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Hi all.
Anyone know when the final release date is yet?... Any new's
Anyone know when the final release date is yet?... Any new's
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Release is 1 to 2 years out to you?
Maybe its a typo... maybe he was saying 3023 or 3024...
2027 Mid = release
They have missed every date they have tried to commit to yet..... i would perfer they didnt say a word about alpha 2 until 2 days after its started this time around....
Solid communication? They literally communicate directly with the community every single month. "We are not ready to announce it yet and when we are, we will let you know" Just because you don't like the answer doesn't mean they aren't giving one, repeatedly... every. single. month.
I really can't wrap my head around people continuously calling for a "date" when it has been the case, across hundreds of game releases, that doing that ALWAYS turns out to be a complete disaster. Every. Single. Time.
Why do people want Intrepid to make the same mistakes as nearly every other developer?
I'm beginning to think that Intrepid might be better to announce an Alpha 2 date of 2030. Then when they are ready for the actual launch, come out and state that they are launching several years ahead of schedule!
This game will take a long time to develop. (Never mind that we have just had an incredibly turbulent 2+ years which will have impacted development significantly.) I can understand that people are generally not patient and are excited to play the game. But the endless "Alpha 2 when?" is incredibly tiresome at this point.
I'm in my late 30s and have just spent the last 5 years at College/Art School getting a qualification. I think about all the work I did over that time and then think about how much work is needed to create a game like this.
Dozens of systems, thousands of assets, millions of dollars. Dates mean nothing. Content is King. Surely you don't think we have seen enough Content to justify stating an Alpha date now?
2027 would be waaaay far out. You cannot sustain all the employees they currently have hired without cashflow for that long. It will need to be released within the next two years. Intrepid has over a 100 people working there. That's over $10+ mil a year in cost on just salaries... The pre-order packs and kickstarter money is not sustaining all those employees for that many years.
I think 2024/2025 is a realistic expectation.
It appears you do not understand what Alpha means in relation to Full Release. Alpha is a mutual commitment by paying players and developers to engage the game, help debug it, test servers and logins, be discreet about it, and give polite feedback for the good of the game. Alpha participation does not harm any public perception because we understand its infancy stage and are only looking to help.
You joined the forum 2 days ago and you are complaining how tired you are of very long term backers asking a simple question? Priceless.
You sir, have clearly not seen the backlash Alpha 1 had online. People were trashing the game claiming it was unpolished and unfinished and that it wasn't worth the 500 credits you had to pay to get in.
People to this day still shit on the game for AoC Apocalypse.
So when someone who seemingly has not been following the game's development or dev streams, or Discord where they openly communicate daily, weekly and monthly, claims Intrepid has not been communicative... That is priceless.
There won't be a release date until they're sure they know they can meet it. Otherwise people will also bitch and moan about delays and claim that "tHeY aLrEaDy hAd 5 yEars".
And being a forum veteran or not doesn't mean you haven't been following the process and know more than the next person. Get off of your elitist horse.
Maybe i'm the only one. But i actually loved watching Apocalypse gameplay. Super fast paced. It was def a Warframe knockoff. But it looked fun!
Oh I loved it too. But people freaked out about the game having turned into some vaporware Battle Royale, without understanding the actual purpose of it. And that shadow still lingers on the perception of the game to some extent.
Despite the millions of dollars invested by Steven, hiring hundreds of devs, and releasing monthly dev streams showing actual gameplay, people still believe this game is a scam. And it's in large part due to the trust that was lost back when Apoc came out.
And there were others, like me, who have been around since Kickstarter, have been a veteran of three different messageboards for this game (yes, this is the 3rd one, they deleted the first two), witnessed a number of mistakes and mistruths from Intrepid, and didn't trust them.
Apocalypse sucked. But then again, Battle Royale games suck, so no surprise.
To give you some historical perspective, at the time they had made numerous promises about when they would open it up for testing, they set dates and then failed to meet them. Then they said they'd do a Battle Royale game in order to test how combat would work. But the game would not have any of the combat systems of the MMORPG. It made no sense and was incredibly suspicious.
Also, at the time they spoke about having Apocalypse as a permanent thing that they would keep developing and offering. As we paid for an MMORPG, and waited years, and saw deadlines come and go, suddenly they have a completely separate game for people to play. Yeah, it looked scammy as all hell. Plus, development resources would be devoted to a game nobody wanted as we waited for the game some of us had pledged hundreds (or even thousands) of dollars to support.
As it turned out, the messaging about testing combat was simply not true (I don't consider it a lie, it was just bad communication). And they changed their mind about it being a permanent game. APOC ended up being useful after all, because it identified some problems with their server architecture. That caused yet another delay, but an understandable one, as they worked to address stability issues.
Apocalypse was something of a disaster and they deserved all of the criticism they got for it. And they've made other missteps that earned criticism. But nobody is perfect, I'm still here supporting them, I'm participating in testing as often as I can, and I still love what they're showing us.
You can support someone without being a cultist, you can provide criticism while still praising the accomplishments. I have a good feeling about this project even still, and look forward to Alpha 2. Alpha 1 was legitimately fun, despite the lack of polish and very little real content. The bones of the game were still there, and they were pretty darn good.
Seeking confirming communication on dates really shouldn't tee people off. Thats absurd.
Late November is the latest official information that we have. No specific date yet.
So if they were to announce Alpha2 tomorrow, you can usually expect Beta1 to be less than a year away.
End of 2023 at the earliest then, and more probably 2024. And 7 years is not unusual for an AAA MMO.
"Soon" (Trademark Blizzard - All rights to this term are owned by Blizzard. If used, the term must reflect a time period that exceeds all expectations.)
Steven must have a good time reading this knowing game won't release till 2026
Stop killing my vibe over here
I still miss wildstar😭