Zwillinger

We know this and understand it. I take this into account every time we give one of these reports.

The fora represent a segment of the population, and a very narrow one at that (I've posted the numbers before so I won't rehash that). We recognize that it's a representation of the population at large and temper our evaluation of the feedback accordingly.

As part of my job, I spend the whole day putting myself in the shoes of the developer AND of the player. Community professionals walk a very thin line of understanding both sides of the spectrum and having to represent the interests of both parties. Heck, I just spent the better part of a meeting discussing this very topic in detail .

As far as the bigger picture, there's two things I have always consider: Sentiment expressed and actual numbers.

Sentiment is easy. I can read a thread and understand the general gist of what's being said and pull out the finer points of what's actually being requested. That simply requires time invested in reading and knowing and understanding the poster.

Numbers are a bit trickier. We report actual number, but we also have to extrapolate from that how representative of the Community those numbers are. This is accomplished in part by knowing your players and how they've interacted not only with you, but also with each other in previous posts.

Here's an example of a thread breakdown we did (by the numbers only...leaving out the qualitative remarks also discounting off topic posts) about the Post Apoc thread:

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Numbers allow us to put things in perspective. How many people are actually posting in the thread? How many people are making up the majority of the conversation? How many people are positive? Neutral? Negative?

Anytime there's an post which is a hot topic for the Community, we usually do a breakdown of this and pass it along to the interested parties along with our evaluation of what the numbers mean. The Community team remains impartial in our analysis, as doing otherwise would skew the numbers one way or another. I imagine that I will request a similar breakdown for this thread, just as I did for the original discussion many months ago.

I get it. I understand that you're passionate about it. The arguments I, and the rest of the OCR team, makes advocating your causes to the development and business team are just a passionate. Just remember that our current development schedule is in no way a reflection that we don't appreciate your enthusiastic requests and that in all likelihood, we agree with it.

This is understood, and as stated further up the thread, has been communicated to the team.

I'm not exactly sure where you get that we're not being responsive to Community sentiment. Just because we aren't working on one specific costume set we're not being responsive? Are we discounting all of the other changes and additions, not just costume specific, that we're working on and have accomplished in the last year+?

In the end, we're going to make some costumes that are fan favorites and we're going to make some that inspired us, either from fan inspiration or personal. There's no specific cadence we're stuck with as it's all released as development and marketing schedules allow.

You have a development team that is extremely responsive and balances player sentiment fairly well with development and business requirements. Losing sight of the bigger picture through hyperbole does a disservice to not only them, but all that the game has accomplished.

At the time, this statement was true. Arbiter Hawk put in a massive amount of extra work to get the nuke changes into Issue 24 which we were then able to announce after the fact.

I am a pillar of honesty.

Also, what I said was brutally honest. We are not working on new AT's.

Have you had a chance to check out the upcoming Cybertech costume pack?

You may find what you're looking for there.

Please take that discussion to another thread.

The intent is for you to be able to buy all of the parts in a single pack, much like a "Costume Set". It's just less of a focus on the "single one costume" and more of a focus on "what kind of things would fit the theme". I wouldn't disassociate this from a Costume Bundle, it's just a different approach.

This most likely will not be the one and only time.

For each person that asks for one thing, there's someone asking for another . Not counting the people who are asking for both. I know for a fact that Post Apoc items have also been requested for years.

Both requests are valid, this is just the way we decided to go out of the Pummit.

I do understand that many people want certain themes to make their way into the game, Golden/Silver Age being one of them, and over time, there's always the chance it will happen. In this particular case, the development team grokked this theme and had some great inspiration presented to them by the players.

To be direct: There wasn't time in the development schedule for it this go around. That and coming out of the Workshop we had a pretty clear idea of where we wanted to go with this theme.

Please keep in mind that we're not always going to be able to open it up to player voting, but we will certainly do so when time permits.

What an interesting idea...

I still have all of my hair. I'm just lazy, so I wear hats .

Also, I am eternally positive! For instance; I'm positive you're a noob!

On behalf of our Environment Art team...

There is nothing *easy* about changing world fixtures.

Ramble: It's tends to grind game developers gears when people make statements that "such and such would be easy..." without understanding the full impact or scope of work of said changes.

Those are custom apps developed for that specific campaign.

Such apps cost money. Not saying how much, but it's not insignificant.