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No Updates in a Long Time
#1
Posted October 15 2014 - 08:56 PM
Can anyone fill me in on what happened? From what I can see the game doesn't seem abandoned, as the servers are still running, and players are present.
#2
Posted October 15 2014 - 09:02 PM
 
#3
Posted October 15 2014 - 09:09 PM
Devs are dealing with technical debt (fixing lazy coding, ect.), and that's taking a lot of resources to deal with.
We also suspect the devs are under a NDA, because they've said quite a few times that something awesome is coming, but they can't talk about it.
Some members of the team have recently been laid off.
We don't really have a community manager anymore, but sometimes a mysterious user named 'Administrator' pops online to ninja strike troll threads.
There have been a few times where entire server regions went down, we suspect for technical work.
We're still wreaking mechs, and everything isn't nearly as gloomy as you might think from everything else I've said. I encourage you to attend one of the many community-run events!
Edited by TwentyFirstPilot, October 15 2014 - 09:09 PM.
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#4
Posted October 15 2014 - 09:09 PM
But to keep it short and simple Hawken is either, In the process of being bought out/looking for a new pub, dying, setting up to self publish, or nothing at all and just fixing up their poopy back end which was based entirely on something they're not going through with anymore.
Which ever it is, the devs have been explicitly asked not to speak about it, potentially via an NDA.
#5
Posted October 15 2014 - 10:37 PM
http://hawken.herokuapp.com/
#6
Posted October 15 2014 - 11:29 PM
 TwentyFirstPilot, on October 15 2014 - 09:09 PM, said:
TwentyFirstPilot, on October 15 2014 - 09:09 PM, said:
The admin hasn' t been online since Aug 20th. The actions you are noticing are not from official employees. Also, Defter was known to use that admin account on occasion to fix things like when the forums were all screwed up and things were missing.
#7
Posted October 15 2014 - 11:29 PM

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#8
Posted October 16 2014 - 01:47 AM
 Massive_Assailant_Stingray, on October 15 2014 - 09:09 PM, said:
Massive_Assailant_Stingray, on October 15 2014 - 09:09 PM, said:
But to keep it short and simple Hawken is either, In the process of being bought out/looking for a new pub, dying, setting up to self publish, or nothing at all and just fixing up their poopy back end which was based entirely on something they're not going through with anymore.
Which ever it is, the devs have been explicitly asked not to speak about it, potentially via an NDA.
#9
Posted October 16 2014 - 11:52 PM
Someone official that can speak up should; if nothing more than to shut down speculation and give us hope.
And any "technical debt" should have been paid in full; 10 times over by now.
The only thing technical now is the NDA's binding us in silence.
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#11
Posted October 17 2014 - 12:55 PM
 Spliff_Craven, on October 16 2014 - 11:52 PM, said:
Spliff_Craven, on October 16 2014 - 11:52 PM, said:
Isn't that what Hughes has been doing in his twitter lately?
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#12
Posted October 17 2014 - 07:49 PM
 Liederkranz, on October 17 2014 - 12:55 PM, said:
Liederkranz, on October 17 2014 - 12:55 PM, said:
Hughes hasn't made any direct references to Hawken on his Twitter in eons. He said recently he's been "...asked not to talk about development on Hawken" leading most (including me) to believe there is a business acquisition happening or someone is replacing him.
#13
Posted October 17 2014 - 11:34 PM
 TwentyFirstPilot, on October 15 2014 - 09:09 PM, said:
TwentyFirstPilot, on October 15 2014 - 09:09 PM, said:
Devs are dealing with technical debt (fixing lazy coding, ect.), and that's taking a lot of resources to deal with.
You can say that again. I love Hawken to death but the fact that they messed up the coding so badly that they can't even get the VOIP working with over a year of work when it used to work fine is just plain ridiculous to me. I'm no coder or anything but that just seems bad to me when I've seen much MUCH smaller games with way smaller teams include such a basic feature.
#14
Posted October 17 2014 - 11:56 PM
As stated though, I do agree it's taking an exceedingly long time. I have a feeling we will be seeing new info soon though.
#15
Posted October 18 2014 - 10:30 AM
 Gunmoku, on October 17 2014 - 07:49 PM, said:
Gunmoku, on October 17 2014 - 07:49 PM, said:
 Liederkranz, on October 17 2014 - 12:55 PM, said:
Liederkranz, on October 17 2014 - 12:55 PM, said:
Hughes hasn't made any direct references to Hawken on his Twitter in eons. He said recently he's been "...asked not to talk about development on Hawken" leading most (including me) to believe there is a business acquisition happening or someone is replacing him.
That's what I meant, Gun. He didn't make any direct references but he did say that he was not allowed to talk about it. And it also lead me to believe there's a business acquisition happening or something similar.
Spliff said that someone official that can speak up, should do it at least to give hope. And as far as I know, Hughes is official enough working in Adhesive as the producer. And the things he has been saying brought hope at least for me. Even if it's a change of the game owners.
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#16
Posted October 18 2014 - 11:34 AM
 Liederkranz, on October 18 2014 - 10:30 AM, said:
Liederkranz, on October 18 2014 - 10:30 AM, said:
Spliff said that someone official that can speak up, should do it at least to give hope. And as far as I know, Hughes is official enough working in Adhesive as the producer. And the things he has been saying brought hope at least for me. Even if it's a change of the game owners.
well technically Hughes didn't say he's "not allowed to talk" about it, the last hawken-related thing he posted on twitter was that he's "unable to assist" with inquiries (https://twitter.com/...088726816116736) - what that actually means or whether there is some more context to that is totally up to speculation
 
#17
Posted October 20 2014 - 05:02 AM
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#18
Posted October 20 2014 - 05:44 AM
 It is true that the devs aren't saying that they are or are not under an NDA but I'm a person of action and not words, to me in my opinion the awkward silence for months tells me they are under a "don't talk yet policy" or packed it up and left the building incharge for someone else. After all, the servers are still up so somebody is still managing them. Neither the less it doesn't matter much without a dev saying whats what, so lets just leave it at that and play the game or something else. Support the game if you like it, and if you don't.(shrugs) Then just leave quietly...Preferably.
  It is true that the devs aren't saying that they are or are not under an NDA but I'm a person of action and not words, to me in my opinion the awkward silence for months tells me they are under a "don't talk yet policy" or packed it up and left the building incharge for someone else. After all, the servers are still up so somebody is still managing them. Neither the less it doesn't matter much without a dev saying whats what, so lets just leave it at that and play the game or something else. Support the game if you like it, and if you don't.(shrugs) Then just leave quietly...Preferably.
					
					Edited by Onstrava, October 20 2014 - 05:46 AM.

#19
Posted October 21 2014 - 08:18 PM
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