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Originally Posted by Strike
I'm sorry I upset you, my sincere apologies.
But on topic, really guys. Is all you can do demand demand demand? Like Luthier already kindof said he was looking to hire a community manager. That is another paycheck most likely. Now think about it. Let's say an average pay is 15-20 euros/hour. Now that means 2-3 guys working 1 hour is 1 Retail copy of CloD worth of money. Now take 6 years, time it with let's say 45 weeks (7 weeks for holidays and other forms of leave) and time that with 5 days a week and 8 hours and then think a team of ca 20 people.
20x15Eurox8x5x45x6 yrs  with a little give or take that project in ONLY salary costs 3 240 000 Euros. You'd have to sell 64 800 copies of Clod (50E per copy) to match those 6 years of developement. And to top that, a huge piece of the cake per game sold goes to Ubi and 1C.
I know this is a very inaccurate calculation, but really the point is that in their current position I don't really think they can afford hiring a community manager. Or take too many breaks. Yes they all have breaks, but often they are unpaid and you spend them relaxing and gathering energy for the rest of the working day. Besides the point is, Luthier reads the forums more than he posts in it. A good thing if you ask me. Every time he posts a handful of users try to grab hold of him, ask him questions, ask why this and that hasn't been mentioned in the patch... etc etc. I assume it's because they havn't worked it out yet and it's not ready. Simple as that. |
i guess as a paying customer we have no rights...
you still didnt post a good reason why they shoundnt at least give us a 5 min update once a week....and not even an update persay, but just a "hey we are here, we are making progress, have a good weekend"
but nope as the ones who effectively pay their salaries, we have no right to expect anything...let alone the product we paid for, in working order...you see most intelligent people want to impress and satisfy their customers...i guess this is a foreign concept for you...
you are nothing but a joke trying to give inadequacy reasons as to why we should not be given short updates from time to time...i guess cuz users might try and latch on to the dev, they shouldnt give updates when in reality they can simply give us a short update and leave it at that...just cuz users try to latch on to you and ask questions dosent mean one is compelled to do so...this should hardly be a reason as to why more frequent updates shouldnt happen