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[Savage Baird]

Chris Priestly wrote...

I'm planning on knitting my backhair into a sweater for the winter. Nothing game related at all.

Or is there?

Oh Chris, why do you love to troll us so?

[Broganisity]

Derek Hollan wrote...

This one is a big fan of Blasto.  Can't say if it would ever happen but one can hope

Never say never.

[SirDieAL0t]

 derek is very active in this thread. seems like he is relaxing after very hard stressful work.
what can be it, eating cupcakes? or something else?

[Derek Hollan]

RedJohn wrote...

I really like when devs share with us, mainly when there is a nice talk like in this thread, this is what we need more here, the problem is that not everyone is capable of hold a civil conversation when they dissagree with something.

I like the civil talks, because I feel that is always possible to get into an agreement if everybody talks in the correct way.


Derek, I will be glad if you answer this, if not, I perfectly understand your position.

Do devs take in consideration the comunity ideas for new content?, I mean, we have users here with very good ideas, do bioware take those ideas in consideration or devs just work in what they think?

I do not know all the ins and outs in the gaming industry thus far.  I can say, however, that there can be legal issues if we utilize an original idea from a fan.  As much as someone would like to "give us permission" there are issues still.  I believe that is something for the legal department to answer.  Contests have been held by companies to "pick the brains of fans" and those are usually covered by mountains of legaleze paperwork.

That is usually why employees can't really say much more than, "this is a good idea but could be hard to implemement, etc."  That is not to say these ideas shouldn't be shared among fans.  Often, good ideas get validation and start with fans offering advice and or critical review of them.  When you get enough good ideas together, indie games start

I believe like-minded fans start out discussing their ideas on their favourite forums before venturing out into the game design business.

[Savage Baird]

Derek Hollan wrote...

RedJohn wrote...

I really like when devs share with us, mainly when there is a nice talk like in this thread, this is what we need more here, the problem is that not everyone is capable of hold a civil conversation when they dissagree with something.

I like the civil talks, because I feel that is always possible to get into an agreement if everybody talks in the correct way.


Derek, I will be glad if you answer this, if not, I perfectly understand your position.

Do devs take in consideration the comunity ideas for new content?, I mean, we have users here with very good ideas, do bioware take those ideas in consideration or devs just work in what they think?

I do not know all the ins and outs in the gaming industry thus far.  I can say, however, that there can be legal issues if we utilize an original idea from a fan.  As much as someone would like to "give us permission" there are issues still.  I believe that is something for the legal department to answer.  Contests have been held by companies to "pick the brains of fans" and those are usually covered by mountains of legaleze paperwork.

That is usually why employees can't really say much more than, "this is a good idea but could be hard to implemement, etc."  That is not to say these ideas shouldn't be shared among fans.  Often, good ideas get validation and start with fans offering advice and or critical review of them.  When you get enough good ideas together, indie games start

I believe like-minded fans start out discussing their ideas on their favourite forums before venturing out into the game design business.

But say someone predicted, long before development, a DLC and gave a very similar story line to the story that the actual DLC gave?

That is hypothetical of course and I'm sure it won't ever happen but I've just always wondered.

[Purple People Eater]

Its obvious to me that Chris is referring to how busy he will be playing Borderlands 2, like all other sane people will be.

[Derek Hollan]

OneTrueShot wrote...

Derek, are you able at all to answer my question on hunter mode? Or is that something you aren't able to discuss? Just really sucks not being able to personally get the most out of a class due to a physically debilitating aspect of a skill.

Not the answer you want to hear, but there are no plans to change Hunter Mode.  I am sorry about that.  I can only recommend adjusting brightness and contrast settings.  Not the answer you were looking for, I know

Cheers

[OneTrueShot]

Chris Priestly wrote...

dysturbed0ne wrote...

Derek, is there a specific reason (yes or no is fine) that you do not utilize community members as moderators. Not full MOD's, of course, but a team of members that can handle some of the smaller things like closing repetitive topics, warning members when things might get too heated, the ability to hand out short term bans for flagrant offenses. I know this will be followed with posts of what a horrible idea it is, but I have seen it work on other forums and it takes a lot of pressure off the BW community managers. The forums here have anyways seemed a bit out of control.

