EA/DICE respond to backlash
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I'm pretty sure we are looking at an MVP. Folk need to chill out or walk away if they are finding the journey too stressful.
Definition
A minimum viable product (MVP) is a concept from Lean Startup that stresses the impact of learning in new product development. Eric Ries, defined an MVP as that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort. This validated learning comes in the form of whether your customers will actually purchase your product.
A key premise behind the idea of MVP is that you produce an actual product (which may be no more than a landing page, or a service with an appearance of automation, but which is fully manual behind the scenes) that you can offer to customers and observe their actual behavior with the product or service. Seeing what people actually do with respect to a product is much more reliable than asking people what they would do.
Expected Benefits
The primary benefit of an MVP is you can gain understanding about your customers’ interest in your product without fully developing the product. The sooner you can find out whether your product will appeal to customers, the less effort and expense you spend on a product that will not succeed in the market.
Common Pitfalls
Teams use the term MVP, but don’t fully understand its intended use or meaning. Often this lack of understanding manifests in believing that an MVP is the smallest amount of functionality they can deliver, without the additional criteria of being sufficient to learn about the business viability of the product.
Teams may also confuse an MVP–which has a focus on learning–for a Minimum Marketable Feature (MMF) or Minimum Marketable Product (MMP)–which has a focus on earning. There’s not too much harm in this unless the team becomes too focused on delivering something without considering whether it is the right something that satisfies customer’s needs.
Teams stress the minimum part of MVP to the exclusion of the viable part. The product delivered is not sufficient quality to provide an accurate assessment of whether customers will use the product.
Teams deliver what they consider an MVP, and then do not do any further changes to that product, regardless of feedback they receive about it.
Potential Costs
Proper use of an MVP means that a team may dramatically change a product that they deliver to their customers or abandon the product together based on feedback they receive from their customers. The minimum aspect of MVP encourages teams to do the least amount of work possible to useful feedback (Eric Ries refers to this as validated learning) which helps them avoid working on a product that no one wants.
I don't think DICE needs a minimum viable product approach to see how a battlefield game works. If they don't know how BF players use the product by now then a MVP won't help them.
It's a BR game that switched into a BF game somewhere in the dev cycle that EA forced out before Christmas.
I'll reinstall it if it ever turns into a real BF game.
I had to work Christmas eve, the day after and new years day. I also work a much more physical job then sitting in a chair for hours on end. Must be nice to have weeks off at a time
@fragnstein wrote:I had to work Christmas eve, the day after and new years day. I also work a much more physical job then sitting in a chair for hours on end. Must be nice to have weeks off at a time
It is.
I'm not quite sure why people are hating this tweet so much? Yes, the game needed at least a few months, but DICE always goes on vacation at this time and while these features should have indeed been here at launch in my opinion, the things people want can't just be pulled out of thin air in a week.
Something as simple as creating a new gun skin can take forever the way they need to bounce information off of eachother so we unfortunately just need to hang tight for the time being.
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