Re: Information vs. Information Blackout
I read it all twice.
I'll pick on the Cartillery. I recall prior to the Car Drop Patch no one was clamoring for the ability to drop vehicles. In fact the Vehicle drop patch was instantly used to destroy snipers, wreck emplaced positions and destroy arty and a number of other ways unforseen by DICE.
We dont enjoy the luxury of finding out who fell out of bed full of inspiration to code the vehicle drop into the game. We dont learn about why it was forced into the game. We dont know anything except that lo and behold... the Monarchy DICE The GREAT has decreed that there will be vehicle drops availible in the game and it is done.
We gathered at the gates to the ivory tower with signs, placards and loud bullhorns in the forums with a variety of expressions of discontent towards teh vehicle drops.
Did we expect to hear anything from the tower? no. They finally wants to fix the vehicle drop by disallowing "Precision" drops.
In the meantimes the Senate parties while Rome burns and citizens dig at the foundation of the tower looking for the 1.4 patch hoping to get the goods ahead of everyone else.
The only thing we hear about 1.4 in all this time is that it was taken back to the workshop because of problems. We are not trusted to understand the exact nature of the problem. Therefore speculation and rumors rages like a forest fire. It must be getting pretty hot in the tower by now.
Provide adequate infomation regarding the game and actually fix the problems like say.. the Aircraft pilot eating Tk negative points all the way down the runway becuase he got to the cockpit while 20 others did not. Plenty of information has been offered by us "Serfs" in form of the ideas such as protected runway areas that enforces "Suicides" against the one who tries to block a Jet to force a tk against the pilot.
Im sure those and other great ideas reached the top of the tower and replies filter down in the form of pod casts, dedicated forums that supposidly provides feedback both ways but instead is filtered down to one or two "safe" questions that provide no traction for anyone to work on.
Im happy to buy a computer game and play it. Im happy that work is being done to see game work well without too many problems. In fact everything is going great. Now that it is 30 years later in my gaming life I learn so much about developers, technology of the net, servers, other gamers and literally have forums and other means of learning a status of a game within the hour... I dont need all of that.
Just dont ask the powers that be in the tower specific questions that cuts straight to the meat of a problem. They tend to squirm and maintain silence as if it is a great secret of the state locked away in the holies of holies.
Bleah.
We are a free people. Information is power. Knowledge of a problem will help greatly towards harmony in the community. That grumble of discontent you hear from the citizens at the tower gates means either the Ale has run out and the bread gone bad or that someone has not properly fed a steady stream of reliable good quality information to the people.
I use patch 1.4 and the recent efforts by the hundreds to get to it. The silence was too protracted and the people felt the need to get pick axes and dig for the patch themselves and along the way learn how the EA downloader and associated files work.
There are some who appeal for calm and to wait for EA and DICE to release the offical patch. I think the number of these few Knights are too few compared to the impatient masses who clamor for the goods.
The community is a very demanding group because they are potential customers ready to buy another good product. But only if the current game is good and well taken care of. BF2 has not been well taken care of this year.
Maybe one day you might look out upon a silent and desolate city populated with just a few loyal gamers who are absloutely refusing to leave the rotten product regardless of it's condition.
Toss the 9 commandments of gaming and keep this one:
"The Gaming Experience is subject to change in multiplayer"
that is written next to the barcode of virtually every multiplayer game product.
Everything else we are expected to operate in a vacumn. Freedom in form of Mods or other better quality games awaits the faithful few who suffer the problems for a year or more.
I read it all twice.
I'll pick on the Cartillery. I recall prior to the Car Drop Patch no one was clamoring for the ability to drop vehicles. In fact the Vehicle drop patch was instantly used to destroy snipers, wreck emplaced positions and destroy arty and a number of other ways unforseen by DICE.
We dont enjoy the luxury of finding out who fell out of bed full of inspiration to code the vehicle drop into the game. We dont learn about why it was forced into the game. We dont know anything except that lo and behold... the Monarchy DICE The GREAT has decreed that there will be vehicle drops availible in the game and it is done.
We gathered at the gates to the ivory tower with signs, placards and loud bullhorns in the forums with a variety of expressions of discontent towards teh vehicle drops.
Did we expect to hear anything from the tower? no. They finally wants to fix the vehicle drop by disallowing "Precision" drops.
In the meantimes the Senate parties while Rome burns and citizens dig at the foundation of the tower looking for the 1.4 patch hoping to get the goods ahead of everyone else.
The only thing we hear about 1.4 in all this time is that it was taken back to the workshop because of problems. We are not trusted to understand the exact nature of the problem. Therefore speculation and rumors rages like a forest fire. It must be getting pretty hot in the tower by now.
Provide adequate infomation regarding the game and actually fix the problems like say.. the Aircraft pilot eating Tk negative points all the way down the runway becuase he got to the cockpit while 20 others did not. Plenty of information has been offered by us "Serfs" in form of the ideas such as protected runway areas that enforces "Suicides" against the one who tries to block a Jet to force a tk against the pilot.
Im sure those and other great ideas reached the top of the tower and replies filter down in the form of pod casts, dedicated forums that supposidly provides feedback both ways but instead is filtered down to one or two "safe" questions that provide no traction for anyone to work on.
Im happy to buy a computer game and play it. Im happy that work is being done to see game work well without too many problems. In fact everything is going great. Now that it is 30 years later in my gaming life I learn so much about developers, technology of the net, servers, other gamers and literally have forums and other means of learning a status of a game within the hour... I dont need all of that.
Just dont ask the powers that be in the tower specific questions that cuts straight to the meat of a problem. They tend to squirm and maintain silence as if it is a great secret of the state locked away in the holies of holies.
Bleah.
We are a free people. Information is power. Knowledge of a problem will help greatly towards harmony in the community. That grumble of discontent you hear from the citizens at the tower gates means either the Ale has run out and the bread gone bad or that someone has not properly fed a steady stream of reliable good quality information to the people.
I use patch 1.4 and the recent efforts by the hundreds to get to it. The silence was too protracted and the people felt the need to get pick axes and dig for the patch themselves and along the way learn how the EA downloader and associated files work.
There are some who appeal for calm and to wait for EA and DICE to release the offical patch. I think the number of these few Knights are too few compared to the impatient masses who clamor for the goods.
The community is a very demanding group because they are potential customers ready to buy another good product. But only if the current game is good and well taken care of. BF2 has not been well taken care of this year.
Maybe one day you might look out upon a silent and desolate city populated with just a few loyal gamers who are absloutely refusing to leave the rotten product regardless of it's condition.
Toss the 9 commandments of gaming and keep this one:
"The Gaming Experience is subject to change in multiplayer"
that is written next to the barcode of virtually every multiplayer game product.
Everything else we are expected to operate in a vacumn. Freedom in form of Mods or other better quality games awaits the faithful few who suffer the problems for a year or more.
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