Starr_Man5

Before SI get started with FM09, why not come onto these, their very own forums, and actually ASK US (the consumers) what we Actually want in the game?

With FM09 there is bound to be a whole host of new features (there was with '08) that, lets face it, nobody really wanted.

I'm sure before work begins on a new game SI have some sort of "Brain Storming" meeting (or whatever) where they bring up new ideas and suggestions for said new game.
So why not come on here before development begins and actually ask us which of the proposed "New Features" we would like to see in the game? (Who would have agreed with the face-gen feature over a better Ass-man, for example?)

It would certainly make sense to ask the consumer what they actually want to begin with.
Any thoughts?

I would especially like to hear from someone at SI what they think.

Miles Jacobson

Starr_man5 - we look at the forums and the suggestions that are put here, and they go into our feature meetings just like our own ideas.

We wouldn't do a poll for a variety of reasons, the most obvious being that doing so would be commercial suicide, as it would give our competitors somewhat of an advantage if they knew what we were planning. There are eyes everywhere

andyinuk

There plenty of ideas and suggestions floating around in GQ. If there is not so many repeated bashing threads, we might be able to find them much easier, rather than being buried by those meaningless rubbish

GillsMan

Tbf, a lot of the fans disagree with each other anyway. For every half decent suggestion, there's a couple of people who want the ability to be a chairman, or control ticket prices, or see the stadium, or put hot dog stands in.

SI take the game in the direction the majority of the fans want. No matter what anyone says, if you want to see a real computer game disaster - have a look at what happened to Sim City when it was turned into the very poor SimCity Societies.

carlos1879

OK then paranoid mods always a good addition lol :thup:

bamsola

What would it matter if your competitors knew what extra feature you were planning. Its the actual match engine(which by the way is currenly rubbish) which keeps myself and every other player coming back for more.

The feature only enhance the experiance if your competitors knew which new feature you were planning outside of the match engine it wouldn't be commercial suicide as all I really care about it yourselves getting the match engine correct.

It would be nice if you conducted a pole if only to prove that you actually listen to your customers, it wouldn't make a shread of difference commercially.

mitja

I agre with bamsola that many of real FM fans who play this game for long time are buying it becouse of it's reality compared to other such games. ME is defenetly the 1st choice. I switched facegen off imediatly, for example.

nick...

Lots of people on here (myself included) were reccomending facegen before FM08 was released, after SI had included it sucessfully in OOTP.

It would be good if they brought back the suggestions forum which was here bfore FM05 came out, as it allowed for more in depth discussion and fleshing out of ideas, without threads dissapearing so fast under the general mass of GQ.

neil220779

Most FM players rarely or never use the forums,so most players would not have a say. There are plenty of threads full of ideas, SI don't need to ask,they just have to read,which they do.

bigdirtyjames

Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean that they're not out to get you