Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-38518555-20190424135342/@comment-38068589-20190425180548

ME7 wrote: Denizer wrote: ME7 wrote: I think the current format is quite good. Reddit was generous move by EA to let anyone comment, noobs or OG. If other people like the idea, it gets up-voted and discussed. That drwas more attention to it and EA takes notice. It's an equal platform for all. Prior to that, we sent things to FM and you never heard what came of it.

Consider the following:
 * Would you take the advise of a noob on your investment portfolio?
 * Would you take the advice of a noob on rewiring your house?
 * Would you ask a recent acquaintance to advise you on your love life?

For me, it's all a definite NO. In the same order as above;
 * I don't want a stupid promise of a guaranteed 20% return. (Lose 20%!)
 * I don't want incandescent recessed lighting when they're being phased out. (Or a fire!)
 * I don't want some kid asking me if I kissed my significant other yet! (Just no.)

Now that doesn't mean that they don't have a few valid points, but that's not what I'm looking for. I need solid advice, advice that doesn't waste my time and money.

Before accept seek advice, I do my research and find out who has a good reputation based on prior work. Most people do that. To me that's who Game Changers are. We are people that were vetted by EA and were chosen.

I think part of the problem is that people don't actually understand what the Game Changers program is for. If you go to the Game Changers website and just read the first page, it will make more sense. Here's the opening paragraph:
 * Game Changers is EA’s community partnership program that fuses content creators and expert players directly into the game development process enabling early collaborative feedback for improvements. We also empower innovative storytelling by granting creators early access to gameplay capture.

So the mandate is having "content creators and expert players" give feedback into development. That's as important as an investment portfolio, a houses wiring and key relationships.

You generally don't let noobs into the more intimate parts of your life or business.

These examples are not really relevant. This is more on the lines of mcdonalds playing to kids kind of thing. You have to find a way to attract new customers, rather than making life hell for your loyal ones... Actually, these examples are perfectly relevant if upi understood my point.

The topic here is who do you let into your inner circle to give you input? That's the basic premis of this thread. My point is that people don't pick those who have low experience for those things. You want to get your auto-body work done by a noob?? I really doubt it. Especially if that car is expensive. We are talking about a multi-million comany here.

EA has done this with many games, Game Changers is not just an RR3 thing. Since they launched it with RR3 and kept it even after the FM lay-offs, I would say it is doing it's intended job. I think you are giving too much importance to this. A game changer is not doing the 'auto-body' work here. They are not changing the code or anything... LOL :) Just giving directions for the game and a noob can be just as helpful, or even better in bringing in fresh ideas.

And, since you brought this up, most multi-billion dollar software companies like google, fb, uber, etc do rely on new-grads especially in developing the phone apps. Since most of the customer base is the younger generation...