Smart people? You mean ignorant casuals that are unexperienced.
That type, class, defining function is what is causing syntax error over the enire fucking forum.
Sorry but the mild approach isn’t a thing this deep into the hells of bad coding and design. It’s all about rant and money wave at this point to make any astronomical luck of AGS direction change.
And my general philosophy on the matter is:
If you sell people a broken product knowing full well the advertisements are false, you reconpensate those who wish to return the broken product and they can chose to stay and give it another shot or take their business elsewhere.
Im not here to make the game worse, im just here because I feel scammed and Im getting hollow responses from the people in charge of communicating for the company.
This game is trash. Concept is good. Games trash. We’re way past constructive criticism.
If you seriously think that, “we have to become better as a community for the game to be better.” is at all a solution, then you’ve been dropped on your head a few too many times. Us being a better community isn’t going to fix bugs or make AGS put out a patch or update without new bugs or exploits.
How many hours have you played and how many hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars have you spent on shit you ultimately ended up using once or a few times before tossing it into a corner?
A lot of things, but I am truely a fan us reusability. I also grow my own food and do food composting irl. I dislike this capitalistic throwaway culture we are living it.
Sure I have put hours into games, food, sports, ect that at the end of the only brings me “joy” but thats what Im paying for, and thats what Im not getting from this product/game.
I didnt find it fun to chop logs and fish for hours not making any money. Being constant broke. It felt like work, but thats how I view any MMO. Its all work until Max level. thats when the fun opens up for me, but in this game I realised the end game is fked, and the game itself is broken. While I did these boring chores I came across numerous bugs but I excused them saying: Well, by the time I am max level the few remaining bugs will be gone" but it FINALLY dawned on me; this game has been more flawed than I noticed, and its currently practicly not working for EU. Probably wont until monday or holidays is over.
All I have payed for currently false hope and advertisement
How would I feel? Like I’m getting fucking paid to do a job, and it was sub par.
You ever sell cars? I sold cars once upon a time. Now that’s a hard life. You’re on your feet 14 hours a day, no guarantee of pay, sometimes you go weeks without selling anything and don’t get to eat. Sometimes some fucko comes in expecting a brand new XJR for $100 a month with no money down, no credit, no cosigner, and is upside down on his trade in.
And when you can’t make that work, your sales manager sits at your desk and says to you “Why didn’t you sell him a car you fucking retard? If the next person who walks in doesn’t buy you can fuck off”
Know how many customers came in saying “hey maybe we should be nice to the salesman, they’re working super hard”
Fucking zero. And I’m supposed to feel bad for someone sitting in an air conditioner office in a comfy chair writing code because they fucked up repeatedly?
Hell no. When they fix their shit they will have earned some leeway. Up until now they have earned nothing and deserve nothing.
I actually agree with this. This community is really toxic towards the development team. That’s not to say there aren’t valid criticisms, there definitely are. Its the overall petulance of the apparent aggrieved that makes this place a bad place to go. A lot of entitlement running around on the forums.
You realize people could think;
“I’m tired of seeing these little kids sucking up to AGS despite their failures. They pretend that there’s nothing wrong with the game. Every day I come onto the forums theres some other sycophant licking the boots of AGS while there are servers with less then 100 people playing on them, trading posts down for weeks, characters deleted, people lost thousands of gold worth of resources they were selling on the TP, BOTS everywhere, broken PvP Balance, Severs that are nothing but bots farming OPR for gold 540,000 gold every 10 minutes then transferring it to other servers to sell, and these kids can’t stop licking boots.”
That’s the thing about opinions. Everyone has one. Instead of arguing that the people are wrong. Look at the context of what they’re saying, and talk about what they’re saying is wrong…
Nice try, but developing a video game is nothing like developing an classic or web application. You can’t use the same Scrum principles used in modern software development of a project / application owner giving the the dev team short-term goals via stories. I’ve been there and done that shit, and it leaves little space for any sort of creativity because you don’t have time to experiment, which is what video games are all about. Get stuff implemented and them move on to the next ticket is exactly what New World feels like.
Having an application development approach to video games is why AGS hasn’t put out a single good game in its existence. This isn’t my speculation either, but the testimony of people that have actually worked at AGS. Doing something by the specs or to please investors / execs doesn’t work in gaming because that’s how you create things that aren’t enjoyable. Fun isn’t a metric that any data-driven developer has ever been able to measure. Hell, trying to measure fun via “engagement” is why WoW is in the mess it is right now.
Now go shill for AGS’s garbage approach somewhere else. Even if their development team isn’t awful, their management sure as hell is.