Wow...
I wake up an see this lovely announcement & thread. LH I know you guys are very busy and no where near lazy folks lol, nor do I think you are incompetent at all. It's just that lately, much of the negativity directed at you guys is quite justified unfortunately (sad to see really
). I used to be a involved in QA (Quality Assurance in case you didn't know what that was LH
) and the bottom line of that job is that "the proof of the pudding is NOT in its looks, but in it's taste"...
This last week and how you guys have dealt with it makes it seem like you aren't even making pudding, let alone if its good or not. Let me ask you a question I KNOW you will not answer. Based on your announcement, do YOU think that this last week has been a fine example of embracing what you said in your announcement, or in fact the complete opposite?
If you honest at all, you will KNOW that it was just the opposite. As time goes on in this game, you guys get more experienced and smarter which is great, but remember this LH, we also are getting more experienced & smarter as well. If something looks cool, we will say so with joy in our hearts, but if it is not, we will also absolutely say so. In fact I would bet some of our players who have played since forever might be even better game developers than some of you guys even...
So while its great that you guys have such high hopes for the future of the game (as do we), just know that we ARE watching you all closely and WILL call a spade a spade. If it is [censored], we will say so, and IF the above announcement is a valid one (we WILL be able to tell if it is not ya know LH) you will honor it...
Otherwise your player base (who ARE smart and experienced in the game) will react accordantly, and seeing as you guys just had a major business split with Cryptic, you don't need to be dropping the ball as like you did majorly this week cause your business can only take so many before it folds. Make this a learning experience Dev's and be better for it...
Otherwise despite what you "say" (and not proven this week with such a sweeping change) the future will not be bright, and you will only have yourselves to blame. So see those QFT's above? Let's avoid those shall we and not invite them as you guys have done recently. CoH is a great game, and like some other games (like SWG), it is not the players that can kill a game, it's the Dev's who think they know better than the player base who pays there salaries...
Think on that the next time you make a announcement and some call it a "fluff piece" so to speak. It may not be without merit sadly
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T - CoH is a cool game; lets hope it stays that way and don't go the SWG route...
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