Jaavik Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 How about we present some ideas to try to alleviate some of the stress that seems to be rampant in the forums. A lot of the complaints I'm personally coming across is over a perceived "lack of communication" between the developer's and the subscribers. I, for one, love this game and I really want it to succeed and I don't want to see subscriptions drop because players feel like they are roaming around in the dark, waiting for things to get better. I'm not personally accusing either side of being wrong, I would just like to see some constructive ideas. I though this could be a good place to pitch some ideas without all the aggressiveness... My idea is for some kind of a chart (possibly as a "sticky" in the forums) that may list several different features that are being requested and have some kind of release estimation - however vague (with the EXPRESS understanding that the dates are subject to change). i know a lot of this information is already out there (dev tracker, weekly (now BI-weekly) Q&A and blogs), but after an amount of time, the data gets pushed down and lost in the shuffle of the forums and it would be cool to have a single location to get quick updates (when available) and get a general idea of when the devs have heard our suggestions and which ones are being taken seriously. The moderator of this particular thread could even implement "polls" that could give the subscribers the opportunity to vote on what features they think are needed or not needed and what features should take priority over others, so the developer's can get a sense of what the player base is more eager to implement (people may be willing to delay the ability to change hairstyles over - say - a side-kicking system, etc) It's not perfect, but it would give the players some assurance that the ideas are being looked into/worked on and it give a sense of interactivity between Bioware and the gamers. If anyone has any additional ideas to fine tune this one, I'd love to hear it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanorDM Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 with the EXPRESS understanding that the dates are subject to change. This has never worked. The moment the Dev's put a date on something, that date is set in stone, and there will be flames when that date is changed or if the system isn't out on the promised date. I don't care what you tell people, or how you word it. A date is always read as being a written in stone promise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GorZie Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 (edited) Some really good points Jaavik. I would recommend another sub forum where dev's or mod's can move topics to, which have been hot, where users can't open new threads just to reply on the topics. Threads could be moved by poll or dev's interest. One thing I really miss here is dev's commenting on players ideas. Its also unnecessary to have the same thread like 10 times. People just throw in a "like to have this race in the game" threads. Not very helpful either cause it clogs the forum. I might have been guilty of this myself. Edited May 14, 2012 by GorZie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaavik Posted May 15, 2012 Author Share Posted May 15, 2012 This has never worked. The moment the Dev's put a date on something, that date is set in stone, and there will be flames when that date is changed or if the system isn't out on the promised date. I don't care what you tell people, or how you word it. A date is always read as being a written in stone promise. I agree it's a "damned if you do and damned if you don't" scenario for Bioware, but maybe they should do it for the benefit of the loyal subscribers and not just to silence the tantrum-throwers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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