106230-question-about-communication

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			What do people think of Carbine's communication in general with the community? I've noticed sometimes to get information you have to dig around for official responses. Sometimes it seems Carbine responses (at times) cherry pick's the easy ones, and when there is an initial response there sometimes no follow up beyond that.1. Is everyone satisfied with the level of communication / quantity?2. Does Carbine address hot topic issues regularly and make those answers easily available/accessible to everyone?	
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It is terrible. Numerous times I have found out from someone else who is on Twitter or Reddit that they have posted community updates on there instead of their own Forums/Web sites.
 
Now I hate Twitter and I also hate with a passion Reddit. I should not have to go to a 3rd party site to find out what is happening. The first p[lace that something should be posted is on these forums. This is where myself and many others come to to find out what is happening.	
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For the most part I think it's good.
 
I do wish they'd promote their livestreams more. Broadcast in game, announcements at the top of these forums, etc etc.
 
The livestreams have some of best updates and nuggets. Cougar often shows up. Huge Shelton has come on a few times to talk about balance, etc.
 
They're good; push them harder CRB!
 
Sometimes it seems Carbine responses (at times) cherry pick's the easy ones, and when there is an initial response there sometimes no follow up beyond that.
 
It can often seem like that, but honestly they're answering what they can; because the other stuff is still under internal discussion, etc etc.	
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MY PERSONAL OPINION
 
From what I see Carbine responds pretty frequently, but like you said it seems they are cherry picked responses. They either seem to be responses to posts where the answer has already been stated before and they are just referrals to those posts or really simple questions that had already been answered in the thread before but they decided to answer anyway. If they do respond to hot topics it seems like they acknowledge the issue, say some nonsense about it being looked into but give no good info about what is being done or a time frame of when they want these issues to be fixed. 	
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I like it, they answer some hard questions and confront some hard issues, but there's room for improvement.
 
One thing to consider about Dev Tracker, it's flooded with Community Managers that don't have answers as specific as the devs/producers, and it's flooded with foreign language posts. It takes a lot of browsing to find good answers, but there's real solid communication regarding problems every few days.	
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I like it, they answer some hard questions and confront some hard issues, but there's room for improvement.
 
One thing to consider about Dev Tracker, it's flooded with Community Managers that don't have answers as specific as the devs/producers, and it's flooded with foreign language posts. It takes a lot of browsing to find good answers, but there's real solid communication regarding problems every few days.
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I must have been living under a rock the dev tracker has some great info and recent responses.
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