Commando Archive
Thread: Dev communication... why aren't we here?
JustG
Sat Feb 21, 2004 1:58 am
#79
So apparently there as been a bit of discontent in here recently...
/understatement
Look, we are not trying to nerf your profession to hell. We don't think you are the uber profession. We know that your other weapons need to be made more useful. We know that you would like some answers to your questions.
We have a TON of things on our plate. Publish themes. Dungeons. Major system overhauls. CS Issues. QA Issues. Correspondent issues...
Thirty three professions, and some are broke all to hell. We want to fix them. All of them. But it takes time.
We really don;t have the bandwidth to be here on the boards, track down answers, and post them to everyone. We simply would never get ANYTHING done. But communication is necessary, and good... so we are trying to focus it where we can. Right now this is aimed squarely at the Droid Engineers. And even they would like more. We just can't do it. But we lurk like crazy. We do read what is going on, and understand how you feel. I really wish we had the time to communicate with everyone. But we do not.
I love commandos... I ground my way up to Master the old-fashioned way on Ahazi, and play one to this day. I cried when we nerf'ed the DOT's, but I think it was right for the game.
I ask for your patience. When will we get around to answering the questions? I honestly can't say for sure. I am sorry. But we are listening. Your correspondent is the numberone way into our plans.Thanks.
/salute
- g
Raanan
Sat Feb 21, 2004 2:44 am
#80
JustG, thank you for taking the time to post here. Moral was getting pretty low around here. I know it's really boosted mine.
As for you guys saying they should focus soly on fixing professions... that's just one aspect of the game. You can't seriously expect the entire team to work on a single aspect of the game can you? You'ld have a bunch of different programmers working on the same piece of code, making changes... everything would get f--ked up beyond all recognition. You don't have more than one programmer work on a single piece of code at that same time... you just don't... watch "Office Space" for a good example of why. You also don't get as much done that way. Rather, you delegate projects around. This coder works on professions. This other coder works on crafting. That graphics artist works on creatures. That other one works on npcs. You get my drift. There are people working on professions while other people work on dungeons.
The profession will be fixed. JustG's post is indication of that. Have patience now that we have developer attention.
Yizzlaar
Sat Feb 21, 2004 3:49 am
#81
JustG wrote:
So apparently there as been a bit of discontent in here recently...
/understatement
Look, we are not trying to nerf your profession to hell. We don't think you are the uber profession. We know that your other weapons need to be made more useful. We know that you would like some answers to your questions.
We have a TON of things on our plate. Publish themes. Dungeons. Major system overhauls. CS Issues. QA Issues. Correspondent issues...
Thirty three professions, and some are broke all to hell. We want to fix them. All of them. But it takes time.
We really don;t have the bandwidth to be here on the boards, track down answers, and post them to everyone. We simply would never get ANYTHING done. But communication is necessary, and good... so we are trying to focus it where we can. Right now this is aimed squarely at the Droid Engineers. And even they would like more. We just can't do it. But we lurk like crazy. We do read what is going on, and understand how you feel. I really wish we had the time to communicate with everyone. But we do not.
I love commandos... I ground my way up to Master the old-fashioned way on Ahazi, and play one to this day. I cried when we nerf'ed the DOT's, but I think it was right for the game.
I ask for your patience. When will we get around to answering the questions? I honestly can't say for sure. I am sorry. But we are listening. Your correspondent is the numberone way into our plans.Thanks.
/salute
- g
Brutal Honestly rules, lay it down like that from now on. Just tell people to "Shut your mouth". Then smack them.
-Nultal 
Master Commando
teamdoa
Sat Feb 21, 2004 4:09 am
#82
So you changed the DOT on the flame thrower....why didnt the guy that changed to DOT, spend 5 mins and fix the speed and accuracy on the Acid Rifle considering its been bugged from the day the game came out.
If your going to nerf something, fix something as well, then people wont notice the nerf as much...simple.
Broke
Sat Feb 21, 2004 4:12 am
#83
Commando currently has one viable tree, and your "step in the right direction" was damaging that tree? It just seems to me like talking in circles. If you had changed DOT's after fixing the commando profession, then sure, We would have no reason for complaint. But alas, I think the manner in which this has been gone about is silly.
teamdoa
Sat Feb 21, 2004 4:13 am
#84
LMAO, how to sell a game to the customer.
