Thoughts on the 'Feedback Loop'
I don't want the risk of being called 'toxic', so I will refrain from saying that I consider this current 'feedback loop' to be a joke. Well, maybe it's not even that. So I rather say that I am very ...
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Straatford87
DICE Team
DICE TeamThere are a few questions and comments on the Feedback Loop that I can definitely clarify.
Why aren't we hosting more feedback topics at the same time?
From our end we believe that a focused discussion is a better discussion. However, that doesn't mean that we suddenly stop reading feedback on other topics , or that we've ignored those previously. We've received plenty of feedback from the community from before, throughout and post launch. My team has been consistently collecting and reviewing that feedback and providing it to our teams in a digestible format. We will continue doing that. But we also want to have the open discussion that you see now with the Feedback Loop. In this case, for Maps.
The work on other areas of the game does not stop while we are having this focused discussion. It's an ongoing process, and development takes time.
How much time will this Feedback Loop take?
We're not just reading comments here on these forums, but also on other Social Media spaces such as Reddit, Discord, and Twitter. There are thousands of comments out there right now. It will take some time for us to read, format, deliver and then reflect on what we've learned in a follow-up post for you. That means it won't be a matter of a few days.
@Straatford87
Thank you for reply! I appreciate the response, even though this more or less confirms that there are not many developers working on BF2042 anymore.
And fully understand the restrictions you have in communicating this or confirming this fact directly.
What I don't understand is why certain measures that take basically NO effort on your end as far as developer hours are concerned and for which you have clear and unambiguous demand from the community are not implemented.
You must have gathered the feedback that basically EVERYONE here as well as on the 'other media' prefers persistent servers with clear map rotation over match making for every round. You have proven to be able to bring this in an instant if you wanted.
What exactly prevents you from doing that? Why are you not giving the players at least persistent servers (like you did with Rush for instance, but just for the CQ64 and CQ128 game modes)? This is NOTHING that you need a dedicate additional feedback loop on. You read this everywhere and still refuse to do that. WHY?
Thank you for reply! I appreciate the response, even though this more or less confirms that there are not many developers working on BF2042 anymore.
And fully understand the restrictions you have in communicating this or confirming this fact directly.
What I don't understand is why certain measures that take basically NO effort on your end as far as developer hours are concerned and for which you have clear and unambiguous demand from the community are not implemented.
You must have gathered the feedback that basically EVERYONE here as well as on the 'other media' prefers persistent servers with clear map rotation over match making for every round. You have proven to be able to bring this in an instant if you wanted.
What exactly prevents you from doing that? Why are you not giving the players at least persistent servers (like you did with Rush for instance, but just for the CQ64 and CQ128 game modes)? This is NOTHING that you need a dedicate additional feedback loop on. You read this everywhere and still refuse to do that. WHY?
- @DuaneDibbley Definitely a question we would all like an answer too.
MM is one of the most frustrating things I hate about BF2042.
A Server Browser / Persistent Servers is the only way to go.!!@RayD_O1
The most frustrating thing is, that basically EVERYONE (I honestly don't know of any exception) would be happy with MM into persistent and official Portal servers, running a map rotation of the current BF2042 maps with BF2042 vanilla settings as an intermediary workaround. Analogous to what we had with Rush -- and with full XP of course.
Yes, it is not the perfect long term solution. But it is FAR superior of what we have now and we know for a fact that this would take them not even one day of work to implement (literally 10 minutes for the mode to be created in Portal).
Everyone agrees this is better, it is of no effort to EA/Dice -- what better guarantee can we have that this will NEVER be done?So, @Straatford87 , why the beep not do that?
@DuaneDibbley wrote:@RayD_O1
The most frustrating thing is, that basically EVERYONE (I honestly don't know of any exception) would be happy with MM into persistent and official Portal servers, running a map rotation of the current BF2042 maps with BF2042 vanilla settings as an intermediary workaround. Analogous to what we had with Rush -- and with full XP of course.
Yes, it is not the perfect long term solution. But it is FAR superior of what we have now and we know for a fact that this would take them not even one day of work to implement (literally 10 minutes for the mode to be created in Portal).
Everyone agrees this is better, it is of no effort to EA/Dice -- what better guarantee can we have that this will NEVER be done?So, @Straatford87 , why the beep not do that?
Add this to huge pile of other things that could be cleared up with a simple yes or no response.
