102016-petition-for-dev-responses

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Sometime no response means they don't have a good answer. I rather get no response than a bad response.


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False. The only thing Shareholders care about is the return on their investment. Profit. All else can die in a car fire for all they care. It doesn't matter how they get it, they will get it, if that includes mass layoffs,  forcing content updates to attract a wider player base (smarter move) and making the game content more obtainable for more people instead of just the 1% niche elitists. Carbine might care, but it only shows in small bouts.


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I think there might be some confusion of Bioware and Carbine.


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{| style="width: 100%;" I don’t follow your logic. If a fraction of a fraction of the total players participates on the forums means that the numbers on polls would be skewed, how then do you purport that a moderator looking at the forum topics is a better way to find hot topics? Not to say you can’t do your job but I think the argument of why it’s bad is flawed. You are correct that only a small percentage of players will use the forums and a smaller percentage participate. But in my experience this small percentage is usually very aware and invested in the issues. Why not have the devs post a poll listing topics and asking on a vote. That way people can only cast 1 response per their log in credentials. No trolling, Carbine has the control and then it shows that the moderators are doing their jobs and the devs are responding to customer feedback. I think numbers should demand a response if hundreds or thousands of people are concerned about an issue. If the devs don’t have a good answer tell us you will investigate and follow up. After all this is a service based company, we pay for entertainment and part of that is responding to what we are concerned about. I don't think the dev culture of keeping so much behind closed doors is a good thing for this game/community. I am not advocating every bit of internal information be made available. Nor do I think we need a full timeline with commitments. I do think what’s appropriate is a response about issues the community is frustrated with. I think this would be accomplished with polls/petitions as the OP brought up.


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i disagree with them posting constantly. they may give very vague feedback here n there on raging posts on the forums, and tweets, but i dont have twitter so save me the shpeel of getting one. their stream comments are quite lackluster as well, answer useless questions instead of commenting on huge issues like latency, pvp stats (which still isnt fixed in the ptr sadly), the massive grind almost the entire game is based around(sure, its hardcore, but its becoming monotonous and tedius rather than 'hardcore') and the class imbalances. devs said they would not make large changes to classes until they see things settle down and know what the real problems are, but when im 50 with a few epics and get 4 shot by a SS using 2 moves, its pretty ridiculously out of hand) not sure if petition was a good word to use, but we need some form of consistent communication from the devs. if the next drop doesnt at least slightly make pvp fun, im probably gonna quit for a while til they fix it. we just want some answers and direction as to what they are doing, rather than forcing me to scower all the forums trying to finding answers that are in the end, still not there.


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