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[Stanley Woo]

Perfect-Kenshin wrote...

That said, I'm inclined to disagree with the earlier statement from Mr. Woo regarding there being no collaboration between gamers and developers.

why's that?  When was the last time a game developer consulted you directly about game systems or features? When did you last get a "thank you" credit in a videogame due to your contributions to that game's design or feature set? Making suggestions and posting ideas in an online discussion forum does not count as "collaboration." for the most part, ideas and suggestions from the forum stop at the concept stage and are not or can not be developed further. i don't mean to sound like a jerkface here, but throwing out a bajillion ideas doesn't help us out as much as some people think it does. we need viable, workable solutions that will work within the context of an entire project, not just a plethora of half-baked ideas used in isolation.

Although suggestions are pointless, this is still a very democratic process as we can still vote with our dollars.

That said, however, suggestions are not pointless. We do still look at the general consensus of the forum. While we're not going to go "this dude wants us to make Dragon Age multiplayer, let's do it," we might see a hojillion of multiplayer threads as being indicative of our audience's interest in a multiplayer DA product, and thnk about it for a future product, as a hypothetical example. If the general forum consensus is that no one really cares about Character X, we'd take a look at just why people might think that and change how we develop characters for future products.

And no, it is not "a very democratic process." We develop a game, and you decide whether to buy it or not. You are not "voting" on specific game features, or showing support for or against individual characters or ideas. Again, not to sound like a douchenozzle here, but "collaborator" is not the relationship we have with our customers or fanbase.

and it may sound contradictory of me, but we do always welcome feedback and ideas here in the forum. we just don't want our community to have unreasonable expectations of how that feedback is received and what happens to it once it's read.

[PsyrenY]

I think David's responses to the "M/M Romance for Hawke thread" (both in general, and to my points in particular) have been very enlightening and considerate. I will relish continuing to provide constructive feedback on BW games here in the future.



Woo is right - it's not a collaboration - but the devs ARE listening. The mere fact that they hit the quote button to respond to us is proof of that. And just because there is no immediate response to our feedback (say, in the next upcoming title) doesn't mean there is NO response period.

[Stanley Woo]

Exactly.

[aries1001]

David Gaider wrote:

Like any geek I have a certain amount of preference for a type of fantasy world... I like tropes that get turned on their head without being rendered unrecognizeable. I like fantasy that's grounded in reality without entirely losing the fantastical, and making fantasy characters relate to the issues we see in real life.

I like this, too. That's why I plaued as a Dalish Elf (in my first playthrough) in Dragon Age: Origins since this origin story did not take the easy way out and made me a hero from a little town after I've left it.

In an interview done recently, I think, David Gaider something about not wanting to create a story where you basically flee from your country and then rises to power.



Isn't this the story Dragon Age 2 is telling? Hawke is known as the Champion of Kirkwall, he has left Lothering, he rises to power......unless of course this is only part of the truth...and Varric's tale has more to tell...

[Sylvius the Mad]

aries1001 wrote...

Isn't this the story Dragon Age 2 is telling? Hawke is known as the Champion of Kirkwall, he has left Lothering, he rises to power......unless of course this is only part of the truth...and Varric's tale has more to tell...

Two things.

1.  Of course there's more to Varric's tale.  BioWare wouldn't spill the whole story now.

2. The whole story isn't actually known to BioWare, because they don't know the protagonist.