2009-12-05, 04:57 AM
Eosian Wrote:There is no hypocrisy and the situations are not even remotely similar.
With Elementals they were insisting it was working because they had an unclear understanding of the technical aspects of the feature. They were simply assuming it was working as intended because they weren't actually testing it in all scenarios. You'll note they never once stated the exact scenarios of how the damage modifier was supposed to work.
This however they stated the scenario exactly and specified that it was legal.
There is no ambiguity, there is no room for doubt or questions.
Well, I would have to disagree here.
As for Elementals, I believed gMS was the only version with the "malfunctional" version. How did you know that it's supposed to work against Bishops? How do we know that leeching is supposed never to be allowed? The thing is, we don't know. We rely on:
- Our senses of conscience, intuition (or subjective factors in general)
- Superior/absolute ruling (or factual factors)
If you don't disagree here, I'll have to ask you how there is no room for doubt or questions regarding leeching's legality when other versions, including kMS as the game's pioneer developers, define it otherwise.
It's true that our direct top-brass is Nexon America and we can't point fingers at kMS to force them to appease our whinings, but to say that leeching is perfectly okay by Nexon America's ruling is.. well, I can't find the appropriate word for this. They are dumb as pomegranate in any field beside money-making, a person with half a brain wouldn't take Hime or any of the GM's words into account when judging a universal issue in the game. Even though that fact doesn't invalidate their absolute power over us and our game, it does show their inability to address any problem with the slightest hint of intelligence and/or competence.