Red tape could also be seen as incompetence or inefficiency by many people.
So if EA are defining this as red tape then they need to take a closer look at their time management
I think EA need to cut up the red tape as this is indicative of a poor management culture.
As per Wikipedia
I was answering
I was using mobile data and it was sporadic hence the delay and inbetween posts.
Unless whatever EA brings to the table is something worth while for BFV then there’s no point in this thread evening continuing. Honestly who wants BF1 loot boxes or double XP or whatever else you can throw at BF1? I feel EA might be stringing us along due to BFV..which might be good…or could be terrible…probably the latter but we will see…maybe.
Good chance there won’t be many servers running in BF1 once BFV comes out - My server won’t be up on BF1 once released and depending on what server management tools I get with BFV will depend if I have a server on V so a “Sorry we are terrible” gift from EA for BF1 would be pointless.
All this talk about red tap is I’m sorry bollocks. I work for a company x100 bigger and far more complex then EA and yet I have no problem picking up the phone to someone in Germany, Switzerland, America etc and getting a result within say 2 - 5 business days regardless of what department I need to work with. If the community manager has this much trouble influencing a decision then what is the real worth of the job title?
Yep. The posts about red tape/big corporations being slow are generalisations and frankly just condescending as you are talking down to the community like they don’t know how the corporate world works so please stop it as it’s just an excuse. It also contradicts what individuals have said about not being EA representatives.
Uh?
Community management is exactly what he is doing on this thread…
Any decision is precisely not in his hands, nor part of his “influence” with the team…
Not sure if anyone knows what his PD is. Clearly you don’t as you’re not an employee either. A lot of assumptions from all really.
We’re testing the roll-out tomorrow.
Once we’ve confirmed on a few test accounts that the roll-out completed and successfully granted the in-game items, we’ll confirm gameplay and the items in the in-game inventory. Once successful on all fronts, we’ll proceed with the mass roll-out.
-Braddock512-
Any reason that if you are at this point we are not told what the compensation is? I’m pretty concerned that @Braddock512 seems to be ignoring several people’s questions regarding diminished returns.
It genuinely feels pretty worthless now for in game rewards for a game that will have a sequel in 2 months as well as likely a beta even sooner. I’m calling shenanigans on this now as I just can’t believe it actually takes this long to achieve a simple compensation plan as we’ve seen CTE/quality of life changes that are actual gameplay based go through quicker.
Clearly the APAC community is not valued. Clearly community concerns are being ignored by @Braddock512 the “Community Manager”.
If this wraps up with some in-game items right before the transition to BFV then I’m going to have a big ol’ laugh. The real gift here is what we’ve learned about EA and how it views the playerbase.
I seriously think that zero compensation would cause less of an uproar than some useless in game garbage for BF1.
Ha EA testing things before roll out…you don’t even do that with patches…
This thread is still going? oh ship.. Would be funny if the compensation is something in BF1 in game lol , i have only played about twice in the last 3-4 weeks.
I am not sure what you are meaning but if read the thread this is exactly what EA are doing.. Just read 6 posts above by Braddock512 he says this is the compensation package. You may laugh your head off now.
Yeah i skimmed through it and got that impression but wasn’t sure if that was 100%. Pretty funny. Wait until everyone is bored of the game and its about to die off to give us something..
I actually wasn’t as upset about this whole issue as many seemed to be but yeah, can see why not everyone rushed out and pre ordered BFV..
I trust work is going well, and the EA team has some good things in place for us customers, But I really hope that the server rents are really the ones looked after very well.
As these guys haven’t pulled the pin like I have in our servers that I have rented I was nowhere near impressed with the servers, these server owners keep it going through the bad times where I just pull the pin.
well done two all the server renters that keep us playing.
Did they ever come out and say what exactly the problem was? I know it was “fixed” and that it “would not happen in BF5”, but was there any explanation of what caused the issue? What was the fix? And how the fix was a permanent one?
The RSP stuff is locked - that’s absolutely confirmed. Once we get the in-game stuff confirmed working on test accounts, we’ll share the full details.
-Braddock512-
Something about an upstream or downstream provider. It came across as blame shifting to myself. I don’t expect any detail now though. Nor would i expect a response. Every concern I’ve raise and tagged the “community manager” in has gone without a response.
@Braddock512 so now we have approximately 14 days of an active BF1 community left in Oceania. I do hope the compensation stretches beyond the boundaries of BF1 otherwise all this earlier of being a package you are happy with will be a little wasted. I realise some of this is out of your control but mate we really are in the death throws of BF1 now with a beta so close by.
I’m resigned to the fact the @Braddock512 and the people he’s communicating with are a waste of time and effort..I’ve reached the point where I now don’t really care what they have to offer… I’m sighing out of this thread.. I’m very disappointed and I’m almost positive that the care factor from the “powers to be” will be zero.