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Traditionally, you end up with a preview or something like that. How has the press been in dealing with this, because we're a little different animal, releasing the product modularly? I kind of get the feeling that they're rooting for this process to work.

TL;DRSwofford believes the press likes the transparency, accepts the difference from big publishers hiding unfinished work, and is giving some slack, though they still expect quality delivery.

David SwoffordMedia Relations

I think you're on the right track there. That's the feel I get. The community has helped on this messaging also, but I think the press like the transparency that we're delivering. And with transparency comes all those sort of warts and things that you have to roll out there. The press are used to, over the last 10, 20 years, dealing with big publishers who are very careful about how their product looks when it goes up for the first time. We're careful about that, but you're going to see everything. And so, from what I can tell, I think the press is looking at that, accepting it, and realizing that it's a different paradigm in the way we're doing things all the way around: the community, developing the product, and how we handle the press. And so, yeah, I think they're giving us some slack and letting us go. Now, we need to deliver quality, and we will. That's what their expectation is.

Wingman's Hangar›ep067 . April 30, 2014·
Published on this date.30 Apr 2014