As you can tell your long-standing game community (you know, the one which has been here long before you) is especially now and really almost always has been extremely agitated with your treatment of them. We came from a time where the game was certainly dead in to a new hope in your hands. You promised many things, frequent community interaction and event promotion, weekly development updates, official weekly streams, staff interviews, performance enhancements, new content, etc. Within the first few weeks everything seemed great. I was there for the chats in IRC, I was in the meet-ups in VoIP, I watched all the streams, and I was there for the promises and the hope you instilled in the minds and hearts of a lot of us who had given up a long time ago. Though time passed and the postings grew to few, the visits to the forums, the communication with the community dwindling to once every month or two at best, and NEVER anything of substance, of hope. All the while during this decline you made mentions of your original intentions, to better the game in a relevant way and Soon*TM, to prioritize your existing community and acknowledge all of their feedback. We've had more than a year now and what have you really taken from the community? You want to wonder why there is so much negativity here? Well, you can read it in every posting you made, and especially the ones you didn't. You have gall to put "What you've always wanted" on your XBOX 'announcement' on the front page? Do you know how insanely disrespectful that is to the people who have even cared about this game for the past few years? Clearly you haven't payed the slightest bit of attention to the community which has been helping prop up the game you acquired in some bankruptcy sell. All we've ever wanted was COMMUNICATION. All we've ever wanted was for you to put some kind of effort in to PARTICIPATING in your own community. From there, of course we were hoping for you to fulfill your promises of eventually patching the game, but you never really made an effort, outside of the first few weeks of your acquisition, to really engage your community. I'm sure we'll see how true this is, when we see the glaring balance issues the game's 'release' on console is going to have, because you didn't reference your community. I'm sure we'll see how true this is, when we see the ways in which you continue to vigorously disregard your PC player-base by removing or changing things they very well spent real money on, without any acknowledgement of their inconvenience, if we ever do get the 'new' content ported over. I'm sure we'll see it in the continued silence towards, continued mismanagement of, and continued non-participation in anything to do with this community. I'm sure we'll see it in the absolute lack of responses towards the outrage you've caused in a lot of your remaining community.
I don't ever post here, because I had given up on you too, already. Looks like you were doing something besides just lying to us and keeping quiet all this time, not that you weren't doing that to an excess. I'm hopeful for new life to this game, but knowing how you've treated the community so far, I'm also extremely pessimistic, and definitely not interested in helping promulgate any success for your company. The only reason I'm here is because I enjoy the IP you acquired through the mishandling of said IP from another company. History seems to truly repeat itself. Hopefully you can greatly improve your performance as a game developer and your community interaction in the coming months. You won't have an agreement of silence to hide behind as an excuse for your behavior much longer.
Edited by Equanimity, 16 June 2016 - 11:01 AM.
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