Scott, you're like a housewife who keeps getting beaten by your drunk k husband but keeps going "B-but he'll come around! I-i-i know hes a good person!"
I'm just waiting for the day where they finally say if killing bots (or them escaping) in public matches affect Killer MMR the same way a human player's would.
I think it's pretty safe to assume BHVR's development cycle is unusual even compared to other similarly sized studios. The heavy emphasis on license deals and sticking to a pretty consistent DLC release schedule for years while balance and quality of life patches are infrequent and sporradic is the complete opposite of how a lot of studios operate. This is partially why the player base of Meet Your Maker fell off so dramatically after launch; they still haven't really addressed a lot of the problems people had even since the beta.
Well, of course they're going to answer this way. The truth is, working as a dev, you get your priorities from someone else – PO, creative director in this case, etc. And they listen to stakeholders. People blame the devs, because it's all they know, but I work in such environment and let me tell you – devs have little to say about where the product is headed, they can do tweaks here and there, give some ideas, but the end result is decided by other people. And those other people is not the team, responsible for organizing and attending the Q&A. The Q&A real purpose is to gather a list of community high-valued features, so they can somewhat align them with stakeholders and hopefully prioritize something, hence they can't say "hey, we'll do this for sure!" or time-frame it.
I completely understand their position of not wanting to give promises they can't fulfill. I get it. Completely. But if they're going to do an AMA they need to be willing to sit down and answer questions. I know a lot of questions are like "When will you fix 3 genning???" so maybe they can't answer WHEN but maybe they can go into detail about the work they've put into it so far. Show us that they are working about it. Something like "Well we've tried several things like x, y, z but for yadda yadda reasons we felt they were not good solutions. We are currently exploring other options such as a, b, c and here's why we THINK they might do better, but here are some of the challenges we're facing with these."
In order to do an AMA, you have to be willing to answer questions. They are clearly not willing to give answers though, so there's no point in doing an AMA.
2:21 small correction but i believe cross progression between steam, epic games and playstation exists now so they have at least somewhat delivered on that finally Switch, windows store and xbox are still missing though
I've pretty much stopped paying attention to BHVR's streams, Q&As, etc. because it's either just PR or it's stuff they don't do. Even their roadmaps need to be printed on toilet paper to be of use.
"I should be able to learn what they're currently working on": Oh, but you did! They aren't working on anything or they would boldly announce it lmao. They announce thing that they're THINKING about doing, like not even STARTED yet. So you know that aren't doing shit if they don't even tease anything lol.
They're definitely playing it way too safe. Granted, "Ask Me Anything" doesn't mean "I will answer every question accurately and clearly", but they are pushing it a bit.
Then again, perhaps they cannot discuss future changes due to policies within the company. However, AMA is going to predominantly about what will be happening, so what is the point if they know they can't answer such things?
Vile Scott lying by saying we didn't accomplish anything when we in fact now have a blanket pic.
Best answer we got was that yes, a Skull Merchant rework is coming 2024.
They need to sack people who they aren't willing to sack.
Scott, you're like a housewife who keeps getting beaten by your drunk k husband but keeps going "B-but he'll come around! I-i-i know hes a good person!"
It's getting very sad.
I ate a party pizza while watching this video even though I’m 30 years old.
I'm just waiting for the day where they finally say if killing bots (or them escaping) in public matches affect Killer MMR the same way a human player's would.
They're doing a pretty good job so far. 😉
I think it's pretty safe to assume BHVR's development cycle is unusual even compared to other similarly sized studios. The heavy emphasis on license deals and sticking to a pretty consistent DLC release schedule for years while balance and quality of life patches are infrequent and sporradic is the complete opposite of how a lot of studios operate. This is partially why the player base of Meet Your Maker fell off so dramatically after launch; they still haven't really addressed a lot of the problems people had even since the beta.
It can be summed up like this. BHVR: https://youtu.be/0RFwyobtnKA?si=OZ-djPG3EyN-cnWe
You either shut down a live service game a hero, or carry on long enough to become the Actiblizzard people left for you in the first place.
Seriously, does anyone else remember the monthly live streams from Mathieu and notQueen so many years ago? Whatever happened to THAt company?
I'm glad they said MFT is gonna get nerfed
Best I can do is a generic comment, and a promise that someone else will give you a response.
Well, of course they're going to answer this way. The truth is, working as a dev, you get your priorities from someone else – PO, creative director in this case, etc. And they listen to stakeholders. People blame the devs, because it's all they know, but I work in such environment and let me tell you – devs have little to say about where the product is headed, they can do tweaks here and there, give some ideas, but the end result is decided by other people. And those other people is not the team, responsible for organizing and attending the Q&A. The Q&A real purpose is to gather a list of community high-valued features, so they can somewhat align them with stakeholders and hopefully prioritize something, hence they can't say "hey, we'll do this for sure!" or time-frame it.
I don't even care what he talks about, I just like hearing Scott talk
I think the only point of q&a's is for lore related questions.
I completely understand their position of not wanting to give promises they can't fulfill. I get it. Completely. But if they're going to do an AMA they need to be willing to sit down and answer questions. I know a lot of questions are like "When will you fix 3 genning???" so maybe they can't answer WHEN but maybe they can go into detail about the work they've put into it so far. Show us that they are working about it. Something like "Well we've tried several things like x, y, z but for yadda yadda reasons we felt they were not good solutions. We are currently exploring other options such as a, b, c and here's why we THINK they might do better, but here are some of the challenges we're facing with these."
In order to do an AMA, you have to be willing to answer questions. They are clearly not willing to give answers though, so there's no point in doing an AMA.
At this point I'm just hoping for a addictive game to come out so we can all quit this game.
The Only question that matters "Why do you guys REFUSE to play your own game" ???
Did they address the alien being able to block the entire hook in prone form?
4:15
Ah yes, poor Twins mains and their A+ killer. Woe is them.
TLDR: dbd devs are like procrastinating teenagers deciding if they are going to college or not 3 months after they graduated. 😂
2:21 small correction but i believe cross progression between steam, epic games and playstation exists now so they have at least somewhat delivered on that finally
Switch, windows store and xbox are still missing though
This is a result of the community itself allowing this behavior (no pun intended) to happen. Maybe stop playing the game and they’ll take the hint ?
like politics. and like politics they only want money, nothing else matters
the way they only answer the questions they want to answer is obnoxious as hell 😅
only useful answer they give is when they say no, because you can be certain it actually means no
They are just creating in illusion that they are working on fixing things and they don't
They said there gonna do a skull merchant rework
To pretend they're listening and care. That is the point.
I've pretty much stopped paying attention to BHVR's streams, Q&As, etc. because it's either just PR or it's stuff they don't do. Even their roadmaps need to be printed on toilet paper to be of use.
okay gamer (derogatory)
"I should be able to learn what they're currently working on": Oh, but you did! They aren't working on anything or they would boldly announce it lmao. They announce thing that they're THINKING about doing, like not even STARTED yet. So you know that aren't doing shit if they don't even tease anything lol.
They're definitely playing it way too safe. Granted, "Ask Me Anything" doesn't mean "I will answer every question accurately and clearly", but they are pushing it a bit.
Then again, perhaps they cannot discuss future changes due to policies within the company. However, AMA is going to predominantly about what will be happening, so what is the point if they know they can't answer such things?
The devs think that communicating means that they have to speak. Unfortunately they aren't ACTUALLY saying anything.