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Should Rolex or Cartier consider me when they make watches or should I just accept the fact that my Timex will suffice?
Should Gordan Ramsey look at his restaurant pricing for me or should I just settle for my Friday night Fish and Chips?
Businesses should cater to their customers as best they can but don't have to cater to everyone.
@Trokey66 wrote:
@ChrisAWJBethelDoes that mean that Aston Martin, Rolls Royce and Jaguar should consider me when making cars or in reality do I accept that I can only afford my Seat?
Should Rolex or Cartier consider me when they make watches or should I just accept the fact that my Timex will suffice?
Should Gordan Ramsey look at his restaurant pricing for me or should I just settle for my Friday night Fish and Chips?
Businesses should cater to their customers as best they can but don't have to cater to everyone.
Businesses will ALWAYS consider what customer wants. Without customers there's no businesses. It's a golden market rule.
- 5 years ago@dragonslayerxxx1 Business don't *always* consider what customers want, unfortunately. I have been a store manager for a couple of international companies that failed to adapt and change with the times, and they went bankrupt. They wanted to force consumers to adapt to *them,* instead of them adapting to the changing needs of the *consumers.* By the time they figured it out, it was too late to restructure and recover. For example, Gamestop is trying to do it now, but as soon as consoles switch to no disc drive, I feel that Gamestop will be done--unless they can successfully make the switch to collectibles, toys, game-related merchandise and clothing (which they have been working to do, for the last few years).
- 5 years ago@ChugKendall I agree, developers are making it so that they can receive endless income by closing their game and creating a new one. But we pay for the game to get eternal pleasure and not temporary as it happened with all Battlefield on the Frostbite engine. Offline Conquest with bots (As it was in Battlefield on the RefractorEngine) will give us the opportunity to play the game forever and be happy and we will know that we pay for the game to play it as much as we want and not temporarily.
- Trokey665 years agoSeasoned Ace@dragonslayerxxx1 So should Aston Martin, Rolls Royce and Jaguar be expected to make cheaper, lower quality cars, potentially at the expense of their higher end models and customers just so I can afford one?
Be sensible..... - Trokey665 years agoSeasoned Ace
@tyl0413Assuming that it is not yet planned in, budgets would need to be reallocated, the same with manpower and resourses. This reallocation would mean that something from the planned programme would have to be delayed, reduced in spec and/or even cancelled.
By the God's, do you guys actually live in the Real world? - ChrisAWJBethel5 years agoSeasoned Ace@Trokey66 Didn't you just criticize me for using insults?
- Trokey665 years agoSeasoned Ace
@ChrisAWJBethelI have refrained from directly throwing insults towards any named individual, mearly expressing my exasperation at the inability for some to grasp basic project management principles.
- ChrisAWJBethel5 years agoSeasoned Ace@Trokey66 You're making this argument like you've done this before. How do you know all this?
- Trokey665 years agoSeasoned Ace
@ChrisAWJBethel30 years in Betties flying circus, whilst there may not be direct read across (the military is not a business), I know all to well the impact changes can have on an established plan.
Now working for a large Defence Company, I am at least aware of, if not expert in budgetary constraints.
- ChrisAWJBethel5 years agoSeasoned Ace@Trokey66 'Bettie's Flying Circus'?
- Trokey665 years agoSeasoned Ace@ChrisAWJBethel Her Britannical Majesties Royal Air Force.
- ChrisAWJBethel5 years agoSeasoned Ace@Trokey66 Oh. That's actually kinda cool.
- Jesse1655 years agoSeasoned Ace
@Trokey66 wrote:
@ChrisAWJBethelHer Britannical Majesties Royal Air Force.Going to guess that flying the planes and jets is your favorite part of Battlefield?
@ChrisAWJBethel @tyl0413 As I said before we do want Offline Matches as well but at the same time we have also accepted that it won't be at launch. Nothing you say will change that and if you are reasonable about it they can still be added later just like they were for Battlefront 2.
But if all you do is continue to complain about it than they probably wouldn't and I wouldn't blame them for not adding it at that point. I would blame you.
Do I want them to add Offline Matches? YES!
But you also need to give them a reasonable time-frame to do it otherwise we will never get them.
- tyl04135 years agoSeasoned VeteranEA poor little indie company doesn't have to resource to develop a fully feature complete game for it's release.
- ChrisAWJBethel5 years agoSeasoned Ace@Jesse165 I agree, but people also said offline bots were going to be added post-launch for Battlefield V and they never were, so...
- ChrisAWJBethel5 years agoSeasoned Ace@Trokey66 Why not?
- Trokey665 years agoSeasoned Ace@ChrisAWJBethel I've spent my career fixing them, flying them in a video game doesn't really interest me.
- ChrisAWJBethel5 years agoSeasoned Ace@Trokey66 Why not?
- 5 years ago
@Trokey66 It's not the same thing. There are no two different versions of 2042 to choose from. There are no two distinctive market groups to sell it to. We're all buying the same game. You payed for it, you decide what you want from it. Sure, devs have control over their vision and some of technicalities but they SHOULD listen to YOU.
You think DICE came with modern setting on their own? Please-they got burnt so badly with BF5 and their ''ideas'' that they immediately backtracked to first safest haven they knew will get them back up. And not coincidentally, that safe haven is what players (consumers) always liked.
Besides, you're not targeted niche for those cars in a first place.
- 5 years ago@AristarhUcolov2 To be fair, "eternal pleasure" is not what EA wants, when it comes to trying to sell you a new game every couple of years. They have to make new games, and make more money, to be able to stay in business. One game version can make or break a studio, as has happened before. I would hate to see that. I do want EA to give me a great product, and listen to suggestions from the gamer community, but I do understand that they have to have repeat business to stay afloat.
- Jesse1655 years agoSeasoned Ace
Battlefield 4 is now completely unplayable on Xbox because of server problems. If there was ever a reason to make the Bot matches available offline this is it.
- Trokey665 years agoSeasoned Ace@dragonslayerxxx1 And perhaps people with poor interwebs who want offline 'bots' are not the target niche for DICE.
Parallels can dawn.