BlueSanta, on 08 February 2013 - 12:18 PM, said:
I would also like to say that I feel like I'm not sure of any of the long-term goals of the devs past next month. Like CW is still a big mysterious blob, to say nothing of the Clans. Also some rather elementary features like UI 2.0 are unknown past essentially a block of three or more months. I mean, what does your calendar look like?
First off when do YOU say maybe? You say it when its either something youve considered or something that has been brought to you that you feel would be worthwhile to consider. Right? It doesnt mean at all that they havent thought about it, it means that they would be thinking about it. Frankly this community has had more feedback from devs than you often get about future plans even with them including specific details than you would get with 90% of other game companies out there. Also they have said no to suggestions or questions and as far as the JJ fix goes perhaps they were referring to future past this current coming patch or that maybe he wasnt in the loop for it, they have designers for different parts of a product not just the whole thing at once.
Also you being sure of the long term goals is not something that they even owe you. Sure its business and youre a consumer of their product but frankly they can do what they want with their product and have given more information about future plans once agian than most companies would be bothered to by whiny people like yourself.
CW is something that is huge and they have wanted to keep hushed and even said they didnt want to touch on the topic till closer to the release date. So what else do you want them to tell you?
Elementary features indeed, its a UI. This is a freaking BETA gameplay and functionality in initial testing is a lot more important than a user interface for social aspects, while sure the mechlab and other things can be useful to make things easier for oneself in balancing gameplay once in game for yourself if youre as gung-ho as you seem to make yourself out to be take the two seconds on any of the other tens of resources out there and deal with it till its implemented. Would you rather a well polished ui with all sorts of doodads and functions and information or a game that actually has less glitches and is playable?
I cant believe i even typed this out to explain something so basic but i guess theres a lot of egocentric people on here who cant step back and see the bigger picture.