kyledll Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 I have a question about the suggestion forum, do Bioware respond to the suggestion and put them in future expansions or do they not respond to suggestions? Because I would like to know because I suggested a new origin story that could have some potential. If you want to see more, check out the suggestion box I would like to hear some ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gericke Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 If BioWare publicly responds to a thread you will see their special "B" logo in the thread title. Take a look at the threads on the suggestion forum and make your mind up whether BioWare responds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyledll Posted July 16, 2022 Author Share Posted July 16, 2022 Thanks, I appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveTheCynic Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 Also note that they have a policy of not responding to suggestions, as noted in this post by EricMusco: It is actually by design that we respond rarely/if ever in the Suggestion Box forum. I can tell you that the team definitely reads that forum often to see what players would like to see. The challenge is that if we respond to specific threads or ideas, it will set an expectation that the idea is "confirmed going into the game" or could make other people feel like their ideas are getting less attention. It is that sensitivity that keeps us from not posting in there. We do read it though, so keep the suggestions coming! -eric PS - I should move this to the suggestion box since it is a suggestion, but then I wouldn't respond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyledll Posted July 16, 2022 Author Share Posted July 16, 2022 (edited) Also note that they have a policy of not responding to suggestions, as noted in this post by EricMusco: Oh thanks, SteveTheCynic. EDIT: Also, I hope they implement my new origin story suggestion into the game because that might be fun to play. Edited July 16, 2022 by kyledll Adding to what is on here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardrossan Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 Also note that they have a policy of not responding to suggestions, as noted in this post by EricMusco: That's like their philosophy for communicating in general lmao. "oops we better not respond to players otherwise there will be an expectation that we intend to regularly communicate in the future." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralGyro Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 Also note that they have a policy of not responding to suggestions, as noted in this post by EricMusco: eric has not been around for years now. things change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyriel Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 eric has not been around for years now. things change. Eric may no longer be Community lead, but he is still around as a producer. There is no reason to think that because someone has moved on to a different job that a previous post is no longer valid. There has not been any increase in response to suggestion threads... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ominovin Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 That's like their philosophy for communicating in general lmao. "oops we better not respond to players otherwise there will be an expectation that we intend to regularly communicate in the future."In the early years of WoW, the developers used to regularly come to the forums and discuss future ideas for the game. After a little while, they realized what a horrible mistake they had made when any suggestion of a possible feature was treated as a 'sacred promise' that it would be included in the next patch and players began demanding features that had only been mentioned as something they might look into in the future... Seriously, it got bad really fast, and the developers were basically ordered to never publicly visit the forums again. And this was in a game with a generally much more satisfied playerbase than SWTOR, so you can probably imagine how well developers would do on these forums... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirorx Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Eric Musco’s response makes sense. It would be nice to get a response, but I would have agree people would start jumping to the conclusion that any response was now written in stone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardrossan Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 In the early years of WoW, the developers used to regularly come to the forums and discuss future ideas for the game. After a little while, they realized what a horrible mistake they had made when any suggestion of a possible feature was treated as a 'sacred promise' that it would be included in the next patch and players began demanding features that had only been mentioned as something they might look into in the future... Seriously, it got bad really fast, and the developers were basically ordered to never publicly visit the forums again. And this was in a game with a generally much more satisfied playerbase than SWTOR, so you can probably imagine how well developers would do on these forums... I've heard this. I also think it has something to do with the doxxing they got on twitter after RotHC dropped many years ago. There was definitely a communication chilling after that. But I refuse to allow people in power to blame players for why they're so bad at their jobs, and I don't mean game designers or writers, I mean the CMs. Their job is to communicate so they need to find a way to do it, and in my opinion they have repeatedly failed to do that. They have always had many excuses for why they can't be straightforward, why they take forever to make any posts, why they ignore large sections of the forum, and I'm tired of it, it's pure arrogance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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