119358-community-support-constructive-feedback-for-carbines-community-team

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Ive been talking a lot with content creators and community event organizers about how they feel carbine does with helping them promote or interact with them. Sadly the state of that is not in a good place. I made a video highlighting the major issues surrounding it. Please remember to keep the discussion here constructive.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d0wUT_vR2s	
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I wish i could do more than just like this post.
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I've had lovely support from Carbine so far. But, I agree (and I don't want anyone to take offense- I'm grateful for what support I've been getting) there does need to be more coming from Carbine. It doesn't feel like much. Please don't get me wrong, Time Travel coming to my stream channel and interacting with everyone there, I love that Tony's retweeted me a few times.. I love that Anlath has actively tried to help me. I feel like there's a bit more incentive for me to do what I do- and that's help keep positivity in the community. I stream the game for fun, I could be helping to promote the game even more with the help of the charity stream team I'm partnered with. People like swag, people like Devs coming and talking to people. :)
 
Also if anyone needs help making graphics for your events, hit me up. I'll gladly make some for free.	
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I've had lovely support from Carbine so far. But, I agree (and I don't want anyone to take offense- I'm grateful for what support I've been getting) there does need to be more coming from Carbine. It doesn't feel like much. Please don't get me wrong, Time Travel coming to my stream channel and interacting with everyone there, I love that Tony's retweeted me a few times.. I love that Anlath has actively tried to help me. I feel like there's a bit more incentive for me to do what I do- and that's help keep positivity in the community. I stream the game for fun, I could be helping to promote the game even more with the help of the charity stream team I'm partnered with. People like swag, people like Devs coming and talking to people. :)
 
Also if anyone needs help making graphics for your events, hit me up. I'll gladly make some for free.
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Well when it comes to promotional graphics if anyone needs/wants help doing any feel free to hit me up. I've got priorities and all with freelance and private commissions, but I like doing community oriented things...
 
Something that may help especially with pvp is Carbine getting their own team up and running and fighting players. A few games I've played in TERA/CO/WAR and brief moments in GW2 you'd see Devs playing with the aplayers from time to time either as planned events or random moments of "hey guys im on lunch lets duel" and it did quite a bit to bridge some community and dev relations.  In WAR especially it seemed to help with testing sometimes, because if they were testing pvp especially the devs would be in the fray to see how players actually used what was designed for their intended or unintended purposes. Plus who doesn't like smacking a dev in the face when they get a chance knowing full well that dev can probably smite their toon into the stone age XD
 
That can even carry over into PvE as well doing dungeons and adventures with devs in the queue.
 
From my own experience, people like talking to devs, but people like playing with them even more.
 
Fanart is a great way to promote too and I know I've gotten a few questions and interest from people that follow me. So on my end I try to do art for the community, but also as a bit of promotion for a game I enjoy.	
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Well when it comes to promotional graphics if anyone needs/wants help doing any feel free to hit me up. I've got priorities and all with freelance and private commissions, but I like doing community oriented things...
 
Something that may help especially with pvp is Carbine getting their own team up and running and fighting players. A few games I've played in TERA/CO/WAR and brief moments in GW2 you'd see Devs playing with the aplayers from time to time either as planned events or random moments of "hey guys im on lunch lets duel" and it did quite a bit to bridge some community and dev relations.  In WAR especially it seemed to help with testing sometimes, because if they were testing pvp especially the devs would be in the fray to see how players actually used what was designed for their intended or unintended purposes. Plus who doesn't like smacking a dev in the face when they get a chance knowing full well that dev can probably smite their toon into the stone age XD
 
That can even carry over into PvE as well doing dungeons and adventures with devs in the queue.
 
From my own experience, people like talking to devs, but people like playing with them even more.
 
Fanart is a great way to promote too and I know I've gotten a few questions and interest from people that follow me. So on my end I try to do art for the community, but also as a bit of promotion for a game I enjoy.
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There's definitely been some good things happening so far, and I like the emphasis on taking the good and fine-honing it into something even better overall.
 
