"THe Development Team Does Not Currently Have Plans Too..."

[Malithar]

So when a server comes out and says "We're sorry, the kitchen is out of prime rib," do we take it as "Hey, prime rib might still happen if we complain about it," or do we go about and pick something else off the menu.

The devs saying there's no plans means just that: THERE ARE NO PLANS TO IMPLEMENT SAID FEATURE AT THIS TIME. You have that information. There will be no prime rib in this battlefield tonight. We have these other specials and menu items. Please pick from those. I know you're upset because you really wanted this item, but we do not have the resources right now.

I'm actually quite happy when we get that response (because it is a response). Not the result of the response sometimes, but with the response itself. Quick, concise, easy to understand. The only thing that would make more sense would be: There are no plans. If this changes, we'll let you know that we are working on it.

Pretty much agree with what you're saying, but all too often in some of these threads (Black Belt, Massacre Elegy, high tier nukes, infamous Bst pet TH, etc) we have quotes from them from months/years, sometimes as low as weeks before their "there are no plans currently" that say otherwise. That's where the real disconnect, for me at least, is. To say "we're looking at making tier V Elemental Magic more useful in battle strategies" then literally 1.5-2 months later say "there are no plans to change high tier Elemental Magic" is a bit of a conundrum. What are we to believe if anything from dev posts at that point?