Thanks for clarifying!
I personally use Staff to mean “people who work for Small Giant as employees and are paid.” Often this includes members of the Support or Community Teams, not just developers or designers.
I picked up that usage from the Small Giant Staff, who typically use it the same way.
They typically distinguish Staff (paid employees) and Moderators (volunteer players), e.g.:
When being more specific about portions of the Staff:
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I use Support for people who reply to player tickets and help resolve player-specific issues.
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I use Developers for people who write the game software and build and maintain the servers.
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I use Game Designers for the people who design the game, most notably Tim, the lead game designer, whom I often refer to by name when citing the March AMA we did with him.
It’s a useful insight that someone could misread “Staff” to include Moderators, so I’ll make a point of trying to distinguish that every time I say Staff in my posts.