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Isn't that exactly what the inbox is for?
Isn't that exactly what the inbox is for?
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Wondering if this is an earnest attempt to better inform the player base or if it'll just get loaded with fluff.0
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@FindingHeart8 - I expect that if I signed up, most of the newsletters would be left unread in my spam folder. That seems to be the case right now with the manufacturer newsletters I receive.1
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I'm just a bit concerned that this appeared with absolutely no explanation.
What's in the newsletter? Who is writing it? How often does it get released? Why should anyone sign up for it?
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Mburn7 said:I'm just a bit concerned that this appeared with absolutely no explanation.
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LakeStone said:Mburn7 said:I'm just a bit concerned that this appeared with absolutely no explanation.
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FindingHeart8 said:LakeStone said:Mburn7 said:I'm just a bit concerned that this appeared with absolutely no explanation.
What's in the newsletter? Who is writing it? How often does it get released? Why should anyone sign up for it?
D3Go! can’t simply pull Bob from Communications off the newsletter and send him over to the IT department to start fixing bugs. First, the IT department is a different company. Second, it’s on another contentent. Third, the rest of the department likely speaks Portuguese, Bob probably speaks only English, Finally, as I also have a Communications degree, I venture to guess Bob didn’t take any coding classes and cannot fix bugs.
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Is there anywhere to access the newsletter? I'm curious to get a look at it0
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starfall said:I guess one question this throws up is: why are they creating more ways to deliver us news at a time when they're releasing less news than ever?
1) This is just a general new way of releasing information to the masses outside the forums. The same information will probably be in the newsletter that we get in our "Announcements" here.
2) This is how they'll try to get more information out in the future, once Oktagon finishes catching up to paper and starts talking again. Again, a newsletter linked in app will reach more players than the forums will, so it makes sense to do it like this in a general sense.0 -
bken1234 said:FindingHeart8 said:LakeStone said:Mburn7 said:I'm just a bit concerned that this appeared with absolutely no explanation.
What's in the newsletter? Who is writing it? How often does it get released? Why should anyone sign up for it?
D3Go! can’t simply pull Bob from Communications off the newsletter and send him over to the IT department to start fixing bugs. First, the IT department is a different company. Second, it’s on another contentent. Third, the rest of the department likely speaks Portuguese, Bob probably speaks only English, Finally, as I also have a Communications degree, I venture to guess Bob didn’t take any coding classes and cannot fix bugs.
As MTGPQ is a joint-venture project between D3 and Octagon, and this is the MTGPQ newsletter, I would hope they would collaborate enough to recognize the game's primary needs that need to be met and prioritize accordingly.
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FindingHeart8 said:bken1234 said:FindingHeart8 said:LakeStone said:Mburn7 said:I'm just a bit concerned that this appeared with absolutely no explanation.
What's in the newsletter? Who is writing it? How often does it get released? Why should anyone sign up for it?
D3Go! can’t simply pull Bob from Communications off the newsletter and send him over to the IT department to start fixing bugs. First, the IT department is a different company. Second, it’s on another contentent. Third, the rest of the department likely speaks Portuguese, Bob probably speaks only English, Finally, as I also have a Communications degree, I venture to guess Bob didn’t take any coding classes and cannot fix bugs.
As MTGPQ is a joint-venture project between D3 and Octagon, and this is the MTGPQ newsletter, I would hope they would collaborate enough to recognize the game's primary needs that need to be met and prioritize accordingly.
I venture to guess they also have a receptionist, maybe a HR person, perhaps someone who does payroll. These tasks don’t take away from the jobs of the people working on the games they develop.
But again — you know all this right? It’s your job to know how businesses run.1 -
bken1234 said:FindingHeart8 said:bken1234 said:FindingHeart8 said:LakeStone said:Mburn7 said:I'm just a bit concerned that this appeared with absolutely no explanation.
What's in the newsletter? Who is writing it? How often does it get released? Why should anyone sign up for it?
D3Go! can’t simply pull Bob from Communications off the newsletter and send him over to the IT department to start fixing bugs. First, the IT department is a different company. Second, it’s on another contentent. Third, the rest of the department likely speaks Portuguese, Bob probably speaks only English, Finally, as I also have a Communications degree, I venture to guess Bob didn’t take any coding classes and cannot fix bugs.
As MTGPQ is a joint-venture project between D3 and Octagon, and this is the MTGPQ newsletter, I would hope they would collaborate enough to recognize the game's primary needs that need to be met and prioritize accordingly.
I venture to guess they also have a receptionist, maybe a HR person, perhaps someone who does payroll. These tasks don’t take away from the jobs of the people working on the games they develop.
But again — you know all this right? It’s your job to know how businesses run.
Regardless, I'm not here looking for a fight. My point was that despite being both separate companies, there seems to be a collaboration here that is more complex than simply outsourcing a project. I would assume D3 probably has several managers overseeing Octagon's progress, maybe occasionally D3 steps in to help Octagon if they get overwhelmed (seeing they are a small company handling multiple projects). Not being a D3 employee I cannot confirm their internal management, but this is the general standard.0 -
FH's point might be that D3 have an overall budget which they must split between their own publishing activities and the development work charged out to Oktagon, and from the perspective of him and some other players, it looks like D3 may be better served by shifting in the longer term towards allocating more of that budget pie to the sub-contracted development work.That's a fine opinion to present, but of course it should be clear that as customers we have far from complete information about D3's business. There'd be many factors D3 have to consider which we have no awareness of, even putting aside the things we know would be difficult (including what B has pointed out). It should also be clear that D3 aren't going to treat our opinions of their business strategy with any more weight than we'd be treating random customers' opinions of our own business strategies. The main take-away for D3 is probably that there exist customers who care enough to make this kind of suggestion, which they should take as a positive.As for a newsletter, something like that is a pretty standard channel for a business to have. All else being equal, D3 having one doesn't seem like a bad thing in any sense, for them or for customers. I haven't seen evidence that it's consuming inordinate resources.1
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