I'm enjoying the game as well despite it's flaws. I've encountered a ton of bugs, none game-breaking. That said it is not without frustrations that make me put it down for a day or two. They always stem back to things that are not considered bugs but major flaws in design. I check daily to see if a patch is up in "hopes" to see things like, "storage chest added to skyhold", " added extra skill bar", "customizable tactics menu similar to previous games" "new game+ D: " (Nightmare is pretty easy actually)
Yeah it's a long shot. No dev "What would you like to see to improve upon yadda yadda" Because all of those things ^^^^^ would actually improve the game significantly IMO.
About dev communication. There comes a time when a company grows to big for it's breeches and following that a huge gulf emerges between the company and its customers. Think google. I actually think google is not comprised of people anymore and is some weird sentient god machine up on a pedestal in some celestial realm where humans can no longer tread. Well it's more enjoyable to think of them that way. They are an ENTITY.
That's how I actually think of EA/Bioware, an entity that spits out games. Why an entity? Well alot of folks talk about god but I've never had the pleasure of a 1 on 1 with him/her/it. Same with EA/Bioware. I could pray to a god/I can make suggestions to bioware, but, My prayer may not come to pass or be heard/ My suggestion may not be even looked at or considered or even responded to.
Hence an entity.
Most responses that do happen are rather like, "Well I cannot do anything personally/tell you what were working on/ I worked on it but no longer do/ Y U so upset."
The rest is,
Heads up, the crickets annoy folks the most. Y'all need to set up a conduit with someone who knows what is going on and the playerbase. Non communication results in an echo chamber of insults. You might say at this, "We get insulted anyway" well that's what a mods job is. Believe me there are smaller forums that are much more vile and rowdy than this, yet it's not such a bad deal because they have active mods.
Don't be an unreachable entity.
Now I'm going to go kill a glitchy dragon.
You see how a game has fallen when instead of gaining a award from the disabled gamer association (DAO), EA is now pursuing and gaining the Gay Association award for most politically correct game.
Honestly i cant play the game with current controls. I tried, ended with pain on arms, and a confuse sensation, because the controls dont make sense.
If you read through this thread, you will see disabled people complaining, old people complaining, a lot of difference players complaining, not about how bad the game is, or how bad the story or other things are, the controls are a major roadblock.
Im a professional programmer. Beside using computers all day, i have minor problems with pain due to should degeneration. The way the controls are, and the impossibility of remapping put additional strain on my shoulders. I dont want to play it to feel pain. DAO was comfortable because i basically used only mouse, and could change hands to use it.
I could cope with bad story, bad mechanics, even absence of tactical mode. The roadblock that dont allow me to play this game is that the controls are absolutely nonsense. If this is to be played as an action game at least make things have sense.
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Just adding: my prayers to God have answers, and God be praised. Christ saved my life more than once.
EA is no god to me, but i understand your analogy, however i have never find anything from EA. Its necessary some kind of ritual to invoke EA? We need to do some sort of sacrifice to make patches happen?