Yeah what the heck. I vote both, I chose inform of course since it's good to let people know. But why is it one or the other? Since when are they at odds? Will it cause delays to let us know what's going on? Sure, maybe 30 minutes worth of delay, it shouldn't cause days, weeks, etc.. they aren't writing us novels ya know and they DO have a community management team.

badmojo wrote: »

Would you rather the developers keep us extremely informed on all their plans for the development of this game. Which will inevitably delay the games development, because the developers have to either come here and explain it to us, or explain it to someone else in the team, who then comes and explains it all to us.

OR

Would you like them to focus all their time & effort on developing the game, and leave us in the dark for the time being.

Separate departments.

badmojo wrote: »

The_Sadist wrote: »

Um, I vote both?

The two aren't mutually exclusive, hiring staff to inform customers while developers spend time developing isn't exactly unreasonable.

Those hired staff have to get their information from someone. When that someone is spending their time explaining it, they could have been developing the game.

This is the reason why we have ZOS people on the forums who will speak up sometimes, but most of the time they don't comment. They only speak up when they have been informed about the topic.

Obviously, the poll is over simplifying the situation, there is a much more blurred line between the two alternatives, I'm just curious what people want from their game/developer. Is it better to have game updates quicker, or more frequent status updates.

Indeed, but developers don't spend every waking hour developing, I'm sure there's going to be a bit of down time where conversation about future updates and content could occur. Furthermore, I'm under the assumption that ZeniMax has a whole list hidden somewhere explaining future updates / plans / content and whatnot, but who knows.

I was under the impression that the community / forum leaders were non-existent, there is very little interaction between customer and staff member via forum compared with other games I've played. I'd like to see a more active presence for sure but that's a different topic altogether.

I'd prefer more development if I had to pick, but like I said, they're not mutually exclusive. We know what's intended for the next few months, here's hoping they stick with it.

A modern software company employs people who do things besides write code or design artifacts for it, people like project managers or QA personnel (although I have my doubts about ZOS actually employing any QA staff). These other people who should be in the loop of what is happening are the people who should be communicating with players while the developers, designers, engineers and other people devote their time to creating and fixing the game.

there needs to be some sort of middle ground for this.

I'm a developer (not for this game), and I'm sure each week the team meets to some degree and talks about what everyone's working on. During this time some of the forum admins should sit in and then give feedback on confirmed updates.

Patros wrote: »

In other words:


*** BOTH

Maverick827 wrote: »

LonePirate wrote: »

A modern software company employs people who do things besides write code or design artifacts for it, people like project managers or QA personnel (although I have my doubts about ZOS actually employing any QA staff). These other people who should be in the loop of what is happening are the people who should be communicating with players while the developers, designers, engineers and other people devote their time to creating and fixing the game.

For any software project:

• The Developers are busy writing code, probably poorly
• The Architects are busy taking way too long to turn a simple process into an unreadable diagram for the developers to ultimately ignore anyway
• The Database Admin team is busy explaining to developers why they can't have write access in the dev environment
• The QA team is busy testing roughly 10% of the application, because that's all they were told about and thus all they wrote test cases for
• The Systems Admin team is waiting for something somewhere to restart, just give them a minute
• The Project Managers are busy in meetings planning things that were already planned months ago, but everyone forgot about
• The Project Lead is busy getting distracted by shiny new tech buzz words and then shoehorning them into the project last minute
• The Community Managers are busy answering all of the questions on the forums except for mine

Oh man, this is so true... Of course the software projects I've been involved in have all been for software directly intended to support business processes, so you have to add in

• The Business Analysts are busy incorrectly documenting what the business needs are that the software is supposed to support
• The Subject Matter Experts are busy telling the Business Analysts all about the simple cosmetic things that they want, while glossing over the fundamentals of what they actually need
  

Honestly its like they don't exist I play the game im bored of it end of story

This poll reinforces my lack of faith in humanity.