Just a reminder for the makers
October 22, 2019 5:59AM
edited October 2019
The community is expecting (outright deserves) the “quarterly” Road ahead post. I think the mass anger in the community ought to see this no later than next Friday.
If you’re a dev and you’re reading this and the Bumpy road ahead blog isn’t finished yet. You don’t need to be reading the forums, everyone is mad, GET TO WORK!!
Type it up on a phone if both of the two computers are in use
If you’re a dev and you’re reading this and the Bumpy road ahead blog isn’t finished yet. You don’t need to be reading the forums, everyone is mad, GET TO WORK!!
Type it up on a phone if both of the two computers are in use
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Hopefully the community members that are expecting the road ahead in the next week actually go back and read the last couple major developer updates. From September:
Next Month’s State of the Galaxy & Road Ahead in Nov
I also want to use this post to frame our near future plans so you have a solid idea of what to expect in the coming months and what we will be talking about in the next Road Ahead or State of the Galaxy. Normally, we would be ramping up for a big Road Ahead post next month, but you already know that Light Side Territory Battles will be our next major piece of content alongside new ships and characters coming - so we are going to save this for November.
Going forward, we will be posting the Road Ahead when we’ve got a new chapter of content to announce or something huge and exciting to announce (approximately once a quarter) but if there isn’t, we will post a State of the Galaxy that month in lieu of the Road Ahead. Our hope is while the Road Ahead is about driving hype and excitement around something cool and new, the State of the Galaxy can be where we discuss how things are going in the game and go deeper into our intentions.
Oh woah... that’s in November. Kind of similar as last year when it was super late. Course I think the next road ahead will be out quality of life for new/all players & then the new trilogy.
They also told us it wasn’t going to be on a set schedule anymore but would come when they had something worthy to say. So there is no longer such a thing as “super late.”
BUT WE NEED THINGS TO BE MAD ABOUT
Ah, That’s actually a good thing then. Course I used to really look forward to the road ahead. Now it’s like “meh”.
Neverending Story theme intensifies
Gotta say, the way you worded that makes it seem way worse. Keep missing the deadline? Just remove the deadline altogether so you can't technically miss it
Poor Artax! I still cry and I am 42.
Sure. But they also said there would be a state of the galaxy the months where there isn’t a road ahead, so you can still complain about them missing/being late on that.
It's a whine whine!
Asking for info is not itself whining, though it could certainly be phrased in a whiny way. It is, however, pointless in my opinion, since they will release the info when they are ready to do so, and threads asking for it sooner won’t have any effect.
Complacent much?
TBF, they do not engage with the community much at all and people asking for info on things is not a reach by the player base.
They put the dev tracker in to try to avoid having to ever answer questions, IMO.
We have seen this act before. Even on threads where they asked for feedback, they would never acknowledge anything.
The game is dying. Whether the plug is being pulled intentionally or not is the real question. It sure feels like they want everyone to quit based on their decisions of late.
The game has been dying for at least 3 years.
Yeah, I’m complacent about the communication because from my perspective there’s a ton of it. Before this I played a game in which there was zero communication from the devs about anything ever. So I find the fact that they are willing to do regular Q&As pretty great, and I find other players’ expectations completely unreasonable. Since they can’t say a single word without it being twisted beyond all recognition by people reading whatever they feel like into it, I don’t blame the devs in the slightest for not responding to a bunch of outrage about things they have no intention of changing.
I always believe in the free market trade system as well. However, there is more money to be made in having 1 company do it all, if that 1 company has offered the right price. Now I know what you will probably say, and yes more companies would be making games, more games would be made which would equal more sales. However, that is a lot more to manage, which requires more expenses. Disney isnt new to the money making business, I am sure they have done their cost analysis studies and have determined this is the way to go.
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MSF is just as bad. So is Raid. So is the new Dragon Champions thing. It's always the same; tons of free energy and currency in the beginning to get you hooked playing a lot for a couple days, then it slows down to the grind we all know and hate unless you spend money.
From what I can tell, people seem to enjoy SW:BF2 after they got rid of the P2W aspect. But that's a title you pay to own and, if I had to guess, Disney/EA gets a cut of the PSN/XBOX Live money based on how many players play that game and/or how much time is spent playing that game. Freemium moble games are always going to be a different beast. Want to talk about a real fleecing? You can't even do a one time buy to get rid of ads forever on Words with Friends; you'd have to pay $10/month indefinitely to not have ads! Every free mobile game about PVP/progression does something annoying to push you to spend money. That's just how it is.
I was so happy to unlock the Millennium Falcor
Still waiting on that Luck Dragon Marquee.
And who knows when that will come? Probably 3 weeks