Care to comment Mike?
Mike?
Communicating with the community and all that.......you know, Planet Cricket offering you a free platform to promote your game and all that, in exchange for good, honest answers and a bit of banter......Mike?
Game made by fans , for the fans and all that.
Wanting to rebuild damaged relationships and build a new trusting partnership and all that.
The last three or four pages tend to show that that hasnt quite been achieved yet.
I will accept you saying that you cannot or will not reveal the full features until September, neither confirming or denying the facebook comment, but I truly fail to see why you cannot enter into a conversation about why things go the way they do, what your real intentions are with the community and this platform and how a real trust can be developed again between us and you.
Since September last year we have been told countless times that things would be shown soon, that things couldnt be revealed yet, but soon, to hang on in there, to have faith.
Why bother coming into contact with us if you are not willing to play on a truly level playing field?
You will find that we are decent, passionate, mostly intelligent, well mannered people who will support someone through thick and thin.
But we dont like being taken for a ride, and a bad one at that, and that is the way it feels for many people here. We are not all 13 year old kids satisfied with one liners or starstruck because the great developer chooses to speak with us.
If it is real contact with the community you are looking for, if that is really your wish, then be truly frank and honest with us. Dont fob us off with oneliners.
We have heard too many of them, too many times.
I will just continue my little monologue as that is what it appears to be but at least no one can say some of us didnt go the extra 100 miles to make it easy for you to enter into conversation.
It has been said many times that many of us, perhaps all of us here would have accepted, with some moaning, but with genuine support if there had been a truly transparent process around things.
Now you say that the decision to cancel the release of the game in june was based on a desicion of a week before the release date and that it had taken so long for us to know. I.e a few days before release because 505 had to give permission.
Surely if the game was to have released on 21st of June the submission to Sony and Microsoft would have already have had to taken place weeks before hand......therefore surely you must have known well before then that you could not make the release?
This kind of loose end is a good example of why there is little trust and why very little has to happen for that trust to be damaged again. So many unclear and unanswered things that leads one to think.....what is going on?
Another loose end is the whole features debacle. On the one hand we are told the game is absolutely unfit to be released and carry the Ashes name with any dignity. The next moment the game is gong to outshine The Don himself......how is this possible?
We are told that bugs are still being destroyed, items still have to be switched on, DLC units added to the finished product, memory leaks halted and yet the feature list will match and outdo the great Don.....how is this possible?
You wished to engage in honest dialogue and yet your answers are the same company rhetoric we hear day in day out on the twitter account or in the forum itself.....hang on in there, stay tuned, hold your breath. How is this possible?
To cap it all WE are then said to be impatient, mistrustful, goading, not willing to accept an answer......WE are then put in the position of being spoilt little brats unable to understand the grown up intricities of the modern world and its unfathomable processes.
I really want to believe in your integrity, your pride as a developer. Sure you are after sales. No problem and I know that you dont come on here to glean the few 100 copies we will buy as members ( or maybe that is your sole intention after all, not that it is going well I fear) compared to the thousands others who have never heard of PC will buy.......why come here then?
If your intention is to build community, trust etcetera, it isnt working that well and I dont think that is down to our unwillingness to listen and understand and ultimately support......what is it then down to?
Ah well, guess Mike had better things to do..............
