Exactly.
Update on Communication
- Thread starter Arthur Tolmie
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If other games which have been planned for release in this FY are under the coche, and Odyssey on console is already in a bad place, thats plenty to send the org into a frenzy of activity given how much of the year is left.
I`d ditch all forum engagement as well under those circumstances, complete waste of time given the real priority of saving year end results from calamity.
Exactly and the CMs already spent a few months trying to salve the sore bottoms of certain console players and probably don't want to do that again on a larger scale with PC players.
I don't know. The lack of communication is just compounding the current issues. There are going to be times when no new content is coming out. The CMs would then have to focus on other thing, like the forum, what bugs have been fixed, etc. Just seems like FDev have just fallen back to their bad old ways.
Did people seriously think the new communication error was anything but a firefighting exercise and would be ended as soon as the smoke disappeared from view?
Yep,
Close this post 16:30 Friday, Click to send update comms at 16:55, coat on, office doors locked up 17:00, >>>down the pub, collecting sweep money for whoever had the nearest no. of pages this post would get to......... get to Community Meet up with wad of money and Festive Freebies to hand out, drop them at door and RUN!!!.
I think the culture you describe is bang on the money. Its been hiding in plain sight for a very long time indeed.
Can someone please, please, please go to the meet up as Phantom Flan Flinger!!!! (with plenty of flans to throw).
2015 and I don't blame the CM's on this it resides entirely on the people running FDev.
Youre right. But communications also on occasion lack finesse which causes additional unwanted noise.
Perhaps Frontier are seconding Chris Roberts and CIG are seconding David Braben? *
* Disclaimer: this is not a serious suggestion (I hope).
My money is still on Chris Tarrant and Sally James.
Seems the plummeting has started.
O7,
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If you're right, the problem is much bigger than I thought. :
It's what I said before.
They have to announce the bad news (console stuff) with huge good news stuff.
New expansion, new ships, new gameplay, etc; otherwise they will be in a bad spot not only for the gamers, but the investors.
I think likely to be more about trying to make sure they can deliver on what they already publicly said they would deliver in this financial year. That might be just odyssey on consloles, or it might be that and other games also.
The reasoning would be that if they fail to delvier again, then the share price would take yet another nosedive (its 50% down on last years peak already) and turn an attractive target for aquisition into a complete no brainer - and then Braben has lost his baby. He may well be getting very agitated.
And they can not be added in the level of conversation.
But there is a flaw (if this is the case), executives have to make sure to keep development and communication running well.
Today, os is far from good in frontier.
They're missing some basic behaviors with customer and possible investors.
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Ian Phillips
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Yes - I do......Remember when people were being banned from this thread for being off-topic?
Stay on topic please everyone.