The Crystal Ball

[Skoshi Tiger]

If a developer fixes a bug in Russia, but they don't post an update, will it still appear in the next patch?

[JG53Frankyboy]

as long the russian and the 'rest of the world' version are compatible online.....make a guess !

[6S.Tamat]

Is really difficult to me to understand the "let them work" thesis.
First they are not doing a good job, and I'm not talking about the programming and developing (also if seeing the game it could be simple), I'm talking about interacting with the community.
We have tons and tons of developer that have blogs, active forum life and advertizing during the developing and during the improving. Only talking about flight simulators see Rof and Xplane 10.

Seriously, are you really thinking that to post some news and interact a bit with the community once a week would damage their work?

See, as all the people here (and are day by day fewer), i'm a fan, and i'm the first that wants to let them work properly, but they are doing it wrong! The interaction with the community now is an important part of the job.
And what about the future? The Mods are the future, they say that they want to regulate them, but if they care about the mods with the same "generosity"...

[swiss]

Originally Posted by JG52 Uther

Say what?
The RoF devs have interacted with the community since day 1.
The CoD devs pretty much stopped interacting with the community as soon as the game was released. Luthier posts once every few weeks when a patch is going to be released, then disappears again.
And I don't buy this 'I would rather they were working on the game than posting' or 'they are far to busy to post on the forums' because this post took me 30 seconds, and thats all it would take them.

I feel your pain.

They could even lie to and make up some stories, yet ppl would feel treated with a certain kind of respect and live under the impression there is some progress and devs are working.
I always had the impression Oleg is a brilliant visionary but a miserable manager.
Now Ilya takes over, he seems to be much better in this field, but in turn he's a lousy salesman. kinda funny, no?

[Tavingon]

Originally Posted by Gerbil Maximus

http://steamgraph.burstpixel.net/ind...d=63950&from=0

Ouch

[addman]

Originally Posted by Gerbil Maximus

http://steamgraph.burstpixel.net/ind...d=63950&from=0

No big surprise there but interesting nonetheless, note the "patch spikes" and then the immediate veining of interest. It shows statistically that there is potential interest but the product itself doesn't satisfy for continued use, there is no longevity, we have ATAG and we have Repka, that's it! and that's pretty poor. Now let's take a look at Skyrim:
http://steamgraph.burstpixel.net/ind...ph&appid=72850
Yes, there you go.

[SYN_Repent]

other games have been released lately, on steam, and they have patches and updates every other day, and these arent big budget releases neither.

the good thing about steam is you can fix the smallest thing, and the patch will be downloaded and installed almost instantly, you dont have to release massive patches all the time.

im currently alpha testing a new game, and they are releasing sometimes 2-3 patches daily, it shows it can be done.

[Vengeanze]

Originally Posted by Gerbil Maximus

http://steamgraph.burstpixel.net/ind...d=63950&from=0

Not like it's levelling off between patches; it crashes to absolute zero!
Yikes.

[JG52Uther]

Originally Posted by Gerbil Maximus

http://steamgraph.burstpixel.net/ind...d=63950&from=0

Even for a niche game like Cod thats pretty desperate!

[Triggaaar]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

If a developer fixes a bug in Russia, but they don't post an update, will it still appear in the next patch?

Ah I see. If a developer fixes a bug in Russia, but we don't head about it, has it been fixed.