Change publishing method - and - engage more with Community

[Moons]

1) Publishing method:

I think the price now - and the future higher price will be way too high and will hold back a successfull KSP2 so i would suggest to try to reduce the price of the initial purchase by:

• for example making Interstellar a DLC - but giving it to everyone that pre-ordered now at 50 USD - then reduce EA price and game price in general and have Interstellar as DLC? (i picked that since it probably would speed up development since i doubt its easy to implement and its probably also not the first thing most people would try)
• a reduced scale probably could also help with getting 1.0 out sooner, get sales sooner and have a price point at which more people would be willing to buy and would expect less from EA? (i am sure ppl would be way less negative if the price was similar to other EA games in a similar state - so for exmaple 30 USD in EA)

 

2) Community Interaction:

• in general there need to be more clear and condensed channels for news about the game etc. - as it is now it feels like information is all over the place - a lot of it in a locked service (Discord) not visible to many and mostly having lots of users because ppl simply join a server and auto join whenever they are online doing someting else in Discord (i also think that Discord is awful for deeper community interaction and presenting information since verything is hidden from the public internet and everything within Discord just gets chaotic the more users join)
• do a Q&A with handpicked questions - just make a thread for people to ask questions take some and try to answer them officially? (especially now since lots of people are probably a bit worried)
• show off what is there and show people that there is lots of progress -> simply pick some DEVs that want to and can show off the internal version of the game - what is beeing worked on - what works, what doesnt - just to show that there is lots of things going on and make development more personal - something like that most of the time can calm a community down a lot after a bad start

 

 

 

 

[twich22]

have you bought the game yet?

[Moons]

32 minutes ago, twich22 said:

have you bought the game yet?

No because i wont buy the product as is - which is what EA is - at this price. I bought KSP1 and every DLC when it was released and was about to buy this aswell - but not at this price and it seems im not the only one - yet i still am interrested in this game succeeding which is why i make suggestions because i doub it will if it continues like this - especially an even higher release price for 1.0.

Edited March 8, 2023 by Moons