117755-wildstar-development-roadmap

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A lot of the community is worried about the state of Wildstar, including returning vets like myself.
I was hoping to maybe spark some discussion with the dev team on perhaps coming up with a development roadmap to show what you have planned for the future to help interest newcomers as well as keep the faith in those whwho're returning.
And if there already is a development roadmap, could someone link it to me on where I'd be able to access it from the main Website? Thank you.	
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			State of the game, from less than a month ago	
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Lemurian beat me to it.
 
Welcome back! :D	
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Worried is the wrong word (for me). When I buy any game, I don't worry about how long I will enjoy it for, I just play it until it isn't fun for me.
 
I'm still loving Wildstar right now, and I'd be sad if they turned the servers off before I was done with it, but I don't feel that's even on the horizon at the moment.	
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			is the wildstar community worried? i guess it depends on who you define as community. many people i see on here, while in agreement, that the game is poor right now, can see it has a very bright future.	
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			Youmu basically said that they aren't intersted in doing a roadmap given how priorities and decisions can change over the course of the year. It would probably just end up in more disappointment for the community when ideas on the roadmap don't come to fruition for some reason or another.	
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We're keen to try and get a message out that outlines some of our goals/intentions for 2015. I'm not sure when, or even if, that's going to happen anytime soon but we'd like it to. It's not just up to me or the directors though.
 
There is always the worry that people will get disappointed if something has to be changed or delayed, but I think it's important for folk to know there is still a lot of amazing stuff to come for WildStar and that we're all dedicated to making it an amazing experience.	
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I think it's important for your side of the table to recognize that the patience for vague assertions of "it'll be amazing" have pretty much entirely evaporated.
 
You charge real cash-ey money every month. Carbine might consider that a good interval for getting out from behind the curtain and sharing some insight on where we are going. And you'll find clarity is a good counter to soaring expectations and the crashing disappointment that follows.
 
Note: I'm not too worried at the moment in regards to the direction of the game in general. We had a good briefing only a month ago. But I think you need only look in your class forums and the ancient stickies to see that we haven't heard from the class leads in a very long time. Every game has some folks kvetching over class balance. Resounding silence is not the way to calm them.	
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			Just to make things clear, I am saying I agree it's important we lay out where things are headed in a strong message SO that people know there is awesome stuff down the line. ;) Not that anybody should take my vague assertions as gospel. :PWe've been trying to provide a clear(er) idea of where things are going, that's why Chad and Mike D have both made our aims for MOTPG very clear. For the time being we want to get this patch done and make sure everybody is enjoying that content and then, hopefully, we can get something that lets everybody know WildStar's direction for next year. :)	
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It really doesn't all have to be 'awesome' ;). 'Good' is in fact good. And a lot more believable when being presented in the abstract.
 
Overhyping has not served you well in the past.
 
...And believe it or not, I'm willing to bet most of us are more interested in whether or not drop 4 will be January or February (statements have fluctuated) and whether we can look forward to bug fixing moving back to a bi-weekly schedule instead of hanging up in limbo for 2+ months than where the bosses imagine we'll be next August according to the great and glorious vision statement. One foot in front of the other, and less jumping off cliffs please :D.	
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Worried is the wrong word (for me). When I buy any game, I don't worry about how long I will enjoy it for, I just play it until it isn't fun for me.
 
I'm still loving Wildstar right now, and I'd be sad if they turned the servers off before I was done with it, but I don't feel that's even on the horizon at the moment.
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It really doesn't all have to be 'awesome' ;). 'Good' is in fact good. And a lot more believable when being presented in the abstract.
 
Overhyping has not served you well in the past.
 
...And believe it or not, I'm willing to bet most of us are more interested in whether or not drop 4 will be January or February (statements have fluctuated) and whether we can look forward to bug fixing moving back to a bi-weekly schedule instead of hanging up in limbo for 2+ months than where the bosses imagine we'll be next August according to the great and glorious vision statement. One foot in front of the other, and less jumping off cliffs please :D.
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It really doesn't all have to be 'awesome' ;). 'Good' is in fact good. And a lot more believable when being presented in the abstract.
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Dangerous to qualify another person's use of a word like 'awesome'. Like Anlath I was a 90s teenager and that term was extremely common and didn't really mean 'better than good', but 'I really like that'.
 
Basically, it's not an objective qualifier, it's subjective, and thus I'm not really sure it fits into an accusation of over-hyping.
 
 
Anlath, something I don't understand: We're seeing D3 in November. Shouldn't a quarterly schedule (every 3 months) result in a February D4 launch? If the current forecast is for January you've only given yourselves two months to finish development and QA it over the holidays.
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			Roger that, looking forward to it but for now 1K plots will keep me quite busy on alts over the holidays. ;)	
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