This is how campfire chats should go. Humility, acknowledging player issues, and giving insight into what your plans were even when they didn’t pan out how you’d hoped.
This campfire chat was a good start.
Its just step 1 on a long process to restoring player trust, to be clear. You need to live up to the messaging you gave here - you need to keep this up.
But this was a very good first step. You’ve got a long road ahead if you want me to actually have faith in this game’s future at this point - these last few patches were devastatingly out of touch( Season 1 balance patch: Missing the Point ).
But… credit where credit was due, this campfire chat took exactly the right tone and gave me the info I needed to understand your reasoning. I still think your reasoning and ideas were heavily flawed, but at least I understand where you were coming from and where you are hoping to go and that IS important. So thank you for taking the first small step on the long road to restoring at least my trust as a potential player, and I hope you live up to what you’ve started here in the upcoming patches and seasons.
Just thought you needed to hear some positive.
Edit: Because the first people who found this post are the trolls, I’m just going to leave this post untended from here - if anyone from the moderation/cm team sees this, just let the dev team know that at least some of the community appreciated the messaging here. ![]()