The most active and constructive community is on the forums and sometimes we feel abandoned ☹️
I really do not know why game companies are only using twitter to bring news..... 80% players dont care about twitter.... Facebook and foruns are better
Jalisbr wrote:
The most active and constructive community is on the forums and sometimes we feel abandoned ☹️
I really do not know why game companies are only using twitter to bring news..... 80% players dont care about twitter.... Facebook and foruns are better
The majority of the GW community are actually the silent thousands who just play the game unaware of what goes on within forums/social media. The tactical avoidance that developers adopt towards forums is pretty commonplace throughout all games because in all honesty they have no need to appease the small percentage of people who happen to have an opinion of their creation and choose to air it within places like this. A minority voice will never be harmful enough to influence the game financially so realistically speaking it doesn't really matter how the development team choose to address comments within their forums.
Have a public shout thinking you're actually doing something positive but in reality you're not doing anything at all. A bit of a placebo effect.
A minority voice will never be harmful enough to influence the game financially so realistically speaking it doesn't really matter how the development team choose to address comments within their forums.
In some instances you're right. I'm going to use the Xbox One here as an example. Remember when they wanted to implement all those terrible ideas at launch. And no matter how much gamers protested on social media, MS didn't budge. Not until all those preorders didn't come. Only then---when they felt it in the pocketbook, did they do a 180.
But then you look at what happened a year later with the Xbox One. Some idiot who fancied himself an environmentalist writes one article slamming the Xbox One for being an energy hog due to its optional standby mode. And MS freaks out, redoing the OS trying to assure the public at large their product won't destroy the planet, because they're terrified to incur the wrath of the PC crowd. All because of one guy!
So yeah, a small group, even one individual can force change, if you hit 'em where it counts!
@triskiss
Yes I remember the pre-launch antics of MS very well regarding how they thought the consumer wanted the console to go forward - and how the consumer didn't exactly agree with their proposals. My preorder was cancelled due to the proposed lack of DVD / Blu-Ray drive, effectively pushing the games market into the digital world. Having spent a gaming lifetime listening to software houses and publishers reeling out excuse after excuse as to why we pay overinflated prices for our software the 'appeal' of being locked into a ridiculously overpriced digital content system just wasn't going to happen. Full stop.
I don't recall the eco issue but I do get your point. The slight difference being that the console was a multi-billion dollar venture and couldn't be written off anywhere near as easily as, say, a game developed for a few million dollars. PopCap have far more scope to write off GW2 - maybe not so much as a failed venture but more like something that didn't perform in a way that it was expected to do so - and simply move on to a new project. On the other hand Microsoft didn't really have that flexibility and had to act accordingly.
At the end of the day I do have hope for GW2 and although I don't particularly like having to do so, I will hang around until such a point where it either makes the grade or it doesn't. Hopefully the former but we shall see. I also understand that others are not so tolerant (you buy a game in order to play it today, not tomorrow) and these people are quite within their rights to voice their disappointment. If it means flooding the forums with the same old comments then that's the way it has to be. Remember, if PopCap had reached the goal of what the end product of development, testing AND a beta run was supposed to achieve then what we are seeing now would simply not be happening so, you know, the generated negativity is entirely of their own making and they have no one to blame but themselves.
What I will say to these people though is why not come along and join the GW1 party until the game is fixed ?
The G&G lobbies are constantly full and apart for some occasional terrible lag (when you're moving but not moving) it's a still a damn good experience.
