Originally posted by Sloehand
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but HiTech is not good at listening to constructive critisism or managing that with it's customers.
With all due respect, this is unmitigated horsehockey.
Name one other gaming company that lets you call up the programmer/designer, and talk with him one on one. I've only been here a few years, but I know of several changes that are direct results of player suggestions. (ENY, hardened CV 5", the dynamic cap in LW1/LW2 come immediately to mind.)
Some here confuse "flame rants" with constructive criticism. Some think that "this is BS" or "change it back" should be taken seriously, as if those whines actually had substance or meaning. Many here act like the verbal equivalent of a two year old kicking and screaming on the floor.
In other words, if I cant have my way, you all suck.
Originally posted by Sloehand
...snip... My squad looks at it as a challenge. Seems kind of funny though, considering the previous round of changes actually limits squads and large numbers from getting together to take a base. I've seen caps as low as 120 (for at least a short while) on the LW's. With the new ack it will take all 40 players on a side to take a single base now (well almost).
Also horse manure. Last Friday our squad put up about 25 guys without impacting ENY...and we all got in just fine. Squads have never been the target of these changes -- smaller arenas were the stated plan, and that's what's been implemented. Once the ripples settled, refinements came.
One has to wonder if those refinements would have been faster had HTC not had to do so much handholding for the "adults" having breakdowns.