WildStar's tumblr account has been doing some great stuff in regards to reblogging fanart and cute/funny screenshots. Alas, there are many who don't use tumblr as a service and it would be nice to see some of that fan content being circulated elsewhere. Tumblr and even DeviantART have gotten pretty good at making it easier to share things in other places (twitter, facebook, etc) while sourcing the creator - which is very important as working artists can use all the proper exposure they can get. Aside from those who may also have NSFW content in their portfolios, I see no reason not to cross-promote among other social media.
 
That said, I'm not sure who's in charge of what specifically when it comes to the CM team, and how they're organized. Who's doing social media? Who's in charge of forum interaction and escalating community concerns to the appropriate devs? These are things that would be good for us to know. I'll be honest, I don't know what the full scope of a CM's job entails. But if you're supposed to be about the community within your game, then I would assume it's your job to make your face the one that represents the community wherever it happens to congregate. Poke your head in on forum posts, or reddit, or twitter - even if it's just casual conversation. Not everything has to be serious business official posting.
 
I've heard mixed things from guild leaders and content creators when it comes to responses from the team at large. Without naming names, some have been excellent in providing feedback and other goodies to help promote community events - whether they be RP, PVP, or open-night dungeon runs sponsored by guilds - and others have been dead silent. I think the community would benefit from knowing exactly who we should contact with these inquiries. Is there one person who is the giant funnel for our requests? Or is there a hierarchy where we need to locate the particular branch that relates to our specific event? Right now it seems like a crapshoot, and that's not good.	
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 I think the community would benefit from knowing exactly who we should contact with these inquiries.
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I don't think I've seen a single advertisement showcasing the housing in this game, its most unique and probably best developed feature.
 
Slowly giving up on Wildstar, personally. I feel like I'm logging into a void when I come to the forums, and the game itself has actually become a struggle to play due to population and/or activity issues.
 
I've never played another MMO where joining a guild (and there are few guild options for Doms, i should add) is almost mandatory just to play basic endgame content.	
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I don't think I've seen a single advertisement showcasing the housing in this game, its most unique and probably best developed feature.
 
Slowly giving up on Wildstar, personally. I feel like I'm logging into a void when I come to the forums, and the game itself has actually become a struggle to play due to population and/or activity issues.
 
I've never played another MMO where joining a guild (and there are few guild options for Doms, i should add) is almost mandatory just to play basic endgame content.
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I'm trying not to give up but waiting six months post-launch for real change is being incredibly generous. I wouldn't have given this much patience to any other MMO, period, and I'm only still here because of housing and the Dominion RP circle (which is now maxed out because for some reason circles have a cap).
 
I don't think the game's gonna die or anything but I'm getting pretty bored with the lack of updates/polish/direction/communication.	
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I'm trying not to give up but waiting six months post-launch for real change is being incredibly generous. I wouldn't have given this much patience to any other MMO, period, and I'm only still here because of housing and the Dominion RP circle (which is now maxed out because for some reason circles have a cap).
 
I don't think the game's gonna die or anything but I'm getting pretty bored with the lack of updates/polish/direction/communication.
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In your video you were talking about what you're saying is because you're passionate of the game
Here's a phrase you might like, "I am critical of this game, because I love it and I want to see it succeed."	
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Good job on the video, Baze. 
 
Having helped with Warhound events, Flo X, and community centered gatherings - I agree with pretty much everything you said.
 
Let's be serious, if Flo X wasn't on Warhound and wasn't such a *cupcake* relentless event planner (advertising, making a website, spamming chat, spamming LOWER LEVEL ZONE chat), we wouldn't get any of these events off the ground. 
 
We sometimes get a retweet or a mention in stream (and it's majorly appreciated!), but that reaches such a small audience (livestreams only get about 100 max watching it and so few people actually go to the forums to read up about events in their server subforum). 
 
It would be nice, from time to time, to have a bit more involvement from the community team in helping with these events, including actually being there in the game when it happens or sanctioning it with a global message or... whatever else could happen to make it more widespread knowledge in game (obviously this would only happen with people who have a reputable background for organizing events - aka Flo X). 	
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Let's be serious, if Flo X wasn't on Warhound and wasn't such a *cupcake* relentless event planner (advertising, making a website, spamming chat, spamming LOWER LEVEL ZONE chat), we wouldn't get any of these events off the ground. 
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So I wanted to put a very quick post to say; I am replying to this in more detail. XD
 
There's a lot here, and I want to give it the full attention it deserves. It's just that today (and the next few days) are very busy so I need to work on a reply in-between stuff.
 
