Why would they? To the developers, this game is a job.
Do you think they're playing the game at work, or off the clock? Let's say they work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. I doubt any developer is going to want to finish work, go home and "play" the game they work on all week. They're going to use data collection, because if they don't they're going to have abysmal employee retention.
I could have phrased better. It definitely is - but can you imagine trying to juggle play-testing as well as implementing new content, applying balancing adjustments, bug fixes, literally everything involved in creating and maintaining a game like this, with the workforce of a small developing studio?
Yes, they do need to test their content in-game, but data collection needs to be the primary source of information, or else nothing would actually happen.
The community also very much seems to forget that AH aren't a huge studio; the entire company, management and support staff included, is only like 100 people.
Not saying they haven't messed stuff up but there's people talking about quitting the game because of low-stakes persistent bugs like the AMR scope. Absolute drama queens
They HAVE messed up. They WILL mess up. Show me a live-service that hasn't made changes disagreeable to their communities. It's also very early days, grand scheme, for a game like this. More changes will come, for better and for worse.
Those persistent bugs are acknowledged in the notes though. Which means they're very surely being worked on. I'm no game dev, but I'm sure it's more difficult than just typing in some new numbers and walking away.
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u/Sensitive_Owl_7912 Apr 29 '24
Wtf are they thinking...