I see this kind of post on the Steam forums and there and I kinda get it but here?, really? The situation then and current situation are completely different; then real development stopped because they ran out of money and let everyone go, now real development hasn't even started yet because A, you have to build a team and B, there is a lot of work to before that can even happen. So do you want low level updates on their development builds, or sit in on their interviews?,.......or what?
Have you listened to dev Q&A from a few weeks ago? It covers in pretty good detail what they are doing and what they are working towards. It also covers their current goals they have to hit before content can be made and pushed out to the game. In short its highly technical and it takes a lot of time, building the right team also does not happen overnight. Still really unhappy about it; play something else or go find something constructive to do....
I wasn't talking about HAWKEN. I was talking about when RG/G1 picked up APB when RTW went down. Lead producer got the forum set up, laid down the roadmap which included getting Midtown done and in the game accompanied by two new factions within 6 months, an Engine update to be fully tested and pushed through in roughly the same time, better servers, new match making, better anti cheat. That was in 2011. Today we have a video of Social in the new Engine (UR 3.5), worse servers, a decent anti cheat relative to what came before it and no mention of Midtown or the two factions at all.
We got weekly updates for about 3 months which were promised to occur for forever that slowly saw wider and wider gaps until we got what we have now. A weekly "patch-note" that never addresses problems that the community has with balancing TWO guns. That's TWO. Not 3, not 6, not 12, TWO. Since the "re balance, the sniper cqcs better than the auto shotty and the SMG is a total AR replacement that does better CQC than the aforementioned sniper.
So I will share the similarities between both of these accuisitions.
Reloaded gets APB.
Reloaded gets HAWKEN.
Reloaded gets APB forum up and makes announcement that the game is alive and developmwnt will begin shortly.
Reloaded gets HAWKEN forum up and makes announcement that the game is alive and development will begin shortly.
Reloaded adds a new joker box to APB market and claims it will have weekly updates as a team is hired.
Reloaded adds skin to HAWKEN market and claims it will have weekly updates as a team is hired.
Numerous Q&As are done with Reloaded APB staff and "weekly" updates last 3 months. Updates become fewer and fewer every month for another 6 months and then dies out almost completely as more items are added to market.
Numerous Q&As are done with Reloaded HAWKEN staff and weekly updates last LESS than 3 months. Updates have become fewr while more items are made available on the Market.
5 years later, APB is more or less the same game it has been since RG got it except... Not as good.
Do the math.
Go to the APB forum. You'll see. Reloaded has a great sustainability process. They can keep games around. Development on the other hand? Well. No doubt you see a pattern. Fallen Earth is much the same. The reason why this forum wasn't included on the main forum is so we wouldn't see what's there.
I do believe Josh when he says he wants to do things. Will they get done? At this point, if history has anything to say about their other two games... The trends.speak loudly. No doubt Tiggs or modsquad20 will come and remove this, but it's here now.
Edited by BaronSaturday, 19 October 2015 - 11:55 AM.