Quote Originally Posted by Qwyxzl View Post
If your current programmers cannot fix them, why not find and hire new ones which can?

very heavily implies the firing of devs.
Yep, especially in an environment where they've gone through layoffs recently, the implication is clear: fire this set of incompetents, and hire someone who knows how to fix stuff. Highly unconstructive, even if most of the rest of the post was fine.

One more nit at the bottom of the deleted post... he's saying that developers should never level off "mountains" but should fill in valleys instead. This is flatly wrong, and virtually nobody with any development experience would take that advice. When you have some nails sticking up out of the wood deck at your house, what do you do to remedy the situation? Pound the nails down? Or lay more wood on the entire deck so it comes up to the level of the errant nails? This really isn't so different... changing 98% of the game so it comes up to the level of an errant 2% is a huge waste of time and resources, will cause long-term balancing issues, and introduces substantial risk that you'll screw up the 98% in one way or other. Better advice: do the targeted nerf, take your lumps, and try not to let that happen again.

Khafar