Discussion: CoH Developer Q&A Friday, April 23rd!

Did you ever wish we would lock the Dev Team up in a room so that you could ask them your questions? Well your wish is about to come true! Join us on Friday, April 23rd from 4pm -5pm (PST) for a Live Dev Q&A session on formspring.me with Melissa “War Witch” Bianco, Matt “Positron” Miller, Jesse “Ghost Falcon” Caceres and our artist extraordinaire, David Nakayama! There is no registration required or service to sign up for. Just think of a question and ask us!

You can start submitting questions the morning of at formspring, and then tune into the event-specific formspring page to see the answers posted live – or follow the highlights of the Q&A on the official City of Heroes Facebook Page!

So start thinking of those questions and be watching the morning of the 23rd when we’ll tell you where to go to submit them. We look forward to seeing what you’ll ask us!

Will there be tea and crumpets served?

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Excellent! I'll definitely be there with bells on!

Ok, I am going to try to be there, but in case I can't make it, someone please ask about the Cathedral of Pain. Please! Please! Please! Please!

I'm hoping that one of the more important questions is posed in this Q&A:

"Will you ever fix the lag in the ITF?"

My question is Who is the Coming Storm that Ouroboros mention about. And why there were letters in their missions? Also who is the mystery writer that keeps on sending messages to the player? Is he someone we already knew in the past or something new that was never mention before?

The devs can't even answer good questions at their own con. Why should we think this event will be any different?

Q: I was wondering. When will you be able to fix what you broke with PvP?
Non-Answer: It's on the slate for changes. We have no time frame.

Q: What are the rewards for the Incarnate system going to be like?
Non-Answer: You will like them.

Q: Why aren't you answering my questions?
A: You haven't asked me about anything that we've already discussed. We're not really doing this to give information. We're trying to convince people that we actually care about what the players want instead of what corporate allows us to do.

P.S. I still <3 you Ocho.

P.P.S AceMace, Safari for Windows hates your signature. Don't crash me bro!

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Why even promote this???

The devs don't answer questions and give fluff statements and turn to marketing for their closed lips.

If for once they can answer a legitimate PVP question or address bug fixes...perhaps it will not be a waste of time.

We already all know there's gonna be precanned answers for:

Incarnate system.
Side switching specifics.
New Powers on slate.
The next batch of proliferation.
PVP
PVP zones
PVP mini-games
PVP bug fixes
PVP drops
Bases

And who's idea is to hold it on a facebook page? Black Pebble? Why on facebook? Do you think everyone wants to be on facebook?

Like someone else said you have forums. USE THEM.

Hopefully Formspring gets their act together before this Friday.

Currently, they're having "technical difficulties" that are preventing questions and the answers to them from showing up in timely fashion. Right now, it's taking anywhere between 24 and 48 hours for a question asked by friends to migrate into my inbox so that I can answer it.

Answers to my questions, once they finally show up in the inbox, are taking a similar time to migrate out to the "profile" page so others can read them.

The devs there just acknowledged today that they have a problem, after a couple days of complaints on the forums, but haven't provided any information as to when/if the problem might be corrected.

If things are still running in this fashion on Friday, and CoH isn't opening the account for questions until that morning, then, come the "session time" there won't be anything in the box for them to answer. And likely won't be anything until Saturday or Sunday. Answers provided wouldn't be viewable until sometime early in the next week.

Devs here might want to "ping" the Formspring crew and see if their service will be ready to handle this, come Friday.

Oh, can I be snarky too?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Catharctic The devs can't even answer good questions at their own con. Why should we think this event will be any different? Non Question: I was wondering. When will you be able to fix what you broke with PvP? Actual Answer you don't like: It's on the slate for changes. We have no time frame. Q: What are the rewards for the Incarnate system going to be like? Non-Answer: You will like them. Q: Why aren't you giving us new information at all? A: We're giving loads of information on Going Rogue. We're simply not giving all of the information away. Q: You suck. A: That's not a question.. no wait, sorry. That's actually better than your first two questions.

Fixed.

Since the first one 'was answered.' Or does 'non answer' mean 'any answer I don't like in your book? Not to mention, the question is kinda trollish and unimportant.

The second was a non answer. Then again, unless they're hard to obtain rewards that allow you to exploit them, I doubt hard core old school pvp'ers will care for them. :P

Just kidding.. I hope.

Seriously, you're confusing "they don't give us any new information" with "they won't answer every single question to my satisfaction. Which actually I've seen a lot on these forums.

It's a shame this thing is so covered in marketing hype. I'm not expecting anything really significant, either to be honest. But your post was just.. disingenuous.

That said, I do agree if the answers are posted on facebook but not here, and by a dev, it's a critical fail. :P Why?

Facebook isn't even a gaming site to begin with. Unless they're providing an incentive, it's annoying to think they should get any information, ever, before we do.

J

I don't get why they don't just SUB questions via the boards. Ah well.

I really don't see much point to these. DEVS tell us they can't tell us much cuz the morons in marketing put a disclosure ban on them. Then we are told things are coming SOON (TM) which seems to be about a year. Then we are told these things coming up are going to be big and they most certainly are not (Mission Architect).

I really don't think the DEVS add what the players want. Why don't the DEVS do their normal thing for each issue then leave one aspect of the next issue to a vote. Have a vote card appear once for each player logging on into the game and have them pick out of 3 options. Anyway, I digress, I hope this Q&A results in some actual A. It gets tiring hearing the same old replies.

*perks ears up*

*twitches tail*

*takes notice that thing is about to happen*

*Hides In the Burrow*

wow - a lot less enthusiasm and more cynicism than I expected ... though I echo 'why facebook?'

It will be copypasta'd here so not that big a deal if it does generate more interest from non City folk.

SOME of us are still waiting for Manti to start answering the Lore questions *sigh*

My question: "What do you developers want us to know and what can you tell us about without being painfully Cryptic?"