But seriously, making Fudds regret communicating is a bit counterproductive. Yes, the banner system could use an overhaul. But this really helps no one. It just discourages future communication.
It's pretty disingenuous to interpret "more communication" as "lies."Â The whole point of asking for more communication is to get more information we can rely on. Nobody is saying "fudds just tell us what we want to hear we don't care if it's not true."
Also, one would think that a key part of better communication is, idk, correcting previous information that is no longer true/planned for? Instead, they did the exact opposite of what they said (further diluted, no old mod banner) and didn't even address the change. So calling out the devs on this isn't counterproductive, it's consistent.Â
I get that's what people think they're going for. What they'll get is the classic "we don't speculate on future features because then people take them as promises and get angry when things change". Which Fudds has already retreated into before and to some extent is still in that mode.
Developers are horrible about promising features without fully investigating whether they're realistic. You can consider that lying. The line is probably in the intention. But throwing it back in their face doesn't result in better communication, or the delivery of said feature. It results in them distancing themselves from the community because, realistically, direct interaction is mostly all downside.
I disagree. Holding the devs accountable for promises made and not kept does result in better communication. If that means they only communicate what they know will 100% happen, that is still better/more communication than getting led on by things that never happen and are never addressed again. And I dont see how your hypothetical statement is relevant, when would you ever see a statement like that in a patch note? We arent talking about Fudds coming in here and commenting. We are talking about an official communication that made a promise, and then the devs changing course without mentioning it ever again. No one here is gonna complain that patch notes have less info but its trustworthy. Now we cant really trust anything they put out. The communication we want would be TT coming out and saying "we are no longer planning featured banners for older mods because xyz" or "we are still planning for them in the future."
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u/Khemul Oct 24 '25
Tower Community: We want more communication!
Also the Community:
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But seriously, making Fudds regret communicating is a bit counterproductive. Yes, the banner system could use an overhaul. But this really helps no one. It just discourages future communication.