Profile of IpKaiFung

747737, that's all you'll need

I pretty much was forced to resign because I vented out in public my frustrations with me just being constantly shut down.

I'm going to post an extract of one of my PMs to your predecessor, out of respect I won't post any replies from her and omitted any sensitive information.

I only want to do cool things for the game, I do it in my free time because I love the game and the player base but it was a really bad time for me. I wasn't having a great time at work and I was trying to apply for hospital pharmacy clinician jobs up and down the country with no success sometimes going to interviews and not getting anywhere.

It was nice to just have that bit of positivity from the game at the time because I have suffered from depression in the past mostly due to my mother dying when I was 18 before I left for University.

However after WFA my small piece of positivity just turned horrible. Players knew I was in the alpha and with every buggy update and balance change I would get a barrage of abuse. People calling me a paid shill and a various amount of unmentionables. It really put a dent in my attitude towards the playerbase

As a group we were upset about what was going and we made that forum post which got locked and there's been no official reply but we took that the outburst from X that day was the unofficial reply which was basically tough shit, stop complaining or get lost.

Despite that my depression had come back after all these events and it's been really hard for me to function over the last few months, I managed to find a job and I found a different game as an outlet but it still saddens me that there was this massive breakdown over something so small.

Sorry to lay on all this heavy stuff but I just wish you would have heard me out instead of just making me out to be a serial dev abuser and a toxic community member. I'm not a horrible person, I do a lot of voluntary work as well as my day job helping people and it just upsets me that I've been made out to be such a monster.

I just want to say the whole series of events had a negative impact on me, being fobbed off constantly and being left to hang out to dry makes a person unwilling to trust people again. So I hope you can see where I am coming from.

I acknowledge that people were say that's pretty sad to be upset over a video game but I was in a dark place at the time.

I see plenty of campaigns from Relic staff about standing up to harassment and bullying but they don't realize how easily some members of staff have just completely trampled over people's dreams and aspirations in the past.

If there's an internal discussion about how Relic talks and deals with people in the scene that's great, it's all I could hope for so that no one has to go through the same shit I had to.

"experienced community members have been left on the side lines"
This I would have to strongly disagree with.

I disagree, I was left to run the ESL section since July 2013 on my own with no support. Conveniently a few months before this was announced I was forced to resign from all of my admin duties on ESL by their business director even though I had stopped working on CoH2 because of constant Jam tomorrow promises for nearly two years.

The draft Go4 rules I initially drafted back in 2014 were not implemented, nor was there ANY consultation. (As you can see I last amended them back in 2014)

To be honest there wasn't any discussion, it was more a case of lets wait for IpKai to tire himself out so he gets fed up, goes away and stops bothering us (Relic Entertainment). The same tactic that was implemented with TFN with their launch tournament, the same that happened to the alpha testers that produced a massive bug data base with attribute editor fixes only to be sidelined.

Funnily enough CGS was mentioned in an article I linked to.

So yeah, understandable article, but an increasingly outdated viewpoint.

It's only outdated because you're privy to future announcements, most people do not have that privilege. Personally I would advise you to be cautious of Relic's "Jam Tomorrow" promises. I should know, I was burned enough times by them.

yeah, they did a few lectures at GDC with some graphics tech in unity and have hosted numerous events in VC to do with unity.

Not to mention Creative Assembly are dabbling with Unity with a mobile game.

just reinstall steam itself to the same directory as the files. All the games should work then