All Networks Focus Groups and Suggestions

[Blom]

A lot of things happened recently to the Feedback & Suggestions subforums. If you aren’t familiar with the changes, you can read them here in depth. By reading this suggestion, you will probably also know what has been going on.

The changes made to the subforum made it quite useless. CubeCraft no longer wants to continue the forwarded thread process as it takes too much time and recourses away. Fair point, although it’s quite a disappointment for the entire community with their sometimes not so, but sometimes amazing ideas. In fact, with 50 agrees on this single post, CubeCraft wouldn’t owe me a single reaction as well.

Instead, in the above linked thread, CubeCraft will listen to the community by using the Focus Groups they have per game. These focus groups, which are very very vague for the community, as we don’t know who are in there and what is happening at all with them, will have a lot more power in helping with decisions.

Now is my question: why do we remove the game-specific forwarded suggestions if we have clear groups of unknown volunteers to discuss them and broaden their vision on the gamemodes they love the most?

Currently, I don’t feel like anything I would send here has any use at all. I don’t feel heard as a normal, not top secret part of the undercover CubeCraft organisation called Focus Groups, community member, and I’m sure I’m not alone. I hope this suggestion would make focus groups a little more transparent for us to see and hopefully also make it so that suggestions get forwarded twice: once to the focus groups, and then from them to the actual CubeCraft team. This way cube would not have to worry about crappy suggestions that could possibly harm the community and could improve their games more efficient.

Even though these reactions are worthless, please give this an agree if you agree. Thanks for reading!

 

[kaputendymion76]

does that mean that all the suggestions in feedback and suggestions will not be viewed and we have to do the suggestions in game discussion from now on

 

[Blom]

does that mean that all the suggestions in feedback and suggestions will not be viewed and we have to do the suggestions in game discussion from now on

Not necessarily! I think it would be great for the members of the focus groups to look there as well, but I suppose they already do.

Suggestions will still go through this subforum. If the suggestion would be about Lucky Islands for example, and a new drop is suggested, it could possibly become forwarded (= 25 agrees). The focus group will pick up the idea, discuss it and tweak it if necessary. Together with other forwarded threads, they discuss it with a developer or admin in charge about what would be possible. If the team has a big update idea, the ideas could be mixed in with the new update, making it an efficient way for suggestions to be accepted or denied, but also to be implemented if possible at all, at a faster rate.

Hope this answers your question, otherwise feel free to ask any more :D

 

[Xavi | Goofy]

For this suggestion we'd require focus groups of all games no?

 

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Instead, in the above linked thread, CubeCraft will listen to the community by using the Focus Groups they have per game. These focus groups, which are very very vague for the community, as we don’t know who are in there and what is happening at all with them, will have a lot more power in helping with decisions.

This isn't true. This didn't contribute to the forwarded system being removed.

Suggestions are still used and read, we just don't guarantee a response due to the large workload.

This is not a removal of the suggestions system.

These focus groups, which are very very vague for the community, as we don’t know who are in there and what is happening at all with them, will have a lot more power in helping with decisions.

Information here:

💬 Game Focus Groups

Edit: Hey all, after much discussion we have decided to discontinue the game focus group program. The groups didn't come to fruition the way me and Younisco envisioned for CubeCraft, we also no longer have the resources to maintain three...

www.cubecraft.net

Pretty much everyone with a few hundred wins and no existing punishments can get into any focus group. The focus group are the community of that gamemode.

The discussion is a lot more fast-paced and so isn't really comparable to the forums. Hence the reason that the focus groups were not the cause of any of these system changes.

 

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now that the system is gone we can finally use without making people angry