"Gorgus;c-2374865" wrote:
From my POV, CG created this firestorm not through what they did or didn’t do in game, but entirely as a product of poor communication. I think the gear economy changes they made last fall were a pretty big deal and have made a positive impact. If they had phrased it at the time as, “We are making this change, and may look to make further enhancements in the future based on what we observe in the gear economy”, none of this firestorm happens. But instead they were very specific about a Phase 1 and a Phase 2 and discussed timelines “in the near future”.
It seems clear now that they were pretty happy with the impact of the first round of changes and rethought the idea of adding more changes at this time. Which is fine, except they never told us that, and the players were waiting for action on a specific plan that they put out to us. Here we are almost a year later, and they have never addressed it other than an offhand remark by an employees in a booth at a convention and very vague comments by a community manager in a YouTube interview. A classic example of an “unforced error” which could have been easily avoided through communication.
