#Player Feedback

[askagamedev]

Is there a "wrong/right" way to boycott a game (besides obivious attacks and death threats?

I can't find the tweet nor recall the specifics, but it was about an not related developer talking about how the fanbase should be better in how to boycott or else it would damage the franchise long-term wise in ways nobody wins. Even if what the fanbase was angry about is valid.

The answer to your question entirely depends on what your goal actually is. A boycott isn't a goal by itself, it is a means to an end - usually the players are mad about something and the boycott (or whatever else - review bomb, harassment, doxxing, death threats, etc.) is an attempt at applying pressure to make the developer do something else (among other things like venting a bunch of hurt feelings).

If an angry player wants to vent hurt feelings, then the usual anonymous retaliation methods - review bombing, harassment, threats to quit, petitions, calls for boycott, etc. - are what they usually settle on. These forms of feedback have the lowest overall chances of actually enacting any change and they are the most adversarial of the options, but they are also the way that feels the strongest, like the fan is "fighting back".

If the angry player actually wants to provide feedback, they can do so in a reasonable manner on any officially monitored channel - usually reddit, twitter, official forums, etc. Being honest about what you dislike and why you dislike it is usually enough. If there's enough feedback from enough people, the devs will actually take it into consideration and do it. It's worth noting that this is also the method that takes a really long time to show results. Devs usually don't post responses immediately, and we're [usually working two patches in the future].

Often, the best thing a player can actually do is to find a different game to play. We live in a time where there are so many good games being released that finding a new and interesting game to play should not be difficult. There is often little more than mindset tying a player to a particular game or franchise. Emotional engagement with the players is good for us because it keeps players interested, but the players don't really get that much out of it. I don't think it's super healthy to make a game or franchise a significant part of my identity, so I think it's best to put a little emotional distance between myself and any given franchise. I can enjoy them when they're good, but I can go do something else when things take a turn for the worse. I think more people would do better to take a similar approach.

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[shinigami-striker]

Sparking! Zero Survey | Monday, 11.11.24

A survey on Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero! is available to provide player feedback on the game.

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[hananoami]

💫New Satisfaction Survey

From 5:00 AM on Aug. 23 to 4:59 AM on Aug. 31 (server time), hunters who complete Main Story [Under Deepspace] 6-14 will receive a satisfaction survey on the home screen. After completing the survey, you will receive [Empyrean Wish*1] in your in-game mailbox. Please let us know how you feel about the game! Your feedback is crucial in helping us improve.

Please consider suggesting the following points (if you agree):

Give us more opportunities to earn diamonds.

Increase weekly cap for chocolates earned.

Allow us to convert surplus ascension crystals.

Allow us to exchange duplicate plushies for 💎.

Implement VIP tier rewards for global too.

Let us workout/study/work with a music playlist.

Add EXP to memories used in battle after a win.

Let us get a notifications anytime a love interest updates their profile status ( history mood ).

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

first-person perspective tour of love&deepspace exhibition at shanghai bw2024 comic-con part 1

player interacts with zayne/li shen

(all the four cosers are invited and paid by paper itself so they are known as "official cos" but the cosers themselves are not actually cosers instead they're professional actors (the no-fame kind) invited by paper for the best experience of players)

[bloomdigital]

Wait sorry I see now that you said you cried, so maybe "joy and happiness" weren't the words to use. We also hope that the sequel brings the same level of catharsis and emotion.

This is the exact thing I was worried about with replaying a game I enjoyed as a kid 😭 that something would upset my memories with it 😭😭 I actually fucking cried this is so embarrassing god damn it

[starsofthestorm]

I LOVE seeing dci tumblr it shows up so rarely but it is my favorite ever I LOVE dci tumblr

[janesurlife]

At this point Carlos might need to sacrifice his first born to Leclerc to be considered a "good teammate"

[queenlua]

I talked to Shaquille [O'Neal] recently for the first time since the exit interviews, which we conduct with our players to evaluate their performances in the just-concluded season and lay out the groundwork for the one ahead. This particular exit interview had attracted more attention than usual because Shaq had skipped his first appointment two weeks earlier. I told the media that Shaq's behavior demonstrated a lack of respect toward our staff and what we're trying to accomplish [...]

this makes perfect sense in an objective, hindsight kinda way, but

it's lowkey depressing to learn that even famous NBA stars must go through the dreaded annual humiliation ritual known as: the Performance Review

[maiteo]

maia whenever you have time can you give us your predictions for the euro and copa america? (and also a list of players we can cock hehe)

okay!! minds everywhere and im gonna try to be as organized as possible…let’s start with predictions then we’ll move on to who im taking peeks at esp since im gonna have to look at like 1637932 different rosters ahsbsjsn

DISCLAIMER🗣️ (before we get started) I don’t have much extensive info on any of the players listed…if they’re shitty/or have done shitty things, I was NOT aware when naming them. remember that!

I also decided to include the youngsters as well bc I remember a lot of you guys are the same age as them…👵🏽 I don’t cock them…but I had to add names where there’s promise n potential

EUROS:

Predictions: a bit hard for me to predict because I see this comp being full of surprises and inconsistencies tbh.. ik there’s a lot of talk about who the faves are…the strongest teams etc…that’s irrelevant to me, these guys are unpredictable!

who I want to win: Portugal… mai tugas like…who else am I supposed to root for? OR a surprise cinderella story…some football drama..idk I hate everyone there😭 ACTUALLY let’s keep the trend going…🐷 as the winner or NO ONE.

who will probably win: France….dare I say Germany or Ethpaña…throwing up just imagining that. okay. moving✈️🔛

[askagamedev]

Any thoughts on the "Fix Team Fortress 2" movement? Is there anything their fans can do differently to try and get some change to happen?

