Has everyone of the Staff/team at EA/Dice gotten a gag-ball ? One would think someone from EA/Dice could come with some replies for the fans prayers for legacy features. I feel we are in a echo-chamber right now ,not getting anywhere.There is hardly any evidence for any dialogue.All we get is public messages that are too well written.That leaves an impression that they're just polishing the game. E.g bugs and meta. Yes I know, the public messages has taken measures regarding bugs that players report.

Forums have never been an 'on request QA'. Most game developers 'respond' through actions not words, so I'd expect devs will be hard at work responding to the launch. So no, there's no 'gag order', though individual developers have 'non disclosure' process as part of their normal working. There's nothing unexpected here.

@Zoikon EA and DICE employees have never commented on any sort of controversy or incoming features/plans unless they have been authorized to do so from their job role and then it's an official company statement. To find out about future improvements pay attention to this channel: https://twitter.com/BattlefieldCommRegarding about getting anywhere, rest assured that the moderators, heroes, and CMs keep track of Community sentiment and important issues and send that data to the studio. There are also DICE employees who lurk here as well.

It's safer for their careers if they keep quite, yes. DRUNKKZ3 sometimes makes statements about the game on Twitter, but when someone recently asked him about the Scoreboard returning he basically said, no comment.So yes, there's some topics they're not allowed to talk about.

I don't blame them for not wanting to come to the forums here when all it is is bitching and moaning and hate-filled topics!

@SofaJockeyUK I get that. I get that not every employee should be speaking on behalf of the company. But the PR is cherry picking easy task and not speaking of bigger issues. I know devs aren't supposed to answer consumers, but they are the ones who get what the consumer are talking about. So maybe what I'm wondering about is how many PR"devs-notdevs" are there, and do they have any "power" ? Maybe I should register on Twitter...xP

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OskooI_007
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
It's safer for their careers if they keep quite, yes. DRUNKKZ3 sometimes makes statements about the game on Twitter, but when someone recently asked him about the Scoreboard returning he basically said, no comment.
So yes, there's some topics they're not allowed to talk about.
VBALL_MVP
4 years ago
@Zoikon wrote:
Has everyone of the Staff/team at EA/Dice gotten a gag-ball ?
One would think someone from EA/Dice could come with some replies for the fans prayers for legacy features. I feel we are in a echo-chamber right now ,not getting anywhere.
There is hardly any evidence for any dialogue.
All we get is public messages that are too well written.
That leaves an impression that they're just polishing the game. E.g bugs and meta.
Yes I know, the public messages has taken measures regarding bugs that players report.
I think they have done replies, there has been a couple of EA employees who have posted, also there has been the feed on the upcoming changes with patch #3 which shows they have been listening. Just bare in mind this area hasn't been the official communication area in past games and I assume it still isn't. That has been more traditionally on Twitter. I would suggest going on there if you want to have a more direct dialog.
CantGetRight
4 years ago
I don't blame them for not wanting to come to the forums here when all it is is bitching and moaning and hate-filled topics!
SofaJockeyUK
Hero+
4 years ago
Forums have never been an 'on request QA'.

Most game developers 'respond' through actions not words, so I'd expect devs will be hard at work responding to the launch.

So no, there's no 'gag order', though individual developers have 'non disclosure' process as part of their normal working. There's nothing unexpected here.
Zoikon
4 years ago
@SofaJockeyUK I get that. I get that not every employee should be speaking on behalf of the company. But the PR is cherry picking easy task and not speaking of bigger issues. I know devs aren't supposed to answer consumers, but they are the ones who get what the consumer are talking about. So maybe what I'm wondering about is how many PR"devs-notdevs" are there, and do they have any "power" ? Maybe I should register on Twitter...xP
VBALL_MVP
4 years ago
Registering on Twitter will get you closer to what you want from them.
ragnarok013
Hero+
4 years ago
@Zoikon EA and DICE employees have never commented on any sort of controversy or incoming features/plans unless they have been authorized to do so from their job role and then it's an official company statement. To find out about future improvements pay attention to this channel: https://twitter.com/BattlefieldComm

Regarding about getting anywhere, rest assured that the moderators, heroes, and CMs keep track of Community sentiment and important issues and send that data to the studio. There are also DICE employees who lurk here as well.
Kean_1111
4 years ago
@Zoikon
The company has officially made a statement(s) about the legacy features. I wouldn't expect CMs or others not authorized to release other details on the topic to say much more than already has been said. It's highly doubtful there has been any firm determination on where they will go with some of these requests regarding a traditional scoreboard, etc. Staff shouldn't speculate, leak inside information from meetings, etc. .....it's obvious what kind of problems that could cause if they did. They will wait until the company takes an official stance and / or are told otherwise.
Having said that, I do agree communication could be better. Seems to me that some headaches could be alleviated if they let folks know about some of the things that are for sure in the pipeline in regards to fixes, concerns, balancing, etc. rather than waiting until the last minute or being vague about it. The progression in Portal for example. They've been mum on the subject and then we saw XP being added back in but without weapon progression, etc. Then last week I spied a Tweet from Ripple Effect in response to a player regarding regression that they are "working on it". ....so it seems the change a week prior was just a stopgap although folks expected that might have been the final solution and were rightfully miffed. Now there is some hope.
I'll wager their main concern right now is fixing the existing, persistent issues and improving what's there in the game now. .....then I suspect legacy requests will become more of a focus as to what they will consider and what they won't. Who knows though.
Reddoguk
4 years ago
I mean what can they say?
There's so much missing and things people really wanted which is AWOL.
Remember BF4 was a mess on release too but they managed to turn it around.
I'm not religious but i pray 2042 gets turned around too.
I won't hold be breath though that's for sure.
Zoikon
4 years ago
@Kean_1111 Yes! Alot could be calmed if they could just communicated that they aknowledge the vets/fans frustration, and just say they will at least discuss a solution. Players are dropping day by day. If they would communicate such, they might save some of the people thinking of leaving.