Could we do with a long-term game plan?
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Posted on: 2011-10-31 07:15 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Infact we already had a poll on "what we'd like to see"|
Originally Posted by Demobot
Then you'd get people expecting to see ALL of those options. Groups would coalesce around certain choices, insisting why their particular choice should be implemented and others should be axed. We'd need more moderators.
If they told us their plans, even with the usual caveats and disclaimers, there would be individuals who would take those plans as set-in-stone gospel and swiftly mount the highest of horses upon hearing that those plans had to be changed. It spares us a great deal of weeping and gnashing of teeth for the developers to not tell us what they're doing. |
f I do recall corectly, which I may not, but I may do, then 2 powersets that we haven't seen the light of day won that poll...
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Originally Posted by VoodooGirl
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What, so half the playerbase (minus Arcanaville) can give them strongly-worded opinions based on nothing but personal preference, and the other half can cry bloody murder whenever there is any change?
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Still waiting on Moon Zone and Psionic Melee |
Originally Posted by Zortel
Fair points made by all.
What about a marketing style survey, even if it was just 'Pick 10 things out of these drop down menus you'd like to see.' rather than a more in-depth questionnaire? |
You know, the funny thing about estimates is that people tend to forget that they are just that: estimates. Instead, they view them as guarantees, promises to deliver product X by date Y.
I'm not making this up folks. I can't count the times management has asked me, "What's the estimate for developing this feature?" and I cringe because I know they're not asking for an actual estimate. They want to know when it will be finished. And the truth is, no software developer worth his salt knows that. The number of variables is incalculable at the outset of any development effort. They are unknown.
The problem is, the users don't know that. To them, a feature is easily developed, and when the developer estimates six months to complete something, the user thinks he's actually guaranteeing six months to complete something.
On the contrary, the developer is saying, "I need six months, plus or minus time to account for unforeseen setbacks due to technical difficulties, redesigns, acts of God and other unknowns that cannot yet be accounted for."
Trust me. The developers would release a long term plan, and they'd mean one thing, but we'd read something else entirely.
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Half the playerbase minus Arcanaville is still about half the playerbase. When half the playerbase minus Arcanaville is not still about half the playerbase, Paragon Studios won't need a long-term game plan.|
Originally Posted by Silver Gale
What, so half the playerbase (minus Arcanaville) can give them strongly-worded opinions based on nothing but personal preference, and the other half can cry bloody murder whenever there is any change?
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Assuming 125k subs, it's 49.9992% of the playerbase. I just felt I should point out that you are expemt from the two hypothetical groups, since you tend to post strongly-worded opinions based firmly in fact and supported with data, and can manage that just fine without knowing the plans in detail.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Half the playerbase minus Arcanaville is still about half the playerbase. When half the playerbase minus Arcanaville is not still about half the playerbase, Paragon Studios won't need a long-term game plan.
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I think that a Vanguard space station zone to launch co-op missions against the Battalion invasion fleet would be cool |
Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
Still waiting on Moon Zone and Psionic Melee
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What ever happened to the moon zone?
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It got spaced.|
Originally Posted by Judas_Ace
What ever happened to the moon zone?
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Badabum.
What about a marketing style survey, even if it was just 'Pick 10 things out of these drop down menus you'd like to see.' rather than a more in-depth questionnaire?
If they told us their plans, even with the usual caveats and disclaimers, there would be individuals who would take those plans as set-in-stone gospel and swiftly mount the highest of horses upon hearing that those plans had to be changed. It spares us a great deal of weeping and gnashing of teeth for the developers to not tell us what they're doing.
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