About tonight.

[OmnipotentEntity]

I'd like to formally apologize. I flew off of the handle.

I've been receiving massive amounts of negative criticism for the last few months and it's been especially bad the last few days, that combined with jetlag and personal problems resulted in my getting unreasonably upset. Far more upset than I should have considering the situation.

I've unbanned everyone that I banned earlier today. And I am retracting my own moderation privileges as soon as I figure out how to. I will also be no longer interacting with the community until such time as the smoke has cleared and everyone is a field of happy bunnies again.

I am deeply sorry for any feeling I've upset and or jimmies I've rustled. And it won't happen again in the future.

[Yawzheek]

Well, that's mighty big of you. It doesn't change how I feel about Starbound, but I can certainly respect someone who will admit their mistake and accept responsibility for it.

No sarcasm intended, I appreciate this.

[HarspudSauce]

Thanks for unbanning everyone, Omni.

[wayninja]

I can understand that. My line of work is very pressure oriented as well, and I've been guilty myself more than once of letting that pressure tempt me into making choices I regret.

Thanks for letting us voice our grievances and please note that despite our sarcasm, snarkiness, and dissappointment, most of us really do want you guys to succeed, we just don't all express it the same.

Respect.

[MTV]

Apology accepted.

[mr bigdad]

This...this shows character! My feelings toward what you did to Starbound wont change from this, but this...shows character and I can only respect that! I hope your personal problems come to ease for you. I will stay critical, but with more postive if and only if you finally start delivering what you promised! And truly, you devs did deserve the critics as you did lie and didnt deliver!

[Yawzheek]

Did he... ban himself?

Didn't really need to go all that far...

[OmnipotentEntity]

Originally posted by Stalinator:

Did he... ban himself?

Didn't really need to go all that far...

I can't remove myself from moderation without removing myself as a dev of Starbound, which I can't do because I need to publish the game and such.

So I banned myself to put at least one more thing between me and moderation tools, I can unban myself, sure, but it's the best I can do considering the situation.

Brb banning self again.

[Capernaum]

Originally posted by Stalinator:

Did he... ban himself?

Didn't really need to go all that far...

After what he did tonight I'd say he did. People became critical of the developers of Starbound because of them not being able to keep their own promises that they chose to make and what does he do? He takes it out on the consumers who have purchased and supported his game.

As someone who doesn't purchase early access games but was tempted to buy this many different times I can say he lost at least one customer in me from letting it reach this point. People need to realize most people who behave like that lose their job, or at the very least get harshly reprimanded

[hghwolf]

Well, that was an interesting ten minutes for me...

Oh well. No harm, no foul. Apology accepted, everyone has those moments and it`s nice to see people owning up to it instead of rationalizing and justifying.

[Yawzheek]

Originally posted by OmnipotentEntity:

Originally posted by Stalinator:

Did he... ban himself?

Didn't really need to go all that far...

I can't remove myself from moderation without removing myself as a dev of Starbound, which I can't do because I need to publish the game and such.

So I banned myself to put at least one more thing between me and moderation tools, I can unban myself, sure, but it's the best I can do considering the situation.

Brb banning self again.

You don't really need to ban yourself. I mean, you can unban yourself at any time, so... sort of defeats the point anyway, right?

Just try not using your abilities when you're already stressed/pissed off, and everything should be A-OK. Seriously. Have a cigarette or a coffee or punch a baby, just whatever you need to do to calm down, then come back.

[asmileyfish]

Originally posted by Capernaum:

Originally posted by Stalinator:

Did he... ban himself?

Didn't really need to go all that far...

After what he did tonight I'd say he did. People became critical of the developers of Starbound because of them not being able to keep their own promises that they chose to make and what does he do? He takes it out on the consumers who have purchased and supported his game.

As someone who doesn't purchase early access games but was tempted to buy this many different times I can say he lost at least one customer in me from letting it reach this point. People need to realize most people who behave like that lose their job, or at the very least get harshly reprimanded

This.

As much as i respect the charecter of the omi dev guy for turning around and saying he is genuinly sorry ect.... you cant fly off the handle when dealing with the public/customers/punters.

I work with the public in my job... and there is almost nothing worse than working with the public.. more often than not the customer is wrong as much as people wont like to hear that.

But you cant ever ever just go off at them or kick off. People lose their jobs for that kind of behavour.

[ravenscroftranch]

what happend? O.o

[MTV]

Taking walks outside and having a ciggerette helps me calm down a lot when I'm pissed off.

[ravenscroftranch]

so a where were the bans placed here or sb forums?

[Yawzheek]

Originally posted by M'aiq the Liar:

Taking walks outside and having a ciggerette helps me calm down a lot when I'm pissed off.

:yorksmokes:

And let's not dismiss the therapeutic benefits of baby punching! You'll never know unless you try it!