Lost in translation

I wrote this post yesterday, but when I saved it, it suddenly disappeared. Try again...

An ironic example of how the players' language is translated by the Devs.

- Players: "Geonosian ships should not exist"
- Dev1 to Dev2: "Geonosian ships will be the new meta!"

- Players: "Please give us more ships; we have 3 geonosian ships but nothing for Anakin or CLS (best pilots of the galaxy)... maybe a capital ship for Grevious or Holdo...
- Dev1 to Dev2: " Let's give them some casual ships with totally random pilots... suggest me someone totally absurd"
- Dev2 to Dev1: "Ships for sith assassin and sith marauder"

- Players: "Please stop or at least slow down this endless Marquee influx.. add some new character to some store..."
- Dev1 to Dev2: "Let's release 1 or 2 new Marquee every week!"

- Players: "Again, please stop Marquees for a while! Maybe a new Legendary could be fine"
- Dev1 to Dev2: "Fine, we will release a new Legendary, it will be a true challenge, they will need a full g12 team and some zetas"
- Dev2 to Dev1: "It's not enough, let's add some bad RNG, something like 20 tries to win"
- Dev1 to Dev2: "100 tries searching for luck are better".

- Players (subgroup A): "Give us Revan! He (or she? Or it?... ok, ok...)... Revan is our divinity, we must have Revan in the game!"
- Players (subgroup B): "Revan? Who??? Revan doesn't exist... Give us, instead, Padme, Snoke, Hux, Jedi Luke, C3PO..."
- Dev1 to Dev2: "Yes, we will release Revan"
- Dev2 to Dev1: "Fine, but how? Marquee? Legendary?"
- Dev1 to Dev2: "No, it will be a sort of Hero's journey. Five old republic toons at 7 stars will be required".
- Dev2 to Dev1: "But... they are farmable from... something like 5 minutes!"
- Dev1 to Dev2: "It doesn't matter... Who want Revan immediately, will pay 1000 dollars/euro".
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