"Thirty three professions, and some are broke all to hell. We want to fix them. All of them. But it takes time."
haha, ive got to send this to IGN, and other gaming website..its a great post by a SWG employee.....oh, so funny.
KnightHawk420
Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:04 am
#85
JustG wrote:
So apparently there as been a bit of discontent in here recently...
/understatement
Look, we are not trying to nerf your profession to hell. We don't think you are the uber profession. We know that your other weapons need to be made more useful. We know that you would like some answers to your questions.
We have a TON of things on our plate. Publish themes. Dungeons. Major system overhauls. CS Issues. QA Issues. Correspondent issues...
Thirty three professions, and some are broke all to hell. We want to fix them. All of them. But it takes time.
We really don;t have the bandwidth to be here on the boards, track down answers, and post them to everyone. We simply would never get ANYTHING done. But communication is necessary, and good... so we are trying to focus it where we can. Right now this is aimed squarely at the Droid Engineers. And even they would like more. We just can't do it. But we lurk like crazy. We do read what is going on, and understand how you feel. I really wish we had the time to communicate with everyone. But we do not.
I love commandos... I ground my way up to Master the old-fashioned way on Ahazi, and play one to this day. I cried when we nerf'ed the DOT's, but I think it was right for the game.
I ask for your patience. When will we get around to answering the questions? I honestly can't say for sure. I am sorry. But we are listening. Your correspondent is the numberone way into our plans.Thanks.
/salute
- g
I wish all the "dev" posts were so straight forward. 
/cheer JustG
Begname
Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:51 am
#86
OK, so think here for a moment. SWG is a game, and so we need to not take things so harshly and go with the flow, but for pitty sake. Why is it that so many dev. are being mean in the boards. I don't mind paying my $15 a month because we are getting upgrades and customer service. When I think of Customer Service, I don't think of someone bitting my head off for voicing my opions. These boards are here for information sharing. I am not a mean person, but after a few mean postsfallowing my serious concerns (while myself being understanding and not getting angry), I am getting really upset by your words. You are about to loose my account. I love SWGs. I have been playing for seven months, but you are about to loose me. I will remain patient to the ends that you are. Keep, your cool!!!
sweatyclimber
Sat Feb 21, 2004 6:23 am
#87
not to hijack G but..... don't you think that its about time that you posted something like this in the musician or dancer threads? also, if you play ahazi, why weren't you at our battle of the bands /cry
Jesterstear
Sat Feb 21, 2004 6:43 am
#88
Anyone else remember Joe Isuzu? The guy that did the car commercials telling complete lies and had subtitles telling the truth about what he said?
Look, we are not trying to nerf your profession to hell.
Unless you thinkscrewing overyour only decent weapon and not fixing theones that don't work worth a damnis "nerfing to hell." In that case, yeah, we are trying to do it.
We know that your other weapons need to be made more useful.
We know, but we just don't care. We'd rather waste time trying to distract people from problems than fix them.
We have a TON of things on our plate
All of which will be ignored based on how long the problem has existed. The longer the problem has been in game, the more effort we will put into ignoring it.
Thirty three professions, and some are broke all to hell. We want to fix them. All of them. But it takes time.
And we don't have the time because we're too busy adding things to the game... like MORE broken content that we can ignore!
We really don;t have the bandwidth to be here on the boards, track down answers, and post them to everyone.
And communicating with the correspondant and giving them answers to postis like... hard.
I ask for your patience. When will we get around to answering the questions? I honestly can't say for sure. I am sorry. But we are listening.
You people have been dumb enough to believe this for months now, so it should still work....
Your correspondent is the numberone way into our plans.
Unless we're not paying attention to your correspondant.
Thanks.
Hopefully this will shut you up for another month or two
Fanodor
Sat Feb 21, 2004 6:45 am
#89
Keep up the good work, devs!
You are working very hard and every new publish make me want to play this game even more.
Now we just need some Space Expansion news... 
DecimusDrakar
Sat Feb 21, 2004 7:10 am
#90
I only hope that by the time publish 9 or 10 comes out that we aren't taken a backseat to the space expansion.
-Revan-
Master Commando
Imperial Master Sergeant
Zero Tolerance
xxNaftxx
Sat Feb 21, 2004 8:48 am
#91
Thanks for the glimmer of hope post JustG. Can we also get a rough ETA? 1, 2, 6 months? Droid engineers now have waited since approx. release last June and are finally getting a revamp next publish. Please tell me it is not going to be that long for commandos.