💬 Game Focus Groups

[Story]

Hey all!

For our most recent EggWars & SkyWars updates we have run focus groups during their development. We're excited to expand these to you, the players, while we conduct more updates!

What are Focus Groups?

Initially, focus groups started out as a small, select group of people who we deemed to represent certain games on both Java and Bedrock, asking them for feedback on how to improve the game.

This allowed these community members who play these games extensively to contribute their opinions to the specification of the update, allowing them to have their say on what gets changed and what doesn't. We are now ready to expand this to a larger group of people.

At this time, we run these very tightly and only allow players who have a huge amount of time and games played to participate, we'd like to increase the number of participants to improve our accuracy with these updates when it comes to the community vision for the game.

How do I apply?

If you are interested in participating in a focus group please fill out our form below:

Google Forms: Sign-in

Currently, this form will only display games that we are currently running focus groups for.

We won't respond to people who don't meet our internal requirements to participate, in order to speed up the application process. But you are free to reach out to us via forum conversation and we'd be happy to let you know.

 

[KomodoDraagon2002]

This is great! Having experienced players help with updates will most definitely improve the balancing in them and make sure there's not huge community backlash on updates since the community are already involved

Also: will there be rules on leaking? and if so is there punishments?

edit: actually i just read the form nvm

 

[SanCookie]

Awh I thought Lucky Islands would get one

 

[Story]

Awh I thought Lucky Islands would get one

It could. We just don't have any update for it in our backlog.

 

[Salty_shadow]

Nice to see involving the community more in updates

 

[Shotgun]

Tower Defence doesn't get mentioned as the first ever focus group it wasn't even called focus group back then

 

[Story]

Tower Defence doesn't get mentioned as the first ever focus group it wasn't even called focus group back then

Yeah, the structure has changed quite a bit to my knowledge so I wasnt sure if I should mention it :[

 

[Shotgun]

Yeah, the structure has changed quite a bit to my knowledge so I wasnt sure if I should mention it :[

Sounds good, we didn't even have a structure back then afaik ;) I'm happy to see that Team CubeCraft continued working on the concept though, it would not only potentially improve updates but also make the current community more loyal to CCG. Love it

 

[komododragon2002]

Skywars already closed

 

[PluckyRaccoon06]

Out of curiosity when will you be reaching out to accepted applicants?

 

[Story]

Out of curiosity when will you be reaching out to accepted applicants?

It will range depending on the day but it will never be super long.

 

[EnderPlays25]

@SL4TES
edn updtea

 

[SL4TES]

@SL4TES
edn updtea

ya like thats happening

 

[EnderPlays25]

ya like thats happening

in 734 years
ooh gottem

 

[Lqgend.]

Please do this with FFA and other games eventually so the people who play most get a say. There’s too many updates people don’t want like gaining health on kill that you will probably be adding soon. There aren’t any staff who main FFA and most of the leaderboard/ well known players don’t want any updates like this, giving the community a voice is a very good idea though.

 

[R2Sammie]

There’s too many updates people don’t want like gaining health on kill

The "people" or you? Because i used to play FFA all day and people have been asking it for a couple years now. Every known FFA server within the 1.9 FFA community has a health regen system.

 

[Blom]

To illustrate Sammie's point:

(Bedrock) Can FFA have health regen on kill

Basically what the title says, I'm really enjoying FFA on cubecraft but the one thing that could be improved is that killing people should give you full health or at least a health boost, since there are so many people in FFA, it's pretty rare to...

www.cubecraft.net

Spawn protection, regen after kill, and assists in ffa.

Maybe after you kill someone, when someone else attacked before you should get the kill but the other player gets some xp for an assist, and for the regen maybe after you kill someone you gain regen 1, or 2 for 20-30 seconds so if its a ranked...

www.cubecraft.net

Faster Regen

FFA on bedrock came out which is good, but one thing I found was that half my time is just spent regenerating instead of fighting. I like blockwars ctf because I can go in, win a fight, and get back into it soon because of the fast regen times. I...

www.cubecraft.net

Slight Fix for FFA

Not really a big suggestion but I feel it could improve FFA. Basically if you were to fight someone in FFA say you win but with very low HP, your opponent or anyone who pleases can come and clean. I suggest that once you kill someone your health...

www.cubecraft.net

FFA suggestions

FFA - Free For All You may think that it isn't a good idea to make changes in FFA because it already gets a lot of players well, it can easily double that amount. It also has a lot of stuff that hasn't been added yet which would make the game...

www.cubecraft.net

Cubecraft FFA Suggestion

I think that the Cubecraft FFA for both bedrock and Java edition should have a feature that makes you gain your health back when you kill someone.

www.cubecraft.net

Spawn protection, regen after kill, and assists in ffa.

Maybe after you kill someone, when someone else attacked before you should get the kill but the other player gets some xp for an assist, and for the regen maybe after you kill someone you gain regen 1, or 2 for 20-30 seconds so if its a ranked...

www.cubecraft.net

Health regen after kill on FFA

On FFA (free for all) you should get your health back when you kill someone. when you finish a fight they either respawn and kill you or someone attacks you after the fight when your low. thats my only complaint.

www.cubecraft.net

This was only a quarter of the first page when you search 'FFA regen' on the forums.

 

[Lqgend.]

The "people" or you? Because i used to play FFA all day and people have been asking it for a couple years now. Every known FFA server within the 1.9 FFA community has a health regen system.

Not just me. I’ve spoken to at least a dozen friends or those I know who are on the leaderboard, multiple of them having over 100k kills and are old players. There’s nothing wrong with FFA the way it is and health regen would destroy the way it’s played. I have 53 days playtime so I’m experienced with FFA and know many people in the community who feel the same as me. I play on a few other FFA servers as well and on most of them interfering in fights is bannable and they’re made up of more experienced players unlike cubecraft. This means it makes sense to fully regen on a kill so that you can go and 1v1 the next person. CubeCraft is a lot more complicated because 2v1s etc are common and there’s nothing wrong with respawning once you get low or die. As well as this, I hardly know any of the well known FFA players that use the forums or discord. The point of the thread is that the community gets a say on updates and whatever the case this makes sense so that the people who play the game are the ones helping to make decisions.