Popular Post NastyGamer Posted June 28, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2020 It's well overdue. How many times have a lot of us blamed Alex for being very inactive in development? How often do we blame him for doing stupid changes? How often do we blame him for not discussing game decisions and developments? How many times have we criticized him for the changes? Every single time. Alex does discuss. Alex does share. But the community, most of the time, is not aware of the decisions before they are implemented because of a lack of awareness. Criticism is natural. Someone will always have issues with any change. But there have been decisions by Alex in "past" that have not been taken after making the wider community aware of these beforehand. This needs to change. What I suggest: - Alex informs the community of changes well before he starts implementing it even on the test server (cause historically the feature that reaches the test server always reaches the live server after some "fixes"). - Alex informs the community of his game - development plans at every single step. How to do this? Do a forum post after pushing it on the test server? No. Alex should use a public tool like Kanban Boards (Trello) / Issue trackers (Jira/GitHub) which anyone in the community can open and track. Forums are for discussions. Not for tracking things. We need to know the status of each accepted suggestion, and Alex's decision on it beforehand. The link to this platform should be as easily available as possible to the community. Make it a game objective to open it. And put it on the main navigation sidebar of PW. And it's not that much work for Alex, this platform will be managed by their own moderators (and don't worry, they don't have to "moderate" but just move ideas according to their status). All Alex has to do make his decisions more accessible. Easy to track right? I am not trying to make this a "democratic" process. I am trying to make it "transparent". Alex can still push his own updates into the game. But we need to know about them beforehand. (So that we can protest and prepare). Is this hard? Doesn't the community deserve this after 6 years of sticking around? Please @Alex ? P.S. For this to work, Alex needs to commit. Every single change needs to be tracked. Not just the "big" ones. Every single decision the developer takes affects someone in the game. tl;dr Alex needs to commit to better workflow for this game. It's not his hobby project anymore. The community needs better sight on his "vision" for the game. 4 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadya Iwakura Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Yeah, he needs to realize that he is a community manager now (or get someone else to be), whether he likes it or not. Quote let's all love lain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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