Well. Since I've already cancelled my subscription over the boss changes, let me be the negative voice here and explain why this isn't going to get me to re-up.
Statesman, a number of us told you repeatedly, the entire time the boss change was testing, that "part of our games strength is the ability for a player to log on for a half hour, have fun, then log off" and "people arent clear when a mission requires a team up and when it doesnt" and even "Mission Difficulty Slider to satisfy the demands of those who want something more challenging in the future"
We said all those things, and you ignored us, and the change went live. And now suddenly (because you are losing subscriptions, I imagine) you come and parrot these things back as if they were your idea all along.
Also, in this post, you say that story arcs are not normally given until a contact has been fully raised. This is not correct. In fact, I have almost never received a new story arc from a contact after their bar is 75% full; most often I receive the first mission of an arc as my third or fourth mission with that contact, so.. roughly 25% full.
This troubles me, because when we originally complained to you that raising boss difficulty would be problematic for soloers doing missions, you said that mission text always warns when a boss will be present. That also was not correct, and we said this to you, and I don't believe you ever retracted that statement or said that mission text would be looked at and corrected.
In short, I think it's offensive that you ignore the players and then try to pass of our warnings to you as things you yourself thought of, because clearly you DIDN'T think of them, or the change wouldn't have gone live. I also think it's very disturbing that you have repeatedly made statements about the state of live gameplay which are not accurate, implying that you are actually not familiar with your own game.
My confidence in you, the devs, is non-existant at this point. I always appreciated the fact that you would come this board and respond to what we have to say. But now I realize that the only thing worse than devs who don't listen is devs who just pretend to listen.
Well, I've got nothing more to say to people who aren't really listening. So I'm out of here.
