I'm going to try to keep this thread bumped because I think a lot of important things have been discussed in here and I want someone at Telltale to see the points that have been brought up and possibly offer their own input on some of the suggestions. To @puzzlebox or any other staff member if you could just leave a little message here to indicate that you've at least read through this thread, I think we would all appreciate that. Thanks.
Some more info would be useful. I think, and a lot of people might not agree with me on this, but it seems to me that TellTale try to balance more then one game at a time, all with a short time. Each episode comes out and interviews and marketing have to be done for every one of them. The Fables series got a hit because the crew were finishing episode 1 of season 2 (walking dead). Then something went wrong or they decide to change things around for episode 2 of "the wolf among us". Now there is talk of new series from telltale, "Game of Thrones" and "Tales of the Borderlands". Look I am happy that they are branching out - doing more projects, but doing 4 series, that based on short episodes that are release within short time periods, as well the interviews and marketing. That's ridiculous. They are going to be stretch too thin. Walking Dead and The Wolf among us are going take a hit. There is going to be bad clash from the fans on down the road. Having too many ideas can be a bad thing, I just hope that Tell Tale won't go down because of it.
My only other advice for Telltale is the lag, and choppiness is annoying, can't they fix that? My computer is in pretty good working order and I thought I was having problems for some reason, then I check interviews, nope I'm not the only person. In a mouse click controlled game reaction is everything, and the lag puts more pressure on the player. PLEASE TELLTALE GET RID OF THE LAG, I love your storylines and characters but because frame rate and lag take out precious time and reduce it to half, you have time to make a move but it doesn't always work the movements.
Well, if The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us can wrap up sometime in the summer, that should give Telltale a few months to heavily promote their new games, which should be enough. I was honestly pretty surprised that they projected a 2014 release for Game of Thrones. Unlike with Borderlands they don't seem to be very far along in the project based on the very minimal trailer they showed, and I would think that that would be something they'd try to hype up as much as possible before releasing it.
Some more info would be useful. I think, and a lot of people might not agree with me on this, but it seems to me that TellTale try to balance … moremore then one game at a time, all with a short time. Each episode comes out and interviews and marketing have to be done for every one of them. The Fables series got a hit because the crew were finishing episode 1 of season 2 (walking dead). Then something went wrong or they decide to change things around for episode 2 of "the wolf among us". Now there is talk of new series from telltale, "Game of Thrones" and "Tales of the Borderlands". Look I am happy that they are branching out - doing more projects, but doing 4 series, that based on short episodes that are release within short time periods, as well the interviews and marketing. That's ridiculous. They are going to be stretch too thin. Walking Dead and The Wolf among us are going take a hit. There is going to be bad clash from the fans on down the road.… [view original content]
Sorry if this gets annoying, but I'm going to bump this every once in a while so it doesn't get buried before someone at Telltale can read it. If you guys can help too, I'd appreciate it.
I'm going to try to keep this thread bumped because I think a lot of important things have been discussed in here and I want someone at Tellta… morele to see the points that have been brought up and possibly offer their own input on some of the suggestions. To @puzzlebox or any other staff member if you could just leave a little message here to indicate that you've at least read through this thread, I think we would all appreciate that. Thanks.
I see a few stray threads and comments about issues with and solutions to Telltale's releases. Maybe a mod could merge them into this one or something? It's better to have one focused thread than several scattered ones.
Anything that goes above and beyond. The "Soon" and "Very Soon" I see as an imporvement. It's not like we're asking for them to give us all their money or some solution that is not on par with reality. Giving at least a monthly update to those who have paid for the game, makes sense to me. I know some people are very protective of Tell Tale. I'm not bashing the company. I'm trying to help it improve. The last time they went months without saying something.
Fans took to socail media, facebook, twitter and reddit. Where they finally responded. I don't know why it took so much energy to get a company just to tell us what's the current state of progress. If there some secret to their success, by not telling people. Every major gaming corporation even Warcraft [who invented the word "soon] even they have a detailed question and answer session. But here, it's like space. It's dead silent.
Yeah, I think a monthly update is a fairly reasonable thing to ask for. But what exactly would you want the monthly update to consist of? Does it have to be something substantial or would a message saying something like "it's coming along nicely" with maybe a screenshot be enough?
It seems like this is something they've been trying to do, only instead of doing it within a month of the previous episode, they're waiting until a week before the release of the next episode. If they could get the episodes out within 4-6 weeks, they would be doing exactly what you're asking for, but at the current rate at which they're coming out with these things, it does seem a little too late.
