#1 - Jan. 23, 2014, 1:07 p.m.
Hi All,
I will be starting this topic either tomorrow or Monday.
Chris
CDI- Process Evolution Phase 2- Update
#25 - Jan. 28, 2014, 12:58 p.m.
Hi All,
The next CDI Process Evolution topic will be up soon. Sorry for the delay.
Chris
#30 - Jan. 28, 2014, 2:24 p.m.
I would have to agree it would be nice to see from a High Level View what ANet deemed as valuable take-aways from previous CDI’s.
Unfortunately, in all good conscience, they can’t.
They’re working in a competitive business, and they cannot be distilling hundreds of hours and thousands of posts down into bullet lists of the best, most actionable items for the competition to skim off with no more effort than browsing the forums’ Dev tracker. Amongst several other reasons, that’s probably why they’re looking to move the combined proposal writing into player hands.
There are a lot of people taking a ton of time putting forth herculean efforts to favorably contribute to this process with little feedback on the resulting outcome of their suggestions.
As annoying as it sounds, the feedback has to come essentially no earlier than the preview the patch were the idea goes live.
That extra delay is one reason why I really hope that at that phase they are extremely diligent about drawing a line back to the CDI thread and even specific posts that inspired them. With the time between suggestion and delivery being so long and so carefully hidden, for there to be any sense of payoff they are going to have to work extra hard to acknowledge those contributions or all of our commitment is going quite rightly to dry up.
I was pretty excited to see Scarlet’s Hideout in this update and for her to not be in it. On the other hand I didn’t get to burn the place down and do racial dances in the ashes…
Should I count this as a personal success or just a bit of convergent evolution?
Without their commentary, I have no way of knowing if that CDI post had a contributory impact.
I am definitely going to expose the impact between previous CDI and evolution in the live game when I get time (More observant community CDI members will already see evolution).
Like you point out Nike, there have been some pretty obvious ones already, but I agree it would be exciting to call out changes in relation to previous CDI proposal/summaries.
Origins of Madness contains a number of evolutions that were heavily impacted by previous CDIs.
Chris
#87 - Jan. 29, 2014, 12:16 p.m.
Closing this thread as the CDI Process Evolution 2 thread is live.
Chris