Player and developer communication

[ReynTime]

People are gonna argue there is a lot more communication going on here compared to other games. And it's true.

But the way they take player feedback now compared to 2011~2015...? It's far, far cry from how it used to be. Probably because the game hit it big and now they only respond when things get really really bad, and the Letters only exist exclusively to build hype for patches now. For better or for worse there was a level of "our players know what they want and we should try to deliver it" in the first years Yoshi-P was around. Now it's more like "we know you want X but we want to give you Y because we care more about the players less invested in the game".
They don't even pay much attention outside twitter anymore.