Why so little interaction with the community?

[furbs]

Originally Posted by Chivas

I would agree with you if I thought they had the answers, but I'm not so sure they do. I think the development is on the tipping point and its about to go one way or the other. The answers will be very different depending on which way it falls.

So then why say "i will be back to anwser your questions later"?

[Al Schlageter]

Originally Posted by furbs

So then why say "i will be back to anwser your questions later"?

Tomorrow never comes as it is then today.

What does Luthier actually do in the office?

[Feathered_IV]

Originally Posted by Al Schlageter

What does Luthier actually do in the office?

Luthier once described it as, running around with his hair on fire.

[Rjel]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

Luthier once described it as, running around with his hair on fire.

Must be an inferno by now.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by furbs

So then why say "i will be back to anwser your questions later"?

Oh I don't know take a guess....maybe his lead programmer came in, and said there has been a major setback in the stability patch, maybe their investors want to pull the pin, and he has to go and talk them into holding on, maybe he just likes p#ssing some of his customers off, so they won't buy the sequel. There are a hundred possible higher priorities than massaging the feelings of a few people in the forums who immediately take everything he says as a "Promise". I'm sure he couldn't post quick enough if something positive has happened. Until then we will have to wait.

[Over50]

Originally Posted by Chivas

Oh I don't know take a guess....maybe his lead programmer came in, and said there has been a major setback in the stability patch, maybe their investors want to pull the pin, and he has to go and talk them into holding on, maybe he just likes p#ssing some of his customers off, so they won't buy the sequel. There are a hundred possible higher priorities than massaging the feelings of a few people in the forums who immediately take everything he says as a "Promise". I'm sure he couldn't post quick enough if something positive has happened. Until then we will have to wait.

Well, as an avid retail purchase IL2 supporter from the start it took 5 years of "development" after the last iteration of IL2 for CLoD to finally see the light of day, that upon release, was so flawed it crashed and burned on takeoff.

More than another year has now passed with even the last official patch of two more than a year old and now the developers tell the community all effort has been directed at a sequel in tandem with acknowledging CLoD is "not what we wanted it to be" BUT that there will only be one last patch for it.

Bottom line, the community faithful have waited more than 6 years for an admittedly too flawed game to fix only to be told the developers have moved on to a sequel to hopefully get a return on what financial resources they have left to produce it.

At my age I may not be here after another 6 to 7 year wait for a no-doubt multi-patched sequel that ultimately will, maybe, hopefully, be everything CloD isn't......

Kendo said:

As one of the original 'true believers' in this game it has taken a long time for me to feel so disillusioned, angry and let down. The reasons for this are completely due to the actions of Luthier and the devs. Repeated faith, belief and patience has been proved to be misplaced - solely by their actions and their actions alone. Many of the people who I now find myself categorised with as a 'whinger' or malcontent are people I have argued with or dismissed in the past. That their opinions have been proved right over time is not at all the outcome I would have preferred, but my eyes are open enough to see that that is the case and I am honest enough to admit it.

Excellent post. A pity more people don't have the balls.

[Force10]

Originally Posted by Chivas

Oh I don't know take a guess....maybe his lead programmer came in, and said there has been a major setback in the stability patch, maybe their investors want to pull the pin, and he has to go and talk them into holding on, maybe he just likes p#ssing some of his customers off, so they won't buy the sequel. There are a hundred possible higher priorities than massaging the feelings of a few people in the forums who immediately take everything he says as a "Promise". I'm sure he couldn't post quick enough if something positive has happened. Until then we will have to wait.

Chivas, check this out:

"I apologize for not being able to come back and answer your questions, we are really at a crucial point in the patch that requires my full attention"

You know how long it took me to write that? 20 seconds. I don't care how busy you are, you can take 20 seconds out of your day to write something similar to at least give the illusion that your customers matter a tiny bit.

Very few things in life piss me off more than someone telling me they are going to be somewhere or do something, and then have them "flake" by not showing up or bothering to call and let you know. It's a major slap in the face.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Force10

Chivas, check this out:

"I apologize for not being able to come back and answer your questions, we are really at a crucial point in the patch that requires my full attention"

You know how long it took me to write that? 20 seconds. I don't care how busy you are, you can take 20 seconds out of your day to write something similar to at least give the illusion that your customers matter a tiny bit.

Very few things in life piss me off more than someone telling me they are going to be somewhere or do something, and then have them "flake" by not showing up or bothering to call and let you know. It's a major slap in the face.

I know everything is so easy, I can't understand why there would be a problem, but there obviously is a problem. Maybe its a problem they'd just as soon not talk about. I suppose they could lie, as they're constantly accused of that anyway. I'm quite sure there are reasonable explanations for their actions, as the conspiracy theories around here make no sense, nor is it a case of them just not liking us enough to call.

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by furbs

So then why say "i will be back to anwser your questions later"?

that's already been answered by Black6 in this thread

Originally Posted by BlackSix

This is my fault. I should collect 5-10 old questions and send them to Ilya. But I made new threads and I collected over 200 questions. I don't know when he'll find time for this.

hopefully that means it will be this WE, but maybe it will be later

if you try and remember the last post luthier made, where he said he would answer some questions, he stated that they had reached an important milestone in development (presumably the new stable gfx engine which is largely bug free and performs well, as well as their progress of work in the BoM sequel) and were now submitting their next schedule for work/release-dates to the bean counters, and luthier indicated that if accepted he intended to put one last push into the big CoD patch with the main fixes (eg, even hm putting that time and effort into CoD is subject to their approval !)

with luthier being swamped with a deluge of questions ( AND a large amount of abuse, which would make him less cooperative rather then more),and him being subject to some restrictions on what he can say regarding further/future development, and him not yet knowing if his new subjected timelines are going to be accepted (which includes him asking for time to spend on the CoD patch) i am not surprised he didnt linger. hopefully luthier will soon have a better idea what amount of time he can spend on CoD fixes (and this will allow him to determine what he can include), and i suspect that with the recent development milestone being reached we might also get the "big announcement" soon (the one that was delayed a couple of months ago, and which many here expected were related to the MMO)

your mind, and many of the disgruntled "fans" here works in overdrive and is on a perpetual very short fuse, in contrast the progress and evolution of luthiers team has been almost in slow motion because of their small team and the almost overwhelming task they had in fixing/rewriting the game engine while simultaneously working on BoM in the last year (the first 6 months post CoD release were wasting in trying to fix it)

if that rate of progress is to slow for some peoples frayed nerves, then dont keep watching the paint dry, come back every 3 or 4 months to see what further progress has been made and if new patches are out. if you do have some interest in having as comprehensive and thorough a patch for CoD as possible, then join the technical discussions in threads that are trying to identify and quantify the existing bugs. just bitching at everything and making irrational "demands" doesnt serve any purpose and compounds the problems we already have