Dawntrail, Endwalkers, and the Death of 2.0

[koko-on-da-forumz]

It's always the story lol.

Replace the writers and I'm sure you'll be just as happy as you were before. This is just a five(?) year long blip on the radar (6.1 - 7.5?).

For better or worse, the game is doing fine in terms of player count, much better than it would when the game was better. What can ya do?

[Lady_Silvermoon]

What can ya do?

Keep complaining until they do better. Why do you think gameplay improved so much? People were like "great story, but the gameplay was too easy" for EW and now we have more challenging gameplay. So it's not like they don't listen, it's like they can only hire competent people for one department at a time or something.

[DragonFlyy]

Keep complaining until they do better. Why do you think gameplay improved so much? People were like "great story, but the gameplay was too easy" for EW and now we have more challenging gameplay. So it's not like they don't listen, it's like they can only hire competent people for one department at a time or something.

And yet everyone is complaining that gameplay is bad too.

[Lady_Silvermoon]

And yet everyone is complaining that gameplay is bad too.

Not from what I've seen. There are some people complaining it jumped a bit too high and got too hard, but the vast majority of people seem to be lauding the gameplay this expansion.

[Aldath]

Keep voicing your dissatisfaction as a client, that's what you do.
It doesn't matter if we're doing great in plate we numbers, reception has been mixed, pointing towards the lower end of the review spectrum, and player sentiment is at an all time low, which in turn reflects in content churned by creators (and like it or not, we live in an influencer culture where what they say, the public repeats).

Let me tell you the story of a little, unknown game named Helldivers 2, since it's a microcosm of our own situation. The game opened to positive critical acclaim and it's been one of the few games so far to keep a consistently big active player base. However, the more content they introduced and the bigger the fame became, the more distant they became from the playerbase, and they eventually began implementing controversial changes that made the game less and less fun. The playerbase at first said the people complaining were just being negative and their presence wouldn't be missed. Eventually, even those defending the game couldn't do it anymore and also left.
Afterwards, the devs saw the writing in the room, changed leadership, and changed the game the way the playerbase expected, and the sentiment improved. However, they lost 90% of the playerbase and never really recovered.

The difference here being that SE/CBU3 has very rarely taken player feedback into account. Where exactly did they get the idea that people disliked release Viper? Where was the communication when both reddit and the forums had people asking for the changes to stop before being implemented?