No q&a or July update
I can only speak for myself just how shocked I am.......you know what, I can't do it. Communication has completely died. There's nothing on discord from any of the bcs team and this place is also tumbleweeds.
I know one or 2 of us asked if communication could be improved a couple of times and was told it would be worked on.
I don't see the point of having an official forum when they can't be bothered to even drop by and let us know if there's a delay, reason for delay etc.
Anyway rant over.
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Yea it’s certainly disappointing how it’s gone from them communicating a ton, to them tailing off on it and the forum asking for a more clearer communications stream to them just completely leaving us in radio silence.
I understand the Q&A’s and the monthly calendar being updated throughout the month are extras that the dev team had been so gracious to provide us, but when we’ve grown so accustomed to seeing those things regularly, especially when you give us a time frame when you’re going to release those Q&A answers, and then you abruptly change our expectations by not providing those anymore and give us no communication letting us know what’s going on, it’s a hard pill to swallow.
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The dev communication has definitely fallen into a black hole. Not sure what the reason is but it is disappointing. We used to receive (regularly):
- Monthly Q&A
- Blog on why certain characters were developed the way they did
- Updated monthly calendars
- Release information on new items (supports, events, etc)
- Interaction with their customers in Forum/Discord/Reddit
- Bug Updates
Very disappointed on how much interaction we received when they first took over to now vs the crickets we hear now. It's like a whole different team behind the scenes has taken over and decided that the best communication is no communication.
Hope they are able to rectify this soon.
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When we had big gaps of communication in the past it was usually followed by big changes. Since they have indicated big changes in supports, economy, and QOL, my guess is at least some of it is coming soon.
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@captainheath said:
When we had big gaps of communication in the past it was usually followed by big changes. Since they have indicated big changes in supports, economy, and QOL, my guess is at least some of it is coming soon.I like your optimism dude, let's hope this is the case
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@captainheath said:
When we had big gaps of communication in the past it was usually followed by big changes. Since they have indicated big changes in supports, economy, and QOL, my guess is at least some of it is coming soon.Sure.
I'm certain the community managers are hard at work, coding those changes.4 -
The monthly update thread is a "perk" of the forums and so I can live with it not being updated even though that would be nice, please, thank you. However you can't invite a Q&A session and then completely abandon the timeline you set FOR YOURSELF and not expect a few raised eyebrows or confused grumpy frowns. Not least as one or more questions asked cover things that really need some answers - I will let the forum decide what matters to them.
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@Bowgentle said:
@captainheath said:
When we had big gaps of communication in the past it was usually followed by big changes. Since they have indicated big changes in supports, economy, and QOL, my guess is at least some of it is coming soon.Sure.
I'm certain the community managers are hard at work, coding those changes.I mean the forum is managed by 505, no? Some of the questions are on the coding side but others are on the publishing side - I guess nobody has spoken to each other this week.
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I suspect that quite a few of them have taken the week off. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the updates appearing next week.
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I gave the team a bit of a nudge after the Independence Day break and was told they'd be out soon.
My personal thought is that there is a bit of a bottleneck somewhere for whatever reason. I'm pretty sure that there isn't an intention to stop communicating, and @MPQBlaine has been drafted in recently to provide some extra support which would back that up.
I don't disagree that it's not great to be in the 2nd week before the month preview comes up but I'm sure that this is about capacity, not will and there is no doubt a good reason - that isn't limited to this forum as others have mentioned.
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I'm not sure why, after a year, we still should give the benefit of the doubt when it comes to communication.
Maybe there's a reason, maybe there isn't.
Thing is, communication drops off a cliff way more often than it should.2 -
If the lack of communication solely existed during this US holiday week, that would be one thing. But that is not the case. It is not just this holiday week. Communication fell off a cliff towards the end of last year and has not gotten better.
They started very, very well when the first took over with communication but (again, for whatever reason) there is a choice to not communicate like they used to when they first arrived.
Is it going to stop me from playing? Nope. But I personally wish that we went back to communication the way it was when they first took over MPQ.
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We still haven't gotten a post about the changes to Fury and Talos (did they change anybody else with that update? Anybody check all the characters?)
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I was expecting at least one snarky response, good to see I'm not the only one who feels they've disengaged not just this forum, but communication in general.
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@ThisisClemFandango said:
I was expecting at least one snarky response, good to see I'm not the only one who feels they've disengaged not just this forum, but communication in general.Last comment from Devpool on the discord channel was back in April...
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@LavaManLee said:
If the lack of communication solely existed during this US holiday week, that would be one thing. But that is not the case. It is not just this holiday week. Communication fell off a cliff towards the end of last year and has not gotten better.They started very, very well when the first took over with communication but (again, for whatever reason) there is a choice to not communicate like they used to when they first arrived.
Is it going to stop me from playing? Nope. But I personally wish that we went back to communication the way it was when they first took over MPQ.
I guess the honeymoon period is over.
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It’s not only the communication either.
They’ve also stepped away from some prior consistency that many players came to expect and planned around. For example, we’ve had several 5star classic Essentials not giving out progression shards when they were supposed to, skipped several new 4stars in the reward structure, had several days without a single PvE, and are making character and game changes without documenting them.
If the game was running on a consistent schedule like before, the lack of communication would have been less of a problem. But pair it with the schedule inconsistency and repeated bugs and it becomes frustrating.
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Need them we do.
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I wonder if whatever auto scheduler code they have in place finally shat the bed so hard that they don't know the upcoming releases completely. It is a decade old, after all. Either way, I'll stay optimistic and assume they feel behind on public outreach in preparation of a big future rollout.
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Maybe chasm rework drained the dev of all ap now they cannot fire their monthly q&a response, rebalance explanation and schedule...
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I guess we can add character preview to the list of things that are late...
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