Well, this thread went insane.
@CG_JohnSalera - Thanks for making an appearance.
Needless to say, nobody expects you to respond to needlessly rancorous and insulting comments. ( @ioniancat21 - If you must launch vicious attacks on the devs, could you use your own thread, rather than mine? Same to anyone else who behaved rudely.)
However, there are many legitimate, politely-expressed concerns and complaints that sit for weeks with no answers. Examples:
- Why there is still so little replayable content, leading people to be bored.
- The lack of weekly and seasonal events, lagging far behind other games.
- Minimal and late responses to the promised Q&A series.
- Updates on progress in fixing GW, one of the few things there is to do in this game, and yet also among the most frustrating.
- The justification for creating a deliberate resource shortage by nerfing the droid/credit events to oblivion rather than improving them as we were led to believe was going to happen.
The last of these is, I'm sorry, inexcusable. You repeatedly told us that the old keycard battle system was going to be replaced with something better. Some people held off on using them, waiting for this improvement. Instead, you replaced it with something far worse. Not one single word has been uttered by you, by @EA_Jesse or anyone else as to what the justification for this was. Not one.
(You know who made out the best in that? Cynical people who said it would become worse and so stocked up on credits before the change. Do you know how difficult it is to support the dev team and encourage others to give you a break when you actually do the things that negative people say you will? )
At any rate, that list is what I am talking about with the title of this thread. Nobody expects you to be here chatting with us every day, I'm sure you are busy and your personal time is your own. But rather, it's about the deliberate avoidance of dealing with specific feedback on matters such as Q&A, GW, and the event system.
I'm sorry, but I think it is reasonable for people who are paying dozens or hundreds of dollars a month to want some transparency. It just doesn't take that long to post an update thread once per week, and IMO, as leader of the development team, it's not too much to ask of you.
It's also entirely reasonable, when you say "X is going to be replaced by Y, which will be an improvement", to ask for an explanation when it is clearly a step backward.