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Over on Hunt: Showdown reddit they're posting this same meme because the player base doesn't agree on something like how often Night maps should roll and the poor devs are caught in the middle.
I've lost track of how much the Sea of Thieves community tries to bully Rare into changes that don't need to be made.
Mordhau is definitely no different from other communities it's a great game and the people who complain about it don't realize how good they have it. This game is of a dying breed and honestly some of the best $40 I've ever spent, but I will say nerfing in-game mechanics because you got pummeled by someone who literally gets paid to teach the game deserves a little heckling.
I mean the things that got nerfed have been issues at high levels of skill for a while, regardless of the context in which we found out about them, they were broken. You could just straight gamble kicks and headshots against skilled players were a dice roll. I've been playing a bit more and haven't noticed any difference on my kicks, since I don't gamble.
Issues with game and devs aside, I think it is pretty commendable that they have communicated and interacted how they have here and on discord given this community's penchant for...interesting feedback. Some game devs I've bought from have shut down communication and not bothered anymore from this kind of feedback, so I'm glad to still see weekly feedback threads, though I do wish they were more detailed, even if you think they go unlooked at.
Hey, thanks :)
I'd say I probably leave about 50% of the actual meeting out of the feedback, usually because it's stuff we're not confident will be added (or will be, just a long way out). This is because us showing some stuff off too early either kills hype or it can set unrealistic expectations. Also, a lot of things take a while, so if we mention it too early (armory rework, oops) people are just going to be frustrated waiting for it.
It's a delicate balance of giving yall info so you have an idea of what we're doing, but also at the same time pacing that info so what we say is actually accurate and relevant.
Players don't really know what they want anyway. Everyone has their own idea of what would make any given game "perfect," and that opinion is usually formed with zero understanding of how software works, how that particular piece of software (the game) works, and near-zero consideration for how other people enjoy the game or the surrounding systems that change would affect.
That's not to say you should ignore your game's community completely, but devs need to be very cautious about how they implement feedback.
I love this, pretty much sums it up.
All feedback is valid, but it's not always useful. We have to consider the wishes of everyone (including us, the devs) and find a good compromise that is achievable. This is "fun" because usually it causes a portion of the player base to be upset and yell at us :)
The SDK was finished months ago, they already sent it to Epic who is taking their sweet ass time reviewing it. It's not like the devs are holding out or dragging their feet on the SDK, Epic is the one slowing it down
We actually did get approval pre-update, but there was a little bit of polish work/final touches needed. Due to the timing being pretty unfortunate, we decided to actually delay it on our end and just do that work for the new version of the engine. Otherwise we'd have done that work, released it, it breaks due to the engine update, we then fix it, and release it again. Cue people getting mad because we 'break' the SDK after like a week or two after we released it.
Battlefield (SDK dev) wasn't around for the last meeting due to some IRL obligations, but he did mention that it was nearing completion and that it *should* be ready. Now we just need to do a few final checks and such, so hopefully it should be out soon™
EDIT: to clarify, the SDK isn't dependent on the game version too much, but it is dependent on the engine version. Since we swapped engine versions, it would have immediately broken.