[Faskis]

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Originally Posted by Damian Development is more than just updates. You have to understand your community in and out; not everything you make will be flashy and cool. Some of it will not be received well at all or boring as hell- but in the longrun it's what is healthiest for your product. There are also even moments where there will be a drought of updates, because sometimes your attention is required elsewhere for growth. Sometimes too many updates can spoil a community and distract them from the original point of the product.

I think this is something that everyone should take note of. One of NGG's biggest downfalls was that there was too much catering to what the people wanted, when the reality is, the community didn't know what it wanted. Opinions should have been taken with a grain of salt. When I look back at some of the ideas that were brought forward and actually introduced, they were never done in a way that was intuitive or that flowed well with the rest of the server. Players would always tell that we should simply revert the script to our 2011-2013 days (implying that it would automatically "fix" everything), but when I asked for specific features from that time, nobody really had an answer. Another infamous update was the ammo system. People cried about wanting that added in, then once they got it, turned around and said that they no longer wanted it, that it took too long to get added (like, what?)

The lack of what I consider "pizazz updates", something fresh and new, also really took its toll on things. Nobody had anything to look forward to anymore, and since we couldn't push out the same level of updates that we did in the first couple of years, people simply got bored of the server.