Community ManagerIt wasn't just a small, vocal part of the community. There were also complaints that we changed things when we didn't. I'm not saying we'll never go back to having tuners. It's possible that could happen, but we've avoided this for the last couple of years due to the community feedback.
You're absolutely right that a meta develops and that is what causes the complaints that the game was better during the beta/launch. People are gonna believe what they wanna believe though regardless of what the patch notes say. Or don't say, in this case.
@EA_Aljo wrote:It wasn't just a small, vocal part of the community. There were also complaints that we changed things when we didn't. I'm not saying we'll never go back to having tuners. It's possible that could happen, but we've avoided this for the last couple of years due to the community feedback.
You're absolutely right that a meta develops and that is what causes the complaints that the game was better during the beta/launch. People are gonna believe what they wanna believe though regardless of what the patch notes say. Or don't say, in this case.
I believe this is a case of the team not seeing the forest for the trees. The issue was not in the tuner updates. The issue here, and I hate to keep harping on this, is total lack of communication. When you make changes to a game, followed by a minimal amount of information as to what has changed, why it has changed, and how it has impacted the game, will generate a ton of speculation from your community. Leaving people to guess at what has changed causes these speculative posts about those changes, e.g., "my guy is faster now", "my guy is slower now", "it's harder to score", "it's easier to score", "defense is harder", "defense is easier", etc.
This speculation is eventually going to turn into truth from the community, especially when there is a lack of any qualitative rebuttal from the those who make the game. The selective secrecy around this game, and the total blackout of information about features, and how they work, is the main cause of this. It is not because tuners changed. It's unfathomable that in today's day and age, a game that is almost a year old, has received little in terms of gameplay adjustments.
I'll take your word about the team being aware of the communication issue, but actions speak louder than words, so I guess we wait and see.
Community ManagerThat's a fair statement, but we also haven't released anything that really needed further explanation since these updates stopped. Going forward, should these updates resume, I'll do my best to get finer details from the team in regards to gameplay. I know the patch notes previously could be open to interpretation and it would be nice to at least provide more accurate details. Not that it's going to stop the speculation on changes that didn't happen, but at least we'd be getting the correct details to you all.
