Okay, Dumest question ever but...

I have to ask it. why are the devs giving us daily blogs? have they actually given a reason. I am not complaining mind you, I just don't want to get anybody's (particularly mine) hopes up where there isn't any.

are they doing this because we gave them a ton of money in preorders? Did just a ton of people ask for more updates on the game? is this a sign of the coming beta release (doubt it)? or or are the devs just being nice to us?​

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any comment from the devs would be appreciated but it is a weekend so i understand. ​

 

Why should there be a reason? Do you think they have an ulterior motive or something?

They just don't want to leave us in the dark with the development process is all, ad I'm really grateful for it and hope it continues.

 

Well if you want to know, many people were asking on Official Updates. And there was discussions in this forum about the lack of Official Information (every info, stream, never been posted in the Blog) , the F5 Key wasn't working in Blog and Roadmap, I remember Tiy replied one of such threads some time before the Blog Posts Started.
(streams can't be any source of official information, they are non-finished content that likely will change)

With the blog posts, and with more Official Confirmed about how is this going to work, what are they doing...
The community itself feel the sense of progression of this game, what is awesome.

 

I think it may have to do with the fact that some users were not entirely happy that they were not being informed as much as they wanted to in regards to Starbound development. It seems that Chucklefish is providing these daily updates to keep us all satisfied and ensure us that they're not slacking with our money.

 

It's probably close to this than anything else. Good devs understand and react to things like that from their community. They kind of have an obligation now that they have "investors" if you will. Not a contractual obligation, but a moral one in my opinion.

 

I think we have just gotten lucky for the last few days; it will not be every day that they have something nice to report or show off really. Not every development milestone is something that can be easily paired with a screenshot after all; or worthy of a paragraph or two of text.

 

Good question... i think it's because of the "we want more" syndrome that fill up this forum, so Tiy is mabye a little annoyed.

 

They do not forget about us.

 

yeah, he is probably saying, " FINE YOU BUNCH OF WHINYBUTTS! here are your updates "

 

I think the pre-orders got the community a whole bunch of new impatient members, who required more information about the game.

 

why not

 

Because they appreciate the amount of support the community is giving.
They aren't massive keepers of secrets who hide their game somewhere in a cave in Antarctica, no?

 

Because they felt like it.

 

to be clear I don't think the devs have an ill meaning behind the more frequent updates I was just curious more than anything. Anyway, Keeper and Bacon may be right that they are doing it to satiate people (I for one love the constant updates even if they are small), especially those who bought into the preorders.

Could it be a sign of the beta coming...MAYBE. we will see when the road map gets updated.

 

probably because someone in their marketing department told them about the good practice of content marketing and seo to generate more traffic thus more exposure and "buzz". but maybe that's just my marketing side talking.

otherwise it's either getting into the months before launch or they're past the mundane infrastructure jobs and are into some of the more fun things.

either way, it's just good practice to be more engaged with your audience.

 

A lot of people voiced their discontent with the lack of updates from the devs, so they're posting more updates.

 

Erm, it's been three days in a row of updates on what the team has been up to. That doesn't make it a trend that they will continue daily updates.

If anything, it seems more likely the Devs are laying out where everyone's been and done as the lead-up to a Roadmap update.

 

Maybe not daily, but frequently, at least:

https://twitter.com/StarboundGame/status/332933272004866049

 

I don't feel any bad things against the developers, they have lives too. They can't work all day in a cave they have families, friends, work, hobbies other than making games etc... I hate it when people post threats and such (thats no-one here). Even through once a week is... a nice time to give out game progress updates and such, you can't really expect much from people working on it EVERYDAY! Making it polished, ready for us to play and waste our feeble lives in!

 

Thanks for the link, Ordona.

I'd imagine once they get everyone on the same page updates will probably taper off to be more of a weekly thing. Streams aside, they've been pretty quiet when it comes to updating the front page over the last month or so which is, first arriving at the site, a little disconcerting. Well, that's kinda the feeling I got upon my arrival here, anyway. Coming to find that the dev's stream semi-regularly pretty much allayed any fears of a game-existence failure, though.