5 years ago
GM Connected
Thousands of customers who have supported this game for years have been asking for GM Connected to come back since it left. There have been petitions all over the internet begging for this game mode....
The reason it matters when very few people use a feature is because it takes a lot of work to rebuild that mode in the current version of the game. I say there are high priorities because we want to make the most of the short time there is each year to build the new game. When there are 1500 people out of the hundreds of thousands that play the game wanting one feature, but the rest of the population wants work in other areas of the game, the dev team tends to focus on the features that benefit the large part of the community so it impacts the most people. Otherwise, spending countless hours on a feature very few play isn't the best way to utilize our resources. That's not to say we don't want GMC to return. I know there's a very big interest in that from the dev team so hopefully, it happens.
It doesn't make sense to spend thousands of hours developing a feature that no one will play. We can use that crucial development time to add and improve features that the community wants. I'm not saying there's no interest in GMC. Just adding some detail to your idea that we should spend a lot of time and resources on something when it'll never be used.
You say EASHL has become stale. What would you do to make it more fun?