Lack of communication and transparency from SE, roadmaps for the future?

[Aniya_Estlihn]

I don't remember them telling us we were getting the second map in 7.55. Do you have a timestamp for where they mentioned it?

Friend, it was a literal slide shown in the live letter.
It laid out the entire roadmap for occult crescent.

[Alice_Rivers]

I did have a thought last night that I thought would be really neat: Fortnightly Q&A streams with the senior devs from each department.

Kinda like Live Letters but better they could show us a bit of the internal development process each stream (modelling progress, storyboarding, system flow charts, maybe even some running code) and talk about the near future, then take questions from players. If they rotated time zones with each stream (one for East Asia and Oceania, one for the Americas and a third for Europe and West Asia) then they can do a translated transcription to post to social media to avoid getting the same questions week after week. This would disallow them the option to hide from feedback and open them up to possible new ideas while also showing us what our money is paying for.

Further to this they could have a six month summary stream to show off highlights from the previous six months and give a view into the planned work for the next six months.

[Ultran]

It would really be nice if they would communicate more in regard to their reasoning for some changes or talk about their ideas behind content. Tell us how they came to certain decisions.

[Heavenchild]

If they would communicate better then maybe not so much people would have screamed for a 'nerf picto!'.
Some days ago I saw this video.

https://youtu.be/PzaOTnlxynI?si=WqbpfMYukX6_RbOj

Now that I understand better, how much it's not only about numbers, I am afraid what will happen to picto on Tuesday. D :

[NanaWiloh]

Oh look I made the list twice!

I think they have to be careful about what they do and don't say. They did reveal things a bit earlier or tried to let players see a little behind the curtain in the past. But instead of appreciating that peek for what it is, players often took it as promises or made up their own expectations and then got mad at the developers for not living up to some things they never promised. So they keep things a bit closer to the vest now.

One of the most recent was Island Sanctuary. They kept that close to the vest. That tried to tell players not to go overboard on expectations. There was a ton of speculation here on the forums about what it was going to be. Some was honestly rather ridiculous given what we had been told. And like clockwork, people got angry that SE didn't implement it the way they had envisioned and acted like SE had promised things they never said would happen.

I enjoy when they go over the things that will be in an expansion at the Fan Fest announcements. I'm happy when I hear updates on things, like the raid tool that was mentioned recently. But I know things can change and delays can happy so unless they officially set in stone announce something, I just wait for the topic to come back around.

I am remember reading some of those wonderful expectation and so called promise threads. Very amusing to say the least as well as the resulting anger and disappointment that followed when said expectations were not met.

[Kazuke_Miso]

I am remember reading some of those wonderful expectation and so called promise threads. Very amusing to say the least as well as the resulting anger and disappointment that followed when said expectations were not met.

When will people learn not to expect anything that isn't very literally and unambiguously shown in the live letter.

[USAFJerrySo]

I did have a thought last night that I thought would be really neat: Fortnightly Q&A streams with the senior devs from each department.

Kinda like Live Letters but better they could show us a bit of the internal development process each stream (modelling progress, storyboarding, system flow charts, maybe even some running code) and talk about the near future, then take questions from players. If they rotated time zones with each stream (one for East Asia and Oceania, one for the Americas and a third for Europe and West Asia) then they can do a translated transcription to post to social media to avoid getting the same questions week after week. This would disallow them the option to hide from feedback and open them up to possible new ideas while also showing us what our money is paying for.

Further to this they could have a six month summary stream to show off highlights from the previous six months and give a view into the planned work for the next six months.

Summary from the last 6 months? lol. We only had a 5 min Mandeville quest & 2 dungeons within those time frames.

[USAFJerrySo]

Yoshi: I hear what you all saying and the answer is NO!

[SkankyRoe]

Friend, it was a literal slide shown in the live letter.
It laid out the entire roadmap for occult crescent.

Your image isn't showing for some reason, but I found the timestamp. Absolutely stupid, there's no reason to delay the second map so long, 7.45 makes more sense and is in line with the time between Bozja's maps.

Then again they prolly delaying it to 7.55 in hopes it'll keep more players subbed throughout the ~6 month lull before 8.0