Yes @Ironhorse .. this rant deserves it's own thread
UWE .. please .. for the love of god .. learn from your absolutely diabolical timing problems with NS2 with all your future projects.
If there was a study on how to screw up the timings of bug/performance releases, feature releases, maps, announcements, priorities .. you take the cake ..
Anyhow .. go back to the beginning ..
You made your release date (er release month) .. and released a poorly executed server browser (c'mon .. it's not as if this is a small feature that people won't be using?) .. something that was hacked together in the last week .. performance was unbelievingly shit ..
Then there were a few sales and player base rocketed for a short period ..
After something like the 4th sale .. a patch was released that greatly improved performance .. now .. by this time, anyone who might have stuck with NS2 had already bought it, tried it and disregard it due to the shocking performance they would have previously experienced.
Over-hyped announcements from Hugh
2 maps in 2 years .. (yes yes .. one had lovely rain.. but they're probably the 2 worst maps)
and now pug/match making when the player base won't support it .. seriously?
If you looked at what people were asking for from day one .. it was basically, in order..
1) performance, 2) maps, 3) match making system (server browser was commented on, but since it was 'functional' people accepted it) - that sound about right?
Anything else was really secondary/nice to haves .. I find it so hard to understand how the rework to the game regarding biomass etc. took a higher priority to a match making system .. who made these calls??!
I love NS2.. I'm still playing it and will for however long there are people to fill servers.. but its just frustrating looking at all the bad calls made in the ns2 project .. great game .. but I just wish you got the bloody timings + priorities right![:/]( ":/")
I understand NS2 isn't going to generate much revenue for you (if any) from now .. and anything we get we should be grateful for .. I am grateful .. but timing .. timing timing timing
Check out agile development .. check out having user stories .. priorities them .. have set deliverables every 2 weeks on your projects, have demos internally of what was done and use it as a forum to get input from others within the company at this time,
I read somewhere that you guys did things very informally .. that just leads to people picking cherries and the tough stuff just gets left to the end![:/]( ":/")
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frustrated as hell![:/]( ":/")
I look forward to all the disagrees and flags .. but I don't really care as long as someone within UWE reads it![:/]( ":/")
feel free to delete the thread etc.
Bal
UWE .. please .. for the love of god .. learn from your absolutely diabolical timing problems with NS2 with all your future projects.
If there was a study on how to screw up the timings of bug/performance releases, feature releases, maps, announcements, priorities .. you take the cake ..
Anyhow .. go back to the beginning ..
You made your release date (er release month) .. and released a poorly executed server browser (c'mon .. it's not as if this is a small feature that people won't be using?) .. something that was hacked together in the last week .. performance was unbelievingly shit ..
Then there were a few sales and player base rocketed for a short period ..
After something like the 4th sale .. a patch was released that greatly improved performance .. now .. by this time, anyone who might have stuck with NS2 had already bought it, tried it and disregard it due to the shocking performance they would have previously experienced.
Over-hyped announcements from Hugh
2 maps in 2 years .. (yes yes .. one had lovely rain.. but they're probably the 2 worst maps)
and now pug/match making when the player base won't support it .. seriously?
If you looked at what people were asking for from day one .. it was basically, in order..
1) performance, 2) maps, 3) match making system (server browser was commented on, but since it was 'functional' people accepted it) - that sound about right?
Anything else was really secondary/nice to haves .. I find it so hard to understand how the rework to the game regarding biomass etc. took a higher priority to a match making system .. who made these calls??!
I love NS2.. I'm still playing it and will for however long there are people to fill servers.. but its just frustrating looking at all the bad calls made in the ns2 project .. great game .. but I just wish you got the bloody timings + priorities right
I understand NS2 isn't going to generate much revenue for you (if any) from now .. and anything we get we should be grateful for .. I am grateful .. but timing .. timing timing timing
Check out agile development .. check out having user stories .. priorities them .. have set deliverables every 2 weeks on your projects, have demos internally of what was done and use it as a forum to get input from others within the company at this time,
I read somewhere that you guys did things very informally .. that just leads to people picking cherries and the tough stuff just gets left to the end
rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant
rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant
rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant rant
rant rant rant rant rant
waffle waffle rant waffle
frustrated as hell
I look forward to all the disagrees and flags .. but I don't really care as long as someone within UWE reads it
feel free to delete the thread etc.Bal