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Just been in one of the countless threads about raid and NF matchmaking and DeeJ responded to it with this:
[quote]At current, our philosophy about endgame content is that part of the challenge includes forming up a team. This is a strong community filled with players who are looking for teammates. Why not seek each other out here and band together?[/quote]
It's a fair statement at first glance but it highlights some key factors in the Bungie development process that are a problem and need to be addressed.
It's all well and good saying that you want players to form teams themselves but the community has spoken and you've pushed them away. You've heard what they want and in return said no because YOU, the developers, don't want it to be that way. Is that the future of destiny? A game that ignores the community because the developers want something else?
I could go on about how I've payed for the game and blah blah blah but I wont. I'll just say that you continuously talk about how our feedback is one of the most important aspects of destiny and that our opinions matter but then we give an opinion and you reply that your opinion matters more. Whether you listen to us or not is your choice but don't lie to us and treat us like idiots (even though I'm sure many people on this forum are), we deserve the truth, if nothing else.
Does our feedback matter?
Sidenote:
[spoiler]I'm not blaming you for any of this DeeJ, I know you're just a messenger and only a fool blames a messenger for delivering his master's words.[/spoiler]
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Edited by Mandragor96: 6/29/2015 5:27:54 PMOnce again the actual message is clear if you read between the lines. That is their way of saying finding people is a challenge ie time sink to add to the content. So instead of actually making quality content they make time sinks. This was also evident with the PoE setup along with the story on the same maps in reverse. They are not making effort to create quality content. They are spending resources to create time sinks to extend the content. Ask yourself why that is. People and companies say far more about their intentions or actions by silence than they often do by responding directly to the questions. Their silence on many of the issues has been deafening. Lost Sols has listed some very good content ideas that I have read for the game. They have direction from the community on what we would like to see. However what we dont see is quality action. We see quick fixes which translate into not spending the time or resources to resolve the crux of issues. This translates into Bungie selling an Illusion instead of a quality product. The entire project needs a serious change of course and attitude adjustment. Illusions like this are no different than Pyramid schemes. Until they change their entire philosophy about development and quality of product, I dont see this changing in the future releases. Their focus on PVP at the moment shows they are simply looking for more ways to extend the life of the product without actually making a quality product or quality additions to the product over time. It's cheaper and far easier to have the customer base create the content than have to develop it from scratch. It also requires far less staff. All of the signs of their motives are right in front of us. We just dont want to admit that to ourselves. Yet the saddest part of this is the core game has enormous potential. The class structure, abilities, weapon design, physics, game mechanics, graphics, and atmosphere are all there in a superb state of potential. The entire story and content built around the story is what has fallen flat on it's face. This really smells more like a rushed project to start generating revenue than a project that was complete and just done poorly. Every indicator is pointing to miss management at every level including and especially the management of development. If any company wants a text book case of how to take a gaming product with a sky's the limit potential and turn it into the biggest failure in years, they have the poster child right in front of them with this game. I am honestly wondering if Activision is even aware of much of this. They may just be pushing deadlines for return on investment and not really aware the content is in such a lazy unfinished development state. Either that or Bungie is trying to get Activision to use their Critical clause and release Bungie from this project for something else entirely. I dont know because most of this is so obvious you cant understand how any company who has developed games for as long as Bungie would do this willingly.