Joseph Ridgeson
WarRavens
Final Resolution.
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Posted - 2014.05.25 17:30:00 -
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Most games where the developers listen take cues from the community's temperature. They may not take exact "this is how it should be done" but the community will often see problems in the game that the developers missed. Take Riot for example. New ways of playing champions are often not thought of by the design team at all that result in something being too powerful. Pantheon was considered a silly choice because he was not as powerful as other Bruisers/Fighters. However, put him in the role of a Jungler and he begins to dominate game after game with insane early damage and powerful ganks. Same goes for other tactics that they never saw coming like Supports being only used for wards and in 45 minute games only having bought an item that makes them move faster, an item that gives them 3 free wards, and the rest spent on wards. The entire game was changed because they did not like how players were doing it because it was extremely boring.
One of the best examples was EVE. Shield Boosters were weak so devs announced that they were getting an across the board buff by like 30%. People ran the numbers and noticed that certain variations of boosters were going to be the best by a significant margin. They took to the forums, with numbers and explanations, and CCP fixed the numbers before they became an issue based on the players. Even if something like that isn't caught, there is still something to look at when everyone is saying "this is a problem", even if it is in the line of "SO OP WTF CCP!" Everyone has been armor tanking because shield tanking is terrible. People have gotten on the forums, shown how Shield Extenders take 80% more CPU than Plate, cost roughly the same PG, and have terrible scaling. If no one had said anything, would there have been any changes in the matter?
Finally, this recent "tell us what you think" phase of the game is entirely there to placate the forums and to keep us happy after the debacle that was FanFest and the big announcement of DUST 514 was a new game. The future of the game is very uncertain. I am willing to bet that CCP is almost willing to have no changes at all to the game and instead just focus time, money, and manpower into Legion. They are still releasing hot fixes though to keep players happy. Them asking for rational feedback and keeping to the single thread, answering questions, giving information on the current steps the game is taken is only there so we are happy while the new product comes out that replaces this game. If I were to be cynical and all angry like, I would say this is the farmers giving the cow a big bowl of candy to eat while they go get the shotgun.
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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