29 May 15, 11:12AM
Problem with the "opinions" thrown on the forums is that they are very simplistic and not the consequence of a deep reflection about the game. You can tell because most of the requests are :
- tweaking something in the weapon balance
- adding a gamemode
- adding or removing maps
- adding or removing cubescript commands
- stricter or looser map restrictions / MS rules
finally people only make suggestions about something very specific that they would like, but often its so specific that its just a matter of opinion. That's why, when a feature is implemented to restrict a competitive map pool of maps/mode (so that ac_desert is only allowed tobe played in DM and TSURV for instance), people only focus on the very choice of map (which is debatable and more a matter of opinion, and thus left for a later stage of the development) instead of focusing on the motivations that led to such a feature.
Another consequence is that most suggestions we get are quite selfish and as long as we want to satisfy all of them, only thing we can hope is to please the small current community, but certainly not attracting new players. I'd rather see half of the current community gone if we gould get 4 times as many newcomers.
When people ask for a pause feature, they don't understand that its not going to make the game more popular, its just going to satisfy their own wish, thats it. When they claim their "opinion" will make the game better, they should rather say that, if we listen to their opinions, we would make the game just as they personally like it; but definitely more popular (or even good overall)
- tweaking something in the weapon balance
- adding a gamemode
- adding or removing maps
- adding or removing cubescript commands
- stricter or looser map restrictions / MS rules
finally people only make suggestions about something very specific that they would like, but often its so specific that its just a matter of opinion. That's why, when a feature is implemented to restrict a competitive map pool of maps/mode (so that ac_desert is only allowed tobe played in DM and TSURV for instance), people only focus on the very choice of map (which is debatable and more a matter of opinion, and thus left for a later stage of the development) instead of focusing on the motivations that led to such a feature.
Another consequence is that most suggestions we get are quite selfish and as long as we want to satisfy all of them, only thing we can hope is to please the small current community, but certainly not attracting new players. I'd rather see half of the current community gone if we gould get 4 times as many newcomers.
When people ask for a pause feature, they don't understand that its not going to make the game more popular, its just going to satisfy their own wish, thats it. When they claim their "opinion" will make the game better, they should rather say that, if we listen to their opinions, we would make the game just as they personally like it; but definitely more popular (or even good overall)