Commando Archive
Thread: Well, it has been 2 months since TH promised us the friday feature
- Completely hamstrung by upper management, thus reducing his ability to be honest with us (or the player base as a whole)
or
- In over his head
- suffers from bad time management
- has absolutely pisspoor communications skills (actually, without a doubt he lacks these skills, along with 90 percent of the posting devs and csr's)
- a pathological liar
- restricted from talking about anything BUT JTL
- all of the above
Someone went and collected all the posts he made about the CB, and organized them into one post in chronological order. It was completely clear that he hadnt been upfront with us (all players) about the game.
I dunno. I am trying to convince myself to keep playing, but it gets harder and harder everyday. Its sad....Sometimes I log in, talk to friends and never leave my house...LOL
RankorCity wrote:
Are you really surprised? Honestly?
In my honest opinion, Thunderheart is:
- Completely hamstrung by upper management, thus reducing his ability to be honest with us (or the player base as a whole)
or
- In over his head
- suffers from bad time management
- has absolutely pisspoor communications skills (actually, without a doubt he lacks these skills, along with 90 percent of the posting devs and csr's)
- a pathological liar
- restricted from talking about anything BUT JTL
- all of the above
Someone went and collected all the posts he made about the CB, and organized them into one post in chronological order. It was completely clear that he hadnt been upfront with us (all players) about the game.
I dunno. I am trying to convince myself to keep playing, but it gets harder and harder everyday. Its sad....Sometimes I log in, talk to friends and never leave my house...LOL
I place my vote for "all of the above."
garvin wrote:
I know for a fact that if TH, Tiggs or any of the Devs wanted to do a sweet Friday Feature on the Revamp they have plenty of Content to use...SO...that's where my theories for the hold up really get their strength from...They have it, they could post it, but something is gumming things up...
Yes, but how hard would it be for TH or Tiggs just to come out and say "hey, we want to make getting JTL our only priority right now.Expect the Revamp info to start flowing in the first few weeks after release".
Granted, I believe you're correct that they want the focus to be on JTL, but is that really the way to go? The way I see it, they have 3 customers:
- Those that have never played SWG, but will b/c of JTL
- Those that are playing it now and love it
- Those that are playing it now and are getting disgruntled/bored
- Those that played before but left
JTL, as things stand now, really only appeal to the first two and some of the 4th. If marketing really wanted JTL to hit the way they want it to, they should make every effort to retain the disgruntled players and bring back past players? How do you do that? You get them excited about what's happening with the ground game. By releasing the docs you only risk impacting #1 & #2. But, #1 players are coming to play JTL so they really won't care about what's happening with the ground game. If anything, it would make them more excited since things should be much more enjoyable post Revamp. #2 is tricky because there are plenty of players that are comfortable in the easy god-mode gameplay we have today and won't like the changes the Revamp brings. There's not a whole lot you can do about that. I would think the Marketing folks would want to pimp the revamp some before JTL. Granted, you don't want it being a distraction from JTL, but a complement to it.
But seriously, due to past mistakes as garvin said, the most likely explaination is that they're restrained from telling us unwashed masses all the new revamp info and stuff...Message Edited by StarNick on 10-14-2004 04:40 PM
My roomate quit yesterday and my good friend 3 days prior.
I really wish they'd come out and say something about the revamp like they promised a while back
- Takai
Rockhurst wrote:
garvin wrote:
I know for a fact that if TH, Tiggs or any of the Devs wanted to do a sweet Friday Feature on the Revamp they have plenty of Content to use...SO...that's where my theories for the hold up really get their strength from...They have it, they could post it, but something is gumming things up...
Yes, but how hard would it be for TH or Tiggs just to come out and say "hey, we want to make getting JTL our only priority right now.Expect the Revamp info to start flowing in the first few weeks after release".
That's kind of the thing that makes me wonder...I as well as many other Correspondents have asked for the same thing...Some type of statement (if the JTL theory is true) posted publically on what the hold up is and when we can expect more info...
Many of us agree that the general public will be upset to hear information won't be coming out until JTL releases, but no more upset then they already are about being kept in the dark...We haven't really recevied any feedback on that request about some type of announcement except for an occasional "We'll hopefully have more info we can report soon"...
I'm thinking that maybe a group of players might flame so at any type of post made that isn't the Revamp docs themselves that they may think it's better to to keep people speculating a bit longer to possibly avoid flameserupting ona massive scale that could inturn further impact JTL's initial sales and hoopla...
Personally I think their sales would do better of more confidence was built up in the future of the ground game proir to JTL's release...but that's just me....
garvin wrote:
That's kind of the thing that makes me wonder...I as well as many other Correspondents have asked for the same thing...Some type of statement (if the JTL theory is true) posted publically on what the hold up is and when we can expect more info...
Many of us agree that the general public will be upset to hear information won't be coming out until JTL releases, but no more upset then they already are about being kept in the dark...We haven't really recevied any feedback on that request about some type of announcement except for an occasional "We'll hopefully have more info we can report soon"...
I'm thinking that maybe a group of players might flame so at any type of post made that isn't the Revamp docs themselves that they may think it's better to to keep people speculating a bit longer to possibly avoid flameserupting ona massive scale that could inturn further impact JTL's initial sales and hoopla...
Personally I think their sales would do better of more confidence was built up in the future of the ground game proir to JTL's release...but that's just me....