If they were to take my advice and set a release time-frame of 6-8 weeks instead of 4-6 weeks, then maybe they could give us an update by week 5 or something, just to give us some reassurance and confirm that they are indeed on schedule to release within the next 3 weeks.
Anything that goes above and beyond. The "Soon" and "Very Soon" I see as an imporvement. It's not like we're asking for them to give us all th… moreeir money or some solution that is not on par with reality. Giving at least a monthly update to those who have paid for the game, makes sense to me. I know some people are very protective of Tell Tale. I'm not bashing the company. I'm trying to help it improve. The last time they went months without saying something.
Fans took to socail media, facebook, twitter and reddit. Where they finally responded. I don't know why it took so much energy to get a company just to tell us what's the current state of progress. If there some secret to their success, by not telling people. Every major gaming corporation even Warcraft [who invented the word "soon] even they have a detailed question and answer session. But here, it's like space. It's dead silent.
Great points TheIronBoar. I have never experienced such a degree of the "silent treatment" as I have with this company. For such a prolific gaming company like TTG this defies common courtesy and basic fundamental customer service aspects. It also mixed messages to the fans who simply want what they paid for in a reasonable manner. Plus when you publicly announce a release timeframe only to not follow up without notice it damages their credibility. It implies that they don't care. In the long run does TTG really want to earn that type of reputation? People are barking because this is a repeated pattern of behavior. Personally, I am willing to tolerate delays if it does not compromise the experience of their high quality final product but if these corporate nuances are not rectified then I can't see how much longer the good times can last. It's all about communication.
Anything that goes above and beyond. The "Soon" and "Very Soon" I see as an imporvement. It's not like we're asking for them to give us all th… moreeir money or some solution that is not on par with reality. Giving at least a monthly update to those who have paid for the game, makes sense to me. I know some people are very protective of Tell Tale. I'm not bashing the company. I'm trying to help it improve. The last time they went months without saying something.
Fans took to socail media, facebook, twitter and reddit. Where they finally responded. I don't know why it took so much energy to get a company just to tell us what's the current state of progress. If there some secret to their success, by not telling people. Every major gaming corporation even Warcraft [who invented the word "soon] even they have a detailed question and answer session. But here, it's like space. It's dead silent.
Sorry if this gets annoying, but I'm going to bump this every once in a while so it doesn't get buried before someone at Telltale can read it. If you guys can help too, I'd appreciate it.
Anything that goes above and beyond. The "Soon" and "Very Soon" I see as an imporvement. It's not like we're asking for them to give us all th… moreeir money or some solution that is not on par with reality. Giving at least a monthly update to those who have paid for the game, makes sense to me. I know some people are very protective of Tell Tale. I'm not bashing the company. I'm trying to help it improve. The last time they went months without saying something.
Fans took to socail media, facebook, twitter and reddit. Where they finally responded. I don't know why it took so much energy to get a company just to tell us what's the current state of progress. If there some secret to their success, by not telling people. Every major gaming corporation even Warcraft [who invented the word "soon] even they have a detailed question and answer session. But here, it's like space. It's dead silent.
Please don't bump threads. Consider this a warning.
If something new/relevant comes up for discussion, then posting in an old thread again is fine.
However, please don't bump threads just for visibility.
Well it's more of an unwritten forum rule, but yeah.
Don't worry. As I said, you can post in your thread, just offer something relevant.
We only mind if all you do is say bump.
I think Blind Sniper is the one deleting what he doesn't like. I saw him do that earlier on the episode 2 discussion thread.. So odds are he will remove our comments here.. He did that before when all I said was "cencorship!"
I think Blind Sniper is the one deleting what he doesn't like. I saw him do that earlier on the episode 2 discussion thread.. So odds are he will remove our comments here.. He did that before when all I said was "cencorship!"
What was the excuse for the episode 2 discussion thread then?
If memory severs.. It went something along the lines of..
Person 1: too many downvotes make you edit your post?
sniper: it was interpreted the wronge, so i clarified.. but you dont' see me editing my other posts everyone is downvoting.
3 minutes later he has a bunch of downvotes so both comments are removed and then i posted below.. censorship!
Then that comment was removed.. Now this above ^^ Maybe he/she is just having a rage and deleting posts he doesn't agree with.. We shall see if these posts are yet deleted again..
if they are.. IT WILL PROVE MY POINT.. As these comments are harmless and not breaking any rules.. So it is censorship to remove.. Or petty, i dunno.. Prly just having a rage moment.. Meh.
To be fair, he had just warned someone not to bump threads just for the sake of bumping in this very thread, like 3-4 posts above.
