Stop being cagey about releasing information, please

[Insider]

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Should we infer from this that the release is way off? What does "mentally prepare them" mean, that the beta is nowhere near? Pretty tired of community managers trying to be cute to avoid telling us anything remotely close to information about their game. I get that you don't want to get your fingers burnt because of previous ****ups, but Jesus H Christ, man

EDIT: Callum clarified further the point of a beta announcement

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[Mad Vader]

He likely doesn't know himself. They tried planning and stuff, but then gave up and now development is "fluid".

 

[Insider]

And now a gameplay programmer left the studio, honestly, I don't understand anything

 

[578]

And now a gameplay programmer left the studio, honestly, I don't understand anything

What?

 

[Insider]

And now a gameplay programmer left the studio, honestly, I don't understand anything

What?

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[578]

Ah, well no biggie. People come and go during development.

 

[Mad Vader]

Crap. now we'll have no gameplay in Bannerlord, just senseless graphics and text.

I have worked on various single player features throughout my time at TaleWorlds: conversations, game menus, alley missions, siege engines, quests (my favourite!) and many more moddable campaign behaviours. I also want to mention that we focused on making the town/village life more realistic and rich. We added different kinds of NPCs with different kinds of behaviours, animations and quests.

 

[Insider]

Crap. now we'll have no gameplay in Bannerlord, just senseless graphics and text.

That would entail a game release, so it's highly unfeasible

 

[Ristridin]

And now a gameplay programmer left the studio, honestly, I don't understand anything

Me neither, she didn't explain anything to us.

And she shouldn't (have to at all).

It's her choice and many people change jobs during their career for a plethora of reasons, better salary, more challenging for themselves, more opportunity to grow themselves as professionals, better work hours, private situation demanding a different time schedule for their job, and so on, and so on.
Nothing to worry about imo. Just hope for her she gets everything out of her new job that she expects out of it and succeeds in her goals whatever they may be.

 

[Mad Vader]

The goal being apparently scripting in the upcoming Avatar game.

Losing someone working for 8 years on the project is bad, all the knowledge, experience and skill are gone. It's not like losing a recent conscript. But who wants to work on a game for 8 years and still not have the satisfaction of a successful release? People get fed up much earlier and those that are not in it for the paycheck leave (for a much bigger paycheck).
I doubt she would have left if a release was planned in the near future, and would have waited for it before moving on.

 

[Roccoflipside]

Unless Ubisoft gave her an ultimatum, basically saying "offers only good right now, take it or leave it".

 

[Ristridin]

The goal being apparently scripting in the upcoming Avatar game.

Losing someone working for 8 years on the project is bad, all the knowledge, experience and skill are gone. It's not like losing a recent conscript. But who wants to work on a game for 8 years and still not have the satisfaction of a successful release? People get fed up much earlier and those that are not in it for the paycheck leave (for a much bigger paycheck).
I doubt she would have left if a release was planned in the near future, and would have waited for it before moving on.

I agree that losing someone with much experience and knowledge about the (any) game in development is bad, but that doesn't tell us anything about the reason she did go for another job. And I think it's also none of our business to be honest.

That doesn't mean the result of development on the game will suffer because of it, and frankly, i'm sure it won't. Nobody is irreplaceable in a business situation, it might not be easy in some cases, but it's never impossible.

I think it is not right to even assume the, or any, reason why she has or, could have, left her job at TW nor to discuss any possible reason for that matter. Her reasons are her own, and all we do when discussing this topic is giving room for rumors and all the possible negative outcomes that can come of it. It's someone's private life we talk about, and while I don't have doubts about the integrity of the majority of people on this forum, it's the internet, and ****storms have emerged about far more trivial subjects.

 

[lolbash]

Should we infer from this that the release is way off? What does "mentally prepare them" mean, that the beta is nowhere near?

How the hell did you come to this conclusion from one sentence?

 

[Roccoflipside]

Should we infer from this that the release is way off? What does "mentally prepare them" mean, that the beta is nowhere near?

How the hell did you come to this conclusion from one sentence?

Probably because that sentence seemed like trying to appease people without giving anymore info than necessary. If that wasn't TW's go-to tactic these days, I might be willing to read something into it, but as this just seems more of the same I'll just assume that they are confident of being able to get a beta out relatively (in TW's time) soon tm.

 

[BlazingScribe]

Considering that they have already had to roll back some features that they had written about in blogs? I'd say they're being very prudent actually.

Here's a thought. If there is one thing to take away from the various developer controversies of the past few years, is that there is almost nothing worse than promising the world and then pretending you didn't when you couldn't deliver.

 

[Hanz]

Agreeing with OP, but this hush hush stuff has been going on for 7 years.

They must be still putting in these mechanics or polishing them, so they aren't talking about it in detail or showing information.

We'll see this gamescon.

 

[Insider]

Agreeing with OP, but this hush hush stuff has been going on for 7 years.

They must be still putting in these mechanics or polishing them, so they aren't talking about it in detail or showing information.

We'll see this gamescon.

By the way, Callum dropped by Discord and said in next week's blog he'll tell us something about Gamescom

 

[Terco_Viejo]

By the way, Callum dropped by Discord and said in next week's blog he'll tell us something about Gamescom

Insider you are the chosen one to bring us information; it seems that enough information is revealed in discord.
Thank you for your service, soldier 

 

[Insider]

By the way, Callum dropped by Discord and said in next week's blog he'll tell us something about Gamescom

Insider you are the chosen one to bring us information; it seems that enough information is revealed in discord.
Thank you for your service, soldier 

My pleasure, amigo! By the way, here's the link to the Discord channel

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https://discordapp.com/channels/197489226227384320/197489226227384320

 

[AJIexander]

By the way, Callum dropped by Discord and said in next week's blog he'll tell us something about Gamescom

Insider you are the chosen one to bring us information; it seems that enough information is revealed in discord.
Thank you for your service, soldier 

My pleasure, amigo! By the way, here's the link to the Discord channel

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https://discordapp.com/channels/197489226227384320/197489226227384320

Most likely there will be news that Gamescom will reveal the details of the beta.