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I know it's just a meme, but I thought I'd pop in and explain a bit (mainly, because I play games and I am sometimes confused by priorities developers have). I worked on the emoji packs, and they are relatively quick to do. I can't fix [most] bugs (I'm a concept artist) so if there is a weird glitch in the game, I would have no idea how to solve that. Hope that kind of explains our thinking and priorities!
I'm glad you did, because it is very easy to get lost down the rabbit hole of blaming devs for studio priorities. I have no love for emojis whatsoever. Ultimately, speaking for myself, I wish that the studio had never had you work on emoji packs and had instead been doing concept work for more and more behemoths because that is what we enjoy: new behemoths and fun gameplay.
My answer to that is in the same vein - I can draw a million different behemoths but at the end of the day, we can still only produce x behemoths in x amount of time. Whenever there is a concern that a 3D artist might not have enough work to do, I hop on concepts to unblock them. Emojis aren't as high priority as a behemoth, but when the rest of the team is working away on something anyways, that's when I hop on lower priority tasks.
I've seen the schedule, and it's absolutely crazy how our producers/PMs/managers are able to balance out all the tasks and people!
I appreciate the work you did, sir.
In my opinion, emojis aren't used often (are least not in the parties I'm in) but I would appreciate more armour. I would, gladly, pay for it. Do you know if we have some in the works?
Oh yes, we got lots of armour in the works. We've been trying to balance upcoming armour sets so there's a nice variety of chunkiness and sleekness. We adjusted some existing drask armour so it matches the new thunderdeep design better, but other than that everything else will be fresh designs. I've been looking at samurai armour lately so you might catch some hints of samurai influences in the next set.
The solution is simple. "Phoenix Labs Concept Artist". That means there should be someone with a title called "Phoenix Labs Bug Developer". This person is developing these bugs and putting them into the game. Just get rid of him, no more bugs. Problem solved. Happy dauntless.
it is me!