Do you think BGS pays attention to this forum? Do you think we could influence them?

This again?

Yes. Sometimes.

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Why yes, they read the forums, but we are three years into development, there's not a whole lot we can influence.

DO they look at it? Yes. Do they take influence? Barely any, maybe dialogue for M'aiq the Liar.

Did you not participate in the suggestion threads that were ongoing for YEARS leading up to Skyrims announcement?

I meant for little things, like camping. Not FPS camping, but setting up a camp in the wilderness, so you don't have to back into town to sleep. I know there will be mods for this, but I am a console gamer. Mods do me no good.

NO!

They totally didnt listen when I said TES V should have guns and spaceships!

Bethesda has completely given up on its fans.

Look to the left and see that I just joined this forum.

they have no idea that there is even a forum on there website it was acctualy added by a modder i belive it was the same guy who made hgec BBB he found the source code to the website in the tes construction set and made the forums you see today

They are remaking archery based on a mod they played and liked. Not to mention they read these forums a lot and post here occasionally. So yes, they are influenced by these forums and the modders.

Couldn't tell you about camping specifically. As far as I know, nothing has been said about that yet.

There was a suggestion thread for years and a thread like this every day.

yes.

They do read the forums, Todd has stated that he frequents these forums and some devs even post here.

As for actually having some influence, I'd say yes, for sure. However not this late in the game, at least, not for Skyrim. Bethesda is alwyas listening though and who knows, a big dream for TES 5 that came too late may be in TES 6.

I did not know; I apologize.

Thx to everyone who gave a serious response. I appreciate it.

For further reading: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1177896-why-the-devs-arent-participating-to-discussions/

And sometimes they deny things like dual shield wielding.

There's a "Meet the Devs" thread, which is the most active thread where you'll see devs posting. But like others have said, it's probably too late to suggest much at all.

they lurk in the shadows whilst partaking in esoteric Dunmer rituals involving coffee and meringues

If you have a good concept, mock it up in the Construction Set/Creation kit.

If I had a PC and knew how, I would. I'd love to play with the Construction Set.

He said he plays on a console in the first post.

There has been quite a few suggestion threads since the release of the last one. I highly doubt they didn't look at any of the 100+ suggestion threads whatsoever.

several devs actually posted on this thread.

Hehe, there have been quite a few silly ideas that wouldn't really fit into TES, yeah. For every really good idea there are at least 10 really bad ones


Yeah, they are more likely to be inspired by people who did not only have an idea, but also showed what how idea would work in the game by making a mod with the Morrowind/Oblivion Construction Set. There are a bunch of mods the devs said impressed them in the past.

But the forum posts influence them too, there has been changes in Morrowind, Oblivion and Fallout 3 due vocal fan posts and stuff. Like how lots of people got here and complained about how Morrowind became too easy when you're reaching a high level so they changed the level scaling for Oblivion, which in turn also caused a lot of complaints so the level scaling was changed yet again for Fallout 3. And during the early development of Morrowind Bethesda announced that Argonians and Khajiits wouldn't be playable as they are seen as slaves, but that was later changed due fan demand. But those were collective complaints/requests by many people on the forums, not something that a single person thought about.

But I do also remember a single person idea. During the development of Oblivion a guy made a thread about how he got annoyed at having so many keys in the inventory in Morrowind so he wanted Oblivion to have a key ring. One of the devs thought it was a brilliant idea and told Todd Howard about it on the next meeting or something, but it was too late into to Oblivion development to be added. However, Fallout 3 did have a key ring, and I guess Skyrim will too.

In any case, right now it's much too late to do any influence at all. I would guess that most things in the game are done soonish and that they will only spend the rest of the development time tweaking whatever they put in the game instead of adding new stuff. If you keep adding new stuff every week you have a Duke Nukem Forever on your hands and a 14 year development time


Yeah, but I would guess the vast majority of pages of the suggestion threads weren't read.