Is there an official policy preventing them from talking, or they just don't wanna talk to us?

Like interviews, articles about their thoughts on the game and the direction they are taking, etc. I think it would help the game, it would help the players, and most importantly for the developers, it would help them. So why are they not doing it? Can we make them? I mean... would it be really tough on their work hours to have a community Q&A once a month or something? I'm pretty sure they could afford half a day of answering questions, and it seems obvious to me that a better designer/player relationship would improve the sales and.... dare I say it? Maybe it would decrease the saltiness of the forums...

I doubt that chains and baseball bats are the way to force them to a sit down but it's an idea.

It would be nice to hear their side of the design process and what they were thinking but I'm afraid that some players wouldn't be able to keep it civil and the salt would flow. The developers' doctors would put them on a low sodium, stress free regimen and we would have to deal with a new group of devs. I'll stick with the devil I know. No salt intended.

1 hour ago, RufusDaMan said:

Maybe it would decrease the saltiness of the forums...

I find this unlikely.

i think it would just devolve into complaints that they couldn’t possibly answer satisfactorily. “What were you thinking with.....” No good way to respond there.

Just now, ScummyRebel said:

I find this unlikely.

i think it would just devolve into complaints that they couldn’t possibly answer satisfactorily. “What were you thinking with.....” No good way to respond there.

I mean. They can answer just the questions they want, like an AMA. There is no way they could answer all the questions, especially about revealing new waves, but some answers are better than none.

It doesn' seem valuable. When there is an interview the answers are very 'non answer, corporate salesman" in nature or just flat out so wildly wrong that it makes no sense in the context of the game we play.

I would be all for it, why we could even vote for most requested questions and then they can answer the top 10...where's the harm in that? They could even do it in an article, heck even have a mediator to gather the questions so that they aren't even involved directly. I think it's a fantastic idea RufusDaMan! You have my vote Sir!

Ya'll are just jealous Alex Davy personally fed me snacks at GenCon.

1 hour ago, RufusDaMan said:

I mean. They can answer just the questions they want, like an AMA. There is no way they could answer all the questions, especially about revealing new waves, but some answers are better than none.

Any interview in the last 6 months has just made the forums burn. And thats without us asking

I totally get why they don't, even if it is to the detriment of the game

If they were to answer popular questions I think what would be best is answers without allowing for responses. Sorry guys but it can get pretty toxic in here.

I also think we would not get what we want out of this. Any questions that may reveal their process or the secret formulas would not be answered for trade secret reasons. We would not be satisfied with superficial answers.

1 minute ago, Ralgon said:

Any interview in the last 6 months has just made the forums burn.

I totally get why they don't, even if it is to the detriment of the game

I don't know if it's detrimental to the game but it surely raises the stress levels on this side of the forums!

Realistically, there's probably very little they can discuss. Topics that would be verboten would include, future waves, "what we're you thinking (smoking) when you came up with (whatever), when's the fix for (whatever) coming out and others in the same vein. All the stuff that we need to know.

Aside from the lack of hard information, it would probably put the devs in the position between a rock and a hard place. No matter what they said it would leave us either unsatisfied or ticked off. Not good for the player base.

Their focus is Legion right now with Destiny right behind it. We’ve been back-burnered. X-wing still prints money so they’re coasting. They need to announce something soon, though. The drought is real.

35 minutes ago, weisguy119 said:

Their focus is Legion right now with Destiny right behind it. We’ve been back-burnered. X-wing still prints money so they’re coasting. They need to announce something soon, though. The drought is real.

Amazing! everything you said in that quote is wrong!

They just released 2 waves together, there is no drought, we're just paying in info for getting our silencer and resistance bomber early. We still have an unannounced sku in the wild. Balance for wave 12/13 seem rather on the money possibly barring trajectory sims (which is hilarious given the waves of vitriol thrown at the devs after their last few podcasts)

Edit: I really really hope this is sarcasm, because if not it's exactly what i'm talking about from us.......

FFG: Here guys, wave 13 was supposed to be q1 2018 but we swung a deal and got it in with wave 12!

Players :YAY!

*gets to wave 13 original release date*

Players: Hey FFG, where's our new stuffz? U no care no more

FFG: ............

7 hours ago, Ralgon said:

Amazing! everything you said in that quote is wrong!

