So I just watched the Twitch Q&A today for the SDK. I am really impressed that Asobo takes the time to interact with the community and answer questions and other pressing concerns with the community!
I also love that Jorg is constantly reading the Twitch chat so that he is aware of issues for questions that don’t get a chance to be asked,
And there is another upcoming Twitch Q&A with the World Update, and another upcoming Twitch Q&A for the SDK for the XBox. The interaction between Asobo and the community is awesome and it gives me hope that MSFS will improve even further!
Granted there wasn’t Twitch back in the days of FSX, but I don’t recall much interaction between the FSX team (Aces I think) and the community. There were forums back in the day if FSX so the community could have interacted with the FSX team through forums. But I don’t even recall if there was a forum setup for the community to interact with the FSX team.
Yeah i totally agree! Such impressive for a big game developer to interact with the community and LISTEN to feedback, do weekly development updates, q&a sessions regularly. The atmosphere in all qna sessions is always very relaxed and fun to hear with all jokes from both Jorg and asobo. They also seems very thankful for the community and our feedback which is lovely!
Jorg has really been great! He was the driving force behind bringing the sim back in the first place, and also behind the new open approach with the community. It does take passion to pull this off persistently and he clearly has it.
These people are expert program developers and well advised by the spin doctors . They are very good at managing expectations by ignoring them and talking about what they want you to discuss. I am not that easily impressed.
Asobo and the MSFS Community Managers are the GOLD standard to which all other game developers are judged against when it comes to communicating to its playerbase.
Look at the Elite Dangerous DLC recently released. Frontier has been dishonest with it’s loyal fans (how performance would be much improved, plantery and bio-tech not up to what was promised, countless bugs, VR no longer being developed…) and after years of promising to do better with their communications, they still are found incredibly lacking. Many of the ED players point towards Asobo on how to properly communicate to it’s players. Especially as we are in an online world with fast iterations of updates and patches, it’s essential and Asobo go above and beyond in this regard.
The Live Q&As are very good but at the same time can be frustrating when they avoid the bigger questions, granted they are getting better when i do watch them.
But not everyone has the time to watch an hour of people chatting, that’s where the weekly “blog” fails so miserably in details. I’ve said it before, Asobo need to take a leaf from the Sim Racing Devs who do monthly Roadmaps/Blogs with detailed information on various subjects. That way those of us who don’t have the time to watch can at least read something in the free minutes we may have spare, an area they certainly can improve upon but so far seem reluctant to do so.
Everybody has an hour of down time in a week if they really are interested in doing something. Are you really complaining that the dev team is taking the time to interact with the community, but it’s too long for you to watch?
I 100% agree, sometimes in game development fixes take a while to be implemented, so we might feel we are not being “listened to”, but when I see those streams I can clearly see Jorg does listen to the community, he knows everything that is going on and addresses questions in the chat without any filter.
I love Asobo’s attitude, they might not do everything perfectly, but they do try, and that is more than I could ask from a game developer.
Absolutely! At release i was a bit worried how MS will handle this sim. In the latest one (FSX), there was no interraction, 2 patches and then it was dead silence… of course, times have changed with the interwebs becoming faster and all the platforms coming with it. But this interaction and honest communication is why i really believe that this platform will be the future.
Great job by everyone involved, including the mods and community managers, thats how you do it!
And what’s more, Jayne provides a summary on the forums a couple of days after the Q&A. It’s not a transcript, but all points are well represented so that you can get an overview of the topics at hand rather quickly.
I really hope they see this thread, because they deserve to know how much we appreciate them. I’ve had my frustrating moments with the sim, but the way they’re so involved with the community is amazing! I highly look forward to the Q&A sessions, because it always reminds me of how good of people they are. It’s a refreshing change compared to how most large companies run things.
