[2023] Why even bother with experimental builds.

Originally posted by tazman1:

Originally posted by onanonehand8: First off, you and all the posters on this forum and TFP's forums don't come close to a majority of the player base, not even remotely close.

Secondly, TFP uses internal measurements to judge their success in each build.

And, honestly, I don't know how that informs them. but it is a much bigger number than all of us that post on these forums. Are we a reflective subset of all the player base, maybe, maybe not.

Ok dude unless you can explain this magical internal measurment thing then stop hiding behind that to try and defend your failed points.

Simple
https://7daystodie.com/a19-official-release-notes/
Read it.

I'll save you some time, since you tend to have trouble finding things.

Analytics and Telemetry
We have partnered with Super Nimbus and GameSparks to capture game analytics from Alpha 19 to Gold. We plan on capturing many things to help balance the game and improve the overall experience only generic game-play data all of which is already been covered in our EULA. For Alpha 19 we are capturing the most important data for balance and progression.

Some things we are capturing include:

• Game simulation settings
  
• How XP is earned
  
• How players die
  
• How players kill enemies
  
• The speed of player leveling
  
• Loot Progression at key points

We are not capturing and storing any personnel information from users such as

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• Names
  
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