Weekly post that contains:
New shop items
Weekly challenge and reward
Any events
Notable patch notes or quality of life news updates
It’s not rocket science. Gears 5 had a this week in Gears weekly post that followed this simple formula and worked really well for the most part.
I like it. Simple and consistent. I would also like to see/hear about things they are working on for future updates (whether it be content or particularly difficult bugs to squash).
I think a part of the issue is that there’s been no established communication cadence since launch. Inside Infinite used to be that prior to launch: people would expect a big update on the game last Thursday of the month around 3:43 PST, and that was awesome.
There was some cadence established recently with Friday updates, but that was broken last week in place of the networking article on waypoint – and then people were asking on Twitter if they should be looking out for an update that Friday afternoon (which didn’t happen).
Hoping @ske7ch @Unyshek will set community expectations for communication in the upcoming roadmap. I appreciate the updates so far, but it does give folks something to look forward to if there’s something like Inside Infinite each month.
I think it would also help to have fewer places to go to for info. The Friday updates have occurred on this forum so far, but then community questions get answered on Twitter. Would love to see more dev communication here, especially if this is where an update is posted.