Poll: Do you think this game will be ever fixed?

[Saarbruecken911]

@GMEvangelos

The message well I hear, my faith alone is weak.

You must understand, that the community’s reaction is a result of a series of broken promises. MS also still doesn’t realize, that you have more than four generations of players (Zone, Voobly, HD, DE) and therefore four different communities (with different expectations), playing your game – and somehow you managed to disappoint them all together. One of them is your old Zone community (to which I belong) who still waits for the promised “updates” – it’s been more than 13 years now, but hey, never lose hope and keep things constructive.

Please allow me to quote your predecessor on the Zone.

https://zone.msn.com/en/general/article/gen050806pmchat.htm

_Nidi> So if that’s the case, we would like some classic games rooms with a lobby chat so players from all over the world, that are not on our messenger contacts, can meet, chat & play…

1. So since you say it is time for us to have our say in what we want built, will you be making us something based on OUR requirements in the near future? (yes / no)
2. Is a group chat lobby currently under active development? (yes/no)
3. Do you have any actual plans for developing a chat lobby? (yes/no)
4. Have you even drawn and accepted a timeline for when a group chat lobby will be released? (yes/no)
5. How many months does it usually take to grab a medium sized idea (such as chat lobbies), draw a plan, get it accepted, get the feature designed, programmed, tested and propped?

+ZMaster@Zone > Yes… we’re going to be building something similar.

Question 2: group chat lobby is being designed – yes

Question 3. As for the plans for the developing chat lobby – we are working on designing it. So Yes

Question 4 – no

Timeline has not been established yet. To go back to your question 1. We are taking customer feedback that’s being sent to us and when as we’re thinking about what customer want in the future we’re going to be planning and designing based on what our customers would like to see on our site. It’s going to be a similar type of experience…
But there are also some differences.

Ok. Thanks Nidi

+ZMaster@Zone>

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1. Because MSN games is dedicated to building the best.
2. Because MSN games listens to you, our customers (it was our players, that encourage us to build Zonefriends) and we did.
3. Because MSN Games is always creating new games and experiences.

https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/wake-up-microsoft/55165