They just released 2 waves together, there is no drought, we're just paying in info for getting our silencer and resistance bomber early. We still have an unannounced sku in the wild. Balance for wave 12/13 seem rather on the money possibly barring trajectory sims (which is hilarious given the waves of vitriol thrown at the devs after their last few podcasts)

Edit: I really really hope this is sarcasm, because if not it's exactly what i'm talking about from us.......

FFG: Here guys, wave 13 was supposed to be q1 2018 but we swung a deal and got it in with wave 12!

Players :YAY!

*gets to wave 13 original release date*

Players: Hey FFG, where's our new stuffz? U no care no more

FFG: ............

Exactly! I still don’t event have “all the things” from the new wave and I have yet to put some on the table.

We got stuff that was supposed to be spread out all at once. Patience!

(although the original guy was probably half right that Legion is getting a lot of focus because it’s launch is imminent but that doesn’t make X-Wing neglected by any means)

To be clear, I’m not expecting a release. I just want some kind of announcement. It’s been 4 months since the last announcement. At least tell us what the missing SKU is.

Im still waiting for FFG to get off this "TLJ" kick and get back to the Trilogy that matters, ya know, the one with REAL tie fighters and T-65 x-wings, what do they think this game is? Battlefront II, lets mix eras! Oh look we are fighting a CIS Droid Control Carrier, DEPLOY LUKE SKYWALKER! THEY ARE BEING DEFENDED BY KYLO REN!

5 hours ago, weisguy119 said:

To be clear, I’m not expecting a release. I just want some kind of announcement. It’s been 4 months since the last announcement. At least tell us what the missing SKU is.

Announcement on the missing sku wouldn't have been due till the last month before till slightly after the release of wave 13 following ffg's usual practice (which is sometime in the next 2 moths, they never did give us a date). This statement changes nothing and doesn't make anything you've said any better or different to my above post.

Missing sku is still quite possibly still in testing (and maybe getting more than usual seeing as how we tend to bash them for a lack of it everytime something op drops?) .

6 hours ago, ScummyRebel said:

(although the original guy was probably half right that Legion is getting a lot of focus because it’s launch is imminent but that doesn’t make X-Wing neglected by any means)

Runewars made no difference, why would legion?

14 hours ago, weisguy119 said:

Their focus is Legion right now with Destiny right behind it. We’ve been back-burnered. X-wing still prints money so they’re coasting. They need to announce something soon, though. The drought is real.

Are you absolutely freaking kidding me, dude?

We just got like six ships LAST MONTH.

2 hours ago, Zeoinx said:

Im still waiting for FFG to get off this "TLJ" kick and get back to the Trilogy that matters, ya know, the one with REAL tie fighters and T-65 x-wings, what do they think this game is? Battlefront II, lets mix eras! Oh look we are fighting a CIS Droid Control Carrier, DEPLOY LUKE SKYWALKER! THEY ARE BEING DEFENDED BY KYLO REN!

Matter of opinion, lad. Like it or not, some people actually like having the sequel era stuff and I keep seeing a strong contingent asking for prequel ships. Just becausr that's not what you want doesn't mean they don't matter.

1 hour ago, Captain Lackwit said:

Are you absolutely freaking kidding me, dude?

We just got like six ships LAST MONTH.

^this. If there's ANYTHING AT ALL missing from our info stream at the moment it's 101,the ex worlds champ how to play or campaign design articles they use as fillers which may have just been been bumped back due to the wave 13 previews.

55 minutes ago, SabineKey said:

Matter of opinion, lad. Like it or not, some people actually like having the sequel era stuff and I keep seeing a strong contingent asking for prequel ships. Just becausr that's not what you want doesn't mean they don't matter.

Figures you of this entire forum would reply to my post. What do you do, stalk my profile?

3 minutes ago, Zeoinx said:

Figures you of this entire forum would reply to my post. What do you do, stalk my profile?

No. I just tend to reply to posts like that. I probably shouldn't, but eh.

21 hours ago, ObiWonka said:

Ya'll are just jealous Alex Davy personally fed me snacks at GenCon.

Proof for anyone who didn't believe me:

1 hour ago, ObiWonka said:

Proof for anyone who didn't believe me:

oh you namedropper, you

20 hours ago, weisguy119 said:

Their focus is Legion right now with Destiny right behind it. We’ve been back-burnered. X-wing still prints money so they’re coasting. They need to announce something soon, though. The drought is real.

Drought? They just gave us 5 ships a month ago. We’ve had 8 ships in the last 7 months. How is that a drought? I’d be happy if we went another year without a new ship.