I really, really appreciate the feedback here from everybody. Proper post from me soon!	
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So I wanted to put a very quick post to say; I am replying to this in more detail. XD
 
There's a lot here, and I want to give it the full attention it deserves. It's just that today (and the next few days) are very busy so I need to work on a reply in-between stuff.
 
I really, really appreciate the feedback here from everybody. Proper post from me soon!
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I have played a lot of MMO's in the past and carbine has been more forth coming than ANY other MMO. So why isn't it enough is it because your think your Entitled to know everything that happens behind closed doors? Is it that we got a taste of real communication from Carbine in the first few months the game came out? If anyone noticed that the Communication from Carbine got less and less the more NCsoft poked their nose into carbine's business and cutting their staff so NCsoft could save some money.  Personally some of the ppl who left that were not released left cause NCsoft ruined the fun of working for Carbine. Since the cut in staff no more Goofy video's of nerf fights or practical jokes in the office less communication from Carbine on fixes and upcoming content Weekly updates cut to quarterly updates.
 
Now I am guessing that Carbine is doing what they are told and not what they want to do. Yes it would be sweet to have more social media coverage of what ppl are doing in Game to improve the community and get more info from Carbine like we did at launch. But something we as a community have to think of is that EVERYONE has a boss and has to do what they are told to keep a roof over their head and food on the table. So until NCsoft lets Carbine be who they were at Launch and not the secret keepers that NCsoft is making them all we can do is take what we get and pray that things change. It is sad that a good thing that was started got destroyed by corporate interference.
 
Now that being said if we (the community) want to get things moving on Social media it is to us to do it. Fan sites like Wildstar Wikia, Wildstar Core, and  ppl like Bazeleel and Flo X working hard to keep this community alive and active. We as a Community can do the promoting and Social media to help because we (as a community) appreciate what you are doing and the effort you are putting into the community to keep things fun and alive.
 
ok have hazmat suit on let the Flames start. LOL	
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ok have hazmat suit on let the Flames start. LOL
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this is true it is mainly my thoughts of the issues and some common cense of deduction based time line of events and happenings and yes one would thing that some Air time to promote the game even half of what was done for a realm reborn did would have made things more public. but from my guessing NCsoft backed the game not thinking it would go far.(who knows why)
 
Now if you follow my train of thought and look at how the world has become my thoughts are not so far feched even if there is not "documentation" but then with what info we have all we can do is speculate on what is going on behind closed doors.
 
My main thing is for US as a community to not worry about what Carbine can or cant do to help the community/game stay alive but what we as lovers of the game can do to help ourselves and give this game the Props is should get. Meaning less toxic threads more promo's on social media and the net in general if your guild has a website put a ad on there of a link to the game or tweet or retweet community events ourselves. its not anyones job to make the community feel alive and active but our own.	
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My main thing is for US as a community to not worry about what Carbine can or cant do to help the community/game stay alive but what we as lovers of the game can do to help ourselves and give this game the Props is should get. Meaning less toxic threads more promo's on social media and the net in general if your guild has a website put a ad on there of a link to the game or tweet or retweet community events ourselves. its not anyones job to make the community feel alive and active but our own.
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I have played a lot of MMO's in the past and carbine has been more forth coming than ANY other MMO. So why isn't it enough is it because your think your Entitled to know everything that happens behind closed doors? Is it that we got a taste of real communication from Carbine in the first few months the game came out? If anyone noticed that the Communication from Carbine got less and less the more NCsoft poked their nose into carbine's business and cutting their staff so NCsoft could save some money.  Personally some of the ppl who left that were not released left cause NCsoft ruined the fun of working for Carbine. Since the cut in staff no more Goofy video's of nerf fights or practical jokes in the office less communication from Carbine on fixes and upcoming content Weekly updates cut to quarterly updates.
 
