The Crystal Ball

[kendo65]

As a (generally) supportive member of the online community here, someone who appreciates BlackSixes efforts and someone who considers himself to be reasonably patient, I have to say that I think the current strategy of 'no comment' on the patch has become counter-productive and is only serving to increase the general disaffection of many here.

It is obvious that BlackSix is only the messenger and decisions about what info to release are taken by Luthier, so these comments should be taken as directed to him. It is also obvious that given past experiences the policy of 'say nothing' may have been viewed as the sensible one.

I think now though, when the ONLY issue of any importance on this forum to most of us (certainly the ONLY reason why I check in several times a day) is the question of when we can expect the patch, that the issue needs to be grasped in a more head-on way by the devs.

I take on board some of the reasons given by people here as to why they believe there is no need for the devs to address this. In the past I may have agreed with them, but now I think the reasons for not communicating on this are looking tired and unconvincing. I'll give my reasons:

"No need to communicate anything until the patch is ready for release."
It is now 6 months since the previous beta. Excitement has built since before Christmas when Luthier gave indications of expected frame rate increase. The policy of saying nothing is now (imo) needlessly antagonising people.

"People don't understand that B6 can't give any information about the patch or the time after, because they will kill him if something is not like "promised"."

This shouldn't be insurmountable. There is general info that could be given that would go a long way to satisfying people's anticipation and patience and making the atmosphere more 'supportive'. For instance I would appreciate confirmation about whether the next patch will in fact deal only with the updated graphics engine. If so, I would be really interested to be given just a rough sketch of the development progress made in the last 6 months on the other issues we are keen to hear about (AI, fm, DX11, etc) and the planned roadmap ahead for how they will be patched into the game.

I realise that decisions on giving us this info need to be made by Luthier, but once again I think that the current policy has stretched the patience of many of us to breaking point and a subtle rethink could go a long way to releasing some of the pressure that is building.

[hc_wolf]

I dont want to gloat Furbs..... but 4 pages in and well..... YOU BEEN SERVERD!!!!

[BigC208]

I don't understand the silence on the status of the patch. I do understand that it's out of B6's scope of authority. He can only give us what they give him. Keep showing us the BoM progress updates. Don't let a few yahoos screw up the little communication that we have. Keep up the good work B6, it's appreciated.

[GF_Mastiff]

Yea B6 don't let it get to ya most of us are just waiting.

[Rowddy]

GOD you're all a bunch of whinners why is it so hard to wait and if needed do something else for a change. GROW UP!

[danjama]

This place is funny.

[hc_wolf]

Settle down everyone. It was just a post to see if we will get an update. If BS says there is nothing to report then so be it. Let the guys work. The question only went out as it was a long weekend and there was no update last week.

So everyone there is no update this friday so lets all get back to mission making, playing on ATAG and REPKA and having a great time playng a great game

[David198502]

i just dont understand the reason why they are so silent about the status of the upcoming patch.
i really dont get why they cant tell us the reason why it was postponed.
why dont they tell us the reason or the problem that occured a week back?
why dont they tell us:"this week we worked on this part of the graphics engine, we encountered some problems with this and that..."
or just:"this week we tried to solve the problem with xy but havent found a solution so far..."

this would keep the community informed and would increase trust in the devs and the product.
but this total silence and ignorance of questions of the community creates nothing but mistrust and the feeling of beeing lied to...