Open Letter on Communication to the Devs

they dont need to answer to you or anyone else on these forums, besides i think their lack of communication is mostly based in part on it being a strategic move in order to draw up interest which it has done for a few weeks now since the announcement. i dont see what needs to be discussed beyond that.

Except that... for years developers developed games in a vacuum and they did just fine. Remember those days? When games were purchased on CD-ROM? Or (gasp) floppy disk? Gamers had exactly zero input on those games, and while there were plenty that were failures, there were loads of successes.

Modern gamers have an overinflated sense of expertise in the market. They might have opinions, but those opinions don't translate easily into good ideas.

No.

You know what you enjoy. You don't know what we enjoy. The problem is that what you enjoy may be distinctly different from what I enjoy, and even when the two of us agree, there may be a hundred other people who never even come to these forums who disagree.

See, that's the problem. You feel like you speak for everyone, or rather, you feel that your opinions are universal enough that they have weight. However, you lack the perspective to actually verify that. A developer that actually listens to their customers needs to filter out the raging horde of shouts for all manners of contradictory things and try to find a set of things that will please the most people.

And that's going to upset some people.

And with this forum, that usually translates into people insisting that Bioware never listens to anyone... because Bioware didn't listen to them ... in that one thing they wanted. If Bioware's lucky, they just get insulted for a few weeks. Sometimes they get death threats. Sometimes, they get people trolling their forum for months. Sometimes they get people who have to (repeatedly) announce that they're not going to sub anymore because those selfish developers didn't implement [super important feature that matters to 0.01% of the players].

But they'll never be able to make everyone happy. And more often than not, they're going to work to make the silent majority happy, rather than the vocal minority who post here.

What the hell people...calm down guys...all he did was ask. You guys need to R E L A X...there were no demands, no threats...just a very polite questions was asked.

[COLOR="rgb(46, 139, 87)"] Definetly would be willing to talk about features, or, heck, even just watch conversations about others. [/COLOR]

[COLOR="rgb(46, 139, 87)"] Now however, because of a few imbecilles that as usual get faaaar to detatched from reality, they had to go and pester devs, and the ones close to them. Rightfully, may I say, they've clammed up again. I personally didn't write anything regarding the mara/sent changes, but, yeah, I'm also getting the consequences of it. TLR, if the devs have clammed up again, blame those fellas, not them [/COLOR]

Allow me! in green, cuz red = hostile and yellow = devs color

Coloring fail in the quoting. Good luck whoever attempts to read that.

i dont know where you got that idea that i was running amok, and in a matter of writing dont put words into my mouth.

I didn't put anything in your mouth...and I got the idea from your opening statement:
RELAX! There's no reason to be so rude.

If SWG was as good as people pretend like it was, it'd still be around.

okay you want to me put you on an ignore list or do you want to drop it? your choice, im not playing this sily game with you tux.

I did as well, and find it puzzling because one of the biggest issues (as indicated in another thread) was the lack of communication around the NGE, so .... yeah SWGFAIL again.

You want a good example of such communication - reference Trion and Defiance. At least there the dev team have learned from past mistakes and has improved much in terms of open and honest communication, and proper testing procedures.

After all, both games are in the same industry and both are Science Fiction.

I followed the link, and read the article: Is "Holocron" THE "Holocron"...???