Well, it can be a bitter sweet relationship between the devs and us. They scribble away for weeks, months, they conceptualise, and make artwork, and we go plop! no ty. Its really cool that devs love home, but that has its drawbacks, like when a dev makes something that they're sure is a winner, and we are not too interested. But when they make our dreams come true xx I love the passion of the devs, but... I really think, perhaps more so than some other mediums, that they need to listen to what people want. I can only liken it to comedy... its very difficult to shout at people telling them to laugh, but if they don't fell the vibe from your joke then you die on stage, and devs can love a space all they want, but they really need us end users on side. I guess this is a footnote from that "The story of Home article " , Home was new and experimental, the experiment has been run, now they need to look at what worked and why. It does seem they want some further experimentation.
Listening to your target audience has always been a hallmark of a good manufacturer of anything. When a company doesn't, it's up to us to speak with our wallets. Unfortunately some will buy anything. Always support what you like and don't buy crap just because it's new.
It's hard for dev's to get feedback, online forums are only a small part of the full Home community, so end of the day sales data is likely the main factor of what way they will go with content, and why online forums might so a dislike for a item, the rest of the home community might have all got it. You also got the flip side where some well post to say somethings great just to keep a dev sweet or keep in with the cool gang, this misleads dev's sometimes into thinking thats the content people want. So end of the day within a direct way for the full home community to give feedback, its hard for a dev, Home needs a item rating system in the stores so people can rate the items they buy and maybe comment, but only people that have got the item should be able to do this to stop the trolls.
Most retail sites now have the feedback system.... But here's a thing, Retail web sites that allow feedback, but get "some" negative feedback fair better than websites with only good feedback, because the consumers feel that the feedback is more genuine.
While I agree with most of CB's comments, I don't think SOME devs try to listen to their audience at all. It does take effort. However, I still think a solid effort has its rewards.
Home is a business so the only real data is money taken. A rating system would be so effected by the users that rate everything on home by saying " woot woot " or the users that say everything is rubbish. Sent from my ST25i using Tapatalk 2
