Motren said: ThaRoadWarrior said: This dev team is almost certainly very small, and working with very limited resources. I think it's a mistake to assume every game you play has an army of people behind it, particularly a free to play mobile game of this vintage, so I find it highly unlikely there is room in the budget for specialty consultants or user focus groups when you're feeding the content furnace as often as this game is. I don't know if they are, but you could keep this game going with a full time designer and a full time engineer, with a contract artist and a shared QA asset if your tools are good. I've known personally late stage F2P games that were being maintained by a single full time designer. And again I'd like to be very clear I don't know anyone at this studio working on this game, just saying that this is how the sausage is made generally. So really I'm just advocating for a little grace for them, I am sure they are doing the best they're able. I'm sure that walking back a change like this one is going to be non-trivial, but I'm also sure enough people are reporting health reactions to this that they will definitely have to address at least the screen dimming. I'm sympathetic (but I also as a player would like this problem addressed lol). Limited resources? Are u joking? With all the money they gain from players, they have enough to use to make something decent on the game. Anyway, money or not, health is the most important thing, they showed us they didn't even think to player's health, the incompetence was so high that not 1 in the team supposed that could be dangerous a change like this, OMG, not 1 that was able to imagine. And also, u want to tell me that inserting a warning before opening the game was costing too much? U speaking of limited resources when was enough that devs put into this thing only little attention and nothing else. Maybe u think money are essential but be sure this is not the case. Many things are possible to do just using ur damn own brain correctly and with responsability. Now tell me what could happen if someone cause of the game gets an epileptic episode fall and hurts his head and must go at the hospital? Incompetence, disinterest, not enough money, bad or good intentions, doesn't matter... It Will be d3's fault. There is no justification
ThaRoadWarrior said: This dev team is almost certainly very small, and working with very limited resources. I think it's a mistake to assume every game you play has an army of people behind it, particularly a free to play mobile game of this vintage, so I find it highly unlikely there is room in the budget for specialty consultants or user focus groups when you're feeding the content furnace as often as this game is. I don't know if they are, but you could keep this game going with a full time designer and a full time engineer, with a contract artist and a shared QA asset if your tools are good. I've known personally late stage F2P games that were being maintained by a single full time designer. And again I'd like to be very clear I don't know anyone at this studio working on this game, just saying that this is how the sausage is made generally. So really I'm just advocating for a little grace for them, I am sure they are doing the best they're able. I'm sure that walking back a change like this one is going to be non-trivial, but I'm also sure enough people are reporting health reactions to this that they will definitely have to address at least the screen dimming. I'm sympathetic (but I also as a player would like this problem addressed lol).
HoundofShadow said:The effects of the changes on colourblind people and people who suffer from epilepsy are unfortunate.
HoundofShadow said: As usual, hyperbole running amok. The dev has survived a lot of "crucifixions" in the past seven years and they are still going strong. After a week of playing, I'm accustomed to the changes and I'm not playing in dark or dimmed environment to avoid or reduce the effect of dimming during enemy's turn.The effects of the changes on colourblind people and people who suffer from epilepsy are unfortunate. The best thing thing they can do is to stop playing for their health sake, and maybe come back after 3rd April to see if the changes reduce or remove those undesirable experiences. 15 days to go.
entrailbucket said: If the owner of the best restaurant in town occasionally punched you in the face instead of bringing your food
HoundofShadow said: My hyperbole comment was not targeted at those players who are suffering from the effect of the change, but those calling for the dev team to be fired or cruficified.I have a simple equation: health > virtual rewards. Besides that, based on the dev response and given timeline, it's highly unlikely that the dev is going to bring back the old board. Also, rolling back changes has been ruled out. They have 5 days to decide and they decided not to roll back the change. Based on the above reasons, it's a logical decision for those group of players to stop playing because of health.The dev has already pre-empted the players since last year that they are going to work on UI. They also stated the reason for doing so and if I remember correctly, it's because the game has been around for 7 years and they think it's time to put on a coat of fresh paint. Just because players on the forums didn't ask for this change doesn't mean no one else ask for it. Also, there isn't any game developer who implement 100% of what their players want. They will still implement stuff that they want. This is their creation afterall.
entrailbucket said: The rhetoric among some players is less "we don't like this change" and more "we don't like the developers" (and in fact, has gone well beyond that).The simple fact is that by continuing to engage with this game, whether spending a lot or a little or nothing, you are supporting those developers with your behavior.If the owner of the best restaurant in town occasionally punched you in the face instead of bringing your food, how many years would you keep going back before you started looking for the second best restaurant in town? If his restaurant was full every night, do you think he would ever stop punching people?