Update on Communication
- Thread starter Arthur Tolmie
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remember when we were told we would be given news even if it was bad, instead of no news. By allowing and supporting the communication blackout of the console community, This complete blackout of communication was bound to come. They did to consoles what they did to the Mac community, now it is the PC communities turn.
Not sure if it counts as a correction but, for context, Elite was released as part of the Microsoft early access programme and announced as a marquee item at 2015 E3. The PlayStation variant launched two years later with relatively (outside the Elite fraternity) little fanfare.
it’s not surprising that more Xbox accounts are registered than playstation accounts.
a lot of people were repeatedly asking for a console release date, or challenging the ambiguity of answer as it was a non answer, but there just as many PC commanders demanding performance fixes to EDO citing low FPS on their PC rig.
what you are saying is true. the other reason the console community was dropped as a priority is that we have little effect on aggregate scores such as steam. PC players can and have downvoted Elite dangerous core. FDev needs to start communicating again as a whole but for the next 6 months to a year, it needs to be console focused. getting the game running on consoles will mean improvements to the game on PC for lower-end rigs.
I seriously doubt it works that way. That would mean converting the game to two different console platforms, making changes on one or both of those, and then porting them back to pc?
As opposed to doing what they appear to be doing, getting the pc fixed and only then porting it to two console platforms.
I remember. That was the OP. A classic example of using language to placate. Never meant it, was just trying to calm people down.
I'm not a massively vocal member of the forums but ! as I see it... its simple - we have a community liaison team and their job, is to engage, communicate and inform the community in a fun and consistent way, so if that's what their job description is, and presumably makes up the bulk of there job role, I can only assume they are doing one of two things, consciously ignoring the community as a whole in the full knowledge that we are almost screaming for even the slightest glimmer of any type of information exchange or they have been silenced by senior members of the company,
The continued silence just further enforces the theory that FD are up to something (ie take over negotiations), regardless of whether it's actually true or not. If they just did something "normal" like a schedule or a stream at least we'd know they're still there.
Sure looks like they have been silenced but why?
How about communicating on update 11 ? @Bruce G @Zac Cocken. You do know this is the last day of february ?
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Its 12 short weeks from financial year end. Resources are being pulled from scheduled events in an aparrent re-prioritisation of tasks. Rampant speculation has ensued. Rather than engaging with us to set expectations and keep control of the narrative, they clarly feel that radio silence is a much better route to take.
Its an absolute masterstoke. I`ve never seen such genius.
I'll leave this here so take what you need.
The past 3 months? How about the past 6 years? They just went "here's a journal, here's an API, not our problem anymore" and failed to take any inspiration from and/or incorporate any third party functionality into the game. You people are legends.
I do think that this is purely an ED issue as the other CM teams seem to be actively engaging their communities - I think @Arthur Tolmie @Zac Cocken and @Bruce G have been gagged for some reason which hopefully will become clear soon. I am not yet in the doom camp but the longer it goes on the more I am shifting that way. I just hope we don't lose the great CM team we have at the moment as they start to despair at having their hands tied. They love to engage, we love to be engaged and something needs to give inside at FDev to allow a full an honest update to the player base.
Well, whatever the reason for the CMs having been gagged for this long, it better be bloody good.....but I'd just settle for an update 11 release date at this point.....