don’t get me wrong, i totally do agree that we as players would need more updates to at least keep the “trust in the process” going. and people complaining here or in discord or steam about lack of communication is no news either. what i was saying was not “just enjoy silence”.
we as a community have addressed this a lot in the last half year or so. but as i (personally) understood, a lot of lack of communication was due to the publisher being sold. therefor changes in not only development, publishing, advertisement etc, but also as i can imagine a lot of uncertainty for the actual dev team who do the work.
that is no excuse by far. there should be at least a short 3 liner on steam about current discussions… i don’t know at least a link to discord or the forum for updates etc.
so if people were only on steam they’d see t was NOT abandoned. with the crucible update when we received info on steam again but until then there def. was a time of “silence” at least on steam.
i can just see how immensely stressful this has to be for the team. they are highly acclaimed for their ori games, and people expect a lot.
and what we got with the first few bits and bobs of the game was and is great already!
and then they suddenly face bureaucratic challenges as well as pressure from the community, and not to mention self promised goals. its a lot that people do not see, nor appreciate.
all i see is a team that still communicates regularly.
every few days there is someone responding to bug reports and collecting logfiles etc to fix things.
there are people active on discord every day dropping infos or just short smalltalk messages. i see they are alive, so i trust.
yes, communication def. could have been better, but doom-calling every 3rd day or typing in discord/steam “game ded” every day will absolutely not move things forward.
again that is why i as a mere mortal (moderator) here created the update thread: Updates and discussions from the official Discord
so we as a community can at least help to keep information and life signs spread over multiple platforms.
i am 100% sure the team knows that there have been issues with communication, roadmap, disagreements with update schedules etc. maybe i trust too much, who knows. but i still trust! and at this point, thats all we can do.
and aside from all those arguments and the whole wall of text; it does not help to add speculation like “seasonal wipes every update suck” or “team only nerfs game is broken” etc. sure we can voice or opinion, thats what EA and this forum is for, but we need to also stay realistic. things like that just won’t expedite anything, they are rather counter productive.