Wow, so sorry that DBOBE's answers and all of the questioners didn't live up to your expectations, and I am sure we will try to better in the future.
About Braben's Question AMA...
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Wow, so sorry that DBOBE's answers and all of the questioners didn't live up to your expectations, and I am sure we will try to better in the future.
If you buy a meal in a restaurant do you expect the head chef to come out and personally cut up your fish fingers?
CEOs only answer questions they are well prepared to handle. This is to avoid problematic slips in phrasing and ensures that the message they want to send to the community is delivered (I know it says AMA but it is brand management all the same). There wasn't really anything new from his answers, which should have been expected.
At least it gave us some color to how DB sees the release of Powerplay. IMO, a bit apprehensive but generally optimistic about what is being delivered.
Anyway, it was good for him to maintain a presence with the community and show that he has intimate involvement with development.
At least it gave us some color to how DB sees the release of Powerplay. IMO, a bit apprehensive but generally optimistic about what is being delivered.
Anyway, it was good for him to maintain a presence with the community and show that he has intimate involvement with development.
I thought equally some time back.
And i felt the same way the OP did.
Then i remembered that FD is one of the very very few game companies that is actually communicating with its community.
Daily.
I remembered myself of all the other games i played, hell even paid a monthly fee to be able to.
Communication there?
Patchnotes. Full stop.
We are spoiled Imo.
and op, you are here since at least gamma...yyou should know better!
What a thing to get upset about. David gave an hour and more out of what I expect is a busy schedule. 50 answers is actually a pretty damn fast rate really.
So a couple of times he had a bit of fun with some questions, that meant he came across as friendly and more human to me. I don't suppose those two answers that David so disrespectfully abused you with really took up that much of his time.
So a couple of times he had a bit of fun with some questions, that meant he came across as friendly and more human to me. I don't suppose those two answers that David so disrespectfully abused you with really took up that much of his time.
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Aigaion
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Yup, totally.
Good luck with that.
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It was a joke, just in case...
Although I am happy with the game and it's rate of development so is essentially a moot point for me..
In fairness to the OP, considering the questions FD chose to actually answer, I found many of the answers to be too vague.
Whatever the reasons for not answering, be it they don't yet know, or are saving it for future announcements, fair enough, but why not choose questions they can answer.
In fairness to the OP, considering the questions FD chose to actually answer, I found many of the answers to be too vague.
Whatever the reasons for not answering, be it they don't yet know, or are saving it for future announcements, fair enough, but why not choose questions they can answer.
Think about the process that the Q&A went through.
Braben didn't limit himself to 50 questions. He limited himself to time, isn't that correct?
Therefore he's looking at the questions and waiting for the ones he can give a reasonable (or roundabout) answer to. A lot of the questions you'd have liked to have seen answered were never going to be answered regardless of whether or not he answered the Patreaus pronunciation question or not. If that question hadn't been asked he'd have just waited for another he felt he could answer properly.
He answered the questions he could (or the ones that amused him) for the time he set aside for the Q&A.
Had that Q&A been filled with nothing but the kind of questions you didn't get an answer to, I suspect the thread right now would be about how he did a song and dance for the whole session.
It might be Ask Me Anything. But it's not I'll Tell You Everything.
Braben didn't limit himself to 50 questions. He limited himself to time, isn't that correct?
Therefore he's looking at the questions and waiting for the ones he can give a reasonable (or roundabout) answer to. A lot of the questions you'd have liked to have seen answered were never going to be answered regardless of whether or not he answered the Patreaus pronunciation question or not. If that question hadn't been asked he'd have just waited for another he felt he could answer properly.
He answered the questions he could (or the ones that amused him) for the time he set aside for the Q&A.
Had that Q&A been filled with nothing but the kind of questions you didn't get an answer to, I suspect the thread right now would be about how he did a song and dance for the whole session.
It might be Ask Me Anything. But it's not I'll Tell You Everything.
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David Braben ama.
Why did he bother honestly? Vague and clearly cherry picked the safe questions or ones with very little relevance to the game let alone the upcoming update. Questions about pronunciation and whether the thatcher years influenced the first game...Cmon now
All that was missing was a bobble head introspection.
I gave up on what this guy says a long time ago there are far better more relevant sources of information in FD that sadly don't communicate a whole lot. He's not Chris Roberts nor I suppose should he be but that guy is all over his game and knows it inside out as well as being clearly very much in charge of his game.
ED seems directionless, paranoid and ill communicated under Braben frankly.
Why did he bother honestly? Vague and clearly cherry picked the safe questions or ones with very little relevance to the game let alone the upcoming update. Questions about pronunciation and whether the thatcher years influenced the first game...Cmon now
All that was missing was a bobble head introspection.
I gave up on what this guy says a long time ago there are far better more relevant sources of information in FD that sadly don't communicate a whole lot. He's not Chris Roberts nor I suppose should he be but that guy is all over his game and knows it inside out as well as being clearly very much in charge of his game.
ED seems directionless, paranoid and ill communicated under Braben frankly.
Yup. I've been gaming for .. uh... a long time and I've never seen another game company communicate with their customers like this. Frankly, I'm amazed.
I think that there are a lot of disadvantages with the kickstarter model - mostly to do with how you wind up with an army of backers who feel entitled and invested in the results, that you don't have with a more typical game development model. Purely self-funded companies can produce and release a game and "it is what it is" and they're done. With a kickstarter you get all these people each of whom signed up because of a slightly different personal vision for the game -- so it's impossible to make everyone anything close to happy and you wind up with a percentage of unhappy people who have already bought the game, and spent a year or two imagining how great it's gonna be...
When I bought Destiny I was disappointed in it after about a week, so I traded it in at gamestop and forgot about it. My arc of disappointment was very very short and I had absolutely no sense of investment in the game. What you see on this forum is people with a very long arc of disappointment and a deep sense of investment. So: very bitter complaints and an inability to just walk away from it.
Think what kind of hellish complaining Chris Roberts is going to have to deal with if SC ever ships and it's not the absolute perfectest bestest game in the universe, ever!!! (And it won't be, because nothing can live up to the expectations people have built for it)
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I don't think that word means what you think it means.
He answered some questions on PP and some other misc silly questions, and didn't answer other questions, some of them good ones. What else did you expect?
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For one thing, if he'd answered all the questions, he'd still be there, about halfway through, with his fingers bleeding. And more questions would be piling up. Because one thing about ED forum members: they'll just keep piling on more questions! Behind every question is 10 more!
Abused? wt....
Finding intelligent life on this forum is becoming like trying to find those mysterious 'there already are...' something-or-other DB was referring to...
An awesome line by the way, 'there already are...' It sums up a key part of what ED is about which is totally lost on some people (mostly the 'gimmie-what-I-want-or-I-will-cry-abuse' ones)
Finding intelligent life on this forum is becoming like trying to find those mysterious 'there already are...' something-or-other DB was referring to...
An awesome line by the way, 'there already are...' It sums up a key part of what ED is about which is totally lost on some people (mostly the 'gimmie-what-I-want-or-I-will-cry-abuse' ones)
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Wow, that escalated quickly.