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Originally Posted by Russell_SCEA |
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The "focus groups" I'm referring to are the 5 different focus test we had in NYC, Chicago, LA, and two other cities with hundreds of people. Not the extremely small community day events we have twice a year in SD at the studio.
The information we get from them is a stark and I mean stark contrast to the opinions we get from OS. I won't get into it because I don't have that kind of time, but your mind would be blown if you ever sat in on one of these focus groups.
Two completely different demographics and one of the loudest gripes we heard was the game is to hard and I don't know what I'm doing. Putting the game on rookie isn't enough, it was enough for MLB 09, 10, or 11. So we made a conscious decision to try and give the end user as much information as possible to help them succeed at the game. Or at the very least understand why the aren't doing so well.
Now onto your notion that I singled you out and dismissed the request to have an option here's the deal. I told you the truth, we aren't going to change it this year, we aren't going to have it as an option for it this year. We are in the polish and bug fixing stage of development. Every year we cater to this crowd more than any other. Just look at the features that have been released already or the things we change each year based on the community days.
Every time we change or add something late in the cycle it affects multiple groups on our development team programmers, artists and producers are all affected with these 2am changes we make every year. 90% of the time everyone is happy to do them, but there is a limit. Whenever you change or add something into code bugs pop up and that list keeps growing and growing. So at some point we have to close the doors on additions and work on getting everything else working properly.
We constantly add or change things based on what people want from this site. I assumed most would understand that we can't say yes to every request. We are always willing to change things and make concessions when we can, however we are not burger king.
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agreed.
when i lived in LA i did a few focus groups for products.
eek. lol
its like the soccer mom trying out cal of duty and saying its too violent.
really moms?
but yea, big disparity between folks.
but make sure to not put too much stock in certain opinions.
focus groups HATED seinfeld, i mean HATEd it.
look how that turned out.
thank god they didnt listen and just used their own judgement.
with that bein said, there r things to take from those things when u r trying to reach a larger broader base audience.
Sony does a good job of juggling the two, for the most part.
You have the hardcore baseball heads working on the game who want things like playable Single A rosters & choice of name brand cleats, battling out for feature/idea development time with the suits who want to make sure Mom on Mulberry Lane can get into a quick 9 inning game without throwing the controller down in frustration after 3 pitches..
To sony, those voices all get the same ear.