interact with the rest of the game would be bloated to hell, even BEFORE introducing the idea of this all piggybacking off of funnymunny intentionally-ever-bloating ledgers and it would not run.

Anyway how wild is it that between this and this bylinetimes.com/2019/10/02/mon… we literally have two overlapping extinction-level-threats within a decade stemming from people sucking at World of Warcraft and not wanting to actually learn how to play it properly?