Now I am guessing that Carbine is doing what they are told and not what they want to do. Yes it would be sweet to have more social media coverage of what ppl are doing in Game to improve the community and get more info from Carbine like we did at launch. But something we as a community have to think of is that EVERYONE has a boss and has to do what they are told to keep a roof over their head and food on the table. So until NCsoft lets Carbine be who they were at Launch and not the secret keepers that NCsoft is making them all we can do is take what we get and pray that things change. It is sad that a good thing that was started got destroyed by corporate interference.
 
Now that being said if we (the community) want to get things moving on Social media it is to us to do it. Fan sites like Wildstar Wikia, Wildstar Core, and  ppl like Bazeleel and Flo X working hard to keep this community alive and active. We as a Community can do the promoting and Social media to help because we (as a community) appreciate what you are doing and the effort you are putting into the community to keep things fun and alive.
 
ok have hazmat suit on let the Flames start. LOL
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I have played a lot of MMO's in the past and carbine has been more forth coming than ANY other MMO. So why isn't it enough is it because your think your Entitled to know everything that happens behind closed doors? Is it that we got a taste of real communication from Carbine in the first few months the game came out? If anyone noticed that the Communication from Carbine got less and less the more NCsoft poked their nose into carbine's business and cutting their staff so NCsoft could save some money.  Personally some of the ppl who left that were not released left cause NCsoft ruined the fun of working for Carbine. Since the cut in staff no more Goofy video's of nerf fights or practical jokes in the office less communication from Carbine on fixes and upcoming content Weekly updates cut to quarterly updates.
 
Now I am guessing that Carbine is doing what they are told and not what they want to do. Yes it would be sweet to have more social media coverage of what ppl are doing in Game to improve the community and get more info from Carbine like we did at launch. But something we as a community have to think of is that EVERYONE has a boss and has to do what they are told to keep a roof over their head and food on the table. So until NCsoft lets Carbine be who they were at Launch and not the secret keepers that NCsoft is making them all we can do is take what we get and pray that things change. It is sad that a good thing that was started got destroyed by corporate interference.
 
Now that being said if we (the community) want to get things moving on Social media it is to us to do it. Fan sites like Wildstar Wikia, Wildstar Core, and  ppl like Bazeleel and Flo X working hard to keep this community alive and active. We as a Community can do the promoting and Social media to help because we (as a community) appreciate what you are doing and the effort you are putting into the community to keep things fun and alive.
 
ok have hazmat suit on let the Flames start. LOL
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So I wanted to put a very quick post to say; I am replying to this in more detail. XD
 
There's a lot here, and I want to give it the full attention it deserves. It's just that today (and the next few days) are very busy so I need to work on a reply in-between stuff.
 
I really, really appreciate the feedback here from everybody. Proper post from me soon!
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Bazeleel the entitlement comment wasn't directed at you but just a general statement. Personally I love the work you and others are doing for the game. the main idea behind my post was that Carbine give us info they are aloud to give by what their bosses deem releasable. they started with a great idea with the Devs are listening and responding but after 6 months the responding to the community has been restricted and more than likely not their idea to do so. Carbine is the developer NCsoft the marketer sure Carbine has issues with their QA. But the advertising and marketing is NCsoft issue. now all of us who love the game can do is help prompt events and the game the best way we can and ppl like Bazeleel and Flo X are great not even in the years playing WoW have I seen a community so passionate about a game.  It doesn't matter if a game is F2P or Subbed if you love the game you do w/e it takes to keep it alive and strong.
 
 
sorry if my comments got misconstrued or seemed insensitive to the community.	
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Bazeleel the entitlement comment wasn't directed at you but just a general statement. Personally I love the work you and others are doing for the game. the main idea behind my post was that Carbine give us info they are aloud to give by what their bosses deem releasable. they started with a great idea with the Devs are listening and responding but after 6 months the responding to the community has been restricted and more than likely not their idea to do so. Carbine is the developer NCsoft the marketer sure Carbine has issues with their QA. But the advertising and marketing is NCsoft issue. now all of us who love the game can do is help prompt events and the game the best way we can and ppl like Bazeleel and Flo X are great not even in the years playing WoW have I seen a community so passionate about a game.  It doesn't matter if a game is F2P or Subbed if you love the game you do w/e it takes to keep it alive and strong.
 
