Transparency is not just saying that you have done a mistake!

GGG just telling that you guys have made a mistake isn't Transparency! Transparency is telling your players:

"Ok we have made a mistake, development will only start after some weeks after 0.2, THAN after that we THINK that we will take between 2 to 3 months to develop the new League. But we can guarantee that our resources are being put in the right things like:
- "Put Poe 2 problems here"
We can't guarantee that everything will be coming on 0.2 but we are already trying to solve these problems."

Or something like that, we are always on the forum giving feedback about what we think about everything in your game, but we get 0 return, i'm not asking to start answering any feedback thread, but making a thread where you guys are showing what you guys are working on, like the know issues but for mechanics/problem inside the game, and MAYBE just MAYBE asking your playerbase if they like or not a change that is still coming to the game, because i bet if you guys placed a pool asking your player base if they think that only a 15% amour buff would be enough you would mostly see everyone saying that it isn't enough. Also I know players may exaggerate, but data is there to check if there is really a problem, but also data can't be the only thing that decides where the game goes, every player have feelings( mostly anger) and these feelings will tell how much they like your game and where you are going to with your game.

I wouldn't mind getting better visibility to their plans & timelines. I know that they don't want to over-promise but if the alternative is radio-silence for weeks at a time then that's not good either.

There's a better balance between the extremes.

GGG have been far more transparent than nearly every games company out there. I'm not sure what you're asking for is realistic.

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AbilityPoints#9049 wrote:

GGG have been far more transparent than nearly every games company out there. I'm not sure what you're asking for is realistic.

GGG has some good will built up ... I'll give you that. I'm also willing to wait & see how PoE2 and PoE1 develop in the next several months.

... However


It seems that GGG took many (all?) Devs off of PoE1 not long after it launched it's last league. GGG didn't tell anyone about this for over 5-7 months. I'm not as worried about what happenned but WHY it happenned.

I'm generally OK with a "oops I made a mistake -- sorry about that". What I'm not so-OK with is the nagging feeling that GGG CHOSE not to communicate what they were doing because of financial gains.

Basically GGG may be transparent when it's convenient for them and hush-hush when being transparent would be a bad look .... Not saying this is a pattern yet or even that's actually what happenned -- but I don't like the potential precedent.


Note: I'm not one bit bothered by someone that would be REALLY upset at GGG.

They should be saying what they are working on, yeah. If they said "hey, we're working on 6 portals for all pinnacle bosses on 0.2.0" I think many of us might say "Stop. Don't bandaid a broken system. Fix core problems instead of wasting time on something that in the end won't make players like the game more."

All this time going by without a word, can you imagine if they release 0.2.0 and it is full of notes that people go "wtf are you working on this for?" Why risk damaging their rep further and alienating their community more? Just say what your plans are and see what the general feel is? Could save you weeks of labor.

Honestly, GGG is a game company that has been operating for over a decade, maintaining a nearly consistent three-month update cycle for ten years. How precise do you think their control over development progress is?

Coming back from a break to see 500,000 feedback posts while planning to develop 12 classes and 36 Ascendancies… If you think they couldn't immediately determine that they were behind schedule, you're just fooling yourself.

The reality is: they knew, but they hid it for three weeks.(If the 4 chan leak is real they knew they can't make it from the beginning)

They have to wait until they can't hide the fact, so they can sell as much supporter packs as possible. That's profit and damage control.

Whatever they say and do I don't think you'll ever be happy and will still find the game too hard and you'll always see problems in it.

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dwqrf#0717 wrote:

Whatever they say and do I don't think you'll ever be happy and will still find the game too hard and you'll always see problems in it.

Pretty much.