Shard Economy Changes [MEGA]

"Shadowmaster4;c-2191123" wrote:

"Kyno;c-2191122" wrote:

"Shadowmaster4;c-2191113" wrote:

"Kyno;c-2191112" wrote:

"JarJarRequissa;c-2191107" wrote:
as a computer programmer i cant accept that this is too hard to fix issue. I know i didnt write the code for the app but I have written programs in many different languages and know enough about Ios and Android coding methods to say that is not a sufficient answer for a company like ea/cg.

Did they say too difficult?

As a project manager, I can assure you that some times unexpected issues will be pushed aside to keep a project moving forward with the full intent of circling back to it or trying to find a solution, without changing project deadlines. That has to be expressed somehow, and is not uncommon. At no point is it just about one point of "too difficult" or "too busy" it's a balance between getting the project done and meeting the goals set. They are just expressing the situation with some visibility on what's going on.

If this is the case and they are planning to circle back, why would they not say so and instead leave a vague and open ended statement like "we will explore fixing it in a future update?" That's akin to admitting there is currently no plan to address the issue. Unless I'm otherwise mistaken, saying they won't even explore it until a future update probably means they aren't even collecting input yet, or looking into Bronzium alternatives, they just plan to leave the whole thing until much further down the road.

They may not have used those words, but they did give that impression. Otherwise, why say :

We will explore increasing this rate in a future update.

Ok, you can take that however you want, but that seems like there is a plan, and they just don't want to commit to any direct timeline.

Again did they say "much further", no. We can argue about the wording and how you take what they said all day, if you dont think its going to happen, then that's how you will read that. Which is fine, we all have our own grain of salt on every word we read.

If they had a plan, and it was an easy fix, then after seeing such backlash to this small problem they could easily just release a statement saying "alright we've explored it, we're gonna increase the rate." Either they don't have a plan which means it's gonna take them a while, or it isn't an easy fix which means it's gonna take them a while, or they were leaving themselves a back door to never fix it at all.

They released this remark 2 days ago and had a holiday yesterday, so if you feel they should be reacting to any backlash, you may be jumping the gun a bit.

But also, they were probably aware this was not going to be liked since they are missing one of their stated goals, and they may want to still roll this out without that element and get to it when its planned (internally)without committing to anything externally.

I get that, but they did release a statement, and that is the statement they are comfortable with. Take it how you want, but they are not likely to make another statement saying basically the same thing unless something has changed in their end.