I too feel the same way, ani... I don't want people to see those speaking out for the new content or even just communication as people who dislike SoR. its the exact opposite. There are many of us who would love to see this game become the shining jewel that was detailed through numerous interviews, web content and even dev reports.iphdrunk wrote:I'm a bit sad. My recent posts seem to only bash the game, a game that is enjoyable and good, maybe I need to step back and rethink about this. But some of my concerns remain: we have no idea of a long term view, no idea of incoming features nor their dates, we seem to hold to past promises. And I like to raise my concerns, although we seem too vocal. Of course, there is also the possiblity of just beein a fanboy and saying "droooooolz" "hugggles" "bowz great poststszz" and so on.
There has been some development on the website recently, making it look good. The forums also saw a change a number of months earlier in which the Q&A stuff stopped, we stopped the letters to the community, etc. At the time, many were complaining that the amount of communication between the player base and Nevrax was lacking. Q&As became monthly instead of bi-weekly, then they just became released randomly every few months or so. The reason for stopping the old communication methods was supposed to be because the devs and liasons would be posting directly in forum threads. simply put, this rarely happens (at least on the English forums). Am I demanding that every thread has Nevrax comment on it? No. But should threads that address problems that have been recognized by Nevrax go unanswered (such as the threads recently asking for what exactly is going on in the dev department at the moment)? well, considering they removed the old methods of commication with promises they'd take a more direct approach, yes, I do think they need to start posting in those types of threads.
I think that many would appreciate it if contact was maintained with Nevrax and the goings on. We would have a clearer picture of whats on the horizon which would allow for a much happier and educated playerbase (not to mention the subs it'd save with people staying because they knew something more was coming). It could also bring more people into the game. If a person visits the site right now and looks at whats in development, there isn't much there to prove to them that this game is alive and well. We have a new site with all the snazzy features. but... old text, new graphics. Can we get the words updated now?