Dragonbrand
Collaboration: Round-table
Dragonbrand
Transparency is always nice. I’d love to see how we directly affect things. Having something we can vote on and then they discuss is something I’ve sort of wanted ever since the Evon-Keil thing… but outside of the game (where real choices can be made without immersion breakers in game).
When it makes sense to have the vote in game (it doesn’t break immersion), then I’m all for it, but I can’t help but think that there might be a lot of big things that could be decided upon outside of it (Help direct priorities of new features or content? Not saying we should directly affect this… In the end it’s ANets call, but I’d like to give my input as I’m sure many others would as well.. and if they find the data they gather is useful to that end, great!).
I agree whole heartedly. Communication is always good. Of course the devs will always go with things they themselves think work and sound cool but the community helping to frame the discussion between devs of where to go with the game would be universally loved.
Communication is a good thing. It’s a huge part of what makes any relationship work, and let’s face it…there’s a relationship here, between gamers and the devs that make the game that the gamers play.
I did suggest during the last Twitch stream that they maybe do some Q&A streams on occasion. Maybe start a thread or something where people can post questions they would like answered. Select some of the ones that they can answer (obviously people will want answers to things they might not necessarily be able to talk about right away, they can go on a backlog of ‘to be answered’) and then do 30 minutes of just straight forward answers. The mod did seem to think it might be an ok idea and was going to pass it along, whether anything comes of it… I guess we’ll see.
But things like that go a long way when it comes to reassuring people that they are listening, and keeping us in mind.