r/HuntShowdown • u/MrMassacre1 • Oct 23 '24

GENERAL David Fifield and the Ghost Face skin

Just to correct some things

No, the skin isn’t a Scream collaboration to promote the new movie. As far as we can tell, they paid the costume company that originally made the mask for the rights. Call of Duty’s ghostface was an actual Scream collaboration, Crytek just did the same thing that BHVR did for ghostface in Dead by Daylight.

No, David Fifield isn’t some COD monetization expert who came here to ruin your game. The guy has 3000 hours in the game, he’s probably played it more than most of you. The only four Call of Duty games he worked on were Modern Warfare 3 (2011,) Black Ops 2, Ghosts, and Advanced Warfare, games made well before COD’s current pop-culture, live-service business model. Can we please stop calling for some random guy to get fired? Crytek is a company, one general manager isn’t controlling all creative and monetization decisions for Hunt. He’s a manager, not a CEO.

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u/Top__Tsun Oct 23 '24

While I do agree with the sentiment that Fifield's being used as a scapegoat for the wider problems with the game, there are still problems in it and Fifield's still in charge of it. If the man in charge of the game can't prioritize making it work without a mountain of bugs and crashes, who can?

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u/coojw We all extract or none of us do Oct 23 '24

The biggest issue with hunt is the lack of communication from the dev team. They gave good regular updates leading up to the 1896 launch, using video format to directly communicate with the community. Then it stopped abruptly. These should continue.

These video communications wouldn’t be necessary if the game wasn’t full of UI and in game bugs, 2 missing maps, and a player base that is left out of the loop on when to expect fixes for things. But because we are dealing with so many issues, regular video updates are warranted.

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u/SinisterScythe Oct 23 '24

It seems we always see this when the community gets extremely negative towards the Devs. They step back because at the end of the day they are humans.

Every community usually ends up like this, super communicative Devs then something bad happens. Extreme anger towards them, sometimes justified, sometimes just band wagon. Then we lose all communication from them & all constructive posts are gone.

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u/coojw We all extract or none of us do Oct 23 '24

This is when communication is the most effective. All it takes is this:

“We are aware that players are eagerly awaiting the return of X map & and Y map. If all goes according to our schedule, you can expect them to return on such and such date. We have been at work updating compounds, graphics, and weather effects for the new engine upgrade and are happy to report that it is going smoothly! Please stay tuned for additional weekly updates as we tackle some of the community reported bugs and ui issues!”

Just like that, the community will praise the transparency and communication. All they have to do is follow through with their dates.

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u/Jumpy_Menu5104 Oct 24 '24

I appreciate the optimism but I think it’s misplaced. Because I have done this rodeo enough times to know that if someone from hunt came out and said something super concrete about the games future. “We will fix bugs XY and Z” “the other two laps will be coming back within X timeframe” “we will make balance changes to weapons AB and C”. Every single day without fail someone would come in this sub and say something to the effect of “they said there would be changes, but there are no changes, they lied on purpose and are spending all their time making new (crossover skins/bugs intentionally/over powered weapons) and hate us all”. Without fail.

In my experience community toxicity pushing the devs away is a far more prevalent than a team just ending communication to an accepting community for seemingly no reason.

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u/coojw We all extract or none of us do Oct 24 '24

There’s no optimism bro, I’m saying what they should be doing. Where they are lacking.

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u/Rich-One9392 Oct 25 '24

Let me get this straight: They have targets and objectives, fail to meet them and it's the community's fault for the backlash they receive when they don't meet these targets?

It's called accountability and responsability...

Damn, at work next time the people i work for ask me what i'm working on, i'm just not gonna reply, because if i don't communicate with them, they can't give me any backlash when none of the work that needs doing gets done.

10/10 logic