Maken Tosch wrote:They do listen. The problem is reading through the useless crap that people post on the forums. Imagine seeing a well thought out and constructive idea and criticism that is well worth anyone's attention yet it ends up buried under 3-5 pages of useless thread after useless thread. It has happened to me several times and to many other players.
There is also the fact that many people in the forums often spew a lot of hate and conspiracy theories about how CCP is intending to kill Dust for some reason or that somehow CCP has a bias towards a certain class of suits and so on without so much as a shred of evidence and then expecting people to accept their conspiracy theories as fact. You see that far more often than constructive threads and that saddens me a lot that such good criticism often gets flooded by pointless bickering. And the good threads that do get noticed often get hijacked by trolls who want to derail those good threads with silly comments like "CCP doesn't listen" or "GET GUD NEWB".
As I have pointed out countless times throughout my time here on the forums, I don't mind negative criticism at all as long as that negative criticism is very constructive and doesn't go so far as to bash the devs with unproductive comments like "CCP SUXS" or something like that.
Unfortunately there are just too many people out there that don't care and just want to flood the forums with useless crap.
but if we are able to sift through the BS surely ccp could if it mattered to them right? and I've seen posts 30+ pages and months old that were not on page 1 finally get a blue tag with the beginning phrase " a reply to this post is long over due"....
you would also think if they cared they would make more of an attempt to control misinformation and defend themselves...what else are we supposed to think if 1 suit type always seems to get attention over others? I don't participate in those types of conspiracy threads but I get where they are coming from... like those poor plc users, they have never gotten love, why shouldn't they think ccp hates the plc?
maken tosch, you and I have been here for quite awhile, we have seen page 1 full of amazing suggestions and much needed changes with maybe 1% being responded to, the forums weren't always this bad....you have to agree ccp made this mess through their inaction and failure to respond to the community in a meaningful way... the state dust is in didn't happen over night game or forum wise, and it wont be fixed over night....but what if anything does ccp do to fix it, so far the best I can say they have done is fired a lot of the staff who made this mess, but the new guys haven't done much to improve this debacle now, have they?