Consoles are an afterthought

josh · August 2022

Forgive me, but i feel the need to vent and this is the only place I have to do so. I have submitted bug reports about the Event campaign screen not showing Reflections of empire as having been part of the campaign. If you looked at it 2 weeks ago you would think we had only had one event towards completion. I incorrectly assumed after a bug report that the screen would reflect the actual progress when we got defense of pahvo (since the Devs had to edit that screen anyway) but apparently not, It's still missing Reflections.

I went to the memorial plaque again assuming that it would be updated since we have lost 3 people in the last 2 weeks. PC has been updated twice console NONE.

I know these things seem to be little things but it really makes console players feel disrespected when combined with all the other things that get left out or put off on console because of time vs profit or microsoft/sony excuses.

I would be willing to bet once the Event campaign screen is finally updated there will be people screaming that they didn't do that event because they didn't know it was part of the campaign and will be screaming for free buyouts.

Venting complete, thanks for letting me get that off my chest. LLAP

orangenee · August 2022

Well, yes consoles are an afterthought. Just we tend to have looser wallet clasps.

The UI is less than desirable. I'd like a "purchased ship" tab on the zen store, so I can find my ships easily for other toons.

The event screen certainly is annoying. I thought it odd I was on 2000 points after only one event, only to realise we'd done two already.

I'll cut them a little latitude with the memorial wall, must have slipped their minds.

knightmare · August 2022

Changes to consoles are much harder to get through, even so much as updating the Memorial Plaque tales a lot longer on consoles due to Microsofts and Sony's stringent requirements for game updates with all kinds of approval processes and hoops to jump through even just to update a memorial plaque. PC they can do themselves without having to have a 3rd party examine code and ensure nothing in goes against their policies.

josh · August 2022

I do understand the Microsoft/Sony issues... That doesn't excuse the Event Campaign screen not being fixed. I mean they updated it for the 3rd event and didn't bother to fix the missing 2nd event. You were right there, fix the problem! It just shows a lack of care and concern for what Cryptic claims is their bigger money maker. Stop using Microsoft and Sony as an excuse. We all saw that a fix can be pushed through in under 48 hours like during the stormfall disaster.

proteus · August 2022

It's interesting to note the difference in how fast things happen, depending on the issue. For example, in early May, soon after the nerf to the effectiveness of Phoenix Upgrades was first announced on PC, Kael was asked during the Ten Forward stream if and when it would come to console. He said yes, and that it'd be at the end of June or maybe earlier in June. Which sounded reasonable as convention dictates, it has to be sanctioned by Microsoft and Sony like everything else. In reality though, less than a week later at the next console maintenance it was implemented without further notice.

Perhaps it's a case of changing numerical values (especially nerfing something) is easy and requires no authorisation, but adding a few letters to the game or anything beneficial to the player is a major issue and requires signing off. Sounds a bit fishy to me.

josh · August 2022

(rant/flame/troll post redacted) - darkbladejk

darkbladejk · August 2022

Let's put down the flamethrowers and get to some actual useful info. For the bug described above, can you get me a screenshot of it?

Also I need to know a username for someone effected so they can look under the hood. If none are comfortable posting that here you can pm me the info.

As for their patching on console, they have to go through Microsoft and Sony to do updates and can't just sling it out when they want. This is one thing that slows the progress down tremendously. If not for that all they would have to do is get the patch ready and make sure it works for the consoles and sling it out there. Not as simple for console as it is for PC due to having partners they must work with.

Consoles are an afterthought

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