Vivec just did it to be passive aggressive, even if it was pretty funny.
Does that make him a tyrant or something? He is deleting offtopic posts. It's not as if he is just picking posts out of a hat that he doesn't like and wants to delete. If anything, he is the most tolerant of the mods.
It would help if I knew exactly what you were talking about, but I don't.
What was the excuse for the episode 2 discussion thread then?
If memory severs.. It went something along the lines of..
Person 1: too ma… moreny downvotes make you edit your post?
sniper: it was interpreted the wronge, so i clarified.. but you dont' see me editing my other posts everyone is downvoting.
3 minutes later he has a bunch of downvotes so both comments are removed and then i posted below.. censorship!
Then that comment was removed.. Now this above ^^ Maybe he/she is just having a rage and deleting posts he doesn't agree with.. We shall see if these posts are yet deleted again..
if they are.. IT WILL PROVE MY POINT.. As these comments are harmless and not breaking any rules.. So it is censorship to remove.. Or petty, i dunno.. Prly just having a rage moment.. Meh.
I think he is just giving an example of how Blind Sniper deleted a post he didn't agree with on a different thread; and that said comments were not in violation of any rules.. It was quote 'un' quote censorship because of hurt feelings.
I guess we will see if such behavior continues if our posts are deleted here..
Does that make him a tyrant or something? He is deleting offtopic posts. It's not as if he is just picking posts out of a hat that he doesn'… moret like and wants to delete. If anything, he is the most tolerant of the mods.
It would help if I knew exactly what you were talking about, but I don't.
I would need more context to make use of that example. It really didn't make any sense to me. Was he saying that Sniper edited his post because people were misunderstanding it, and then removed his other comments and their responses when they were downvoted to hell?
Still, I don't see how the removed responses would be related to the topic they were posted in. Even if they were, I don't see how he could do his job perfectly when he has to be in so many different places at once. There are like 5 different moderators assigned to TWD forums, but he is by far the most active and has to deal with most of the fallout concerning Telltale's PR practices. Obviously, he will also have the most complaints because he does most moderating in general.
I think he is just giving an example of how Blind Sniper deleted a post he didn't agree with on a different thread; and that said comments wer… moree not in violation of any rules.. It was quote 'un' quote censorship because of hurt feelings.
I guess we will see if such behavior continues if our posts are deleted here..
Some forum member posted a comment stating a question to blind sniper "did you edit your post cause of all the downvotes"
Then sniper said that he thought it was miss-interpreted so he edited his post..
Then sniper got a bunch of downvotes, so the next thing you know.. The comments are removed.. And then dibz posted a comment saying cencorship which was also removed...
So I guess that was his example to co-inside with the above comments being removed again.. Saying.. it was probably his hurt feelings or he didn't agree, so they were removed.. Which is not cool btw, as they didn't break any rules, and people should have free speech on the forums to that effect!
At least.. That is what I got from reading the aforementioned comment.
I would need more context to make use of that example. It really didn't make any sense to me. Was he saying that Sniper edited his post beca… moreuse people were misunderstanding it, and then removed his other comments and their responses when they were downvoted to hell?
Still, I don't see how the removed responses would be related to the topic they were posted in. Even if they were, I don't see how he could do his job perfectly when he has to be in so many different places at once. There are like 5 different moderators assigned to TWD forums, but he is by far the most active and has to deal with most of the fallout concerning Telltale's PR practices. Obviously, he will also have the most complaints because he does most moderating in general.
Vivec2 bumped after I left a warning not to. I didn't delete the post, it's just hidden from view as I flagged it for moderation purposes.
The other comments mentioned were removed for trolling and being off topic.
What was the excuse for the episode 2 discussion thread then?
If memory severs.. It went something along the lines of..
Person 1: too ma… moreny downvotes make you edit your post?
sniper: it was interpreted the wronge, so i clarified.. but you dont' see me editing my other posts everyone is downvoting.
3 minutes later he has a bunch of downvotes so both comments are removed and then i posted below.. censorship!
Then that comment was removed.. Now this above ^^ Maybe he/she is just having a rage and deleting posts he doesn't agree with.. We shall see if these posts are yet deleted again..
if they are.. IT WILL PROVE MY POINT.. As these comments are harmless and not breaking any rules.. So it is censorship to remove.. Or petty, i dunno.. Prly just having a rage moment.. Meh.
I think Blind Sniper is the one deleting what he doesn't like. I saw him do that earlier on the episode 2 discussion thread.. So odds are he will remove our comments here.. He did that before when all I said was "censorship!"
