Too many frustrated guys in this forum... You should make something interesting with your lifes instead being here flaming all the day
To the OP: They say they were working at the same time in new content. I would not expect however nothing new in the next patch, but that doesnt mean they wont do it in the near future.
Yeah, that's the way of internet. While the game is in EA, I'm going to spend my time focusing on other things because I'm 100% confident the first month after release I'm going to be spending most of my time in Calradia.
It's early access, some people understand the context but these days it's easy to get spoiled and expect a certain standard even from EA releases. I'm not saying that it's inherently good or bad, it's just how it is. Certainly the whole phenomenom is good for consumers. With such a highly anticipated and long awaited game, I think it's only reasonable that some people are going to get disappointed or even angry because it's not a finished product. I say reasonable, but really I mean understandable. The other side of the coin is the fact that nowadays people expect constant stream of grand updates to the game whilst it's in EA. Which is, again, not the consumer's fault, it's just guided by experience because a lot of highly appraised indie games have had a very exciting EA cycle.
That's not to say that it's okay to spam the forums with "TW is greedy and bad and don't care" messages.
Obviously most consumers have no grasp on how big of an undertaking a project like this really is. I know I don't. Even smaller games with very limited scope - which I have some familiarity with - are actually very hard to really understand how much resources it takes both physically and mentally from the managers, devs and artists, not to mention monetarily or organization-wise from the company's perspective. And it's understandable, most people never really see behind the scenes. Why would they? It's of no concern to the consumer and it shouldn't be.
I think EA has served TW well but I also think that it has put a lot of unneeded pressure on them.
I haven't followed the process lately, I've had my own problems with the crazy state the world is in right now and even if we are starting to get to the better side of the corona thing - hopefully so - the fallout has been pretty heavy. I can only imagine the same to be true for everyone at TW.
Which makes me a bit sad to see comments and posts like these. It's all perfectly understandable but I can't help but think that even if they do their best to filter out all the negativity, someone at some point will come in touch with some of it and get discouraged/feel responsible and it'll only serve to make things worse. Logically you'd think that the devs especially would avoid most contact with the social media and forums but I bet that it's not that easy especially if you're passionate about what you're doing. Being human is not always the most logical thing.
And I have to say - again, I haven't been following that closely so this is all just based on the contents of this thread - if the people behind the curtains are really taking a vacation, that only makes me feel happy and relieved for them. I can't imagine the depths of the pressure they've been having with this EA cycle in combination with the world's situation. And having to deal with the absolutely nuts expectations for the game (which are of course perfectly understandable as most people have been waiting for the game for nigh a decade) and the EA progress alike.
I truly wish everyone's well and I hope to see the game once it's actually released.