DeathStalker wrote: »Am I over-reacting or is anyone else insulted they won't even respond to the feedback they are receiving to this PTS patch? I mean I get they can't respond to everything but what did they expect to hear after 50-63% damage nerfs? What happened to communication? What is the point of testing anything on the pts if they don't listen or even engage the players testing?
Chickf1lGay wrote: »Their response is patch notes 5.2.1, which will come out on Monday. Besides the change to healing orbs last patch, zos doesn’t usually comment upon pts changes given feedback until the following set of notes. Frustrating? Yes.
DeathStalker wrote: »Am I over-reacting or is anyone else insulted they won't even respond to the feedback they are receiving to this PTS patch? I mean I get they can't respond to everything but what did they expect to hear after 50-63% damage nerfs? What happened to communication? What is the point of testing anything on the pts if they don't listen or even engage the players testing?
I'm dreading 5.2.1, from previous history it normally only gets worse not better.
DeathStalker wrote: »Am I over-reacting or is anyone else insulted they won't even respond to the feedback they are receiving to this PTS patch? I mean I get they can't respond to everything but what did they expect to hear after 50-63% damage nerfs? What happened to communication? What is the point of testing anything on the pts if they don't listen or even engage the players testing?
DeathStalker wrote: »Am I over-reacting or is anyone else insulted they won't even respond to the feedback they are receiving to this PTS patch? I mean I get they can't respond to everything but what did they expect to hear after 50-63% damage nerfs? What happened to communication? What is the point of testing anything on the pts if they don't listen or even engage the players testing?
DeathStalker wrote: »Am I over-reacting or is anyone else insulted they won't even respond to the feedback they are receiving to this PTS patch? I mean I get they can't respond to everything but what did they expect to hear after 50-63% damage nerfs? What happened to communication? What is the point of testing anything on the pts if they don't listen or even engage the players testing?
What do you want them to say? They stated the reasons in the recent live stream and in the pts notes.
SidewalkChalk5 wrote: »I hope they're busy begging to keep their jobs to some pissed off executives, working on reverting the lunacy from 5.2.0, and doing something reasonable like a 2x modifier on DOTs and a ~50% light attack nerf.
VaranisArano wrote: »For all the histronics on the forums about "I'm unsubscribing/quitting if this goes Live", those players are a tiny portion of the playerbase which is in constant turnover all the time. Its a drop in a bucket.
Handling combat changes and "balance" is exactly what the executives have a Combat Team for. So they don't have to deal with it.
Very dangerous assumption to make. Similar situation happened over at SWTOR with the Galactic Command System in the 5.0 patch. Very heavy amount of uproar about during testing about how bad the system was, how much it was reversing five years of the game, and that it would be bad if it went live.
Well, it went live. And it resulted in a massive loss of players and ultimately cost the producer his job. Now they operate with a skeleton crew and spent two years walking back the disaster that was this system they were warned would have a big negative impact.
So don't always assume it is a small minority. Sometimes, it just might happen to be a warning sign you are about to make a huge mistake.
Very dangerous assumption to make. Similar situation happened over at SWTOR with the Galactic Command System in the 5.0 patch. Very heavy amount of uproar about during testing about how bad the system was, how much it was reversing five years of the game, and that it would be bad if it went live.
Well, it went live. And it resulted in a massive loss of players and ultimately cost the producer his job. Now they operate with a skeleton crew and spent two years walking back the disaster that was this system they were warned would have a big negative impact.
So don't always assume it is a small minority. Sometimes, it just might happen to be a warning sign you are about to make a huge mistake.
While I admire your sentiment, I feel that ZOS is too well entrenched to be driven down. Brand loyalty is a powerful drug, and ESO has plenty of willing players lining up to buy any dlc, costume, trinket, or house that the devs put out. They're pretty much too big to fail.
lordrichter wrote: »
All of this is wrong.
ZOS knows that the work they are doing is the right thing to do. They have to do this work because they probably believe that it will make the combat better and the game easier to maintain going forward. If they are going to come up with new standards for the combat and gear in the game, there is going to be change. Some of that change is going to be minor, some of it large, and a lot of it unpopular with the current players. Hopefully, they will be able to pull it off and, while the game may be different, it will be right.
ZOS knows that the forum is going to have a toddler meltdown. The forum always has a toddler meltdown. It is predictable and expected any time there is change. Or, no change.
DeathStalker wrote: »Am I over-reacting or is anyone else insulted they won't even respond to the feedback they are receiving to this PTS patch? I mean I get they can't respond to everything but what did they expect to hear after 50-63% damage nerfs? What happened to communication? What is the point of testing anything on the pts if they don't listen or even engage the players testing?