 
sorry if my comments got misconstrued or seemed insensitive to the community.
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Okay, so I don't know how long this post is going to take me to write as I'll be dipping in and out of meetings and a bunch of other stuff whilst I am here visiting the US office. So forgive me if this takes a while.
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So I just watched this (yesterday) morning and honestly, I think this video comes at the right time. All the topics Bazeleel and others raise are things we've been thinking a lot about over the last few weeks and yesterday (Monday) we actually booked a meeting for the Community Team to sit down and talk about a wide variety of issues, including all the topics covered in the video.
I’m going to break this down into some of the main points of the article, as I don’t think I can do a full on point-by-point post with the time I have.
Community Support
From a personal standpoint, I agree that there are a lot of things I could have, and should have, done better when it came to supporting community content, streams, fansites etc. I also think there are a number of points where we just don’t (or can’t) give you guys all the info so it creates a poor impression.
I agree that we need to do more to support our incredible community, whether that’s video-makers, fansite admins or writers, events teams, streamers, anybody who works to make awesome content for WildStar. We’ve done some, but maybe that hasn’t been as visible as we should have made it.
But anyway, we agree that we want to do more and as such we sat down and discussed a number of things we’re going to work on;
Fansite engagement & interaction
Better “Community Kit” for streamers, fansites, events groups etc
More social support for community activities
Community Roundups - Highlights of awesome stuff that has been happening.
Some of this stuff is going to take a bit of time (better Fansite/Community Kit for example) as we’ve been asking for one for a while now, but it requires sorting out assets etc. But other stuff will be more immediete.
Communication
Again, I agree that we need to do not only more, but make it a better process for everybody.
I try to post a lot myself, even if it’s just a simple “Hey thanks, we’ll flag this and get it looked into”. We often can’t say much more because we simply don’t have the answer, our role isn’t to be the ones with all the answers ourselves but to get your questions to the folks who can and get them to come back and respond to you OR get the answer and respond where we can.
We’re going to try and do this more. It’s not going to be a 24-hour response time, I can say that now, but we are going to work on being more agile and responsive to issues and other topics.
Also, we have a great team of Community Liasions (I dislike calling them Moderators, as they do much more than that) who also try to respond to things and let folks know issues are being investigated. So if Chillia, or Buster Casey say something is being investigated, then it’s the same as if I, or any member of the Community Team or Live Team said it.
On the topic of Weekly Updates, I believe Tony mentioned in the last Nexus Report why we couldn’t continue to do these. With the change to our update schedule, it’s often the case that there isn’t a big “update” to really talk about. Any current issues, we’ll respond to individually when we have information. Talking about future content is always a tricky thing, because it isn’t just up to Community, and as we have seen, things change and we need to make sure we’re managing expectations a bit.
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Okay, I should probably wrap this up.
We appreciate any feedback (as long as it’s constructive) on the forums and we are listening. If folks think we should be doing more and that we aren’t being supportive enough, we’ll step up our game. I think we’ve been doing a lot of stuff that wasn’t visible so we need to make that clearer as well.
 	
