Actually an amazing idea.
Iāve been playing riot games for 15 years ( give or take) and quite often they pull a survey based on the game you played the most lately, so they have intel from players who just want to play, not wonder around a forum, and based on the results they make their games better.
Not perfect, but they are actually pretty balanced, free to play for real, enjoyable with friends, and correct me if Iām wrong, but they make a looooot of money being actually free to play, transparent with their community, and correct their course based on massive feedbacks.
Here it feels like we all give the same feedbacks, but nothing really changes, so everyone on the forum is just angry, the more angry they are the more active they are, meanwhile players who want to play a game or 2 every time they come home donāt want to scroll the forums ( we have jobs too, family, kids, plans for the future, etc ) but their feedback could be valuable as well.
Based on playing hours, devs could also get massive feedbacks from vets, and new players.
We all want a bigger playerbase, and making the game noob friendly to bring new blood in and keep them playing needs noob feedback, meanwhile vets who kept the project alive for years also have needs and wishes, and they need to be adressed.
Doing a massive in game survey based just on played hours could do that:
What do vets want?
How to make sure new players stay in?
If more new players come in, then what do they would like to spend their money on to support the devs?
But first you need to bring new players in. Massively.
As a new player, I can tell you this is not a fun game to play unless you love to suffer.
I was hoping coming here I could give an honest feedback before steam launch, hoping that playing the game in beta phase, this feedback from a new player could help the devs make it noob friendly.
No one answered except players, I said it on multiple topics, no one from the dev team took any time to answer, even after tagging them.
So I kept scrolling around the forum, and instead of finding what I was looking for, I became another bitter player, wondering why I spend my time on a beta game when I read everything I struggle with, vets do to, but as a new player itās even worse.
I know Iām in beta, so I accept some stuff, but some fixes need to be adressed asap, and new players wonāt stay, therefore they wonāt buy premium, therefore the game will just slowly die.
As a new player, I am on the forum just for the shitshow now, because I feel Iām not being listened when I try to give honest feedback to make the game new player friendly.
And then with the paying steam EA shit show, I can only hope this was a wake up call for DF, not their death sentense.
Because I love the game, I love the maps, I love the graphics, I love the concept, and I want the game to succeed so I can play with my friends.
But they donāt want to come because itās shit for new players ( 4th game vs br3 vets? Is this really how you intend to keep players in? Took me 2 weeks to understand how the game works, after over a month I still donāt know my playstyle, because I canāt try everything, I never play vehicles, because they are expensive, and vs BR3 vehicles why bother. Iāve been very patient and understanding, but I doubt new players will be)
So yeah, in game survey, great idea.
Make the game good for vets, add campains, maps ( they are soooo beautiful good job guys)
But also consider if you want to bring new players in you need to keep them in, and there are not many new players posting on the forum. And I understand why. I would love to try planes, but this will cost a lot to unlock fun br2 planes, and Iām getting 200 extra silver every day for login in. So I wonāt try planes.
I want to try cool tanks as well, but same issue.
I spent the last 10 hrs of gaming not spending a single silver, just to be able to have the squads I hope Iāll enjoy playing.
Yeah, Iāve been patient, but if new players feedback correlate with vets, and they are not adressed at all, the next new players wonāt stay, wonāt pay premium. Good luck with that.
In game survey, 5 mn, then fix the game, then release completely free to play, with massive communication, basically everything people have been asking for months as far as I can read.
Iāll play a game or 2, maybe more if Iām not ran over by BR3 players who will just crush me, and disgust me from the game even more. Maybe in a week Iāll just drop it.
This will be the experience of patient new players.
for the devs, in every post I try to be as patient and respectful as possible, but no answer, nothing adressed towards new players. You did such a good job so far, I want to stay and bring more people in, but if Iām not being listened, Iāll go back on other games. Finished games.
FPS are all over the place, free to play FPS are all over the place, paying WWII FPS are all over the place, they are finished and they are working.
Even FPS games with IA exist, and their IA are good.
Why did I pick enlisted? Because itās in beta, and Iām a nice guy, I want to contribute, I want to help, the game if beautiful, fun, the learning curve is endless, I could stay in for years, find friends, bring some, have good times.
But my feedback not being heard? Well Iāll keep playing a week or two, just to see if anyone has a spark of understanding, and they want new players feedback so new players stay in the game ( isnāt it the whole point of it? Bring people in for free, then keep them, then make them so happy they pay premium stuff to support the devs?)
I mean, Riot games season 1 promised 1 million dollars for the best team in the world, and it was completely free.
I spent thousands on lol just for skins, to support the devs because they were doing such a good job.
Itās now one of the most played game in the world, making millions a day, by being free.
Hope enlisted gets that. Truly. Iāve been playing lol since the beta, valorant since the beta, now I found another FPS with IA, that is immersive as fk, beautiful, sounds nice, wow, I want to try it.
Just for a change of scenary.
But if the game is not new players friendly, and new players giving feedbacks are not listened, Iāll go back grinding valorant or lol. I was sick of playing the same games, but at least there Iāll be listened, the games are getting better every season, Iām being surveyed on my expectations, and if they are not met, I assume this is democracy, the devs had to make choices, and I was not in the majority, so I adjust.
Yeah, add surveys, and take example on other F2P massive hits if you want to be one of them.
Or let the game die with bitter player baseā¦
My point of view only. As itās my experience only, no need for other players to tell me Iām wrong, I need to improve or shit like that, because no one can tell me my feelings are wrong.
However, Iād love to have an honest chat with devs about new player experience, in a respectful and honest conversation, between civilized adults, as I acklowledge the hard work they do, I have no anger towards hard working people. Only bitterness that the game is not new player friendly and no one answers when a new player explains why itās not new player friendly and proposes changes to make it so. The bitterness is only not being answered. And sarcastic posts while Iāve been respectful doesnāt help.
To whom who would need that feedback.
Respectfully.
A new player, soon to become a disgusted new player leaving a promising game he enjoyed for a week, then spent another month hoping it would be fixed.