I'm sorry I really wasn't TRYING to chew into you guys I'm just frustrated and not understanding something somewhere then? It was nearly two weeks ago something 'in the works' was announced that would be exclusive to those who have supported. So naturally lack of response from you guys built up a bit of hype and then well.... we got this.
I guess what I don't understand then is if it was so simple to put together and it's purpose is to help you streamline and prioritize feature implementations then why the two week build up? IMO should of thrown it out there some time ago then sounds like it's more a productivity tool.
Don't get me wrong it's not a lame, bad, or stupid thing at all. It is rather neat the voting and all. It's just the timing, the length of dragging it on as to what it was, current assumptions and concerns everywhere... it just perhaps should of not been the two week 'this is it guy!' announcement. heh.
Also, if you guys are currently working on the next release and even close enough to put that 'hoped to have it out on xx day' label on it, why the secrecy? I think I'd of shut the hell up a few posts ago and not said anything at all if I had a bit of that info sooner.
Originally Posted by Haavok
Not exactly the reaction I was expecting.
We had planned to have version 3.12 out last Thursday but it was delayed because Faatal had some personal matters to deal with, namely a funeral.
Various bugs & issues have been addressed in 3.12 and the details will be included in the release notes.
Check the quests/database forum – every quest issue that has been submitted has been fixed for this next release.
The voting feature did not take significant time to implement (yes it is basic – we are not web designer/programmers). We thought it would be a nice way for supporters to participate in the direction of future features and to hopefully motivate others to donate. We have a few things we were thinking of offering supporters and implementing this was the easiest.
A lot has happened since the Blizzard UI policy change. We have had to work on a lot of things other than just the addon code. We have had to answer a massive amount of email regarding the policy change, subscriptions, etc. We used to have a dedicated server to support building custom versions of the addon back when had the subscription – this came at a premium and we have since migrated over to our own hosting. We launched the voting feature after we switched our hosting.
As things settle down we expect that more time will be devoted to the addon itself.
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