Hi BoltOriginally Posted by Bolt
Game development, especially in mobile games, is fast paced and requires a lot of different disciplines to work together to make the final product happen. This creates complex structures and processes that are necessary to keep things running smoothly. We in the Community team are working to change some of the processes in place to facilitate more transparency and be able to provide you with more information and context on a regular basis. Unfortunately, change is not as quick a process as we'd like. I don't want this to sound like nothing more than excuses but because changing the underlying system before you see tangible results takes time, it may appear as if nothing is happening when in fact things are changing behind the scenes. We know we are not where we should be. We are committed to increasing transparency as much as possible and we thank you for your patience in the meantime.
On a side note, there are good reasons why game developers don't share everything in advance with players. That is a complicated topic for another time
To some extent I have to agree with you that sometimes there is no way to give us any information ahead of time..........................
on the other hand...............I have to say (and I am sure you will agree with me).....................that the developers are giving you BS because in some instances they can give you a detail information of the changes and how they will affect players.............................
I will give you one example of when they can do that, and please let me know if I am mistaken
New Update is ready (lest use the latest MW update in the apple store) it just came out a few days ago............but I am very sure, that after developers finished it, and all the hmm, QA was done and all tested to make sure works fine.....................they have to send it to apple for approval..............and that approval does not happen overnight, it takes at least 72 hours for apple to review and approve...................(maybe less, maybe more).................but the point is that by the time the send the update to apple, there is nothing for the developers to do on that, thus they can perfectly let you know what the changes that are implementing are and how they will work (in a general manner or with some key details) which you in turn would be able to let us know, so that we are not in the dark when it gets approve by apple
and if the developers say "oh, we cannot do that, incase apple does not approve and we need to make changes"................because I am sure that the changes if any, will not change significantly, and plus, you can always add "guys this is what is coming, but please bear in mind that changes may occur if apples does not approve it".........in which case you could inform us that something may change, but at least we have a general idea of what to expect