Please stop trying to find conspiracies where there are none. It's getting old.
I flagged comments for trolling/being off topic. I don't care about downvotes/etc.
I think Blind Sniper is the one deleting what he doesn't like. I saw him do that earlier on the episode 2 discussion thread.. So odds are he will remove our comments here.. He did that before when all I said was "cencorship!"
No more freedom of speech on the forums? Some kinda hissy fit I dunno..
Watch.. This comment will be deleted and it will prove my point. I guess there is a mod having a tantrum or i dunno... looks back and gets banned for this .. That will be the next step if people can no longer make harmless comments... Freedom of speech!!
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I'm going to try to keep this thread bumped because I think a lot of important things have been discussed in here and I want someone at Telltale to see the points that have been brought up and possibly offer their own input on some of the suggestions. To @puzzlebox or any other staff member if you could just leave a little message here to indicate that you've at least read through this thread, I think we would all appreciate that. Thanks.
Some more info would be useful. I think, and a lot of people might not agree with me on this, but it seems to me that TellTale try to balance more then one game at a time, all with a short time. Each episode comes out and interviews and marketing have to be done for every one of them. The Fables series got a hit because the crew were finishing episode 1 of season 2 (walking dead). Then something went wrong or they decide to change things around for episode 2 of "the wolf among us". Now there is talk of new series from telltale, "Game of Thrones" and "Tales of the Borderlands". Look I am happy that they are branching out - doing more projects, but doing 4 series, that based on short episodes that are release within short time periods, as well the interviews and marketing. That's ridiculous. They are going to be stretch too thin. Walking Dead and The Wolf among us are going take a hit. There is going to be bad clash from the fans on down the road. Having too many ideas can be a bad thing, I just hope that Tell Tale won't go down because of it.
My only other advice for Telltale is the lag, and choppiness is annoying, can't they fix that? My computer is in pretty good working order and I thought I was having problems for some reason, then I check interviews, nope I'm not the only person. In a mouse click controlled game reaction is everything, and the lag puts more pressure on the player. PLEASE TELLTALE GET RID OF THE LAG, I love your storylines and characters but because frame rate and lag take out precious time and reduce it to half, you have time to make a move but it doesn't always work the movements.
Well, if The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us can wrap up sometime in the summer, that should give Telltale a few months to heavily promote their new games, which should be enough. I was honestly pretty surprised that they projected a 2014 release for Game of Thrones. Unlike with Borderlands they don't seem to be very far along in the project based on the very minimal trailer they showed, and I would think that that would be something they'd try to hype up as much as possible before releasing it.
Sorry if this gets annoying, but I'm going to bump this every once in a while so it doesn't get buried before someone at Telltale can read it. If you guys can help too, I'd appreciate it.
I see a few stray threads and comments about issues with and solutions to Telltale's releases. Maybe a mod could merge them into this one or something? It's better to have one focused thread than several scattered ones.
Anything that goes above and beyond. The "Soon" and "Very Soon" I see as an imporvement. It's not like we're asking for them to give us all their money or some solution that is not on par with reality. Giving at least a monthly update to those who have paid for the game, makes sense to me. I know some people are very protective of Tell Tale. I'm not bashing the company. I'm trying to help it improve. The last time they went months without saying something.
Fans took to socail media, facebook, twitter and reddit. Where they finally responded. I don't know why it took so much energy to get a company just to tell us what's the current state of progress. If there some secret to their success, by not telling people. Every major gaming corporation even Warcraft [who invented the word "soon] even they have a detailed question and answer session. But here, it's like space. It's dead silent.
Yeah, I think a monthly update is a fairly reasonable thing to ask for. But what exactly would you want the monthly update to consist of? Does it have to be something substantial or would a message saying something like "it's coming along nicely" with maybe a screenshot be enough?
It seems like this is something they've been trying to do, only instead of doing it within a month of the previous episode, they're waiting until a week before the release of the next episode. If they could get the episodes out within 4-6 weeks, they would be doing exactly what you're asking for, but at the current rate at which they're coming out with these things, it does seem a little too late.
If they were to take my advice and set a release time-frame of 6-8 weeks instead of 4-6 weeks, then maybe they could give us an update by week 5 or something, just to give us some reassurance and confirm that they are indeed on schedule to release within the next 3 weeks.
