MindArk AMA - Friday, February 8

[Sub-Zero]

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This notice was fired out at practically the slowest time of year at the slowest time of the week at the slowest time of day and the timing to post questions ends right before the usual uptick of weekend traffic.

This was most likely intentional, to prevent a massive amount of threads popping up making it impossible to answer a lot of questions. They only have limited amount of time after all and there's already 8 pages worth of threads in this short time frame. Also a lot of work for them to sort it all out, duplicate questions and so forth, not to mentioning answering each question and pick between the most important ones, that they deem worthy of their precious time.

[jambon]

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This was most likely intentional, to prevent a massive amount of threads popping up making it impossible to answer a lot of questions. They only have limited amount of time after all and there's already 8 pages worth of threads in this short time frame. Also a lot of work for them to sort it all out, duplicate questions and so forth, not to mentioning answering each question and pick between the most important ones, that they deem worthy of their precious time.

Yes I can see that. Though they could have leveraged the community for help with that if they specifically wanted to limit it to a number of questions. They could have appointed a community liaison to collect questions from the community, organize them, weed out duplicates then put them to a vote then only submit the best questions (as voted by the community) to MA?

I don't know, coulda, shoulda, woulda... I suppose. All that aside I'd feel better about it if I knew there would be future AMA's done. Perhaps once a year to replace the state of the universe things?

[Timp44]

Did I miss where the live answer session would be at??? Because I don't see anything on forums...

[Sub-Zero]

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Did I miss where the live answer session would be at??? Because I don't see anything on forums...

If you click on the "Dev posts" top right corner, above PlanetCalypsoForums logo. You can see recent posts of all MindArk Employees, so far in 30 min there has been 4 new posts (and answers to AMA questions).

Quite disappointing so far. Only 4 questions "answered" by their general generic and vague responses as usual and only by one Mindark employee. It's doubtful even half of all the questions will get answered, and probably not even enough time to do follow up questions leaving many disappointed.

Oh well <letsthinkpositive> still 3,5h to go anything can happen, it's dynamic .

[Timp44]

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If you click on the "Dev posts" top right corner, above PlanetCalypsoForums logo. You can see recent posts of all MindArk Employees, so far in 30 min there has been 4 new posts (and answers to AMA questions).

Quite disappointing so far. Only 4 questions "answered" by their general generic and vague responses as usual and only by one Mindark employee. It's doubtful even half of all the questions will get answered, and probably not even enough time to do follow up questions leaving many disappointed.

Oh well <letsthinkpositive> still 3,5h to go anything can happen, it's dynamic .

Yeah when I asked not a single response had been made in the first 6-7 mintues

[nutrageti]

answers are coming in seems like, don t panic, the mm results came at close to midnight as well

[Detritus]

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time is halfway up, and there are about 10 answers on 200 questions given.
Six of them as meaningless as if Siri answered them...

The answers are indeed pretty vague, almost non-answers.

To be fair, most of the questions are pretty stupid.

[Gollum_42]

It's very frustrating that they had quite some notice, and should have had sufficient time to get together and prepare in advance a good bunch of answers. Instead we get at least 10 minutes between vague non-answers.

Yes it's the first one, Yes this is seriously important, lets just hope they do it again and soon but prepare better.

[Orion]

Henrik, do you want to know how many +1 Rep comments i get for

The same vague and meaningless answers i have heard from Mindark like in the the past 16 years...

no, you dont.

but i give you a hint:
i have never received so many +1 ever before...

so i strongly suggest, if you dont want to answer, then DON'T ANSWER!

okay, i accept, it is a quandry. not answering most of the questions also sends a message...

[thoreau]

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It's very frustrating that they had quite some notice, and should have had sufficient time to get together and prepare in advance a good bunch of answers. Instead we get at least 10 minutes between vague non-answers.

Yes it's the first one, Yes this is seriously important, lets just hope they do it again and soon but prepare better.

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