Its still a Community of Players
I'm not 100% but I still think our mapping community is still just a bunch of players.
I had envisioned all of the level designers and artists contributing here. Talking about level design and discussing new maps.
In others games I have played we have had a direct relationship with developers in the forums e.g. Gunscape which was great to discuss what could be made and talk to devs on the same level.
Now I don't want to sound insulting here - but it really does seem like the devs at Ubi as so far up their own....... well lets not say it. Point is I have yet to see any comments from anyone at Ubi in these forums bar the moderators.
As can be seen from the maps on FC4 - alot of maps got a much higher ratio of favourites to plays than the Ubi stock maps - and I mean that ratio is based on 45,000 plays, not on 400 where anyone could manipulate the stats.
So basically, alot of mappers here make better maps than Ubisoft - the proof is already out there and the stats back that up.
So please, Ubi devs and level designers, come down from your high clouds and talk to us here, discuss maps that we are making, give insight into design, talk to us like colleagues instead of looking down on us.