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Devs, Please, More transparent patch notes please.

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
I know that I'm not the only one feeling this, as I am sure the following posts will show.

Several issues have come up that people are trying to figure out if this is intended or not. One such change is the change to stacking consoles. No where in the patch notes did anything say that this was changed, so people aren't sure if this is now intended or if this is a bug.

More transparent patch notes about each change that was made would go a very long way to establishing credibility and also deter a lot of people from submitting bug reports that just clog up the works. I'm really not sure how many bug reports you have received on changes that were made that were not publicized.

I highly doubt that the launcher programming is that difficult to add in a few more lines with the changes that were made. It helps people know right off, "Okay, they fixed this." or "Okay, they changed that." Sometimes people may not like the change, but that is better than 45 new threads on the forums about "ZOMG CRYPTIC NINJA NERFED THIS!! ZOMG THEY SUXORZ!!!"

Thanks for your time.

Celia
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    This is Cryptic. You're asking for stuff to be transparent. It's not gonna happen. It's in their freakin company name.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Well here I go again. I just got through telling someone else that I'm gonna herd folks over to his thread to consolidate the several other threads of the same nature, and I'm gonna do the same for you. I found another guy had created this thread with the same idea but instead of putting what they fixed on the launcher, he asked for them to create a locked section where they could tell us what was broken and what they did to fix it.

    Here I go again. I will try and herd folks over this way, because one large thread is better than several threads all over the place.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    The launcher already has a spot for release notes, and that spot has patch notes. Those patch notes should be extensive where reasonable. No one really needs exact details that shard 7 got a new hamster and shard 5 got a little more grease for the wheel and shard 2 went and got chip implants so it could find a better paying job.

    It could say that high level players are no longer receiving top prizes in fleet actions. It could also say that they were planning to make power hue client side only, so your beams would be different colors but no one else would see them. It could also say that they were planning to set off spacial charges all over the sol base the next time someone asked where Sulu was.

    That's all.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I know that the server just came up, so the number of people reading this forum just dropped like 1/x^x, Hopefully there will be something read and or responded to by the developers about this issue.
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