Staff Fighting will be released on April 17, 2012

Ordinarily, this would be a time to rejoice. It's a boon from the developers. Players have waited a long time if not patiently.

I am neither comforted nor excited about the timing of this announcement. There was a thread discussing heatedly about the date this becomes available. I am in general, a fanboy. When the content is released, I play it. If it's good, I do my best Oliver impression and ask, "more, sir". I do NOT mind when representatives say, we are unable to announce the day such and such becomes available. I am excited by the SoonTM meme. I also understand that there is a business strategy of staggered releases of content in a pay for points system.

Do NOT tell the community an announcement is not on the April calendar and within 3 days announce it's coming next Tuesday. This management of the release date is capricious and unprofessional. It is also very unlike our player community practices and policies in the past. Such manipulations of their audience would best be left to Snookie and the Situation.

I expect this thread will be nuked like the last one. Just don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

I agree with the OP

they should delay the release of Staff Fighting to give everyone proper notice. Cancel the release next Tuesday and give us a proper 2 weeks notice.

Staff Fighting should be delayed until the 27th so that proper procedure and etiquette is followed.

By the title I thought you were just informing us and I was going to post this:



But now I just see your point. However it was never said by a developer it wouldn't hit in April. Whoever said that was making up some BS.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=287278

That was what I was referring to as no calendar. I do see buried in some thread Zwilinger did state on April 10th that Staff Fighting is coming April 17th. IMHO that announcement would best appear IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT (buried under the weight of dozens of outdated stickied threads) section not some paparazzi general discussion reply.

I give NO credence, not one whit to speculative thread, hardly ever bother with them.

The OP isn't complaining that the devs said Staff wouldn't be out in April, and then it was.

The OP is complaining that the devs said they wouldn't announce the specific date at all at first, and then eventually Zwill did give the date. Thus, PR breakdown, the devs ought to be ashamed of themselves, etc.

Frankly I find that an insufferably petty thing to complain about. Do you also complain when NDAs are lifted?

You're incorrect...

First, they said it was coming in April. Then, on April 10th, they said it was coming on the 17th.

Dismiss whatever you wish, but your original post is incorrect.

Honest question: Was I reading your post incorrectly or were you implying/thinking that the forum outrage/impatience influenced Paragon Studios to deliver Staff Fighting earlier than they had planned?


Also, no big deal. We all make mistakes.

Have you ever tried running an MMO?

Have you ever designed a Powerset?

Have you ever added new content to anything?

Have you ever been threatend with a nerf gun by Marketing Management?

They are doing the best they can under very difficult conditions. Cut them some slack.

Whether given one day's notice or one month's notice, I do not share the OP's concern since I have no expectations of how much lead time should be given. Surprise release it in an hour from now and I will be 100% unphased and unmoved. Hold it off for another month and I'll shrug. This applies to features I desperately want and those I don't care for. Because, again, I have no expectation that there is a 'two week' or 'one month' rule of announcements of new features.

Thus, I regard any sort of insult or unprofessionalism or middlefingerism or slapinthefacism that anyone sees as the problem of the perceiver, not a problem in reality.

@Electric Knight, I was mistaken when the official word was released on staff fighting, but as they said in the 4/3/2012 post WHY NO ANNOUNCE THREAD?