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Pipe down single celled organism, the people with more than two brain cells are talking

If it is focused on villains my best guess would be a Kabam employee.

More like 1 step back 3 floors down ..

"Another 10 years…" ROFL

Now I believe the rumors of the past.

Kabam Mike was not the villain.

I think this is a much bigger issue internally at kabam.

Crashed is a dev and wants to treat the community like adults and conducts both himself and the ways he interacts as such (aside from a could goofs on cheaters)

However the actual community managers do not hold tbay belief or standard and prefer to treat their playerbase like children leading to a massive disconnect where most of the time we feel disrespected since we have a shining example of the kind of communication we are looking for however the people whose job it is to bring that to us refuse to do it.

I think if the roles were flipped and crashed was the community manager we'd all have a different feeling but unfortunately that's not the case.

Say what you want about Miike and Jax but at the very least they were alot closer to how Crashed handles business than how the current community team does

Newsflash guys, when Kabam tells you "We are testing something" have in mind they are not testing for your benefit, they are testing ways to benefit themselves. You guys really think the Valiant Gauntlet test was to see how people perform, the difficulty or rewards? They probably got the data of how many times people reset and avoided using revives and the outcome was this energy BS.

Treat us as adults? Well you guys can start by being transparent on intentions, instead of acting as buddies and putting make up on changes that are significantly worse for us.

I can not speak for everyone, however, I know as an adult I prefer to have all the facts and all the information when decisions are being made. So if we are going to be treated like adults let's get down to doing just that.

1. What are the financial goals set for the game? I understand you do not make the decisions, but it is clear that choices have been made and the monetization demand has increased. The amount of spending required to complete deals has more than doubled in a very short amount of time combined with the fact that we went from 2 major sales a year to a sale every month. Knowing what the expectations are can allow everyone to decide if the game is going to be something they can continue to support. Not knowing, based on the current evidence, leads me to believe it is only a short amount of time before the game is going to be too expensive to actually stay enjoyable.
2. Do the powers that be actually understand that Energy = Engagement? Adults do not always have a lot of free time because of other adult responsibilities. Which means when we do have time to actually play, we want to be able to play. If I spend all my energy doing the daily quest and do not have refills at the time, then my playtime is done and I may or may not have available time when the energy refills naturally. I have never understood the restrictive energy concept in any game other than a blatant attempt to make money.
3. Y'all say you value our feedback and listen to what we say, then make decisions that are exactly opposite of what we are saying. The current EQ fiasco is a prime example of this. We beta tested Valiant EQ formats and they were getting overall good reviews and then you unleash this monstrous change that is in no way what we were asking for. It feels very disingenuous to say our feedback is valued when we these choices are made.
4. Finally, clear and consistent communication is the key. There are times we go days without a comment on the forums from a Kabam employee, then we will get a few messages, and then days of silence again. There are many of us who post daily, and we have full time jobs and other responsibilities. If we can find the time to post that regularly for a game we enjoy, then I do not understand how people whose job it is to interact with the community can not be posting daily. I know that we can be an unruly bunch, I have no disillusions about that at all. That said, when we do get communication, it should not be snarky sassy comments, mostly looking at Mike on this one.

Finally, a bonus challenge if you really want open and honest communication. Give us a road map for the game. Blizzard started doing year long road maps for WoW a couple years ago and it made a huge difference in the community there. You don't have to tell us what champions are coming over the next year, it doesn't have to be that specific, but more than the general vagueness in the QVC style live streams. However, if we knew Rank 5 7* materials will start here, 8* (we know it will happen) will start here, this feature is here, etc that would improve things. Right now all we can do is speculate on any such things based very loosely on past time lines, which are not the best indicator of the future anymore around here.

The Titan MISTAKE message was not speaking to people who spent TIME and MONEY as they were adults. It was as wrong and condescending as Vega states in his video.

Stop tickling their balls all the time. They don't care about you. These changes aren't nessecary at all, they are done by choice and from an entirely profit driven perspective. Some analyst has looked at the data and asked why they are giving all this energy away for free when we could be selling it. Screw engagement and a happy player base, give me mo money!