No I’m good, I learned one thing, that filled my quota. 
At the risk of being pedantic. I’m certain ‘spouting nonsense’ has the same meaning in most of western society in its English form. But to be fair it was used in this sense as a bit of a counter-punch to an accusation (that the NC office was some sort of hyped up place being little more than a room or two with a phone and an address… and not a full suite for a decent sized development team) that had no bearing in fact and was done to take a personal jab at the organization in question.
When you set a low standard in an assessment, it makes sense that such a low standard can be used in critique of said assessment.
Also on another note, I forgot to mention that the above pictures were taken by Andy himself (as he is credited for taking said pictures). And as someone who is a native and resident of NC, I can confirm those pictures (at least the outside ones) are genuine. To be of the area in question. Durham is a city I’m very familiar with due to VA appointments and the Duke Hospital. As I said, they picked a good area. I would say to have such accommodations, that Conan Exiles is doing quite well for Funcom and has a decent future.
Some weirdness going on at zendesk. I’m getting notices from month old reports.
Just got a “how’d we do” for that purge exploit from months ago. I have no idea how well funcom did because I have no idea what they did.
Oh it’s easy to pop on and run over to see if a ToC got admined; 5 of 6 that were actually investigated were. 9 that never got investigated. 1 exploit report.
All the west end entrances to sepermeru has been walled off, a keep built across one entrance has closed it’s gate so that entrance blocked. And what do I get?
“we so busy, we hope issue solved self, byyyeeee”. 
Few weeks later “How’d we do”? Oh ya, got some feed back for ya.
Please let the rights of the workers out of any conversation. Even if all Funcom staff was on vacations this is not our business nor we should be disappointed with it. On the contrary it should made us happy and relief us that we don’t feed a monster company who abuse working rights! Vacations is mandatory for all the workers, bosses and employees , over!!!
Keep in mind that i have forget what vacations is, i haven’t been on vacations since 2003 that i got married and i spend 5 days in Copenhagen with my wife, that’s it!
Now, about the topic!
I am a bit lost with Deacon, i cannot understand if the dilemma is the future of the game, or the individual future of each veteran player in the game?
I cannot say much about the future of this game. I believe that the plurality of support in this game are old players with many thousand hours of this game. I have no clue and no indications what’s the real “new” population in this game. And i say “real new” population because many players are getting banned and create new accounts. They cannot be considered as new players however!
The encouraging indication however for the future of this game is that it still has development and finance interest from the company.
I do get a feeling however that Conan exiles is a bit “lab rat” for Funcom. The changes they do in the game surely stretch situations for it’s community creating mixed uncomfortable feelings between players.
They are a bit responsible for the negative reactions of the community i must say and like i said to @erjoh in another topic, i don’t believe in accidents.
About the individual future of veteran players, the magic word here is routine! Let’s be honest, when a hobby is “easy” people will do it and try to find reasons to keep the interest alive.
If you play everyday solitaire, chess, backgammon, you don’t do it because the game has something new to give you, you do it because while you’re playing these games you empty your head from “other” problems.
So i don’t expect from “backgammon experts and creators” to do the backgammon spaceship and travel me on the stars, i only expect while i play it to relax.
If it doesn’t, i stop playing!
All in short, as long as there are people out there “feeding the cow”, the game will have future. Stop feeding - game over! It’s just business no sentiments here.
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That is like saying you don’t believe in RNG.
I am a walking chaotic contradiction in terms, accidents follow me like foot prints 
I’m just checking builds, puttering, maintenance waiting for funcom to drop that other shoe.
Which may be a month from now. While more players; long time and short, drift away because of all the broke in game.
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No my friend, you got it wrong.
Nah, some things in life are ment to be and some others we cause but fail to see our hunch, action-reaction, it’s simple physics!
No accidents. Are we responsible? Yes and No there’s not a simple answer to everything, but the choices we made lead to these results, some are beneficial some are not. I will not expand however, because this conversation can become a debate that will surely derail your own topic. So i will pass the real life accidents and go to the game accidents.
The game accidents are simply mistakes, bad calls or bad calculations. If “accidentally” something good will come out of it, it’s still not accident, but lack of knowledge, lack of experience, or the worst of all, professional Ego!
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Keep pushing for landclaim flags! I’m with you!
Improving CE? First you folks need to stop wrecking the game. Roll it back to pre-sorcery and start over. Put the game back to the way it was meant to be - fun.
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You can choose to play a previous version. Do so for yourself if you’d like.
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Being wrong is fine, it happens to everyone. And learning from beong wrong is something I can respect.
Willingness to bet on a thing where the result is not up to chance, but facts that can be easily checked online from publicly available resources - now that is, in my opinion, utter nonsense.
True - although for the sake of honesty, I also have a university degree in English translation, so it would ill befit me to hide behind being a non-native English speaker. Especially since identifying linguistic faux amis is a vital part of working as a translator.
Perhaps my choice of words was harsh. But spreading misinformation on the Net is such an enormous problem these days that I feel it needs to be dealt with swiftly and with determination.
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It wasn’t meant literally, that’s a common idiom.
Be that as it may it’s still a measure of confidence in something, and you can bet on that.
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Sure, which has already been covered in this thread.
It’s funny how often you like to constantly belabor points that have already been resolved. You must have a cheap source for buying all of your dead horse beating sticks.
This one has been chewing on how to process this and respond. This will not come out with grace or eloquence, which is regrettable, for the intent is not acidic, the context is mild frustration and exasperation.
Perhaps it is the fever, but the thing that keeps percolating forth is the Okay, but that’s worse meme.
Hope against hope that this is new in the recent year or two (since Tencent acquired), because the alternative is that all the times a major bug infestation was dropped right before the Fellesferie and there were no responses to the report and no action on it until August… that’s not because there was no one to respond, it’s because a choice was made not to respond, not even with a bug notice received, short staffed, but working on it.
Which loops back to the communication aspect of the op.
Contrary to grumbles, this one would much rather assume the best, or at least the best of bad options. But this one must have something to work with.
The Fellesferie, while irksome from the consumer perspective, was at least something that could be noted, planned around, and would explain why nothing was getting acknowledged or fixed. Also, regardless of anything else, video game company staff are still human beings and should have vacations.
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This might also be a change though. Some context would be great although probably not required…
Good point.
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LoL you wish. Still, you get a thumb’s up for the good laugh.
Used idiomatically, you’re practically asserting a certainty. Which, again, would’ve been easy to check before posting.
I’ve done what you’ve done. I felt really foolish afterwards. Learning that lesson is more valuable than learning the scope of operations at Funcom’s US offices.