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[Superkamikazee]

I must be ruffling some feathers
http://www.geekwire....-office-closes/

Someone has some capital.

Edited by Superkamikazee, June 02 2014 - 03:46 PM.

[[HWK]HUGHES]

Superkamikazee, on June 02 2014 - 03:41 PM, said:

Someone has some capital.

Ah, I wanted clarification from your perspective because I've seen that number being mentioned by multiple people but it's missing key parts of the company's overall strategy when used. While I won't go into more specifics, the initial investment was for the start of a publishing office, the building of an online platform and to fund further development of the title HAWKEN. An analogy might be Naughty Dog + SCEA + PSN. It certainly is some sizable capital, great opportunities are there for the entire company but the HAWKEN team still has some finite resources unfortunately but we keep our heads down plowing along every single day, enjoying what we do. No joke.

The game still has problems and we've been fairly open about that. We depend greatly on the community and general public playing so we can pinpoint issues since QA isn't able to fill an entire team by themselves so getting additional assistance is a big deal! Some aspects of the game needed more tuning than originally planned and some platform decisions made months and months and months ago proved to be less than ideal and making changes then has ripple effects across the company. Some bumps surfaced during open beta that were in ways not expected so yeah... that helped to contribute to a longer than intended beta duration.

Where was I going with this... oh yes...

We love the game, want it better and releasing on Steam was great for all of us. This isn't going to be a post about what's coming up in the future, that's for another topic! Thanks.

[Superkamikazee]

Making a game and not devoting enough resources (finances) to it can be a detriment to the finished product. To whomever's sitting on all that capital there, I wish they would give you guys the cash you need to do what you guys need to do. Having a game in beta this long may take away from it once it's ready for release.

ps, keep us updated. As you can see I get a little crazy without knowing the forecast.

Edited by Superkamikazee, June 02 2014 - 04:33 PM.

[camtheking20]

Its the graphics - my friend quit over them

[Spliff_Craven]

camtheking20, on June 03 2014 - 08:39 AM, said:

Its the graphics - my friend quit over them

Why quit_ This game is a beautiful thing.

I wonder what the minimum system requirements for Hawken are_

[Coder]

camtheking20, on June 03 2014 - 08:39 AM, said:

Its the graphics - my friend quit over them

Gotta say the graphics seem pretty awesome, definitely not a point of contention in my mind. I've loved games with so much worse.