Learning to be Patient with SE Dev Communication.

[Betelgeuzah]

the thing is we still don't know how companies work, we don't know how the new job system will work, we don't know anything except that what me may or may not want is coming...eventually...

The problem is that neither do devs. They have their concepts. They have their plans. They are probably implementing said plans as we speak (okay, come Monday). But as far as how the system will end up, they are as clueless as we are.

We don't want to be told info that may not be accurate. We want a timeline, we want more specific info, and most importantly, we want accurate info. The latter is simply impossible to deliver before much closer to the actual day of implementation.

[Xeno]

The problem is that neither do devs. They have their concepts. They have their plans. They are probably implementing said plans as we speak (okay, come Monday). But as far as how the system will end up, they are as clueless as we are.

We don't want to be told info that may not be accurate. We want a timeline, we want more specific info, and most importantly, we want accurate info. The latter is simply impossible to deliver before much closer to the actual day of implementation.

I personally wouldn't mind being told info like, ".... well we're not sure if it will work that way but we'll see!" Plus, isn't the new battle system coming in 1.18 or 1.19? I'm sure they have a pretty good idea of what they're doing considering the fact that they've been working on it for a few months now and it's only a few weeks away from launch. We know auto-attack is coming but that's about all we know about the new battle system.

[Jamel-Irief]

We don't want to be told info that may not be accurate. We want a timeline, we want more specific info, and most importantly, we want accurate info. The latter is simply impossible to deliver before much closer to the actual day of implementation.

Everything in this topic makes sense and good logic, but how come in other MMO's these things doesn't seem to be a problem. I.e. Aion patch notes are giving months before being patched in game, sometimes they don't hold the timelime but everything in patch notes is exactly as it becomes in the game.

Tanaka's old roadmap didn't have any real definite timeline (other then "2011"), and for me that roadmap was a very good indication of were the game was heading, slowly or not. Some of the gripe from players (including me) seems to come from not knowing the general direction of the game (will it be like WOW? Will it be like FFXI? etc. etc.)

I'm sure the devs are working as hard as possible (why wouldn't they?), but when beta testing a game, if you want to make community feedback a priority, it's a good idea to tell people where the game is heading.

Not demanding anything... Just wanted to make that clear

Well written OP nonetheless!