Reviewing Luthier's roadmap

[ATAG_Dutch]

I'd just like to say that having a moan about the people who moan at the moaners is just another new wave of moaning.

[bongodriver]

only until someone moans about it enough.

[Thee_oddball]

theres only one good kind of moaning...but it takes more than just a keyboard..it requires flowers and dinner and wine and some times jewelry...but it does end in a smile

S!

[jimbop]

Regarding communication, CoD is 1C's baby, not Ubisoft's. Rightly or wrongly this sort of thing always seems to end up being done by the people who care the most (and that sure isn't Ubisoft). 1C owns it and thus has the long term interest in this game. They have to do the work to build the community up. Otherwise the only comfort they will have for failure is that Ubisoft should have tried harder. Much better to just get it done regardless of who 'should' be doing it and succeed.

Anyway, do you honestly think Ubisoft knows what is going on? I doubt it. So they would have to ask 1C, receive the email and then post it! Ridiculous. 1C not communicating on their own forum is only going to end badly, especially after a North America release when we will (hopefully) have an influx or new players who all want to know what's going on!

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by jimbop

1C not communicating on their own forum is only going to end badly, especially after a North America release when we will (hopefully) have an influx or new players who all want to know what's going on!

1C are communicating, far more often then other video games I saw. And I saw many of them.

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by carguy_

1C are communicating, far more often then other video games I saw. And I saw many of them.

For a product aimed at a niche market in the simulation world, communication in the recent weeks/months has really slumped. Look at the communcation for, say, RoF (don't flame me for this example).
Some may say that we're lucky members of the team are willing to talk at all, but clearly they need our help in polishing the product, so realistically it is to be expected.

It's apples and oranges, really. Find a similar simulation game in the same state as CloD and let's see if the dev team for that are communcating. There isn't really anything suitable to compare to.

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Look at the communcation for, say, RoF (don't flame me for this example).

RoF team does not have a publisher like UBI or EA which keeps all marketing budget for themselves. Thus they can spend their marketing budget on communication.

When MG becomes an independent studio and you pay them directly you would get same level of communication.

[carguy_]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

It's apples and oranges, really. Find a similar simulation game in the same state as CloD and let's see if the dev team for that are communcating. There isn't really anything suitable to compare to.

Whatever. You seem to ignore the obvious - that broad dev team - user communication is an exception, not the rule.

[Sammi79]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

For me the moaning about people moaning is because the moaners have a weird idea that their moaning is going to be of some sort of interest in general, but in reality the moaning only appeals to other moaners and entire threads build up from the moaning club with the subsequent anti-moan moaning club obligedly countering the moaning with anti-moan.....moaning.

Originally Posted by Dutch_851

I'd just like to say that having a moan about the people who moan at the moaners is just another new wave of moaning.

those 2 comments absolutely slayed me. Like out of Red Dwarf or Blackadder or something. So there's people who moan about the thing, then there's people who moan about the people who moan about the thing... what does that make you 2?
no offence intended folks honestly that was just too funny. Keep 'em coming, Sorry for off topic.

Cheers,
Sam.

[bongodriver]

It makes us 2 guys who retain a sense of humour