Feedback on Your Arcs?

As of today I've had a total of over 125 plays on my two arcs (when combining the current arc numbers with the ones that they had before being re-published). If I remove feedback comments made by formal reviewers (who later went on to post reviews in this forum), I've had probably less than a dozen actual feedback tells. I get the star rating, but nothing but silence in the comments.

Are all of you seeing the same trend - maybe one in ten people actually leaving comments - or am I just the luck one? It doesn't seem too difficult to leave a brief comment of some kind, at least you'd think.

I wish people would even play my arc. And post feedback in my thread for it. I even have what I'd call my "ideal" version up on Test (using the new Custom NPC power selection options). I just want to know how to make it perfect. I mean, I think it's pretty good, but I'm not qualified to call it perfect (since I made the arc). I won't rest until it's the most awesome MA arc ever created.

I'll add yours to my list, but with the wife, baby, job, dog, cat, yard, house, and other assorted lifey kind of things, I'm not sure how soon I'll get to it.

That said, it's almost as hard to get people to run your arc as it is to get traffic to a web site. You really have to actively promote it. Getting it reviewed by the folks in this forum is a great step, but unfortunately many of them seem to be on vacation - or taking well-deserved breaks. I'd suggest checking out the COH Rotten Tomatoes thread for the most recent list of reviewers. I'd also suggest posting at outside websites such as COHmissionreview.com.

As far as figuring out how to get the Devs to see it... good luck on that one. It seems to be a very well guarded secret. If you figure it out, write a book. You'll make a mint.

I asked the same question in another thread recently; I seem to get comments from 10-15% of the people who play my arcs. Some people won't comment because they're lazy or don't care, some won't comment because they have nothing to say, some won't comment because of the lack of anonymity (especially in cases of negative feedback). The best way to get feedback is to ask for it, especially here in the forums, and to play other people's arcs and provide them with feedback; sometimes they'll reciprocate.

I agree with all the reasons cited the previous post.

It is also possible that at times, no comment is sent because of the way the feedback screen is designed.

Although I know there is a button to send the comment, I falsely assumed that if I typed a comment and pressed finish, that the comment would be sent along with my rating. It seems that is not the case.

I ran about 20 or 25 arcs this weekend, just trying to pick stuff at random.

Of those, most of those were blatant farms (all with the same map and attempts to pack as many lieutenants or bosses into a room as possible) and were flagged/reported as such. (Though, this doesn't seem to actually do anything about it.)

I think I ran ONE really good arc that I 5-starred (don't have the number here).

My point is, that unless people are checking these threads to find something cool to run, getting people to run an arc is nigh-impossible. (I think I need to visit those sorts of threads more frequently.)

Tell me about it.. so far my [3-week-old] arc got 10 plays, 3 of which are folks from my SG who participated in the test run, and 2 more are reviewers; the only 'comments' I got were from the reviewers (many thanks to GlaziusF and airhead, btw!). That leaves a whopping 5 people who found the arc in either of the reviewer threads, cohmissionreview.com, either of the announcement threads (here or in the 'technical' MA forum), the arc's own thread, or just random AE searches. And I don't think I'll break 20 in the next few months, either (last two weeks had 2 non-reviewer plays total).

Edit: omg I just checked it and it has 12 total plays now... that's 2 in one day, crazy!


-- Z.

I have less than 100 plays on my Matchstick Women arc which I made during open beta, advertise quite often, have gotten it reviewed (and gotten mostly high marks) by almost every reviewer on this thread, advertise on my bios that the arc is based on, ran teams through it for testing, *and* have gotten nearly all positive comments. So there ya go.

Outside of reviews I cannot get people to even play it. Not sure if they are starting and dropping it or just not even trying it. Sitting at 13 right now with 4 feedback.

Are you a member of the MA Architect global channel? Actually, there are probably more than one by now, searching for them is probably the best way to find specific ones for servers. And don't forget the Architect Chat channel either. Put a little blurb on those every once in a while while you are playing. I usually only do the Global once or twice a night, but I will use the Architect Chat more if I am switching between alts on different servers.

Glad you found that, I knew I had read it somewhere. As for why there are Dev's Choice marked as Work in Progress, when the settings were put in, all existing arcs were marked that way automatically. But the one's that are already a Dev's Choice can't be edited to change the setting. So they will remain with that setting, unless there is a way for it to be changed from the server end. Considering everything else that has been going on the last few months, fixing that, if it is possible, is probably very low on everyone's list.