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Recently while participating in the various different forums (both public and private) that I participate in, I have noticed an increase in the questions like: "I just bought this now how do I get it to work?" or "Make it work for me because I can't get it to work!". Whatever happened to trying to get it working yourself and persevering until you get it done. That's it ... perseverance ... that's exactly what is missing with the younger generation these days. In this day and age of instant fixes and fast-food they expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Case and point a recent post on one of the Garage Games forums. I have decided to keep this anonymous to not get into who it is, but rather focus on how they went about things. This person bought the lower-end version of the T3D game engine and then went straight to the forums and posted this: So I downloaded this engine and I cant find like the client startup. Only see the demo application in the files. Anyone can help me?
Being the helpful bunch that all the forum members on the site are, they recommended that this individual look at the "getting-started" documentation to help get him going ... which coincidentally is exactly where I started when I first starting learning this product. And this was his response: How do I merge there source codes?
Case and point ... I am too lazy to work through the documentation and figure out how to use the game engine so I will go for a quick fix and just get someone to tell me how to do it. What is the point? Surely as a fairly intelligent person you want to learn something and not be spoon fed everything ... or am I wrong? I guess I will never know, but what I do know is that there is a definite generation gap between me and some of the young people I am meeting these days and this just leads me to one conclusion ... I am getting old! On an added note, this same individual this morning posted a complaint on the website saying that the documentation was inadequate and that support wasn't helping him. Funnily enough he hasn't paid for support which naturally implies he is now complaining about the FREE support. Secondly within minutes of reading his post I managed to point him to the wealth of documentation available for the engine that would have addressed his concerns ... the problem is that he would actually have to READ something; which judging by his complaint is not something he is willing to do. Oh well ... I tried!!! :( |
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