Development Cycle Archive

It's great to know who does what around here

"Shortly after that, it's out to the player base at large. At each step we comb the boards for information on how we've done, looking for things to improve. Once we release a publish to the live servers we start the whole process over again."

How much of the boards are read?

Often it feels like what we write is futile and won't be read by red names.

But then we see a post in our forums every once in a while from a dev.

And often we get no response at all, and then months later we see the notes for Publish 7 that goes a LONG way to addressing wants and concerns we've had for ages.

Can we expect to keep seeing red names in the forums, and maybe even on a more frequent basis?