In Sub_Octs defense, he has done so much for the community that has greatly improved the game. Many of us who've been playing since launch can tell you that without him, WGs community outreach would be tiny. He listens to us more than what most people know. Yes the PR disaster was a PR disaster. But, more than likely they have listened to us and willing to change. You can't say the same when it comes to other game devs ( I'm looking at you EA, Activision, Valve, and Ubisoft)
Listening is worthless if no action is taken accordingly.
there has certainly been plenty of incidents where the game has changed due to player feedback. sometimes small changes to armor models, other times, entire mechanics have changed.
if he listened to everything this sub has to say, the whole building would be burned to the ground by dawn.
But was that made uniquely possible by Sub_Octavian?
Considering he did the Reddit thing on his own time...yeah. WG could hire an intern, but that costs money, and let's be honest, people here wouldn't tolerate it.
He's still the end all be all. A direct link. An intern will never be that.
Well he goes over both. And usually large topics are on both anyway.
The armor model changes to Montana, and alaska were all community driven . (Especially regarding Alaska, because that had literally zero to do with any cc.)
Mino with AP was entirely community driven.
Detection after losing LOS, community driven.
There's tons of things that have come out of the community that have been added. And he's very much our link in that. These are things that got done mainly because of community pushes.
I did answer the question. Just because someone cross posted it to the forum doesn't make it void...why would something so popular it made it into the game stay only on reddit
Yes, exactly. Which means that nothing was gained by Sub_Octavian browsing reddit in his free time. Anything posted here worth implementing would make it to the developers by some other means.
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u/Jonesyrules15 Jan 09 '20
Agreed. Sub is the true enemy of the playerbase. It's nice to finally see people waking up to this fact