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Website/Store fiasco continues- Dev tells fans that criticizing them does not help...
Slapshot1188
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Apparently they are going to bed and the website and store will be down again until at least tomorrow. Dev had the time to remind people that being critical of their utter inability to hit their 1st post kickstarter deliverable with 3 delays and then a website meltdown really doesn't help anything.
" we recognize this process has gone on longer than we'd have liked, and we really appreciate all those who recognize that being critical of us, or the fact we don't have dedicated web developers yet, really doesn't help anything. So thanks again for your patience."
Source:
https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/ZfQYNgyN/
As with all Kickstarters it comes down to the company's ability to deliver on what they promise and in the time frame they promise it. In no way, shape or form can this fiasco give anyone confidence in their ability to deliver. So far they had one deliverable post kickstarter and they have utterly failed even after multiple delays.
Edited to add this "important" information from poster @Drakenhoff which just seems like a list of excuses to me but in the interest of "fairness" here it is:
But if you actually explained the whole topic of conversation people would know.
1) one remote developer had a power outage which caused issues.
2) unforseen errors happened in the backend..
Do projects have unforseen issues. ... yes
3) a team members family member was in hospital which again caused issues.
4) caspian had been up 20+ hours trying to fix issues when he made that statement.
" we recognize this process has gone on longer than we'd have liked, and we really appreciate all those who recognize that being critical of us, or the fact we don't have dedicated web developers yet, really doesn't help anything. So thanks again for your patience."
Source:
https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/ZfQYNgyN/
As with all Kickstarters it comes down to the company's ability to deliver on what they promise and in the time frame they promise it. In no way, shape or form can this fiasco give anyone confidence in their ability to deliver. So far they had one deliverable post kickstarter and they have utterly failed even after multiple delays.
Edited to add this "important" information from poster @Drakenhoff which just seems like a list of excuses to me but in the interest of "fairness" here it is:
But if you actually explained the whole topic of conversation people would know.
1) one remote developer had a power outage which caused issues.
2) unforseen errors happened in the backend..
Do projects have unforseen issues. ... yes
3) a team members family member was in hospital which again caused issues.
4) caspian had been up 20+ hours trying to fix issues when he made that statement.
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If you are interested in making a MMO maybe visit my page to get a free open source engine.
Either that or fund it yourself and tell them it'll get done when it gets done.
You see that thing on Kickstarter that said "Estimated delivery: Dec 2017"?
If they miss that estimate, sure post away - we *did* back for the GAME.
But all this angst over a SHOP? [mod edit]
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Besides it's not like the statement isn't true... bitching, really won't help anything. Just as it wouldn't on a certain other site....cough..cough...
Isn't this more or less a caveat like SC is running for more funding?
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You do realize the ONLY reason the game is going right now IS because of THAT shop?The ONLY purpose right now is to raise money and that alone is a poor excuse to get a game going .
Don't start the game and money grab until IT IS ready?
Easy to make excuses ,seriously seems like EVERY single game is RUSHED to market,no more excuses please,i tire of them.
BTW when people complain,it is because they are angry,they are NOT voicing their anger to help anything at all.What people do hope is that flaming a developer for NOT doing a proper job,keeps other devs from rushing out their product,but seems every dev just doesn't care.
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" we recognize this process has gone on longer than we'd have liked, and we really appreciate all those who recognize that being critical of us, or the fact we don't have dedicated web developers yet, really doesn't help anything. So thanks again for your patience."
I guess when the MMO misses the deadline that can use the excuss that they didn't have any dedicated network developers on the team. Cause the original team that was shown on the kickstarter had no network programmers on the team.
Have a rum and coke.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
the world has to turn back into a seller economy and sellers world.. if J.C. Penny did one thing wrong it was starting the whole the customer is always right idea back int he 1900's
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1) Their team and budget is tiny thus any delay is very, very costly.
2) The reason for delay isn't just some "kink", it is due gross understimation and bad project management.
3) They intend to use middleware heavily and this is their first opportunity to use is. Using middleware isn't something simple, despite it seems like it provides easy solutions.
4) They have some truly dubiously short development cycle for MMO.
5) In no way shape and form their reaction to player "feedback" is acceptable.
It isn't only about just a website, it all adds up...
But I have a question for all those "experts" and "moaners" here. How many of you would be willing to work till midnight on a Friday and Saturday to remedy a situation like this?
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They can't even build a website but the fanbois are just waiting to throw more money at them. I don't know if they are window licker level dumb or just blinded by hope.
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