Dear Developers when will you finally respond to all the feedback you got?

[velvet_illusionZ]

When will you finally lay out your grand theme of things and explain why you are doing what you are doing? WE ARE WAITING!

[casirabit]

Simple answer:

Never or after they lose a lot of players, then they may rethink their decisions but by that time it might be too late. Their history is to ignore all this, especially right now. They will release the expansion just like it is and then they will go on their month or two month vacation during the holidays and maybe in mid January they will consider changes but this time it might be too late.

Edited November 4, 2021 by casirabit

[ExarSun]

Too late. They are always too late when it matters. Understanable though...from people that dont play their own game. Or are so bad at it.

[TheVoyant]

You could correlate all the data, outline the financial losses, detail the track record of bad design decisions, highlight that they're not playing into their strengths, etc...

 

Bottom line is we've tried endlessly to get thru to the Devs, but at best it seems we're going to get more of the same used car salesman tactics.

 

It is comical that they double down on failure so often. It is unfortunate for us they want to water down the game with half baked plans that seem mostly motivated as cash grabs. Expect 4-6 more posts of "We're improving the way ________, so we're removing this feature everyone loves or no one has a problem with."

 

They insult the intelligence of their base, and manipulate those who trust people at face value as far as I'm concerned.

 

Just another case where power corrupts what could be something where the majority benefit. Wasted potential.

Edited November 4, 2021 by TheVoyant

[Dmnqwk]

Common forum mistake is to believe they are anything but a small, vocal minority.

 

Very small.

 

I mean, don't use such pitiful sample sizes to proclaim the voices on the forums are anything else, and then you might understand why they don't respond to the ten or twenty people who ask them a question out of the tens of thousands of players who are playing the game.

[LordCamTheGreat]

Unfortunately the major changes have already had so much time and money spent on them that it's far too late to make changes. There are many different design methodologies that the team could be using and it does feel like they've been focusing less and less on user centric design and going more with a dev knows best approach where users only test the final model that is already too late to change. We keep getting told that our feedback means something, and that may still be true, but there simply isn't enough time to properly iterate anymore.

 

For all the more minor things like moving certain abilities and passives around...it really does make no sense why we're not seeing rapid iteration so close to launch apart from a lack of developers working on the expansion. We've seen a good and positive amount of changes based on feedback for the Guardian/Juggernaut, but that's it - not even mentioning the fact that overall feedback towards pruning appears to be negative (at least on forums/reddit). Considering the expansion is supposed to launch sometime next month (holidays 2021), I fully expect many combat styles to be considered "broken" at launch despite the entire concept behind pruning being to streamline classes and make them easier to balance and play.

 

Another example would be the fact that there have been complaints about the ABC system being unreadable since it was first released - and it hasn't been changed yet (can be hard to tell which skill you have selected). There are plenty of simple fixes such as changing the selection colours, reducing opacity on non-selected skills etc. but there's too much to do and too little time to do it properly.

[The-Kaitou-Kid]

Yeah, I don't think they're going to be responding to anything. We've gotten to a point where they refuse to even let us know that there was a patch or what was even in it. It's been 2 days since a random unannounced 500MB+ patch, people have asked what it was, why the server was down, etc, not a peep, no update to the changelog, nothing. I don't know if it's a matter of them not being able to handle the criticism they're getting or if they just don't care, but it's pretty obvious we won't be getting any further responses. Maybe we'll see another article or blog post announcing some new feature, but don't expect any actual engagement. That hasn't been on the menu since July.