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Originally Posted by Sebastian Palkowski
if you like it or not but we stand to our "new" way of handling infos carefully.
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Is it such a problem to ask for this when you're a potential (and a past FHM 2014) buyer? I really hope that the community will still be the bread and butter of this game and this company going forward. I don't want to get back here every day just to see that there are still no news about anything and I don't think it's the best way for the future handling it this way, simple as that. See below.
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Originally Posted by Sebastian Palkowski
We don't want to promise anything, I try to be active here, we post infos as we feel it is save to give them out, see e.g. our Road to release articles.
I will not post any release date as I can't promise anything. What I can say is, that the 2015 version is already played by our testers and we get great feedback in the new features and, maybe even better, on old bugs as well.
And even if it is obvious: everyone involved works every day on the game, even over Christmas, new year and Weekends. In the end, it is fun work.  |
I never requested any exact release dates or anything. Just some more transparency of the development process would be nice. I really loved it to see on what was worked on etc. Exactly this was the main difference between a small business like yours and a very big one like EA Sports that usually tell the customers
nothing at all before they throw out some marketing stuff only one month before release when there is no time to work on requests or even bugs that were spotted late in the process. And that's far from ideal; just take a look at what a tire fire the finished game NHL 15 for next gen (XBOX One, PS4) was. The game is awful exactly because no one of the target group outside the developers took a look at it and maybe could direct EA in the right direction with improving game modes/gameplay. They simply didn't care.
I know that you made too many promises in the past, but it would be nice to hear something about the new game with regularity over a longer period of time (even if it's only one bigger post per month).
And as I said, this is not a post to rant about your work. It's meant to be constructive.