We use quite a few non-staff volunteer moderators actually. 5 of the mods for this forum alone are not staff, just people we approached who were helpful, knowledgeable, friendly, etc and asked if they wanted to help us as moderators.

Could I suggest a once-every-two-weeks 'Ask the Dev' stickied thread? It's present on another forum I partake in and it goes down REALLY well. Developers/Staff who feel they can answer certain questions asked chime in with a response and questions that can't be answered usually get left in the way side or answered with a generic response such as "That's not an article I'm able to discuss at this time."

Modifié par OneTrueShot, 14 septembre 2012 - 12:10 .

[baltoid]

Multiplayer going F2P? Wot?



(Attempting to stoke the fires of wild speculation)

Modifié par baltoid, 14 septembre 2012 - 12:13 .

[masseffect420]

I'm Commander shepard, and I love Bioware staff.

You guy's need to play multiplayer with Bioware social network members.

[Derek Hollan]

Well, I'm out for the night folks.  I must get home.  It's been great talking with you.

Cheers to all!

[OneTrueShot]

Derek Hollan wrote...

OneTrueShot wrote...

Derek, are you able at all to answer my question on hunter mode? Or is that something you aren't able to discuss? Just really sucks not being able to personally get the most out of a class due to a physically debilitating aspect of a skill.

Not the answer you want to hear, but there are no plans to change Hunter Mode.  I am sorry about that.  I can only recommend adjusting brightness and contrast settings.  Not the answer you were looking for, I know

Cheers

Ah, oh well, not gonna shed tears over it, appreciate the transparency and honesty of your answer, really. Shows real professionalism.

Not the answer I was hoping for, but definitely the answer I was looking for. Thank you.

[Malanek]

Derek Hollan wrote...

Well, I'm out for the night folks.  I must get home.  It's been great talking with you.

Cheers to all!

Thanks for the answers.

[SectiplaveB4]

Wow, interesting thread to read through. I get certain vibe coming through in the statements about not being able to comment on what they are working on, this vibe makes me happy

[RedJohn]

Oh, very interesting. I can imagine all the issues for that. but thankfully the dev team until now have done a great work with content, very good actually, I'm very happy with all of them.

But in what they should work is in the balancing before relase, because sometimes happend that we get some taste of a weapon like the original Typhoon and then PUFFF, nerf! xD. Sometimes that's a little frustrating, I don't talk for my own case, but most of the players here get angry for that.

I don't know how the team test the thing before relase, but i've seen that pattern before, X day of relase 3 weapons:
-Everyone happy the first day.
-First threads about how OP is X weapon the second day.
-Waves of threads about how broken X weapon ( or character ) is.
-First balance changes after relase we have a nerf

I think the guys need some help with testing weapons, and if that is the case here in this forum ( not talking about me ) there are lot of players that would love to contribute in testing, the team can choose the players they think will drive a weapon until its maximun capacity, and in that way see if the weapon or character is overpowered or not.


But anyway, you guys, all of you do a great work.

[bondiboy]

Derek Hollan wrote...

RedJohn wrote...

I really like when devs share with us, mainly when there is a nice talk like in this thread, this is what we need more here, the problem is that not everyone is capable of hold a civil conversation when they dissagree with something.

I like the civil talks, because I feel that is always possible to get into an agreement if everybody talks in the correct way.


Derek, I will be glad if you answer this, if not, I perfectly understand your position.

Do devs take in consideration the comunity ideas for new content?, I mean, we have users here with very good ideas, do bioware take those ideas in consideration or devs just work in what they think?

I do not know all the ins and outs in the gaming industry thus far.  I can say, however, that there can be legal issues if we utilize an original idea from a fan.  As much as someone would like to "give us permission" there are issues still.  I believe that is something for the legal department to answer.  Contests have been held by companies to "pick the brains of fans" and those are usually covered by mountains of legaleze paperwork.

