I have an essay for school about consumer- producer relations and I kinda threw myself in at the deep-end. You, the GDev community come into this as 'a game development forum'.

Which developer currently has the best customer relations, with regard to listening to the community, patching etc?

My top 2 are Valve and Paradox Interactive.

Remember, this is opinions so don't get too bitchy over each others :D

We, we do, of course [razz]

(I speak only half in jest; we actually do go to extremes to make sure we have a good feedback loop with our players, and our patching lifetime for titles is extremely long by industry standards.)

Taleworlds

If not for the community their debut game would never have made it this far. Along with many other people I support them 100%

Ha, funnily enough I just bought Mount and Blade: War Bands off steam.

Keep em coming, the more the merrier.

bah, you should have bought it off their home site. Its the same price and I would bet a larger share goes to them directly :(

Quote: Original post by JamesPenny
I have an essay for school about consumer- producer relations and I kinda threw myself in at the deep-end. You, the GDev community come into this as 'a game development forum'.

Which developer currently has the best customer relations, with regard to listening to the community, patching etc?

My top 2 are Valve and Paradox Interactive.

Remember, this is opinions so don't get too bitchy over each others :D

Agreed on Valve being a company that interacts with their community.

The second for me would be Runic, who has impressed me in the past as being a very tight knit company when it comes to their community. One of their employees patched a toggle option that took care of a problem that arose from a rare eye condition within hours of a forum post, and to me, this is impressive.