I tend to avoid discord unless using it specifically for a multi-player game, which is its original purpose. It's not conducive to a longer discussion or posting things in depth. Since this isn't a multi-player game requiring real-time chat I have no use for it for this game. I can see how they want to use it though since it's "what all the kids are using these days." They seem to be fairly responsive to the forum (so far) so fingers crossed they'll be able to keep both going.
There are probably people playing this game that don't use anything that DTG use to communicate, whether that be YouTube, Discord, these forums etc.
The figures show that game sales on PC has been on the rise and above console sales for the last 10 years. But now console sales are on the rise and slightly higher than the PC last year and probably this year. Although you can't go by these figures to work out how many tsw players there are any platform. Only dtg can answer that one. What's it bloody matter anyway.
Exec Producer of the game on last month's roadmap: skewed much more towards console now, steam hasn't shrunk, its still growing, but there's an awful lot of PlayStation players out there.
The vast majority in fact. As is the case for most games and especially the case when the player base trends, cough, cough, slightly older. I didn't use the forums for ages playing this game, other than to very occasionally try and find an answer to a bug or glitch I encountered.
I didn't join here until TSW3 if I remember right (might have been TSW2), and even then that was only because I came across an issue with the game. I coped perfectly fine without even these forums until then. So it's possible to survive without Discord as well, even if DTG use that. Come to think of it, I don't really watch their live streams either. So really I only privy to what is shared on the forums.
I don't like Discord. I don't like its layout and how it encourages "hot takes" rather than informed discussion. I won't be using it. Even if the forum should go.
I would argue it’s just a more real time version of the forums. It can be difficult to find what you need here because there can be several threads created that discuss the same topic with plenty veering off into uninformed discussion. It just seems more coordinated because it’s in a thread vs creating a new “comment” on discord (which is essentially the same thing).
Hi DTG Alex, just so you you can "see this conversation" I've pinged you as well now so there is no excuse for not answering To which class 170 were those patch notes referring? Why has it been impossible to get an answer when I know the question has been seen repeatedly, not just because i posted it and it got moved to another forum without a reply but also because someone else also asked the same question, got a reply from another community manager to say dtg were investigating but never received any follow-up? Yourself and other community managers were pinged in the thread i posted which you or another community manager moved without responding to so how come none of you "saw those conversations?"
They should give you a response, but if you keep spamming asking for a reply, the chance they give you a reply is much lower. The people who move your posts or thread aren’t the same people that review them/are community managers, they just managing the organization of the forum. So by adding more and more posts, it’s hurting your chances of the issue being seen. Raising it here should hopefully get some visibility for it though so it can at least be looked into.
Agreed, but that’s usually not that persons role. I don’t know how the forums here are structured though but usually that’s on the community managers and the people who manage the forum solely do that function. Again not sure how DTG sets up their social media/forum team, so maybe that’s different here.
Alex will probably respond a little later, we've been insanely busy these last couple of weeks with various things. I did send this up, and we were waiting on a more detailed answer, I'm pretty sure I responded in there; if not, I meant to, but may have had to go handle an issue and didn't get the chance to post, so I apologize if I forgot to hit "Post Reply". So we're just waiting on information; however, spamming another post, and the 3 or 4 others I've seen, isn't going to get the answer sooner. We're waiting on a Dev to clarify some questions for us and will respond as soon as we can. I also don't know why it was moved unless it was just in the wrong area for the post.
Hi, yes you did reply saying you were speaking to a dev. My point with the above posts though was really that I'm just a bit miffed when i saw Alex saying that they do respond if they see questions posted, yet the question about the 170 never got answered even though it was definitely seen, moved and locked in a filling cabinet in the basement. It wasn't until you came along so i thought I'd also ask you about it that you did kindly answer. On a more positive note, what might help is if there was more obvious input and communication from dovetail in the feedback threads similar to the way you've been interacting in the Birmingham Crewe thread? For some of the other threads, it seems like a DLC will get launched, the thread gets opened and maybe a community manager might post for the first few days but then silence. That's where my sarcasm over the 170 originates, i posted so many times in the Fife circle feedback thread along with others that the sounds were broken and it was continually met with silence, not even a "we are aware and investigating" so my sarcasm level started rising with each post! Even someone from dovetail replied with "we're aware and it's not going to be fixed" that at least would be better than no response imo. (I'll try and dial down the sarcasm in future posts...!)
Just tried to edit the above post but getting "Your content can not be submitted. This is likely because your content is spam-like or contains inappropriate elements. Please change your content or try again later. If you still have problems, please contact an administrator." It should say: Even if someone from dovetail replied with "we're aware and it's not going to be fixed" that at least would be better than no response imo
I personally enjoy the sarcasm, but the spam posting is just going to get ignored. If you were working on their team and saw someone post every day asking the same thing (especially sarcastically), I don’t know how you’d react but I’d ignore it as just spamming. Have to pick one or the other, serious spam or sarcastic one post.
If i was working on their team and saw someone asking the same question everyday that multiple other posters had asked and hadn't received a reply to I'd go out of my way to provide an answer because that seems like the decent thing to do and would also stop the question being asked. No matter how unpalatable that answer might be, rather than constantly ignoring it and making the person who paid for the product which once worked but was broken by a later patch feel like they're being ignored it might be better to be honest?
Well you are better than me because I would just ignore it after all of the spamming. But like I said, now that it’s been responded back to, hopefully we get the answers, if not getting the issue fixed.
I get that error too, if I only adjust a few things like spelling or grammar. The forums do what they want.
It's because you're not altering enough in your edit. Make your alteration and then type+delete some random waffle (I just copy/paste/delete the random waffle I've already submitted) at the end of your comment before attempting 'save changes'.
I mainly post from a tablet so typing something which looks at least semi-legible is hard enough as is without me having to edit multiple times. As an example, if you want the first part of the sentence from above using auto-suggest and without editing: I mainly part from a tablet so going dosing which looks at least Zulu legible is hard with as is Hmmm. Maybe i make more sense if i don't correct?
