QUOTE(Thraxen @ Sep 16 2006, 06:40 PM)
Don't let the comments from this one guy get to you, nes6502. As for the other stuff, you did ask for people's input on features and you have responded to most, but you can't now hold that against the users by saying "it wasn't good enough". Most people are satisified with what we have now. Are there other features some people would like to see? Probably. That is true for ANY piece of software in existence. But that doesn't mean people view the your work as "not good enough".
And for every person like Timerever that pops in with a comment like "you code must be a mess", there are hundreds of users you never hear from because we are satisified. That's always been an unfortunate disconnect between developers and users.
Just my two cents.
Yeah, very good point. No, I don't hold users request against them. My respnse above did/does not apply to the majority of users. I was speaking about a select few who never seem to be satisfied. It's allways been my goal to add the features that the majority of people really wanted like the cheat search for example, favorites, etc. I welcome requests, and in fact that's why I started this thread.
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Devs tend to take the comments of a few and take it too seriously when the vast majority they don't hear from are perfectly content.
And that's the real problem. Most devs continue out of the support they get and no other reason. In other words, to make the users happy. I mean it's very cool when you are working on a feature you know everybody wants and they are all going to be excited to get it. It's very statisfying regardless of whether you personally wanted it or not.
When the support dries up, and all that's left are complaints/requests, it's hard for any dev to stay motivated. The difficult part really is that most people just don't post that much. For example, I posted a download link for the graphics pack in the last release. There have been over 600 people to download it. Obviously there havn't been 600 unique people posting in these ZsnexBox threads. So the point is, there probablly are hundreds of people who love ZsnexBox just the way it is. Sometimes I just have to remind myself that.
I've seen this in a lot of Xport's threads. People tend to just post the problems they find or ask for new things. After page after page of complaints and requests, it can be difficult for any developer to remind himself that most people are happy with it just the way it is. Unfortunatly, a lot of people when they see a port become what they wanted, just disappear. I'm guilty of this myself. I was huge fan of Xport and Lantus's work for 2 years and I don't think I ever posted a single "good job" post in their threads.
So I do keep things in perspective, but sometimes my patience wears thin with some posters. But you brought up the actual key point in all of this. We all should continue to support guys like A600, Xport, Lantus, etc.. even when we personally have everything we want. And even when they are working on projects we may or may not be interested in.
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