There is no “magic” in AAA game development, you have leads that are in the office and that communicate constantly to archive good results (But they could do so as well at home). And you have people making budgets and approve of scopes. After that there are the ground workers that make the foundation/MVP and then come the masses of staff working on assets/code/sound/testing/networking/tools these people do not need to be present. Then comes QA and Quality Gates. And the circle repeats.
Taking my professional experience as a basis for a argument is not a “trust me i’m a expert” but a basis for my statement since people do not argue rational but emotional. Like you “feel” and you “think” that something is the cause or bad, but you lack the evidences for it. And you’re also not declaring them as that but you state them as the truth.
And having people in the office or not is not the reason that his game which was in development since 2016 is failing now. From all the interviews and the constant shifts in scope and goal of the game it’s because Amazon wanted to be “special and trendy”, and now butcher their game because of some data analyst or lead designer or higher up pushing things that are not healthy for the game.
As far as my server is concerned (one of the highest pop US WEST servers at least for a long time) is basically dead, I see 10 people outside of the mutation dungeon instead of the 50+ 1 week earlier, all global chat is almost dead no wars are happening, there is almost no trade anymore.
A lot of these changes happened to late and they still haven’t listened to what people wanted in a lot of things, there has been 0 new content (OPR doesn’t count) and this game is as far as I can see DEAD.
There is no reason for a new player to get this game even if it was not dead because they will not spend weeks/months grinding item level, money etc to become competitive. Crafting (getting BIS gear) is so unrewarding its insane and it is even worse now with no one to sell the decent unwanted stuff to.
They ran this game into the ground so fast its amazing, most other games last longer than this with way less hype and population to begin with.
They didn’t shoot themselves in the foot here they shot their feet and legs off with a bazooka.
Right, because this is an entirely new development that never happened pre-covid… not like CyberPunk, Aliens Colonial Marines, Mechwarrior5, etc etc. came out half finished broken pieces of garbage and had to be brought to a playable state by the amateur mod community or by months of further dev work. I’m sure those games were ruined purely by people working from home. I was really looking forward to ACM too, and it would have been great if not for that damned pandemic of 2013!
Cyberpunk had its issues but I played it and still enjoyed it (mostly) and it did get fixes, there is a big difference here because this is an MMO and once the population is gone the game is unplayable, Cyberpunk you can go back to and play anytime.
I wasn’t comparing them in that sense. I’m just saying, games being released before they are finished, full of bugs, with broken content, has been the norm for at least a decade now and it has nothing to do with the pandemic or working from home, it’s a well known issue with the gaming industry in general and has been for a long time. I don’t know why these boomers insist on blaming all of new worlds problems on working from home. I think it just shows they have a bone to pick and aren’t dealing well with change.
Bro you rock, may logic prevail! Anyway I want to point out that I am a new player (2.5 weeks or so) and I started this game fully aware of all the issues as my IRL friends played since launch.
I started with the intention of being ready for when this game is good because think about it: If this game does get pulled from the flames and saved, it has sooooo much potential.
I believe this massive amount of potential is also the reason people are so passionate about the problems in the game. They don’t want to leave, they want to stay, they just really wish this game worked.
Oh I 100% agree with you, companies are greedy bastards that only care about the $$$ and not about making a good product. Ever since the video game industry became a really good cash cow we have had more and more pay to win, gambling and loads of other bullcrap that is more about addiction than it is making a good/fun product.
It is not that I don’t think this game had potential, it did.
It is that I think they have no idea how to make this game better from a player perspective, with the proof of what I am saying by their attempt at Myrkgard, they couldn’t do it but they tell us to “get good”.
They have no idea what works in an MMO, and I can tell you now we did not want 1 company earning millions a week so that they win every war on the server just by throwing their gear in our face, most of these people duped and cheated to get said territory in the first place and are mediocre at best in the majority and it has been proven since we caught up in gear right near the end and destroyed them.
OPR is anti competitive in design, it encourages to many people to do the wrong things to look good, they couldn’t even make an anti spawn camp properly and these are the reasons why I think this game with potential will never live up to that potential.
I hope so. I am much more skeptical than I was at the beginning. But the game still has immense potential - they just really dug a pretty large hole that is going to take a lot to climb out of.
Compilation errors would explain alot of the bugs and broken code. Like everyone is working on different things in remote locations. Then it’s all compiled and stuff gets overwritten by other changes. Or they are just incompetent at their jobs. At which point it wouldn’t matter where they were working. You can decide for yourself which side of that equation you will argue. Either way it means the same outcome in the end.
I think if they have time to develop the game (like a year or 2) it should be really good, and they could probably “re-release” as a free-to-play game. My only concern is if AGS doesn’t have the finances to continue development unimpeded.
Reason why > they kinda do what player base wants to get. And thats most important, because we pay money, we want product. If product shapes around us, its perfect.
Yes it might take time, but I think game still has a lot to offer, because its way different MMO than all the others.
no, they will continue to string us along with promises and do nothing of worth about the many things plagueing the game.
Today we saw tons of servers fail to update to the new mutated dungeon. As a result those people able to make orbs today were able to get TONS more points running more m7-m10 dungeons.
Those of us they screwed for 1.5 months with the bug to the faction quests had to grind that out again on the day mutated were released so our CDs for orbs will not be up until 2moro.
This means, that kids got thousands more shards than we were even able to obtain without piggy backing or paying out the ass for runs.
This is putting tons of players ahead of others.
10 more orbs today to run on m7-m10 is anywhere from 10,000 - 60,000 shards.
Once fixed in the morning we will have to run 1-10 again on the new rotation thus cutting us at the knees compared to those that got to get 10 orbs in today.
They don’t know wtf they are doing is what it all comes down too… they just removed Give Money because they couldn’t figure out how to code out people duping gold. They removed the ability to wear the same weapon twice, because they don’t know how to code out a speed buff that fire staff was abusing.
To anyone reading this, You and I are nothing but a testing ground for programmers that have limited to no actual talent.
Expect they will put the $1billion they made off this title into future projects and this game will be dead in 1-2 years.
This game is already dead, im here thinking, what to do? What more? Im trying day after day to do something different, but everyday is the same sh*t, waiting for some hunts to get some money or experience for something, this game dosnt even have a competition, only take some territories, OPR. All my friends stopped and im fighting to keep going on.
