I give up. You still say it was not a bug though Cz wrote himself through a bit twisted line of text that it was. So it is not carelessness.Originally posted by Miir
Noer:
My point was that you can't yell and scream that ARK/GMs were rude if you weren't there. I wasn't there, I never said the ARK wasn't rude.
However, I will take the objective assesment of the situation by a Funcom employee above that of an upset, emotional subjective assesment of this situation.
I bet every player present and involved in this conversation was upset, shocked and very emotional at the time. What could have been a innocent comment could have been interpreted as very rude by a person in such a state.
Can you please try to re-read this quote from Cz?
"Yes, we do understand that trading with pets is currently an unnecessary feature, and will as far as I know disable it."
Yes, when they can have the game engine differentiate pets from NPCs, they will disable this feature. But such as the way the game is designed, the dev team will have to dig deep into the game code and completely recode pets. In other words, this will not likely happen in the near future.
But because one player was so careless as to not check who she was trading with, they will likely devote a lot of resources to 'fixing' this feature.
As I said before, I feel badly for Claire that she lost the items and if I come across a MK II disc, I would be more than happy to give it to her for free.
What bothers me is that people like you trying to place the blame on Funcom for this incident.
Funcom cannot be held responsible for player carelesness.
They can only idiot-proof the system so much.
If there is not a line of text that indicates the trading target and Claire lost the items because of that, I would be screaming along with you for item reimbursal.
Come on man, can you tell me that you never check your chat box to confirm your trading target?
Let be serious here.
I'm sure Claire is a nice, honest person but she really should have been a little more careful when trading an item that held so much value to her.
And have I traded with a person without checking chat? Yes, on several occations. Will I do it in the future? Of course not. Does this justify the bug? Not in my eyes.
And pets treated like NPCs? Ehrm, what do you base that on? Try to ask any pet-profession how they feel like the pet pathing vs. npc pathing.