Well, my ego is quite large, but you should consider that I was playing the game for months, and I played through the entire alpha, and never pointed out a thing. And never interfeared, posted very rarely and never a lot, patiently waiting for alpha-old issues to get some attention on their own. That's months of being annoyed and aggravated at stuff that was both obvious and possibly quite easy to adress. I didn't "show up" out of nowhere, I was here for a good long while.
EDIT: And if you don't believe me, check this old thread out:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=417&start=10 . That was the old monk. Notice the extent of my interfearance? Notice Darvins reaction? My justification for not posting anything for ages was - if most of the guys here aren't aware of how broken the monk is, then the Devs must be better at the game then them, and the dev's will surely come around to fixing it. And they did nerf him once, but not nearly enough.
I don't think the change comes through me, and if I influenced the reaggangement of their priorities in any way, it was all that mattered. Every time I saw an update, it was obvious what was the current goal, wether adding gods, or monster classes, or whatever, so i kept silent. And by the state of mind of the community, and the changelogs that kept happening, you couldn't really tell if the Devs were aware of some of this stuff at all. Hell, I wasn't aware of the Complicated Tasks I & II shop problem, and it really is big, go ahead an try not unlocking only them, and see for yourself.
I must admit, I do feel like taking some credit for some of this - partly as a way to apologize for being so annoying. And I made this thread as a way to keep spamming my annoyance into one place where it can be easily avoided by anyone who doesn't wan't to hear about it. And I did do a couple of things that were considered impossible or harder than it really was, and prove a hypothesis here and there about what led people to thing it was imossible. So did plenty of other testers and I give them credit for that, and all I've learned and keep learning from them and their efforts. I'm just annoyed that I was forced to even TRY those things to unlock content I was supposed to test -.-
The two essay lenght posts in the game balance philosophy thread are there so anyone can see what led me (and a couple of other guys) to conclude that the recent nerfs are justified and beneficial - they're the history of 2-3 long threads and events, and months of testing the game, boiled down to 2 posts. If someone asks were the nerfs justified, or why they were so vigorously demanded, and the answer takes an essay - let there be an essay. I'll also limit my interfearance into anything for a good while, too.
And for spamming the bugfix thread, I was just trying to give details about crashes, and the circumstances.
TLDR: The game was long overdue a reality check, I created, if anything, the circumstances for more people demanding one, stuff happened, and testing and development can go on, and I can return to being my usual unobtrusive self.