Quote Originally Posted by polyphonica View Post
I think the issue is, when you're making entertainment that targets a more broad/casual market, following a formula doesn't "poison" the well nearly as quickly as people think. Consider all the big gaming franchises that release basically a slightly-different skin of the same game year after year after year to colossal sales, or how Hollywood is focusing on "cinematic universes" that are basically sequel after sequel of very similarly-structured and themed movies. Yeah, obviously, eventually people tire of the formula and move on, and there are some misfires along the way, but how long do they expect this game to last anyway? Are they going to have 5 more years of active content? 10 more years? By that time, how much will the gaming world have changed, and what will the newer younger generation of players want/expect?
My problem with that viewpoint is something I shown earlier:

https://youtu.be/0_7u0z9cIZI

You got any idea how many people play this game? esp compared to ffxiv? There is a huge range of of their ranking system. Picture a rank point system about 5500 max and 0 is the smallest, within 100 points, say you have 2200, you hit that button to be matched with someone, within above or below 100 points you are instantly matched with someone. How can something appeal to that wide range of people, and still find time for the community manager to sit there for 10 minutes, explaining the changes, showing that he understands what people want and complain about (esp on the remark on the eagle cannon to golems) When you see someone talk in that way, it really shows they listen to people.

When it comes to yoshi-p it sounds like he thinks he knows what people want, but doesn't. Take the male bunny thing. They could approached this differently, they could gone slow and just did the bunny ears, get ideas over a "male version" of the suit. But no there was a miscommunication and thought everyone wanted this copy/paste solution... I mean how out of touch can you be?


Quote Originally Posted by Mikhaill View Post
Yeah, I'm not going to sit here for the next 10 years and having
Ultima The 10th Unlimited TRIAL. They are so scared to move forward
because of 1.0's failure that they are in a Safe Space Limbo.
Nothing else they can do...I'm sure the things that people want cannot
be done with how the core of the game is. I'm one of those people tbh.
And the things that CAN be helped, someone somewhere has miscommunicated
with the team or again, "we can't because limitations". I'm still trying to find out
how we can't have more inventory space because limitations but magically can with purchasable retainers.

There's one thing where hardware is legit limiting things but it's another
when you Godang lie to us. You might as well tell us "you don't feel like it".
Yeah charge people more money for something a sub should be paying for. The retainer situation is ridiculous.