This is a video cut from the stream of SOLO doing LAN 2022 where MindArk attended and did a short Q&A.
You can find the full Twitch video here: [MEDIA=twitch]1416075339[/MEDIA]
Here is the snippet of the Q&A part only I uploaded to YouTube in case the Twitch video isn’t available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCK1wjOJ9T8
Enjoy!
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. MA should offer you the community manager position 
Solo looked happy and hyped! 
Great to hear Mindark responding to the questions.
They seem to be holding a lot to the new engine.
Ah, this should be a fun watch
thanks jak for sharing
Yikes. Avoiding player count numbers is very concerning.
i admit that the answers are not giving any information to me…
Some Snippets.
-Sounds like they have not started working with UE5 within the game. They are still learning how to use the engine. No timetable for Unreal Engine 5 as they are wrapping up pre production.
-What’s more important Player retention or Player acquisition? Player retention is important and getting their feedback to keep them. But we also need new players as well. PLAYER RETENTION IS MORE IMPORTANT.
-Is it possible to see how many people are online? Not something they want to share. They can not say why. No further explanation
-Will Mayhem store continue to be restocked regularly? Talked to balanced team members, there will be some restocking. Not sure if it will be same items or the same price though.
-Space is unavailable to a lot of players. Plans to make content more accessible for everyone? Intentional to have a barrier to enter space. No plans to hare right now to make it easier. But it sounds like some people want it so maybe we will talk about it.
-Any plans to look over old lv 100 weapons and lower requirements to make them more usable? First answer is NO. There’s been small discussions, but no plans for all the useless weapons in the game.
-Chance to sell whole clothing or armor sets in the auction house? We want to do it for the new Engine, but we won’t it before then or we will have to redo it.
-A lot of empty shops and apartments. Any plans with having them available? Probably but not all at once. For different event rewards, sales etc.
-Plans to add armor/clothing preview before purchase? We want to but will wait until new engine, same answer as clothing and armor sets. Why spend time and resources unless it is very easy to do before UE5.
BUT TELL US WHAT YOU WANT SO WE CAN MAKE A PRIORITY LIST
-Buffs are so small to read. Can you do something to fix that? Tied to the UI update, very tedious and hard to make it work. We have paused the project. Currently not happening at least until UE5 potentially.
Mia mentioned something about discord server? Anyone has an invite link to this community discord server?
That interview was so awkward to watch, like MA was forced to be there. Basically no information given and i laughed so hard when community manager said how active she is on forum ?
They have a community manager? Huh… Well that’s news to all of us
A Salary squeezing person. They should rotate the staff often and bring in newbies to unskilled staff requirements.
Humm. Why would they be so against sharing this? They sounded so defensive.
May be sharing players numbers will affect the prices of ingame items.
I’m not sure how far are they with UE5, but seems like they invented time travel and are back in LAN times. :dj:
I would be happy if they publish some draft roadmap with timeline for implementation of UE5. Some general deadlines could be given.
Roadmaps are so 2012
Its about wording. Doesnt mather is it roadmap or timline whatever. Just some draft dates. Even if they are not followed exactlly we can at least predict if its going to be in 2024 or 2036.
We know the player base isn’t huge. But it would be nice to have some official numbers from MindArk.
Looks like we have about 3700 hunters with globals this week. Seems to rise above 4k during busy Mayhems:
They said they had about 3million accounts that where active. This was like 3-4years ago tho. Nothing about how much everyone plays or anything.