Right. I shouldn't have started my email with this phrase. All the rest of
it is about how I feel about the change, not about players. I'm just giving
my personal opinion, but I certainly don't feel strong about it. If you want
to keep it for a while, fine. I don't mind at all.
2011/1/24 Jude <bookofj...@gmail.com>
> I strenuously object to renaming them simply because it is unpopular
> with players. We do a lot of things that are unpopular with the
> players but we don't revert these or change them simply because enough
> people complained (unless it's something that's actually broken).
>
> However, this is going to turn into a bike shed colour argument, so
> I'd like to recommend that we leave it for a few months and then come
> back to it then. If members of the development team are still unhappy
> with the name, we can change it then.
>
> -Jude
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Raphael Langella
> <raphael.lange...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The renaming of giant bats to megabats doesn't seem to be very popular
> among
> > players. This may be because I'm not a native speaker, but to my french
> > ears, megabat does sound quite silly. After looking it up, I guess it
> either
> > sound silly or technical. Do native speakers really know and use the term
> > megabat to talk about this kind of bat?
> > While I have no problem with having funny names and joke monsters, I
> don't
> > think they fit on D:1. New players might get the wrong impression about
> what
> > kind of game crawl really is. I suggest we just name them bats. Being
> almost
> > harmless and annoying, they don't really deserve being "giant".
> >
> > Raphaël
> >
> >
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