tikigod
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Post by tikigod on Jun 5, 2015 5:18:53 GMT
I don't think that should really matter though. The benefit of having responded in time should be to have the opportunity to provide accompanying information that gives clear and direct answers to the questions asked. Essentially a opportunity to go against the long standing reputation the entire studio has at this point of being silent and burying itself behind locked doors until it decides to try and manipulate outlets to generate attention. The point of answering the questions wouldn't have been to shape and alter the article. So wither or not the article was always going to have a specific topic shouldn't really come into it unless the go-to 22Cans reaction to anything is still "How can we manipulate or re-spin this?", but I'd hope that really the lesson of how self-defeatist that attitude has been for you guys would have set in by this point. The article was about what has happened to with the project over the last 4 months, so yeah it would always be about the last 4 months (AKA fuck all, silence and uncontrolled bannings partially driven by personal issues), however if they had 20 questions for you guys then clearly they wanted your input to accompany their findings of what's been going on publicly. So what would have come from 22Cans having answered? People would potentially be better informed and have a wider pool of information. Whilst I know this is very counter to 22Cans standard ethos, give it a shot one time and suck it and see what happens. Having read the article a couple of times I think a response from 22cans would fit better as a follow up than in the article itself. If I was 22cans I'd take some time to figure out what I want to tell people beyond responding to the individual points in the article, that is: • what does finished godus look like? • why would someone want to play it? • why should community/gamers believe 22cans can and will deliver? If the cans really consider their message beyond PR as a chance to recast their future and make solid commitments with a plan to achieve them then this could be very positive for them and the community. I just doubt they have the ability to deliver such a plan nor the will to communicate one. Time will tell. I'd personally say that a response from 22Cans in this context would simply be to answer the questions given. Not having seen the questions I'd assume they were probably rather generic ones that we've all been asking creeping up to 2+ years now, and 22Cans are probably all too familiar with them and could answer them even though they choose not too. Trying to hand off anything else is unasked for information, if 22Cans want to cover additional topics there are better ways to do it then trying to take a series of questions being asked to compliment a writers article and then trying to manipulate the writers piece into something else entirely. Sure being presented with 20 questions someone wants answered to compliment the articles topic, and rather than answering the questions what is returned is a lot spewing out lots of excuse heavy tales, is what Molyneux would have done. But then.... do we really want more Molyneux? |
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Post by hardly on Jun 5, 2015 6:18:04 GMT
Having read the article a couple of times I think a response from 22cans would fit better as a follow up than in the article itself. If I was 22cans I'd take some time to figure out what I want to tell people beyond responding to the individual points in the article, that is: • what does finished godus look like? • why would someone want to play it? • why should community/gamers believe 22cans can and will deliver? If the cans really consider their message beyond PR as a chance to recast their future and make solid commitments with a plan to achieve them then this could be very positive for them and the community. I just doubt they have the ability to deliver such a plan nor the will to communicate one. Time will tell. I'd personally say that a response from 22Cans in this context would simply be to answer the questions given. Not having seen the questions I'd assume they were probably rather generic ones that we've all been asking creeping up to 2+ years now, and 22Cans are probably all too familiar with them and could answer them even though they choose not too. Trying to hand off anything else is unasked for information, if 22Cans want to cover additional topics there are better ways to do it then trying to take a series of questions being asked to compliment a writers article and then trying to manipulate the writers piece into something else entirely. Sure being presented with 20 questions someone wants answered to compliment the articles topic, and rather than answering the questions what is returned is a lot spewing out lots of excuse heavy tales, is what Molyneux would have done. But then.... do we really want more Molyneux? If they want to turn the situation around they need to drive the narrative. At the moment the narrative is they are incompetent, secretive and possibly duplicitous. If they respond to the questions with puff and misdirection it will just confirm all the assumptions people have about 22cans. They need to answer in a way that gives confidence with immediate, medium term and long term goals. Demonstrable progress in the game is the only thing that will turn the tide - new resources and ages, improvements to the sculpting mechanics, actual details on multiplayer. Of course this is probably impossible but if they have anything secret in reserve now is the time to reveal it. |
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tikigod
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Post by tikigod on Jun 5, 2015 6:55:49 GMT
I'd personally say that a response from 22Cans in this context would simply be to answer the questions given. Not having seen the questions I'd assume they were probably rather generic ones that we've all been asking creeping up to 2+ years now, and 22Cans are probably all too familiar with them and could answer them even though they choose not too. Trying to hand off anything else is unasked for information, if 22Cans want to cover additional topics there are better ways to do it then trying to take a series of questions being asked to compliment a writers article and then trying to manipulate the writers piece into something else entirely. Sure being presented with 20 questions someone wants answered to compliment the articles topic, and rather than answering the questions what is returned is a lot spewing out lots of excuse heavy tales, is what Molyneux would have done. But then.... do we really want more Molyneux? If they want to turn the situation around they need to drive the narrative. At the moment the narrative is they are incompetent, secretive and possibly duplicitous. If they respond to the questions with puff and misdirection it will just confirm all the assumptions people have about 22cans. They need to answer in a way that gives confidence with immediate, medium term and long term goals. Demonstrable progress in the game is the only thing that will turn the tide - new resources and ages, improvements to the sculpting mechanics, actual details on multiplayer. Of course this is probably impossible but if they have anything secret in reserve now is the time to reveal it. Who said anything about answering the questions with puff and misdirection? The point was they should just upfront answer them, and not try to manipulate the article into being something else by trying to 'drive the narrative' of something already set in motion by someone else to be purely about what has happened with Godus in the last 4 months both from a public perspective (Absolutely fuck all has happened) and if the questions had been answered perhaps also from the perspective of 22Cans and what they feel has happened with Godus in the last 4 months. If 22Cans want to do things like 'drive the narrative' and fix the hole they've dug themselves, they can bloody well stop sitting quietly behind closed doors and actually get off their arses and communicate openly themselves through instigating their own initiatives, not by refusing to communicate and be honest on their own time whilst hoping an opportunity arises to redirect any effort anyone else makes to try cover what is(not) happening with the project.  |
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