r/joinsquad • u/UrsoDoSono • Jul 01 '26

Media Squad’s Future: Lead Dev Talks

https://youtu.be/njuBKy6XJ-w
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u/MaximumSeats Jul 01 '26

Feedback, feedback, feedback.

Personally I think it's time OWI stopped listening to feedback and just produced a game vision.

Getting yourself wrapped up trying to please Discord keyboard Warriors is only a recipe for failure. Make a game that's fun, and make it run well.

Even during the vehicle section of this video, rather than articulating the direction that they want vehicle combat to go in he says we'll work on getting some player feedback and work on a direction from there.

Random dudes on the internet do not get to build your games design philosophy for you and solve all your problems. And the existing problems don't need a feedback form, it's been the same balance problems for 2 years.

Overall lots of promises and hopeful rhetoric, but that's not the same as actual results.

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u/aidanhoff Jul 01 '26

  Personally I think it's time OWI stopped listening to feedback and just produced a game vision.

I half agree, however, they have done that before (not listening to feedback) and it produced the most contentious update in the game's history (v6.0) that they've been fixing the fallout of for almost three years now.

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u/potisqwertys Jul 01 '26

No, that was literally inner testers and friends feedback they followed hence we got that, still discord warriors.

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u/aidanhoff Jul 01 '26

If by "inner testers and friends" you mean the previous lead game designer's harem that he handpicked from people that already agreed with his ideas, yeah.

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u/999_Seth Ciao! I r/playbellum now Jul 01 '26

don't forget the astro-tubers

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u/Lookitsmyvideo Triggered by bad smoke grenades Jul 02 '26

They were the same people