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Okay, so I don't know how long this post is going to take me to write as I'll be dipping in and out of meetings and a bunch of other stuff whilst I am here visiting the US office. So forgive me if this takes a while.
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So I just watched this (yesterday) morning and honestly, I think this video comes at the right time. All the topics Bazeleel and others raise are things we've been thinking a lot about over the last few weeks and yesterday (Monday) we actually booked a meeting for the Community Team to sit down and talk about a wide variety of issues, including all the topics covered in the video.
I’m going to break this down into some of the main points of the article, as I don’t think I can do a full on point-by-point post with the time I have.
Community Support
From a personal standpoint, I agree that there are a lot of things I could have, and should have, done better when it came to supporting community content, streams, fansites etc. I also think there are a number of points where we just don’t (or can’t) give you guys all the info so it creates a poor impression.
I agree that we need to do more to support our incredible community, whether that’s video-makers, fansite admins or writers, events teams, streamers, anybody who works to make awesome content for WildStar. We’ve done some, but maybe that hasn’t been as visible as we should have made it.
But anyway, we agree that we want to do more and as such we sat down and discussed a number of things we’re going to work on;
Fansite engagement & interaction
Better “Community Kit” for streamers, fansites, events groups etc
More social support for community activities
Community Roundups - Highlights of awesome stuff that has been happening.
Some of this stuff is going to take a bit of time (better Fansite/Community Kit for example) as we’ve been asking for one for a while now, but it requires sorting out assets etc. But other stuff will be more immediete.
Communication
Again, I agree that we need to do not only more, but make it a better process for everybody.
I try to post a lot myself, even if it’s just a simple “Hey thanks, we’ll flag this and get it looked into”. We often can’t say much more because we simply don’t have the answer, our role isn’t to be the ones with all the answers ourselves but to get your questions to the folks who can and get them to come back and respond to you OR get the answer and respond where we can.
We’re going to try and do this more. It’s not going to be a 24-hour response time, I can say that now, but we are going to work on being more agile and responsive to issues and other topics.
Also, we have a great team of Community Liasions (I dislike calling them Moderators, as they do much more than that) who also try to respond to things and let folks know issues are being investigated. So if Chillia, or Buster Casey say something is being investigated, then it’s the same as if I, or any member of the Community Team or Live Team said it.
On the topic of Weekly Updates, I believe Tony mentioned in the last Nexus Report why we couldn’t continue to do these. With the change to our update schedule, it’s often the case that there isn’t a big “update” to really talk about. Any current issues, we’ll respond to individually when we have information. Talking about future content is always a tricky thing, because it isn’t just up to Community, and as we have seen, things change and we need to make sure we’re managing expectations a bit.
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Okay, I should probably wrap this up.
We appreciate any feedback (as long as it’s constructive) on the forums and we are listening. If folks think we should be doing more and that we aren’t being supportive enough, we’ll step up our game. I think we’ve been doing a lot of stuff that wasn’t visible so we need to make that clearer as well.
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To echo Mark's post, we are here and we care.  Maybe we haven't done a great job showing you we care and I genuinely apologize for my part in this.
 
I feel that moving forward you will see that change.  We will be posting again soon around how we plan to support fansites, streamers, bloggers, podcasters, and all around content generators.  There will be much more options of support and we will be much more reachable.  Until that gets rolled out please feel free to pm me here or on twitter.  Again, we are dedicated to this community and it feels amazing to have such passionate players to engage with.
 
 
 
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Have you seen Tony Rey?  Because we haven't.
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To echo Mark's post, we are here and we care.  Maybe we haven't done a great job showing you we care and I genuinely apologize for my part in this.
 
I feel that moving forward you will see that change.  We will be posting again soon around how we plan to support fansites, streamers, bloggers, podcasters, and all around content generators.  There will be much more options of support and we will be much more reachable.  Until that gets rolled out please feel free to pm me here or on twitter.  Again, we are dedicated to this community and it feels amazing to have such passionate players to engage with.
 
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@Bazeleel - the portion of your video about bug reporting and such is spot on. I try to post as many "unknown" bugs as I can, because just complaining about it does nothing for anyone. In fact, just posted about possible bug I found in GA last night. Sometimes the community team or the devs themselves are very good about notifying us when something is being done (e.g. I Like it Rare: Blighthaven). Then there are times when we get a "We Have Flagged It"-esque response and then it seems to vanish off a tracker of any kind (e.g. Archivos crafted gear). 
 
@CRB - I know some of y'all try and keep us updated, but we need more followup for our issues. They may not be high on your priority list, CRB, but to some people they are gamebreaking and need more than "we're looking into it", "soon", or "thanks for the bug report". Sometimes just letting me know something is being done makes all the difference. Even if that something is weeks and weeks away. 	
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To echo Mark's post, we are here and we care.  Maybe we haven't done a great job showing you we care and I genuinely apologize for my part in this.
 
