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<blockquote data-quote="RFisher" data-source="post: 4531981" data-attributes="member: 3608">Right.Bob creates X the RPG. X does everything Bob wanted it to do. Bob gets forced out, laid off, retires, &amp;c.Tom (another game designer at the company) feels X should do different things. Maybe he didn’t understand what Bob wanted it to do. Maybe Bob didn’t communicate his intentions well. Or maybe Tom doesn’t care; he just wants something different from the game. Or maybe the execs told Tom that X should do different things. In any case, Tom sees X as “broken” because it doesn’t do what he wants/needs it to, so he creates X the RPG, 2nd edition. To Tom (and any customers who think like Tom), this is an improvement. It’s an upgrade. To the people who think like Bob, it’s a different game and shouldn’t be called “2nd edition”.Yeah. I used to do that. When I first got access to the Internet, I was immediately pointed to a netiquette document that I read before I ever posted. I’d spend a lot of time carefully crafting my posts with disclaimerish phrases. (Despite having been taught in school to explicitly mark facts rather than opinions.)After 15 years or so of doing that and still having people always interpret my words in the worst possible way and ignore any “to me”, I’ve been trying to break those habits and go back to the way I was taught.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f635.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="o_O" title="Er... what?&nbsp; &nbsp; o_O"&nbsp; data-smilie="12"data-shortname="o_O" /> If anyone understands that terms of art have meaning beyond the literal it’s the courts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RFisher, post: 4531981, member: 3608"] Right. Bob creates X the RPG. X does everything Bob wanted it to do. Bob gets forced out, laid off, retires, &c. Tom (another game designer at the company) feels X should do different things. Maybe he didn’t understand what Bob wanted it to do. Maybe Bob didn’t communicate his intentions well. Or maybe Tom doesn’t care; he just wants something different from the game. Or maybe the execs told Tom that X should do different things. In any case, Tom sees X as “broken” because it doesn’t do what he wants/needs it to, so he creates X the RPG, 2nd edition. To Tom (and any customers who think like Tom), this is an improvement. It’s an upgrade. To the people who think like Bob, it’s a different game and shouldn’t be called “2nd edition”. Yeah. I used to do that. When I first got access to the Internet, I was immediately pointed to a netiquette document that I read before I ever posted. I’d spend a lot of time carefully crafting my posts with disclaimerish phrases. (Despite having been taught in school to explicitly mark facts rather than opinions.) After 15 years or so of doing that and still having people always interpret my words in the worst possible way and ignore any “to me”, I’ve been trying to break those habits and go back to the way I was taught. o_O If anyone understands that terms of art have meaning beyond the literal it’s the courts. [/QUOTE]

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