It is insulting. Originally the bot did not even have the staff tag and I thought it was a joke response. I had to report it and ask what was going on, told them it needed a staff tag. Now it’s still a joke post with the staff tag because it is a bot providing 0 information to the reporter. They put a 302 redirect on the bug reporter profile page to a 404 error recently just to hide it.
honestly I’ve felt like giving up on this engine multiple times exactly because of the communication problem, the absence of an LTS program, and the constant flow of new bugs and experiments that is pushed to us on the major versions. I’ve been with this engine since early UE4. I’ve worked in IT as system admin, programmer, customer support, fullstack website dev, released Road To The North and studied tons of books regarding other fields related to business, sales and psychology. Of what I learnt in this process I see way too many red flags in the software itself, the treatment of the developer and seller community. It’s a total sh*tshow.
I have openly discussed my thoughts on the topics I post, I don’t just report bugs or teach here I have openly discussed problems with the forums, the engine, the marketplace, piracy and legal matters and the only response I see is of us, the developers and their businesses. I’ve given it time. If nothing improves in the coming months on EPICs side I think it’s time to move on.
Even the bloody forum is falling apart technically. UX goes down the drain and a topic where I’m visually discussing redesign for UX is gone, no notification about it. I hate to complain but I can’t work with amateurs, it just doesn’t work for me. It holds me back, wastes my time and when I need information on EPICs part I have 0 guarantee I can get it. I can’t take it seriously when I need to teach people here or sell products.
As a community we have done everything we can right? We spend our time here unpaid, we have specialist knowledge valuable enough to reply to. It’s not a costly investment on EPICs side to listen to our needs and adapt at a reasonable speed, there is gold to be found in our reports that are out there. EPIC is not a 5 people business lacking resources. When there is a reply, I always see the same few names on specific topics. Look at how old my posts are.