Great points TheIronBoar. I have never experienced such a degree of the "silent treatment" as I have with this company. For such a prolific gaming company like TTG this defies common courtesy and basic fundamental customer service aspects. It also mixed messages to the fans who simply want what they paid for in a reasonable manner. Plus when you publicly announce a release timeframe only to not follow up without notice it damages their credibility. It implies that they don't care. In the long run does TTG really want to earn that type of reputation? People are barking because this is a repeated pattern of behavior. Personally, I am willing to tolerate delays if it does not compromise the experience of their high quality final product but if these corporate nuances are not rectified then I can't see how much longer the good times can last. It's all about communication.
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If something new/relevant comes up for discussion, then posting in an old thread again is fine.
However, please don't bump threads just for visibility.
This. All of my this.
Ah okay. Didn't know that was against the rules.
Well it's more of an unwritten forum rule, but yeah.
Don't worry. As I said, you can post in your thread, just offer something relevant.
We only mind if all you do is say bump.
Mr. Sniper I need you to answer this question for me....
[Mod Edit: I'll handle this in a PM]
Mods can't receive PMs (or is that fixed), so they probably just don't know about him.
http://www.telltalegames.com/community/messages/979
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Lol.
This is the most passive aggressive post that I have ever seen.
Hilarious though.
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I think Blind Sniper is the one deleting what he doesn't like. I saw him do that earlier on the episode 2 discussion thread.. So odds are he will remove our comments here.. He did that before when all I said was "cencorship!"
To be fair, he had just warned someone not to bump threads just for the sake of bumping in this very thread, like 3-4 posts above.
Vivec just did it to be passive aggressive, even if it was pretty funny.
Brace yourselves! Dun dun dunnn
What was the excuse for the episode 2 discussion thread then?
If memory severs.. It went something along the lines of..
Person 1: too many downvotes make you edit your post?
sniper: it was interpreted the wronge, so i clarified.. but you dont' see me editing my other posts everyone is downvoting.
3 minutes later he has a bunch of downvotes so both comments are removed and then i posted below.. censorship!
Then that comment was removed.. Now this above ^^ Maybe he/she is just having a rage and deleting posts he doesn't agree with.. We shall see if these posts are yet deleted again..
if they are.. IT WILL PROVE MY POINT.. As these comments are harmless and not breaking any rules.. So it is censorship to remove.. Or petty, i dunno.. Prly just having a rage moment.. Meh.
Does that make him a tyrant or something? He is deleting offtopic posts. It's not as if he is just picking posts out of a hat that he doesn't like and wants to delete. If anything, he is the most tolerant of the mods.
It would help if I knew exactly what you were talking about, but I don't.
I think he is just giving an example of how Blind Sniper deleted a post he didn't agree with on a different thread; and that said comments were not in violation of any rules.. It was quote 'un' quote censorship because of hurt feelings.
I guess we will see if such behavior continues if our posts are deleted here..
I would need more context to make use of that example. It really didn't make any sense to me. Was he saying that Sniper edited his post because people were misunderstanding it, and then removed his other comments and their responses when they were downvoted to hell?
Still, I don't see how the removed responses would be related to the topic they were posted in. Even if they were, I don't see how he could do his job perfectly when he has to be in so many different places at once. There are like 5 different moderators assigned to TWD forums, but he is by far the most active and has to deal with most of the fallout concerning Telltale's PR practices. Obviously, he will also have the most complaints because he does most moderating in general.
Vivec2 bumped after I left a warning not to. I didn't delete the post, it's just hidden from view as I flagged it for moderation purposes.
The other comments mentioned were removed for trolling and being off topic.
He said..
Some forum member posted a comment stating a question to blind sniper "did you edit your post cause of all the downvotes"
Then sniper said that he thought it was miss-interpreted so he edited his post..
Then sniper got a bunch of downvotes, so the next thing you know.. The comments are removed.. And then dibz posted a comment saying cencorship which was also removed...
So I guess that was his example to co-inside with the above comments being removed again.. Saying.. it was probably his hurt feelings or he didn't agree, so they were removed.. Which is not cool btw, as they didn't break any rules, and people should have free speech on the forums to that effect!
At least.. That is what I got from reading the aforementioned comment.
Ah, okay then... Wait? Comments can be removed for being off-topic?
Isn't that like half of the comments on forums?
I don't care about down votes. I removed the comments because they were completely off topic and trying to cause drama.
I could care less about people calling me out on editing a post.
Please stop trying to find conspiracies where there are none. It's getting old.
I flagged comments for trolling/being off topic. I don't care about downvotes/etc.
Please tell me you are being ironic.
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MyTwoCents, don't post off topic content just to troll. Take that as a warning.
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...Nah, you know what you were doing.
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