Open Letter on Communication to the Devs

I don't see the purpose of this post. Is it to increase communication from the devs? Because outside of small issues, there is a very real process they have to go through to clear something to be posted because EA controls things. It's not like they can just decide to talk about X because it may not fit into the strategy being used to promote the game.

And what information would " we " need? Just gimme a few topics samples, or something

#itwasntmeantlikethatitwastodemonstratethatcommuni cationcanbegood

Major issues are never up for player discussion in any game I know of. You link to SWG things of the past, yet it has nothing to do with your own subject. You can say, they should model after it, but in truth and reality, SWG never had it, ever. Never.

Not sure if you had actually played SWG or not, but people keep looking back with either hate or rose tinted glasses. Saying NGE ruined the game, or this and that was better. The simple fact is, the game closed due to being a massive flop over the years. It had it's high points, but it had its lows as well.

Back to the main subject though, we, as the players, can give input and that is about it. But we have no right, nor ever will, to know more then what is needed. Our opinions do matter, since without customers a company doesn't fair well. But we aren't in control and can't demand to know more then what is needed.

obsession makes for a better perfume than communication style.

I have to disagree with this last part a little bit. It's true we aren't in control (directly) of the game, but when developers develop in a vacuum then most likely they are doomed to fail. We (as paying customers) have a vested interest in the game, and want it to succeed, because it is the object from which we derive enjoyment. We know intimately more than anyone else what we enjoy. So for a developer to not foster that feedback, and intentionally ignore the pleas to listen, then it just a matter of time.

I realize that I missed out. I never played SWG. So, I guess it's natural that I fail to truly grasp the sense of loss suffered by those who did.

From the many prosaic odes to SWG I've seen in these Forums, it's like SWG was our soulmate. Our perfect MMO partner. SWG gave us what we needed and never disappointed. Until that horrible day. Until NGE (for the record, I still have no clue what NGE is/was). After that, SWG changed. We stopped communicating. What once seemed effortless suddenly became toil. Then ... SWG was gone. SWG packed her (or his) bags and left us. Never to return. How many nights did we lie awake, picturing SWG and weeping at the truth: We were alone.

But then, we met SWTOR. For those who had played SWG, SWTOR seemed ... familiar ... similar. If they squinted their eyes just enough, they began to think SWTOR could be SWG. But they were always fooling themselves. Like your friend who only dates redheads because they remind him of a lost love. Slowly, the eye-squinting SWG lovers realized that SWTOR is not SWG. And they began to punish SWTOR for not being SWG. In passive-aggressive posts about how "SWTOR is fine, but SWG did it this way ...."

As I said, I never dated ... er ... played SWG. When I met SWTOR, it wasn't through the filter of having known SWG. I came to SWTOR without any expectations that SWTOR mirror SWG in any way. I judge SWTOR solely on the basis of what it is. Which has always been enough to ensure my devotion.




TLDR: I tune out any comments based on how this game differs from a game I never played.