Why no responses by Firaxis?

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Libertarian
Ask Shaggy. He speaks for the thinking people.

That's a "no", yeah?

Lib iz funy but hrad to undersand.

[Daveraver]

Originally posted by Libertarian
Can't confirm this for sure, but a friend of a friend said they saw someone from Firaxis at a Burger King in Memphis.

Actually... I heard they've all been holed up in an Oklahoma nuclear bunker, working day and night on Sid Meir's Golf...

[wotan321]

Aaaah, the relentless sniping.....

I am surprised too (to move back to the thread topic) that Firaxis doesn't show up here more. And the inactivity of the website is troubling as well. Not that I have slowed down on playing Civ3 one iota....and I do expect another patch or two and an Xpack. But Firaxis, Dan or whoever was responding nicely and professionally for a while when the game first came out. They seemed to let the vitriolic *****ing go without any backlash, and addressed serious issues. I am surprised that hasn't continued. On the other hand, if they have nothing more to say.... ANYTHING else they post only invites the broken record to be restarted.

Maybe they made the right decision anyway. But I wish they'd stop by and simply say "We are making progress on the patch and the editor. Please stay tuned".

[Random Passerby]

I've seen a few Firaxis members sneak in posts on a pretty regular basis, though they slip them in odd threads where they won't be noticed. They were decimated in pitched discussion, so they've had to retreat and turn to using guerrilla PR tactics.

[Spiffor]

Because they have nothing to say for sure, and won't give false info away ? If this is the reason, I consider them as intelligent, since they learned from their past experience...
Curiously enough, when ppl ask them politely questions they can answer, they do : exposing precisely what affects culture flipping is a good example, but Soren answered plenty of questions concerning the game mechanics.
But if you ask why Firaxis doesn't answer every post adressing to them here (contrary to Libertarian who always answers "they won't answer you" to a post adressed to them), it's because no one has posting in Poly as his full-time job : Morris is responsible for the QA, Magaha is student and Johnson is the main programer.
Others don't bother anymore (if they ever had) to come here.

If you want to see latest posts from Firaxis, do like me : press "search", then ask to "match partial name" Firaxis, and show results as posts". You'll see they have answered some things, sometimes off-topic, but sometimes informing about the game as it is presently, and not about how it will be.

[Comrade Tribune]

Most of their posts were so useless they have been considered being sort of provocative rather, so, perhaps, they are doing better not posting at all...

[Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS]

Re: Why no responses by Firaxis?

Originally posted by Bilas
Hello all,

well I know I will get the response... This has been asked a million times, or why are you writing this you know they don't respond to anything here. but my god anything would be nice! It's like Firaxis doesn't exist anymore.

Personally, I'm spending most of my 'Poly time in the Strat and Creation forums. There's a lot less noise.

Jeff

[Comrade Tribune]

See what I mean?

[Unregistered]

Re: Re: Why no responses by Firaxis?

Originally posted by Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS


Personally, I'm spending most of my 'Poly time in the Strat and Creation forums. There's a lot less noise.

Jeff

I hear u 5/5.

[yin26]

There's a lot less noise.

And by 'noise' we assume you mean complaints. And by complaints, we assume you don't want to hear them. And by not wanting to hear them, we assume you are doing a piss-poor job as the QA director.

Move along. Nothing to see here....

[Brundlefly]

Personally, I'm spending most of my 'Poly time in the Strat and Creation forums. There's a lot less noise.

That's nice, Jeff. While you are spending your "Poly time", guess what I'm doing? Not playing Civ III. Why not? Because patch 1.16f has a tech-trading bug that allows the AI to trade during your turn which makes playing with the patch pointless. And I'm not playing Civ III without the patch for the multitude of reasons a patch was necessary. While you browse the forums you mentioned are you enjoying some pizza and beer with the $50 I paid for Civ III? Good. Because while you're doing that guess what I'm doing? Not playing Civ III.

[Random Passerby]

There's some of that damn noise again.

[ACooper]

Originally posted by Feephi



That's nice, Jeff. While you are spending your "Poly time", guess what I'm doing? Not playing Civ III. Why not? Because patch 1.16f has a tech-trading bug that allows the AI to trade during your turn which makes playing with the patch pointless. And I'm not playing Civ III without the patch for the multitude of reasons a patch was necessary. While you browse the forums you mentioned are you enjoying some pizza and beer with the $50 I paid for Civ III? Good. Because while you're doing that guess what I'm doing? Not playing Civ III.

OOOOHHHHH!!!!! That will show them! Don't play the game you have already paid for.

Man, I wish I was a strong as you are.

[Comrade Tribune]

Originally posted by ****gyRA
OOOOHHHHH!!!!! That will show them! Don't play the game you have already paid for.

Man, I wish I was a strong as you are.

So what is he supposed to do? Raze Firaxis?

[Sikander]

Originally posted by ****gyRA


OOOOHHHHH!!!!! That will show them! Don't play the game you have already paid for.

Man, I wish I was a strong as you are.

Yea, I bet they are really impressed that you still play a game that sucks. Way to go!!