TarheelsRule:
I do believe that WGT does care about it's users. However (according to the numbers that I see) there are 6 million users or some number like that.
Responding to the demand of the user community is a tough thing, especially when the community wants different things and has different issues. What is a problem for some isn't a problem for others, what is important to me might not even be on your radar.
I still believe that WGT would be well served to create a super player group that brings forth the needs of the community. Maybe pick a dozen of the owners of the top Country Clubs or some group like that. They could meet online and discuss their consensus for change, new products, improvements, etc.
I have to see anyone leave and we have lost many good players and it seems that many of us are not full time players anymore. I'm a proud member of the Deviations and I would suspect that the play by our members is half of what it was a year ago.
It is time that WGT steps up and works with it's user base to at least understand the issues that we have and work with the users to achieve common goals. They don't have to do this, no business is required to listen to it's users, however I would suggest that any business that does not do that will be doomed to eventually fail.
Put on your big boy pants WGT and work with your users to keep us happy, in the end it will benefit both sides.
Very well said. This game is supposedly still in beta. Not sure they understand what beta means! Look at any other game in beta before release. They select a group of people to participate in a testing feedback sessions to make sure the game is appeasing to the masses.
If you're going to keep this going in beta stage then you need to be actively talking with the people that play the game and know what will keep peoples interest. It's a great idea talking with the cc owners imo. Instead of actually taking away features that no one asked for. IE taking away zoom, which I never used but that's besides the point here, many people used this and in my eyes was not detrimental to the game. I don't think it helped the meter
I think they did make an improvement a bit on meter, although it was great the first couple days and it's semi reverted back to how it was for me. What really has irritated me in the past is wgt blaming it's users for a computer not capable of a smooth meter, okay so 5 million users all have meter issues? It couldn't be on wgt's end...nahh
The beta term is not really relevant for a game like this that has more of a mmo theme to it where people constantly invest throughout the year for balls etc. If they were smart they would put on every quarter of the year meetings with the players to make the right actions to get the game moving in right direction.
I think they just simply don't know what they are doing and are pretty greedy. They are making enough money so why bother going through the hassle of making this game better for some complainers? It's a thorn in their side.
They will say the bare minimum and do the bare minimum to keep the game running as it is. My going away post I made for instance, Misterwgt tried to reach out to me saying any time you want a game. Well I asked for one and got no response. Just worrying about the dollars.
I wish I was wrong, but I don't think I am.