[2020] Developer Update: June 9, 2020

Originally posted by Omnifarious

I hope to god you guys have a cooldown on how often Surrender can be called otherwise we're going to see the same salty AFK bitches spamming Surrender votes every 3 seconds when the match isn't going 100% in their teams favor.

Originally posted by BarcusBrown

Thanks for the update! Just for clarity sake, when voice chat becomes active at whatever update it gets put out, there won't be an option for Push-To-Talk , and Push-To-Talk will be added later?

Originally posted by ZulZah

Cool update. I am just wondering how were you guys planning for enabling communications before the game was released? As I’m sure the type of game Crucible is, I assume the devs/PMs figured it would be a critical feature. Based on the feedback/reaction of the lack of voice or chat communications, did it speed up plans for it to be released by a drastic amount? Also was there a lot of surprise internally by the reaction of lack of this feature?

Originally posted by ottoginc

I am glad to see that you guys are focusing on the communities worries, at least a couple of them.

I do have to say, it is alarming to see that the issue of AFKing is somehow only arising weeks after launch. This is an obvious one. I do not see how a surrender option is even marginally tied to combating AFK players, when you guys don't even have an AFK option in your report menu. If a single player is AFK, that impacts the match enough to make it a problem, but simply giving up is not a solution. If there's an AFK player in every match, your proposed "first step" literally translates to "Do not play Crucible".

Make a movement/action timer. 1 minute. Give it a display on the HUD that has a countdown. "You are idle. You will be kicked in 30 seconds unless you do something. If you are kicked, you will not be able to join another game until this match is complete." This is not an unusual feature. Definitely add an AFK option in the report menu. That ones obvious too. If enough people report someone as AFK, and they are indeed not moving, they are kicked as well. With these two things combined, you can weed out AFK players and issue suspensions and bans.

There's no difference between an AFK player, and an empty spot and AFKing needs to be punished immediately, not just by having to go AFK in a different match because you made everyone have to surrender.

Second note, this sentence in particular is also alarming:

And now, to address one of the hottest community topics: version 1 of voice chat has moved into the internal testing phase!

Version 1? Three weeks after the game is launched, you guys have your very first ever version of voice chat ready for internal testing? So this really was something that is 100% an afterthought? A team based game absent communications. Can we at least get text chat started too?

I apologize for the overall negative vibe of this comment, I really do like this game and am appreciative of all the things you guys are doing, and you guys are doing them pretty fast in the scheme of things. It's just some of the things you are doing now should have been part of what people got on launch day. Instead they got disappointment. Luckily for everyone this is a free game. You don't like it, uninstall that shit and move on.

Then there's assholes like me who spend $75 on Founder's packs and feel entitled.

Please keep at it, I still speak highly of this game. Don't let it dieeee.

Originally posted by ZulZah

Thank you for providing that insight from your end and I totally can understand that. I’m impressed with how active you guys are in communication and updates and looking forward to giving Crucible some more time with how you guys are showing care to the game and player feedback.