One single instance leading to an overwhelming advantage? Probably not, though it has happened in other similar games from similarly beloved developers who could certainly do no wrong in the eyes of their community -- until they did. Even without any sort of ill will or intent, small, incidental leaks of information easily add up to unwarranted advantages. I give an example earlier in the thread of a situation where an accidental information leak can butterfly-effect its way into a significant gameplay impact.
Somewhat correct. I do not believe developers, who are the gods of their game worlds, can reasonably play the game and participate in faction politics/PvP as if they were just another player. I've explained my reasoning behind that stance at length in earlier posts and won't belabor the point here. Once again, however, this isn't about CA; this is about what happens during EA, which is less than 90 days away by FB's account. FB mentioned earlier in the thread that they will likely have an NDA or some other policy in place to prevent these sorts of issues during EA, which satisfies my concerns here as long as that does end up being the case.
FB has plenty of official, fully public, and neutral channels through which they can communicate with players and both inform players of updates to the game (like videos, progress notes, and discord announcements) and gather feedback (like F1, the CA survey forms, and public forums here). There are also ways for the devs to provide in-game activities and events within the context of in-world lore characters and without forming favoritism-risk relationships with some groups of players over others. I appreciate that you, as a member of a dev faction, enjoy more direct communication with the devs than others do and don't want to lose it, but that is exactly the crux of the issue here. This is supposed to be a player driven game, not a game that comes down to which groups of players can best curry favor and patronage from various developer factions.
Somewhat correct. I do not believe developers, who are the gods of their game worlds, can reasonably play the game and participate in faction politics/PvP as if they were just another player. I've explained my reasoning behind that stance at length in earlier posts and won't belabor the point here. Once again, however, this isn't about CA; this is about what happens during EA, which is less than 90 days away by FB's account. FB mentioned earlier in the thread that they will likely have an NDA or some other policy in place to prevent these sorts of issues during EA, which satisfies my concerns here as long as that does end up being the case.
FB has plenty of official, fully public, and neutral channels through which they can communicate with players and both inform players of updates to the game (like videos, progress notes, and discord announcements) and gather feedback (like F1, the CA survey forms, and public forums here). There are also ways for the devs to provide in-game activities and events within the context of in-world lore characters and without forming favoritism-risk relationships with some groups of players over others. I appreciate that you, as a member of a dev faction, enjoy more direct communication with the devs than others do and don't want to lose it, but that is exactly the crux of the issue here. This is supposed to be a player driven game, not a game that comes down to which groups of players can best curry favor and patronage from various developer factions.
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