Valve is pretty notorious for being an industry unicorn doing their own thing. They're a privately held company, meaning they have no shareholders to answer to besides their own founders. They make money hand over fist because they own a major distribution platform that maintains a plurality of customers on PC, meaning that angry player feedback has significantly less effect on their bottom line. Valve is also notorious for allowing their developers to work on whatever they want to work on. In aggregate, these factors combine into a company whose devs can basically do whatever they want, without needing to be beholden to any external pressures to do this or that.

Many gamers mythologize this kind of "perfect game development environment" where the devs aren't beholden to shareholders or publishers or politics or whatever else. Well, this can also be a double-edged sword monkey's paw kind of situation as well. Such an environment also makes the devs not beholden to the players of their games either. They can choose whether they want to listen or not, and the TF2 players can choose to take their business elsewhere. The unfortunate truth is that Steam will continue to pay Valve's bills for the foreseeable future, which gives them license to ignore the TF2 players for as long as they want. Unless the players can somehow persuade enough of Valve's developers (and the right developers too - a character artist certainly isn't going to write bot detection code) to drop whatever they've chosen to work on and switch over to fixing TF2, it's probably not going to happen unless something major changes.

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[melverie]

Everyone, please take the Nightbringer survey that the devs have released and make sure to write something--good and bad--for the general feedback question (the last one)

If you need some ideas on what you could give feedback on, under the cut is a short summary on the things I ended up writing about as well as some points others have brought up

AP Recovery Flash Sale

-> the 20 DP price tag just isn't viable; maybe only sell one D-Energy & lower the price to 12 DP instead?

attribute diversity

-> there seems to be a general trend of a character getting same card sins over and over again; Levi has multiple lust cards, all of Satan's URs are wrath cards and so on

Beelzebub

-> his personality is mostly just reduced to "I'm hungry" in NB; would be nice if the game could lean more into the other aspects of his character (caring about his loved ones, love for sport, Devilcat, playing the saxophone...) -> his guilt over the banshee situation was a nice change of pace for his character

Cerberus

-> I just want to be able to pet him, he deserves it :(

character dynamics in general

-> their dynamics are so well written; the game is really good with 'show, don't tell' when it comes to everyone's relationships and opinions of one another and it helps in making the story fun to read

communication

-> criticized the birthday events being dropped but it not being announced in anyway; it's understandable that they would be dropped eventually given the cast size, but a prior announcement would have been great -> communication in general is really good though + it's done in a fun way (i.e. letting the characters make the announcements)

difficulty

-> difficulty curve is way too high which also caused a lot of people to drop the game

event frequency

-> imo the events follow to quickly after one another & I'm starting to get burnt out from them; making the time in between events a little longer by a few days might help

Grimm

-> Azuki-tan Wallet, my beloved <3 They're a literal godsend -> generally it's a lot harder to earn Grimm in NB since the amount of Grimm earned per stage doesn't increase as lessons go on anymore. Would be nice if that could be changed

Nightmare

-> love the first 10x summoning discount -> would be nice if the monthly limit on exchanging Ravens for Demon Vouchers could be at least raised a little

romance

-> events seem to focus a lot less on romance--which is totally fine as not every event needs to be a dripping with romance--but hardly any romance overall in the last several events is a weird choice for a dating game -> some daily chats force the player to go with a romantic option; would be great if we had the choice to turn them down as an alternative

Ruri☆Tunes & accessibility

-> Ruri☆Tunes just isn't accessible, especially not for those with disabilities; I'm not sure what accessibility options can be added, but lowering the score needed to skip a stage would be a good start

[oars]

i think people should just stop playing genshin shrug

[tricitymonsters]

Hi, I hope I didn't bother you. I saw in itch that. The game is asexual friendly. I know that the game focuses on spicy moments. I played it on itch before switching to Steam, and I noticed some of the achievements for Amir and Mori don't unlock until you play the spicy moments first. It's no big deal. I do love to complete the game 100% But are the achievements Will it become more for the Spicy scenes to unlock?

It's no bother at all :3

So sex and physical intimacy is a core component of TCM meaning that there are explicit CGs and those two achievements are linked to unlocking CGs for Amir and Mori that are spicy.

Achievements will probably continue to be linked to CGs because it's kind of an intuitive milestone in a visual novel since not every chapter is going to get an achievement. So, some will continue to unlock with sex scenes and some will unlock with more romantic/intimate moments that don't involve sex (like Akello's chapter 2 achievement).

I still consider TCM to be very ace-friendly however because I've written the game so that you can decline sexual interactions with characters without suffering for it story-wise and players that decline sex will still get the same character and relationship development out of their chosen RO. The achievements don't really have any bearing on the game experience, they're just kind of a fluff feature.

I hope that makes sense and I appreciate the opportunity to clarify!

[fruityfroggy]

Co-op combat game play…in r1999…each player has two characters they can control…could be cool for like a special Mane’s Bulletin/UTTU feature…or event stage hard mode…ough