Not showing the MMO

Hi Intrepid,

It was nice to see some new creatures and things which are in progress, however; We still do not see things from the MMO itself.

I understand that you have been burned and know the consequences of being transparent, but I think you have gone from one extreme (being too transparent) too another (Not showing any content at all).

More places I begin to see people which are doubtful of the entire MMO, that it will never happen and I also see people making memes about it, as a result of not seeing any progress in a year.

You argued at the latest livestream that you were not comfortable with showing stuff because it is subject to change or might get scrapped entirely. Yes this is something we are aware of as gamers, it happens all the time.

To me it feels like you do not trust your own product, and that is sad.

I hope you get back to being more transparent, and I think it would be healthy for the community.

Thanks for reading. Do you agree?

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consultant

Compared to other projects this game is pretty transparent. Maybe the reason people just want more is because what they do show is really good. I really enjoy the livestreams. Think it was great of Steven to let us meet some of the other Developers Those guys seem really passionate about this game.

Plus Steve goes on Discord all the time, Plus we get to see him interact with community on a regular basis. Through live Streams. Plus they put out little bits of Lore now and then. All in all they have done a great job I mean they have you asking for more. Everyone wants to see more well just MMOs take time that is all.

Caelron

There's been quite a bit of assumptions going on about Intrepid Studios and their intentions - especially about what they release vs. don't release and transparency.

Since I feel like it would take all day to respond to each one, I'll just post my opinion related to the original post.

Simply put, Intrepid is doing their best to try and manage their marketing as best they can. Steven did a great job so far releasing everything he could, even to the point of spoiling many things nearly every time he got in front of the camera - and all of it was clearly because he was so excited to tell people about what was in development that he ended up blurting out quite a bit! He even would fall asleep responding to people in discord.

That being said, there was quite a bit of negative criticism that made its way back, seemingly from people who were either very impatient, or just downright toxic or malicious. (Again, just looking at the possible negative criticism reactions, even though there was far more positive criticism and reactions.) Whatever the case may be, my perspective as another community member and follower of the development is that they're just trying to manage things better. There's also been a LOT of other gaming companies recently (nearly all of the main AAA-gaming companies it seems) that have done some really scummy practices, especially around monetizing their products (or releasing unfinished products for full price) and essentially screwing their customers. I imagine they're doing their best to make sure that they don't get lumped in with any of them. The best way to do that is to only show things that are closer to finished. In other words, limit what gets put out there until something more substantial can be put out there (like another round of APOC testing.)

They've also been very transparent, to my perspective at least, that the reason we haven't seen anything since the APOC testing was because of some major back-end testing that essentially mandated a complete overhaul of some of their code and systems. That takes a lot of work! They've also tripled their staff since then - possibly more. My hope is they only hired more experienced staff so they don't have to spend time on training, but I imagine there's still quite a bit of training that needs to happen, too, since it's all new stuff they're developing.

I'm in the camp where I just want to be involved in the process in some way. I love the imagination and creativity of the game, especially since I grew up as a gamer (especially in mmorpg's, starting with Nexus TK), and I want to give back what I can - not just enjoying the end product. I even spent a lot of money beforehand just to test the game, hoping that I can be a part of the process to make it better.

Heck, I would even want them to release more, regardless of how unfinished it is. I would absolutely love it if they had some of their main team members or artists live-streaming them working on something every day, even if it's one guy just trying to draw a staff for 8 hours. Or another guy just trying to code something. Would that be boring? Oh, definitely. Would it be interesting? Absolutely. For me, it would be so interesting that I would want to learn about the tools and things they're using, just to learn it myself and somehow help with the process.

After all of that - of course I want to see the finished product in my hands right meow!
But, I can wait, too. :-P

Nixal

PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan

sorry wrong universe

insomnia

I have a feeling at one point, we will start to get lots of information. About classes, races etc. They do release information about nodes

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