Is it really 3 weeks from beign Released!?

I fear they release an incomplete game

from Elemental Forums

According to the journal, the game should be released on August 24th. But after reading this from the journal

  • Casters should not get to cast spells more than 1 per turn.
  • The UI makes me cry. Clickity click click click. What’s going on?
  • Goodie huts are boooring.
  • The spells are booooring.
  • Tactical combat is boooring.
  • The spell books are confusing and make me feel violated and I’ve already consulted my attorneys about the issue. (Sorry Stardock, it’s too late already)
  • The spells are all the same and boring.

in my point of view, the game is not ready to be released on the shelves in 3 weeks. Normally, 3 weeks before the release, if you still have some changes to do, it should be really minor changes, like for example, lighting adjustment like seen in a previous thread. ( Here I did not consider the time for distribution of physical copies)

From the list of comments above, the engine might be working but there does not seem to be a working game out there.

So is it me who has misunderstood something, or they are really expecting to sell and incomplete game by August 24th?

Even with the large modding option possibilities, the initial release must be a complete working game since most people will not even bother about mods if the base game does not hook them first.

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Sigh...not another one of these.

From that same journal entry just the next paragraph down.

"Making a game is a lot like writing a term player expect that we have to program the word processor prior to actually writing the term paper. After programming the word processor, writing the term paper doesn’t seem so bad."

It takes them very little time to make adjustments such as those. Frogboy just posted a journal saying they've already completely redone the UI. I would be surprised if he game wasn't very different at release compared to what we played.

If you are genuinely worried about this, make suggestions. Don't just make a thread saying it won't be finished - that's not constructive.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Read the other journals.  All that stuff is really easy to change.

 

Froggie likened it to writing a college essay but having to code the word proccessor first.  They've coded that, what's left is easy to fix.  Half the stuff there has probably already been fixed, and what we have in the beta was never the same as the internal version anyway.

 

Froggie specifically said that in every game they've ever released they get posts like this.  Every single one.  Many posts.  So stop worrying.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

lol beaten to it.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

These threads need to die.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

hopefully a mod will close it :-) 

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Annatar11, reply 4
These threads need to die.
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Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Count down to thread lock....

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting astrath, reply 6



Quoting Annatar11,
reply 4
These threads need to die.


 

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End of astrath's quote

That's like the Stormtrooper effect at point blank.

"Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise!" ... and then they proceed to not hit anything for the 3 movies.

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

To summarize: Yes, it's being released in 3 weeks. Yes, people have been bringing it up for a month or so already. No, nothing is going to change, and no, you're not alone in being concerned.

We'll find out who was right in a few weeks. Until then, post some suggestions. :)

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

Count down to thread lock....
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till a stardockian see this.