First, lets have Eckman instead of Russ for public relation. Eckman knows how to talk to a crowd. Russ can be fed a question and if no one stop him he will talk about it for hours and reiterate and justify and reiterate and talk around it and justify and.... Nothing against you Russ, i can't talk to a crowd either. Maybe both of yo ucould be sitting together, maybe add Paul too.
Townhall are better than nothing, they just are. Dev log were very nice too, i feel they have been replaced with live streaming like Lauren do when working. Which is nice but i rather have 15min to watch with concise question or just statement about the state of things than look at someone work for an hour. I do appreciate the effort put in the live streaming of pgi working or playing, i really do, but i dont have time to watch someone else than me play or work. I catch some after they are done, skip through them, if anything good was said i most likely miss it.
Alistair Winter, on 01 May 2016 - 08:19 AM, said:
Honestly, I think Town Halls started out great. When they first started doing them, I became a lot more sympathetic with Russ and his point of view, especially explaining some of the choices they were forced to make because of IGP. They changed my views on a number of things. It was a lot better to hear him explain things with his own words than to read a Command Chair post.
But over time, a bunch of things have happened. For one thing, PGI has basically stopped interacting with their fans everywhere except [sporadically] on Twitter.. Secondly, from having a sincere and positive tone, Russ is sounding increasingly fed-up and bitter in his last Town Hall meetings. It now has the opposite effect of when he started. Instead of inspiring sympathy, he's now creating a sense of animosity, like "Oh, here we go with these pointless questions!" and "Oh, listen to these idiots who think they know how to make a game!"
It's really uncomfortable to listen to the awkward, tense dialogue. I don't think Town Halls are a bad idea, but they should definitely stop doing them, at this point. They seem painful for everyone involved.
I agree with everything except the last part. Someone had a bad day maybe, at job or at home, **** happens and then maybe you get what we had. Some things need to change for sure.
It really didnt look like they were prepared in any ways last town hall. They certainly didnt gain any votes. They hired new peoples months ago, anything to tell us about it? ANYTHING? get us interested, maybe skip community question altogether for one townhall and just talk to us about whats going on. hell at this point just talking about that time you put salt in someones coffee would have been better.
Edited by DAYLEET, 01 May 2016 - 01:21 PM.
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