by Granger » Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:05 pm painhertz wrote:For what it's worth, Jorbtar, all criticism aside, you guys have made what I consider to be the greatest video game in history, and this is coming from a gamer who started in 1981 with an Atari 2600 and Yars Revenge.
^ This ^ (but with asteroids arcade)
But i feel like i told you guys that quite some times.
loftar wrote:Kaios wrote:You know, part of that is due to the fact that you neglect to respond to anything far more often than not.
Not to defend myself, but to explain that phenomenon, many of the more interesting ideas presented are of that nature that I'm not really sure what to think about them; and much less, then, what I'd respond to them. It is common for there to be ideas that are, on the surface, bad, lacklustre or just not in line with our vision, or that I just don't know if I like or not, but center around an analysis that might seem to have some sliver of truth that could perhaps be dug out given enough work. Without doing that work, there's no way to meaningfully respond to them, and then I instead carry them with me and mull over them for a few days, weeks or months, or just use them as yardsticks for similar ideas that we come up with. But yet wouldn't know what to respond.
Call it a deficiency of me to be bad at putting half-baked thoughts into words.
Here a suggestion for this specific problem:
1. Create a new subforum where only you can create threads.
2. Post a thread per thing you see as interesting and ask for comments
3. ... wait ...
4. Profit
You have quite some bright people in your userbase which are willing to take time to think about and discuss such topics.
loftar wrote:it is common for there to be ideas that are, on the surface, bad, lacklustre or just not in line with our vision, or that I just don't know if I like or not...
If there is a repeated idea (of simple things, like for example balancing items) of mentioned categories, in cooperation with
txtrung0 wrote:(mumblings about cash shop and financing)
why don't you offer to deploy a test server (could be a copy of current world, could be a small fresh one) to experiment with said idea? State an amount of € it'll take to do it and in case enough people are interested you would have your expenses paid for the efford (we all have to eat) plus some first-hand knowledge if the idea had merit or not. Could for some things be more productive than mulling over them for a few days, weeks or months.
And maybe from time to time one of the on-the-surface shitty ideas could be that liked by a so big part of your userbase that you maybe see a reason to adjust your vision a little bit here and there... in light of new conclusions.
Gregor
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