One of the things I really appreciate about CCP, particularly the guys in Iceland, is that they break all the rules. In other games you mostly only get to talk to Community team, and only occasionally see a Developer responding to something on the forum. With CCP it is mostly Developers you see on the forum. Some Developers even go so far as to troll the forums. Good fun. The only Community team person I know of in DUST is Mintchip.

You also have CCP staff posting as just another player, talking about their experience using stuff that they had no part in developing. It is sort of funny when you see a Blue tag asking questions about how something in the game works, because it is new to them. It is also comforting to see a Blue tag saying, yeah I ran across these bugs using that weapon too, and have notified people on the appropriate teams about it.

The fact that CCP DevGÇÖs are so open about discussing what they are working on, makes me feel like my suggestions may have an effect on the outcome of the game.

As a former Community Coordinator for BioWare and ArenaNet, I'm here to give you some bad news.

good article, many people on the dust forums need to read it, maybe won't make for such a toxic community as it currently is.

interesting rules at the end of the article:

"Rule number one GÇô I know GÇ£soonGÇ¥ to the player base means a couple weeks, but in development speak, that can easily be six months or more. Remember, these people may have been working on this project for years. To them, six months is nothing.

Rule number two GÇô GÇ£I canGÇÖt promise anythingGÇ¥ gets translated to GÇ£I promise it will be in the game soonGÇ¥ within a matter of minutes on various boards the statement gets forwarded to.

Rule number three GÇô Rules one and two are the creators of GÇ£The Company Lied To Us!" syndrome. "

One of the things I really appreciate about CCP, particularly the guys in Iceland, is that they break all the rules. In other games you mostly only get to talk to Community team, and only occasionally see a Developer responding to something on the forum. With CCP it is mostly Developers you see on the forum. Some Developers even go so far as to troll the forums. Good fun. The only Community team person I know of in DUST is Mintchip.

You also have CCP staff posting as just another player, talking about their experience using stuff that they had no part in developing. It is sort of funny when you see a Blue tag asking questions about how something in the game works, because it is new to them. It is also comforting to see a Blue tag saying, yeah I ran across these bugs using that weapon too, and have notified people on the appropriate teams about it.

The fact that CCP DevGÇÖs are so open about discussing what they are working on, makes me feel like my suggestions may have an effect on the outcome of the game.

Rule number one GÇô I know GÇ£soonGÇ¥ to the player base means a couple weeks, but in development speak, that can easily be six months or more. Remember, these people may have been working on this project for years. To them, six months is nothing.

Rule number two GÇô GÇ£I canGÇÖt promise anythingGÇ¥ gets translated to GÇ£I promise it will be in the game soonGÇ¥ within a matter of minutes on various boards the statement gets forwarded to.

Rule number three GÇô Rules one and two are the creators of GÇ£The Company Lied To Us!" syndrome.