I feel that moving forward you will see that change.  We will be posting again soon around how we plan to support fansites, streamers, bloggers, podcasters, and all around content generators.  There will be much more options of support and we will be much more reachable.  Until that gets rolled out please feel free to pm me here or on twitter.  Again, we are dedicated to this community and it feels amazing to have such passionate players to engage with.
 
 
 
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It's sad that this has to be said Tony, but zero to fifty is a massive waste of resources.  Why do you think that dicking around in-game when you can be spending time flagging issues, posting on the forums, being a COMMUNITY MANAGER is a good idea?
 
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Hell... they need to just hire an assload of interns, pay them in ramen noodles, and have them get involved in community stuff.
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Not sure if this is the right place to even post this.
 
I've tried/trying to get the community together and give them something to do with my in-game event, but due to the lack of experience it's probably not going very well =/ (still learning)
 
Unfortunately other than Facebook, where i keep in touch with family, I don't use social media at all. 
 
Could twitter and youtube be something that could help raise awareness for my events or is the forums the only real place for it?
 
Sorry if this is off topic, just thought since we were on the topic of communication
 
Want to also look into a fan site for my in game events, but again not sure if that's wasting my time or not.
 
PS. I fully appreciate my event isn't very professionally done, but i am trying and learning	
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Not sure if this is the right place to even post this.
 
I've tried/trying to get the community together and give them something to do with my in-game event, but due to the lack of experience it's probably not going very well =/ (still learning)
 
Unfortunately other than Facebook, where i keep in touch with family, I don't use social media at all. 
 
Could twitter and youtube be something that could help raise awareness for my events or is the forums the only real place for it?
 
Sorry if this is off topic, just thought since we were on the topic of communication
 
Want to also look into a fan site for my in game events, but again not sure if that's wasting my time or not.
 
PS. I fully appreciate my event isn't very professionally done, but i am trying and learning
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I would appreciate that hugely.
 
I know my current event has been heard of as people have mentioned it on Jabbit while i'm playing.
 
It's very much a learning curve this event and I can already see ways in which it could be improved for next time, but my main concern is my lack of "advertising" for it. I have little to no experience of this sort of thing. I decided when I came back to WS after previously quitting that I wanted to be more community involved. 	
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I enjoyed listening to Bazeleel's video, and now reading the posts from the devs, it makes me really excited, being fairly active in the community.. And it's definitely motivating me to do even more. 
 
As far as 0 to 50 goes, I watched the first episode when I was back in the states, but haven't been able to tune in live since. Being in a different timezone now, it's really inconvenient (I'm not complaining! Just sad that I'm missing out on the rowsdower giveaways lol) but anyways, I find it entertaining, and it gives a chance for players to interact with the devs in-game (Something I REALLY missed about WoW, but they stopped showing up visibly in-game after BC).
 
I think it also projects the image of how Carbine is so down to earth and also "real people" like us, you know? 
 
As long as they keep their word and improve on the community out reach, who cares if they decide to interact with us on stream while having some fun for a mere hour!	
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Tony you are a amazing host and your showmanship is top! I would like to see a lot more knowledge from you during the livestream, you give off the impression that you have never seen a keyboard and mouse and that does a big disservice to you. I know for a fact that you are not as "uneducated" in the game as you give off. The show will benefit much more from you being more knowledgeable about what you are doing.
 
