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addedDear Community, we are sorry that DIGIDICED took a painful long time to adjust the community communication to the growing interest and demand in the PC sector. In 2021 we want to enhance this situation and flanking our current projects we want to establish a better information flow. PC UI vs. Mobile Device U I DIGIDICED originally started as a developer of “Mobile Device” games and since it was of interest for us to spread to all possible platforms we did not research thoroughly enough what the demands were for a PC games community. In our limited community research we initially assumed that mostly our mobile community would like to have their version of their already owned games on mobile devices as some kind of widget on PC. So, we thought that they would mostly play their games in a window next to their other leisure time activities on their computers. Hence, we did not plan to have a standalone PC interface, since we did not expect the people to allocate the whole screen or one of their monitors in a 2 monitor setup playing our games. In the beginning we mostly got feedback that backed that assumption. This changed slowly initially and then faster and faster. We adapted our production line to offer a full screen mode that would make use of a full screen UI. Still we thought that this has to happen in our normal financial range. So we came up with an extended mode that would offer no interactive info panels. In our former opinion this was the best way to cover needs and to keep our normal workflow. Already back in 2018/19 we realized that this was not enough and that this approach actually lead to even more unease among the community. At that time we realized that the term “Mobile Port” was actually not a logical product of our origins but actually a negative stigmata that evolved to a toxic facet of DIGIDICED. In addition to this we also had faulty features and some persisting bugs that we failed to address. We had plans in 2019 to alter this situation. Unfortunately these plans were interrupted due to a very difficult year 2019. Two thirds of the production muscle had to fill a new role as being parents and we made some strategical mistakes that limited our flexibility. As an indie company that can have severe consequences, but of course this is not the horse we want to ride in order to apologize. Even in such an situation a professional way would have been to face the community. Our players buy the game and the support and give their respect if this is done well and of course have a right to be angry if this is not done professionally. This being said we again have to start with an information that will maybe upset some user... We know that especially games are subject of a hobby dearly held by everybody and we know that some experienced more frustration than others. Sadly we cannot recover our relation to all community members on an individual level. We can only try to enhance this situation on a general approach. But we hope that in the future we can win most of these users back as our next steps are based on those community members that decided to fight for their favourite games and who therefor also kept us working hard to find solutions. These people served the community and we hope we can achieve at least some
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addedDear Community, we are sorry that DIGIDICED took a painful long time to adjust the community communication to the growing interest and demand in the PC sector. In 2021 we want to enhance this situation and flanking our current projects we want to establish a better information flow. PC UI vs. Mobile Device U I DIGIDICED originally started as a developer of “Mobile Device” games and since it was of interest for us to spread to all possible platforms we did not research thoroughly enough what the demands were for a PC games community. In our limited community research we initially assumed that mostly our mobile community would like to have their version of their already owned games on mobile devices as some kind of widget on PC. So, we thought that they would mostly play their games in a window next to their other leisure time activities on their computers. Hence, we did not plan to have a standalone PC interface, since we did not expect the people to allocate the whole screen or one of their monitors in a 2 monitor setup playing our games. In the beginning we mostly got feedback that backed that assumption. This changed slowly initially and then faster and faster. We adapted our production line to offer a full screen mode that would make use of a full screen UI. Still we thought that this has to happen in our normal financial range. So we came up with an extended mode that would offer no interactive info panels. In our former opinion this was the best way to cover needs and to keep our normal workflow. Already back in 2018/19 we realized that this was not enough and that this approach actually lead to even more unease among the community. At that time we realized that the term “Mobile Port” was actually not a logical product of our origins but actually a negative stigmata that evolved to a toxic facet of DIGIDICED. In addition to this we also had faulty features and some persisting bugs that we failed to address. We had plans in 2019 to alter this situation. Unfortunately these plans were interrupted due to a very difficult year 2019. Two thirds of the production muscle had to fill a new role as being parents and we made some strategical mistakes that limited our flexibility. As an indie company that can have severe consequences, but of course this is not the horse we want to ride in order to apologize. Even in such an situation a professional way would have been to face the community. Our players buy the game and the support and give their respect if this is done well and of course have a right to be angry if this is not done professionally. This being said we again have to start with an information that will maybe upset some user... We know that especially games are subject of a hobby dearly held by everybody and we know that some experienced more frustration than others. Sadly we cannot recover our relation to all community members on an individual level. We can only try to enhance this situation on a general approach. But we hope that in the future we can win most of these users back as our next steps are based on those community members that decided to fight for their favourite games and who therefor also kept us working hard to find solutions. These people served the community and we hope we can achieve at least some
Dear Community, we are sorry that DIGIDICED took a painful long time to adjust the community communication to the growing interest and demand in the PC sector. In 2021 we want to enhance this situation and flanking our current projects we want to establish a better information flow. PC UI vs. Mobile Device U I DIGIDICED originally started as a developer of “Mobile Device” games and since it was of interest for us to spread to all possible platforms we did not research thoroughly enough what the demands were for a PC games community. In our limited community research we initially assumed that mostly our mobile community would like to have their version of their already owned games on mobile devices as some kind of widget on PC. So, we thought that they would mostly play their games in a window next to their other leisure time activities on their computers. Hence, we did not plan to have a standalone PC interface, since we did not expect the people to allocate the whole screen or one of their monitors in a 2 monitor setup playing our games. In the beginning we mostly got feedback that backed that assumption. This changed slowly initially and then faster and faster. We adapted our production line to offer a full screen mode that would make use of a full screen UI. Still we thought that this has to happen in our normal financial range. So we came up with an extended mode that would offer no interactive info panels. In our former opinion this was the best way to cover needs and to keep our normal workflow. Already back in 2018/19 we realized that this was not enough and that this approach actually lead to even more unease among the community. At that time we realized that the term “Mobile Port” was actually not a logical product of our origins but actually a negative stigmata that evolved to a toxic facet of DIGIDICED. In addition to this we also had faulty features and some persisting bugs that we failed to address. We had plans in 2019 to alter this situation. Unfortunately these plans were interrupted due to a very difficult year 2019. Two thirds of the production muscle had to fill a new role as being parents and we made some strategical mistakes that limited our flexibility. As an indie company that can have severe consequences, but of course this is not the horse we want to ride in order to apologize. Even in such an situation a professional way would have been to face the community. Our players buy the game and the support and give their respect if this is done well and of course have a right to be angry if this is not done professionally. This being said we again have to start with an information that will maybe upset some user... We know that especially games are subject of a hobby dearly held by everybody and we know that some experienced more frustration than others. Sadly we cannot recover our relation to all community members on an individual level. We can only try to enhance this situation on a general approach. But we hope that in the future we can win most of these users back as our next steps are based on those community members that decided to fight for their favourite games and who therefor also kept us working hard to find solutions. These people served the community and we hope we can achieve at least some
