1)Why do game developers require people to be on their forums to be informed of upcoming (events/changes/happenings/patches) things?
2)Why is there no INGAME board (you could put one in each major city) with things we should know that are happening soon?
3)Why are we, as gamers, required to log out of the game we’re playing in order to get important information about the game we’re playing?
I WOULD RATHER BE PLAYING THE GAME THAN WRITING THIS POST.
I’m on the forums rarely, mainly when something like this comes to mind and I have to ask “why?”. I’m not one of the forum trolls, and I don’t have the forum page up all the time because I want to read about the game constantly….I’d rather play the game than be on the forums. Because of this, I miss out on things (and I bet I’m not the only one) that are posted ONLY on the forums. That’s not right, nor is it fair to the playerbase. The community of gamers as a whole can’t be relied on to pass the information along….it’s not their job. This has been a concern of mine for a long time with other games. Here’s a recent example – The portable mystic forge, an item that was attainable for about 2 weeks through recipes being used within a stationary mystic forge, is now no longer obtainable. Who has this item? The folks who logged into the forums and read the forums updates about upcoming patch changes, OUTSIDE OF THE GAME, saying that it was being taken out of the game. NO, I don’t want one given to me. I would like to have earned one though (or even had the CHANCE to earn one), but that isn’t possible now because I don’t check the forums all the time. This doesn’t make much sense to me. Pertinent game information (like upcoming patch notes) should be available from within the game. Please consider posting weekly information or something along those lines on a board somewhere within the major cities.
This is a question because I’m hoping a dev might take the time to answer this concern.
I’d rather be playing the game than writing this post.