Topic: Confidence Gone
Well, Devs, you've made it abundantly clear that your clients (you know, the people paying your checks?) have no way to air their grievances over wrongs real or perceived. Continually closing threads that question recent events, or non-events, dealing with violations of your own rules only leaves people with a sour taste in their mouth and a rapid dwindling of confidence.
I lurk on multiple boards for multiple corporations, and among most I am seeing thread after thread of people telling the corp that they're either leaving outright or unsubbing for unknown periods of time.
Yes, new releases are always going to affect the bottom line, but when the players witness a panicked quashing of a legitimate grievance each time it is brought to the forums at the same time potentially strong contenders are being released (re: Skyrim, SWTOR, or even patches on existing games; Eve Crucible) only sends them to greener pastures or back to the same barren brown bracken that they left, often for similarly bad decisions, and blatant disregard for similar EULA violations, by those Dev teams.
I'm not portending doom; but you lack a steady stream of incoming players due to limited/no outside advertising and word-of-mouth rapidly turning negative can certainly have deleterious affects on future growth.
These things exist in all games, yes, and they always send people away, but doing so when the playerbase is small and the game still young only compounds an already shaky situation. Quashing discussion of such topics moreso.
Listen up Devs, your players are talking... and few of them are talking positively (well, except those power blocs which suddenly feel themselves unassailable after a perceived violation was not only allowed to remain but any contradictory opinions ruthlessly squashed).
Sad to see you go, but I totally understand. I wasn't going to try SWTOR but after what's just happened in Perpetuum I'm giving it a try. I've lost all confidence the the Perpetuum development team. They will now have th earn it back.
I'm seeing this on numerous corporate forums.
Perpetuum is still young, but your hard work has shown considerable promise for a bright future. Don't drop the anvil on your foot quite so early in.