give more updates on Steam

[cerulean hare]

There needs to be a broader focus on actually communicating on steam, where potential customers have to go to even buy the game. Most people on there are not going to get discord just so they can get some sort of dialogue on details. I see people involved in the game sometimes leaving comments here. copy and paste those into a post and share it on steam. They not only want consistent communication, but an explanation on the hiatus

[turbid nest]

Just talking to the community with official things on steam in general

[cerulean hare]

here is a nice comment that sums it up

[cerulean hare]

customers have to be the ones to go to discord, find information, and then paste it in steam for people to get ANY UPDATE

[halcyon barn]

Yeah so slaz (guy who flies heli pilots) basically asked oki to make an official which was only conquest being voted. Outside players had no reason to stay because officials in their region were the exact same, so after a few months it died off, and BBOCE mods can’t fix official servers, only bbr staff can… you can see the problem there I’d assume.

Then he did the same with the community Asia server. Some of them didn’t like not having the option of different modes, so that died off too.

[halcyon barn]

Also just communicate everywhere.

Reddit, discord, steam.

Why the hell do all the communities have to go around to each other to share info just because one platform didn’t get said info?

[velvet mica]

You know whats funny
They edited the "playtest starts now post" to announce that the playtest is over and thank people for bearing thru

Instead of, yknow, doing another post for that

Oki still shivering his timbers at proper comms

[velvet mica]

"Conq keeps the game alive guis!!!!"

[dusky cove]

it's the primary game mode and most played. but like everything, no variety means people leave.

[halcyon barn]

That’s what i’ve been saying since the start. No variety + no dev communication = people leave.

If you wanna argue that this strategy somehow keeps new player retention, I will happily point to the anomaly incident again, where he stopped playing because it was always conquest on the same 6 maps. It burns people out, and combined with no updates or dev communication… yeah I wonder why we cant keep new people. Must be the “sweats” or some other boogeyman reason I guess

[acoustic yacht]

Tbh, this started long ago
1st day district was released… 7 matches in a row only that map, then 1 Sandy and again… more district

[velvet mica]

People want to play new map
No big suprise

Unlike invasion

Invasion votes mustve been rigged cause lord forbid i want a match anything that isnt invasion

[deep sable]

o7 invasion, the devs never gave you a chance to be something good.

[halcyon barn]

Could have done it if the mode didnt crash community servers

and if we didn’t wait 2 years for a pulse… and if the community on officials would vote something other than conquest on the same 6 maps… I could go on if you want.

[halcyon barn]

Not disagreeing

My point is that we can’t really have variety until we kill the core issue of people (mainly vets) refusing to try it

Also, devs communicating and the like would help too but we’ve established that

[cerulean hare]

are they even going to communicate what changes they are going to make from the playtest? or are they gonna just do it all in silence

[turbid nest]

Well we where sitting alone in an empty auditorium(this discord server) with a big banner that said SOON for 2 years so imma say semi no