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Originally Posted by das123
You can sometimes see the Stardock frustrations through their Elemental beta process and they obviously have very thick skins. Ultimately, for them, it has been very positive in terms of weeding out the bad concepts and introducing new ones but the frustrations with community expectations do rise to the surface occasionally.
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Yes, weeding out the bad concepts before release is one positive thing that I'd see as well, and why feedback even in the form of criticism isn't bad. Other companies pay a lot of money to do market analysis, they have it as a byproduct.
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Originally Posted by das123
I must say I've got very high expectations for Elemental.  |
When I first heard about it a year or so ago I was interested, when I first saw what they had this quickly changed. I did complain very loudly one time about a marketing stunt of theirs which resulted in a statement about those claims, where those were watered down as being misunderstood. Overall I'm interested in whatever they come up with as well, though.
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Originally Posted by thejeff
Or perhaps the fun of development is not based on keeping secrets, but based on not having to defend every step and every idea from naysayers.
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That certainly wouldn't be fun, but it's not like they'd be tailoring the game exactly to the quite probably even changing demands of their audience. It would be advertisement in the form of "look what we did, hot or not?", getting into touch with the potential future customers, instead of just a finished product and one-sided propaganda. Zero feedback would be the worst.
I believe that it's not really about secrets, anyway, but about the fact that for a programmer, and especially for a single working one, documentation is always a very painful thing to do.
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Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker
Its not as if the devs have to guess. They know what this community is like.
And I have to agree with their choices.
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What do the devs think this community is like? I'd like to agree with their choices, too.
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Originally Posted by rdonj
I miss the days where JK and KO were around more often. I hope we haven't chased them away by making it too unwelcome for them here.
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They never have been unwelcome, they enjoy unquestioned sympathy from the fans. Never mind the front-seat passenger talk - the very first thing I'd bug KO about when I see him here again would be when the map that's never going to be finished is going to be finished.