 
I do enjoy watching it and get laughs out of it. I feel that if the show is for newer players and to make the newer players feel welcome then the host that is with the show does need to have some knowledge of the game and is slightly experienced with w/e that host is doing.	
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			One thing that I think would be super sweet is a guild spotlight. Over the course of the month, have guilds send in various videos of things that "go wrong" in a raid or dungeon, or something equally silly/different/unexpected that happened at a given moment. Right now the community is so small, that I feel like I know the names of all the Dominion side guilds on Entity and I know their progression status, and I know what they're about, but that's because I'm a guild leader myself, and I consider it my due diligence to know this about the community. I can't say if average Joe member of the game knows that stuff or not. So maybe, every second week of the month guilds can submit videos with a small blurb they'd like read about them (think tweet size), then on the given stream day you set aside time to show all the videos, or one from each guild. For example, one of my officers is secretly recording 5-7seconds of footage of every member when they're not paying attention. Just the other day he caught someone roleplaying as a fighter jet. This is hilarious. I'd love to have a reliable outlet to share things like that with the community. Further, it's not like it'd be a lengthy video because we have a member base of around 25 people, making it 175 seconds, or 3 minutes and 15 seconds. You could fit 18 of these in an hour block instead of 0 to 50. Maybe One week of the month is the NA week and another week of the month is the EU week. 	
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One thing that I think would be super sweet is a guild spotlight. Over the course of the month, have guilds send in various videos of things that "go wrong" in a raid or dungeon, or something equally silly/different/unexpected that happened at a given moment. Right now the community is so small, that I feel like I know the names of all the Dominion side guilds on Entity and I know their progression status, and I know what they're about, but that's because I'm a guild leader myself, and I consider it my due diligence to know this about the community. I can't say if average Joe member of the game knows that stuff or not. So maybe, every second week of the month guilds can submit videos with a small blurb they'd like read about them (think tweet size), then on the given stream day you set aside time to show all the videos, or one from each guild. For example, one of my officers is secretly recording 5-7seconds of footage of every member when they're not paying attention. Just the other day he caught someone roleplaying as a fighter jet. This is hilarious. I'd love to have a reliable outlet to share things like that with the community. Further, it's not like it'd be a lengthy video because we have a member base of around 25 people, making it 175 seconds, or 3 minutes and 15 seconds. You could fit 18 of these in an hour block instead of 0 to 50. Maybe One week of the month is the NA week and another week of the month is the EU week.
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One thing that I think would be super sweet is a guild spotlight. Over the course of the month, have guilds send in various videos of things that "go wrong" in a raid or dungeon, or something equally silly/different/unexpected that happened at a given moment. Right now the community is so small, that I feel like I know the names of all the Dominion side guilds on Entity and I know their progression status, and I know what they're about, but that's because I'm a guild leader myself, and I consider it my due diligence to know this about the community. I can't say if average Joe member of the game knows that stuff or not. So maybe, every second week of the month guilds can submit videos with a small blurb they'd like read about them (think tweet size), then on the given stream day you set aside time to show all the videos, or one from each guild. For example, one of my officers is secretly recording 5-7seconds of footage of every member when they're not paying attention. Just the other day he caught someone roleplaying as a fighter jet. This is hilarious. I'd love to have a reliable outlet to share things like that with the community. Further, it's not like it'd be a lengthy video because we have a member base of around 25 people, making it 175 seconds, or 3 minutes and 15 seconds. You could fit 18 of these in an hour block instead of 0 to 50. Maybe One week of the month is the NA week and another week of the month is the EU week. 
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I've been playing this game for about a week now and had a blast..for myself I can safely say its the best of 2014
The game doesn't get the credit it deserves..
On metacritis,it still is rated way higher than the new wow expansion or elderscrolls online,those games barely get a 5,while Wildstar gets an 8 by the critics and 7 from the players
(which is a lot considering how harsh most of the voters are there) I'd probably give it an 8,5 which i'd turn into a 9,5 if I notice a lot of improvements over the coming months..
 
It is a good thing that players have to team up I think.(this game encourages that more than all other games I've played,and should continue to do so) 
Needing other players to help you,and other players feeling the desire to help..that is something beautiful.
But how do you encourage that further ingame?(and ofcourse players need to be able to find each other-perhaps the home instances system could play a role?but have yet to see it myself so.. :D)
One of the sytems that is very solid in this game is the path system.It provides a certain amount of replay value.But I think it could also make interaction between players very interesting..
Befriending a player/guildy of the same path could open doors for collective research
Or suppose that future vet missions feature extra special path stuff that is only tradable with friends or guildies with different path.(home decorations for example)
 
Or what if each faction had some kind of mothership with the community managers being the crew
Each week a "guild in spotlights" becomes guest at the ship and enjoys special buffs that whole period
The motherships would also have party destinations (which would be a selection of cool guildhalls)
At those parties special foods,cocktails and items are obtainable too.Guilds can befriend guilds,..	
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			Guild of the week sounds like a fan-freaking fantastic idea!	
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