Why so little interaction with the community?

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by furbs

So then why say "i will be back to anwser your questions later"?

that's already been answered by Black6 in this thread

Originally Posted by BlackSix

This is my fault. I should collect 5-10 old questions and send them to Ilya. But I made new threads and I collected over 200 questions. I don't know when he'll find time for this.

hopefully that means it will be this WE, but maybe it will be later

if you try and remember the last post luthier made, where he said he would answer some questions, he stated that they had reached an important milestone in development (presumably the new stable gfx engine which is largely bug free and performs well, as well as their progress of work in the BoM sequel) and were now submitting their next schedule for work/release-dates to the bean counters, and luthier indicated that if accepted he intended to put one last push into the big CoD patch with the main fixes (eg, even hm putting that time and effort into CoD is subject to their approval !)

with luthier being swamped with a deluge of questions ( AND a large amount of abuse, which would make him less cooperative rather then more),and him being subject to some restrictions on what he can say regarding further/future development, and him not yet knowing if his new subjected timelines are going to be accepted (which includes him asking for time to spend on the CoD patch) i am not surprised he didnt linger. hopefully luthier will soon have a better idea what amount of time he can spend on CoD fixes (and this will allow him to determine what he can include), and i suspect that with the recent development milestone being reached we might also get the "big announcement" soon (the one that was delayed a couple of months ago, and which many here expected were related to the MMO)

your mind, and many of the disgruntled "fans" here works in overdrive and is on a perpetual very short fuse, in contrast the progress and evolution of luthiers team has been almost in slow motion because of their small team and the almost overwhelming task they had in fixing/rewriting the game engine while simultaneously working on BoM in the last year (the first 6 months post CoD release were wasting in trying to fix it)

if that rate of progress is to slow for some peoples frayed nerves, then dont keep watching the paint dry, come back every 3 or 4 months to see what further progress has been made and if new patches are out. if you do have some interest in having as comprehensive and thorough a patch for CoD as possible, then join the technical discussions in threads that are trying to identify and quantify the existing bugs. just bitching at everything and making irrational "demands" doesnt serve any purpose and compounds the problems we already have

[kristorf]

Originally Posted by zapatista

that's already been answered by Black6 in this thread


if that rate of progress is to slow for some peoples frayed nerves, then dont keep watching the paint dry, come back every 3 or 4 months to see what further progress has been made and if new patches are out.

Shouldn't that be every 3 or 4 years???

[Pudfark]

@Zapatista

Wishful thinking on your part...at best.
The last 11 months, two weeks, demonstrates different.
No "dev" has ever had direct communication with this forum
and it's members. Between "bug threads" and questions? None.

BS, removed from the project and onto other things, don't count.

Your attempt to find "busy" work for the community to do?
Ain't appreciated. It won't be responded to, by the dev's.
They never have.

The "sell by date" has passed on this venture. They've admitted and demonstrated that fact.

I respect your person and intent.
I just don't agree with it.
S~

@All

I sincerely hope, that somebody somewhere can pull the rabbit out of the hat on this venture. As each day of silence passes? So does patience, understanding and future commitment. S~

[Pudfark]

@Zapatista

Wishful thinking on your part...at best.
The last 11 months, two weeks, demonstrates different.
No "dev" has ever had direct communication with this forum
and it's members. Between "bug threads" and questions? None.

BS, removed from the project and onto other things, don't count.

Your attempt to find "busy" work for the community to do?
Ain't appreciated. It won't be responded to, by the dev's.
They never have.

The "sell by date" has passed on this venture. They've admitted and demonstrated that fact.

I respect your person and intent.
I just don't agree with it.
S~

@All

I sincerely hope, that somebody somewhere can pull the rabbit out of the hat on this venture. As each day of silence passes? So does patience, understanding and future commitment. S~