Game Dev: 'We Were Arrogantly Deaf To Problems'

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If this isn't quote of the day, I don't know what is. ;)

"Throughout all of this, I think the biggest mistake we consistently made was that we were arrogantly deaf to problems raised by a vocal minority of players," Titov told Gamasutra. There was a lot of hate out there on the web being aimed toward us, the studio, and the game. Today, I realize that there was plenty of reason for that hate, but at the time, we were foolish and thought that we didn't have to listen to or respond to 'haters.'"
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As is the case with most game companies and software developers, they think they know best and what people want and then get all sensitive when people complain.
 
WHAT?

SORRY WE CANT HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF HOW AWESOME WE AND OUR IDEAS ARE!

/kthxbai
 
It was The War Z devs. They weren't ignoring the players, they were scamming them.
 
Pretty easy to fix this problem.

Don't preorder games, don't buy new games until two months after release (that's too soon for ubisoft), and/or don't buy crappy games at all.
 
Hilarious considering who this is coming from. None of the issues with War Z had anything to do with "not listening to a minority of players". It was a shitty game that was basically a scam from the get-go.

Companies like EA and Ubisoft should be using this line.
 
BOTA:49 said:
It was The War Z devs. They weren't ignoring the players, they were scamming them.
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^^^This!

When you simply don't care if your game is good or fun, and only care about extracting the maximum dollar amount, then you are a scam artist, not a game developer. This guy is just trying to butter people up for the next round of pay to win trash he has in-store them.
 
HAHAHAHA! Had to click through to see who it was. I guessed right. War Z devs! I purchased the game in alpha stage. So many players voiced the same concerns and the devs did the opposite or put players concerns on the back burner.
 
BallerX said:
When you simply don't care if your game is good or fun, and only care about extracting the maximum dollar amount, then you are a scam artist, not a game developer.
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No, that description makes you a business man.

What makes them scammers/fraudsters is selling a product that doesn't have the features you advertised. In this case:
  • Promising multiple maps ranging in size from 100 to 400 square kilometers, but delivering only one roughly 100 square km map.
  • Advertising 100 players per server, it delivered just 50, or half of the advertised number.
  • Where it promised levelable skills and friends lists, there was simply nothing available but menu screen placeholders.

Customers purchased this game while under the impression that it had features that it simply didn't. They were outright lying about features of the product. IE. Scamming/Fraud.
 
But, if devs listen to the vocal minority of PC gamers, the platform will become awash with F2P MOBAs and shooters, socially conscious totally not-a-game but actually art pieces and catgirl waifu simulators.

Wait, that actually does describe the current state of PC gaming. Well shit.
 
crusty_juggler said:
But, if devs listen to the vocal minority of PC gamers, the platform will become awash with F2P MOBAs and shooters, socially conscious totally not-a-game but actually art pieces and catgirl waifu simulators.

Wait, that actually does describe the current state of PC gaming. Well shit.
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ROFL. You got me. All the way until the end I was thinking, "ummm...isn't that what it is now?"
 
When I read the quote, I thought for sure it was gonna be Trion talking about Archeage lol suppose they still aren't listening to the players lol
 
I don't know if you guys bothered to play this game after the whole scandal, but it actually turned out to be a very decent game. It was arguably better than DayZ for a long period of time, I think many flocked to Rust when that came out.
 
The guy still doesn't get it. Never cave into the vocal minority, never let a boisterous few dictate your game/software. That's not to say never take into consideration of feedback.

Where he flopped was over promised, over sold and overwhelmingly undelivered.

Big difference.
 
He doesn't explain how he came to the conclusion he was "arrogantly deaf" and what they are doing to fix it. If anything, he just likes to hear himself talk.
 
Sounds like hirez software, I promise this is not genuine it is only lip service to get people thinking, OH its oK we can order the next game they will learn from their mistakes. lol yeah right.
 
Most software developers are deaf to problems with their code or design. It's an ego thing, and there are far too many managers who feed that ego beast.
 
Isn't this the game where if you died you had to wait 4 hours to respawn or you could pay using real money to respawn right away?
 
crusty_juggler said:
But, if devs listen to the vocal minority of PC gamers, the platform will become awash with F2P MOBAs and shooters, socially conscious totally not-a-game but actually art pieces and catgirl waifu simulators.

Wait, that actually does describe the current state of PC gaming. Well shit.
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I'm all for more catgirl waifu simulators. Do away with everything else.

Listen to me, I'm a vocal minority.
 
That's a developer's mindset in general. That group is notorious for telling people why what they made is perfect and why you need to adjust your usage habits rather than them fix less than intuitive and broken programs. The "Your holding it wrong" debacle comes to mind.
 
If anything, I remember him being very vocal and defensive over the scandal. If he had chosen to listen to others, he wouldn't have had a game at all. The only thing I could think of that he could have improved the situation on, was his developer buddy who would harass and interrogate innocent players on teamspeak to try to determine if anyone was cheating, banning any player he suspected of cheating, and spawning items for himself and others to perform raids on suspected cheaters (or people who paid for their ingame items which go away after their death).

amddragonpc said:
He doesn't explain how he came to the conclusion he was "arrogantly deaf" and what they are doing to fix it. If anything, he just likes to hear himself talk.
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