That is usually why employees can't really say much more than, "this is a good idea but could be hard to implemement, etc."  That is not to say these ideas shouldn't be shared among fans.  Often, good ideas get validation and start with fans offering advice and or critical review of them.  When you get enough good ideas together, indie games start

I believe like-minded fans start out discussing their ideas on their favourite forums before venturing out into the game design business.

Reading between the lines on this -


If the Devs are playing the game then they would be having similar experiences to players so you would think that our comments and views (sometimes more like demands and complaints) on gameplay weapons, balance etc are in some ways like preaching to the converted. We have seen quite a few changes that were 'predicted' or requested by forum users implemented because they made sense and could be done without too much drama. I expect that a major patch was going to be needed to address the multiple concerns . Looking forward to seeing the results of the patch.

[TheAshenPhoenix]

well, this thread has been quite a happy adventure, in any case. I'm going to be forcing myself to resist buying premuims for a bit, if only to hear the announcement of the DLC. completly hypothetical of course, I'm just an overly optimistic fan who hopes that we'll get new DLC all the time, nor like I have any idea wether or not new DLC will be released

[Seifer006]

RedJohn wrote...
But in what they should work is in the balancing before relase, because sometimes happend that we get some taste of a weapon like the original Typhoon and then PUFFF, nerf! xD. Sometimes that's a little frustrating, I don't talk for my own case, but most of the players here get angry for that.

Very Angry.......was one of the best guns in the game next to the Claymore. Now the Gun is ruined. It's not even UR in my catergory since it's a POS now.

[Zero132132]

I hope in the next update or DLC, they do add a dedicated 'Unknown' option to Location/Enemy... is that a thing that anyone's thinking about, or is it just something players all want?

[steverw1975]

BjornDaDwarf wrote...

Derek, this is a really important question.

What's more dangerous, Biotic Doom Monkeys or Tech Doom Monkeys? Only you can solve this debate.

Tech doom monkeys are clearly the greater danger, as tech powers take out shields quite efficiently. Also, when they throw their electrically charged poo, they can set off some powerful tech bursts.

[MIA115]

OneTrueShot wrote...

Chris Priestly wrote...

dysturbed0ne wrote...

Derek, is there a specific reason (yes or no is fine) that you do not utilize community members as moderators. Not full MOD's, of course, but a team of members that can handle some of the smaller things like closing repetitive topics, warning members when things might get too heated, the ability to hand out short term bans for flagrant offenses. I know this will be followed with posts of what a horrible idea it is, but I have seen it work on other forums and it takes a lot of pressure off the BW community managers. The forums here have anyways seemed a bit out of control.

We use quite a few non-staff volunteer moderators actually. 5 of the mods for this forum alone are not staff, just people we approached who were helpful, knowledgeable, friendly, etc and asked if they wanted to help us as moderators.

Could I suggest a once-every-two-weeks 'Ask the Dev' stickied thread? It's present on another forum I partake in and it goes down REALLY well. Developers/Staff who feel they can answer certain questions asked chime in with a response and questions that can't be answered usually get left in the way side or answered with a generic response such as "That's not an article I'm able to discuss at this time."

I, for one, would really like to see this. It would help provide a sense of connection for us average BSNers, and would also probably cut down on spam threads asking the mods for info/help.

That said, I do find that one of the nicest things about these forums is that, when they're around, the devs and mods are quite friendly!

[Drummernate]

So Bioware...

If I started a group and had all the people on the forums stop using Geth Infiltrators for like 2 weeks...

Would you buff them back to their old version?...

*Shifty eyes*

[palmof40sorrows]

Such an amazing thread. Kudos to the Bioware guys for piping up. Good on everyone here for being so classy. Cheers all around, here's hoping more will come soon.

[LuanEO]

Ace-Hood wrote...

Maybe hes an assasin and going to kill CEO of Bethsda

This

[Gravisanimi]

I've never cared less that a topic derailed.

Thanks for posting Chris and Derek.