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Star Trek Online: Advisory Council FAQ
MikeB
Community ManagerAdministrator RarePosts: 6,555
Cryptic Studios has released an Advisory Council FAQ in response to the hubbub over at the Star Trek Online forums over the recently announced initiative. The FAQ is mostly a collection of answers from the informal Q&A that was posted on the forums several days ago.
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Q: What is the STO Advisory Council?
A: It’s a group of individuals from various positions within the Star Trek and Star Trek Online community designed to provide feedback we wouldn’t otherwise receive. The Committee is designed to complement the other feedback collection tools we use, which include the forums, our users polls, in-game data mining and so on.Q: If you really want to get in touch with your player base, put something in the game that they can't miss, but won't be a pest. Something like a single yes/no/unsure/don't care question every once in a while.
A: Oh, of course! We've done polls for our entire user base in the past and we'll do many, many more in the future. We also have regular community reporting designed to provide us with an accurate gauge of our forums and an early assessment of what our players want.This Advisory Council is just another way of getting valuable opinions and data from people who may not be inclined to post on the forums or submit feedback to us directly.
The full FAQ can be read here.
Were your issues with the Council adequately addressed? Let us know in the comments below.
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I advise you to remake the game, or sell the IP to someone who will make an decent game out of it. Nuff said?
First?
- Ice_Hole
So to summarise, they want to get more feedback from people who are not necessarily active within the community e.g. forums, and the way they do this is to appoint some people to an advisory council. The only way to be considered for appointment is to be active on the forums.
Anyone else see the flaw in that plan?
Perhaps they want input from gamers who actually play the game and not from those who never had any intention to play the game as it was designed!
yeah because the beta, open beta, forums and even the player survey (240 c-store points).. wasn't enough... this just reeks of PR and stupidity...
i can see why eve does it.... due to the complex nature of the game and underlying real people factions etc
STO... hmm... i dunno, don't they have enough information from the players so far to go with their original plans for the future of the game with some additions based on current players feedback'
this is like saying "we've listened to you since well before launch, you have nothing good to say and to be honest we didn't like a thing that was even remotely interesting... we have to pass it onto someone else, we don't want to deal with YOU anymore"
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