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[crowlecj]

I've spent a long time creating a comprehensive list of all things that can be guaranteed to come with the next update:



-Incomplete content that will require a patch 2 weeks later or more
-overpriced items in the store
-Things that will anger you.

Your welcome

[poku123]

Preach it brother, they are milking us pretty good with those store prices. Probably another "Package deal" with one desirable item costing 20 bucks.

[UbiInsulin]

While I'm aware this thread is tongue-in-cheek, I might as well post what we've hinted at so far:

Special Operation 3 will arrive in December. This update, as with our previous Special Operation updates, will include PVE and PVP content, a special theme with a free PVE mission, and community-requested features.

[crowlecj]

While I'm aware this thread is tongue-in-cheek, I might as well post what we've hinted at so far:

I appreciate you humoring me, truly, and have a lot of respect for the position your in.

That being said, Ubi has provided ZERO information about the next update, let alone any real word form development since O&M. As your post indicates, this is not unique information, rather blanket information for all operations we have had, which you told us at the beginning of the year. Please don't lie and promise us better community interaction when you know well enough it won't happen. The game development is dead, I get it. Give us the respect of telling us honestly and not treating us like chumps. As someone who has experience in marketing, it's not hard to put out a blurred/hazy/dark image that hints at something. As a community rep you should be tempering our expectations, preventing the flood of hate that will inevitably come when the dev team inevitably under-delivers.

At some point it just becomes and endless stream of empty promises that serves more to engender anger towards the company rather than support and appreciation for the "community". Just a humble opinion.

[evan5338]

I suspect that the overpriced and non-complete it isn't completely the devs fault, and it certainly isn't the reps fault, but the people at the top that say "how can we get our loyal fans who love the game to give us even more money? I got it, more content to bring them back, then hit them with an awesome pack."

[Ghost-Ami]

I appreciate you humoring me, truly, and have a lot of respect for the position your in.

That being said, Ubi has provided ZERO information about the next update, let alone any real word form development since O&M. As your post indicates, this is not unique information, rather blanket information for all operations we have had, which you told us at the beginning of the year. Please don't lie and promise us better community interaction when you know well enough it won't happen. The game development is dead, I get it. Give us the respect of telling us honestly and not treating us like chumps. As someone who has experience in marketing, it's not hard to put out a blurred/hazy/dark image that hints at something. As a community rep you should be tempering our expectations, preventing the flood of hate that will inevitably come when the dev team inevitably under-delivers.

At some point it just becomes and endless stream of empty promises that serves more to engender anger towards the company rather than support and appreciation for the "community". Just a humble opinion.

It seems a near universal groupthink truism of customer relations that all customers service reps are supposed to die on every single poorly chosen hill defending the company or the brand or whatever to the hilt and admit as little or as few mistakes, poor quality, failures, et cetera as possible while still maintaining a somewhat coherent conversation with the customers.

I think it's partly overweening pride and partly a commitment to a "fake it till you make it" sort of path to willing success and customer satisfaction into being. And maybe partly because companies believe that being transparent about when, where, and how things go wrong will chum the waters and result in more attacks from their more selachian customers.

Speaking for myself I'd rather have transparency and contrition. Few things in this world are more impressive to me than a graceful apology, and nothing earns my respect faster than being spoken to as a critical thinking adult sapient. But "never admit wrongdoing" seems to work for corporate interests and other powerful people more often than not, so I expect it to continue.

[GiveMeTactical]

This must be what an S&M get together feels like... its like the questions and the answers come on cue

[crowlecj]

I suspect that the overpriced and non-complete it isn't completely the devs fault, and it certainly isn't the reps fault, but the people at the top that say "how can we get our loyal fans who love the game to give us even more money? I got it, more content to bring them back, then hit them with an awesome pack."

Fair assumption but we will never know. Even if I were to take your stance on this, I would still call them complicit.

[RedCeII]

Aside from updates with major additions (Ghost War, Ghost Mode, etc.), it seems like they release previews three weeks ahead of time, no more.

Preview is released, Season Pass holders get it the folloowing week, everyone else the week after. That seems to be how they’re doing things. So assuming we don’t hear anything by December, I don’t expect the next season to go live before Christmas.

[crowlecj]

Aside from updates with major additions (Ghost War, Ghost Mode, etc.), it seems like they release previews three weeks ahead of time, no more.

Preview is released, Season Pass holders get it the folloowing week, everyone else the week after. That seems to be how they’re doing things. So assuming we don’t hear anything by December, I don’t expect the next season to go live before Christmas.

I agree, we can expect this to be going down in the last week of December. I would have hoped that 3 months worth of time would be enough for the team to show something for it, but my expectations are low.