Apology & next steps

[IvanErtlov]

First of all, I am neither a publishers nor a developers spokesman, and my CM times were over a long time ago. I am now speaking as helping hand of the dev team and coordinator of the next patching efforts.

Let me apologize first. It was in no way intended to deliver the game with a load of bugs, glitches and errors, and I fully understand the outrage of every single player who played the game now and stumbled upon problems that shouldn´t be present in ANY released version. There is no time for and no sense in blameshifting, so I can only tell you the truth. We ran during the work on the Day1 patch into unexpected troubles. Severe unexpected troubles that costed many days of otherwise productive bugfixing and optimization work. I know that the release should have been delayed by the lost time (+ an additional security timeframe), but that is not the developers decision.

However, we are tackling the issues fast, and we hit them pretty good. (As former American football champ I like the words "tackling" and "hit" here). This means, we will give you DAILY updates and fixes, and we will adress many of the issues during the next days.

The first patch today will already bring relieve to many of you, and you can look up the plan for the next days here:

http://forum.schicksalsklinge.com/index.php?page=Board&boardID=93

And I will keep you updated on a daily base untill all is done and good.

[R3450N]

I haven't tried nor bought the game because it doesn't have a Linux release, but what I know as common knowledge is that bugs and glitches will always show up, be they expected or unexpected. I don't know why you guys are complaining against the quality of the game since no other game is different in this situation: even Skyrim was packed with bugs on its release, but they were eventually fixed. Be content with what you have.

[AstinDextor]

Originally posted by RAVEN MCCCXXXVII:

I haven't tried nor bought the game because it doesn't have a Linux release, but what I know as common knowledge is that bugs and glitches will always show up, be they expected or unexpected. I don't know why you guys are complaining against the quality of the game since no other game is different in this situation: even Skyrim was packed with bugs on its release, but they were eventually fixed. Be content with what you have.

You are (intentionally?) ignoring the severity of the problems with this... game. Skyrim was playable. This... thing was not, and really is still not. When two weeks after release they have patch notes like "Enemies will now cast spells" the game is unfinished, not buggy.

[R3450N]

Originally posted by AstinDextor:

Originally posted by RAVEN MCCCXXXVII:

I haven't tried nor bought the game because it doesn't have a Linux release, but what I know as common knowledge is that bugs and glitches will always show up, be they expected or unexpected. I don't know why you guys are complaining against the quality of the game since no other game is different in this situation: even Skyrim was packed with bugs on its release, but they were eventually fixed. Be content with what you have.

You are (intentionally?) ignoring the severity of the problems with this... game. Skyrim was playable. This... thing was not, and really is still not. When two weeks after release they have patch notes like "Enemies will now cast spells" the game is unfinished, not buggy.

Skyrim was unplayable. I remember first starting Skyrim and then five minutes in it would suddenly crash. I also remember when I would get stuck on cutscenes and not able to progress. I also remember losing all my saved games and not being able to load any, causing me to lose hours and hours of progress. Does that mean the game was unfinished? No; they were just bugs, no matter how frustrating they are to the user and developers. Just because in this game the enemies did not cast spells does not mean the game is unfinished; it may just simply be an issue with AI. Again, that could be a bug, but the least you should know is that whatever it is, it's fixed. Besides, you provide no definition for an 'unfinished' game. Have you been given a complete outline as to how the game is supposed to be on release? How would you know it's unfinished?

[Motoki]

Originally posted by RAVEN MCCCXXXVII:

I haven't tried nor bought the game because it doesn't have a Linux release, but what I know as common knowledge is that bugs and glitches will always show up, be they expected or unexpected. I don't know why you guys are complaining against the quality of the game since no other game is different in this situation: even Skyrim was packed with bugs on its release, but they were eventually fixed. Be content with what you have.

If you don't have it then you can't speak to the nature of this game and it's condition. Period.

You can sit back and so 'Oh I don't know what you guys are talking about other games have bugs' all you want but you don't have this game so you don't know.

For what it's worth I was able to play Skyrim from day 1 without any major issues. Day 1 of running this game the first thing I notice is the game is German. Even though I bought it in English. Second thing I notice is the opening cinema zoomed the camera in way too far and it was clipping behind the walls and the underneath the ground. Third thing I noticed is I get 10 FPS outside in spite of the fact that the game looks like something from the late 90s and everything else runs just fine on my machine.

That last problem I still have by the way.

Really if someone doesn't have the game and is going to come here to give crap the legitimate owners who have legitimate complaints about a game they paid for that's just trolling in my book.

I also think the excuse that other games have bugs too so we should just be okay with it is not an acceptable excuse. Besides the fact that I have played many, many games over the years and can honestly say I have never encountered another in as poor and unfinished case than this one, if we say that buggy unfinished games are acceptable, don't complain and continue to buy games like this then that's all we'll ever get.

[bigtenor62]

Originally posted by Mcface:

I'll give it a week before they stop posting here.

LOL looks like you were wrong huh? ROFL! I guess you aren't very good at predicting the future!

[ShadowSync]

Originally posted by Motoki:

Originally posted by RAVEN MCCCXXXVII:

I haven't tried nor bought the game because it doesn't have a Linux release, but what I know as common knowledge is that bugs and glitches will always show up, be they expected or unexpected. I don't know why you guys are complaining against the quality of the game since no other game is different in this situation: even Skyrim was packed with bugs on its release, but they were eventually fixed. Be content with what you have.

If you don't have it then you can't speak to the nature of this game and it's condition. Period.

You can sit back and so 'Oh I don't know what you guys are talking about other games have bugs' all you want but you don't have this game so you don't know.

For what it's worth I was able to play Skyrim from day 1 without any major issues. Day 1 of running this game the first thing I notice is the game is German. Even though I bought it in English. Second thing I notice is the opening cinema zoomed the camera in way too far and it was clipping behind the walls and the underneath the ground. Third thing I noticed is I get 10 FPS outside in spite of the fact that the game looks like something from the late 90s and everything else runs just fine on my machine.

That last problem I still have by the way.

Really if someone doesn't have the game and is going to come here to give crap the legitimate owners who have legitimate complaints about a game they paid for that's just trolling in my book.

I also think the excuse that other games have bugs too so we should just be okay with it is not an acceptable excuse. Besides the fact that I have played many, many games over the years and can honestly say I have never encountered another in as poor and unfinished case than this one, if we say that buggy unfinished games are acceptable, don't complain and continue to buy games like this then that's all we'll ever get.

Well in your case just because you own it does not mean a damn thing, lol=) Just add it to the other 800+ games you have not played out for your 1062=P

By the way, i am just kidding on this one.

[ravenesse]

Originally posted by IvanErtlov:

And I will keep you updated on a daily base untill all is done and good.

[EarlOfNoobton]

Originally posted by ravenesse:

Originally posted by IvanErtlov:

And I will keep you updated on a daily base untill all is done and good.

What? The silence only means that all is good and done. Go and play already! ;)

[deca]

*lol*

At the moment I write a german walkthrough of the game in the official boards and no way, that I would ever tell anybody to play it at the moment.

[WarBaby2]

Originally posted by EarlOfNoobton:

Originally posted by ravenesse:

What? The silence only means that all is good and done. Go and play already! ;)

NOT! ;)

[GuardianTce]

Originally posted by deca:

*lol*

At the moment I write a german walkthrough of the game in the official boards and no way, that I would ever tell anybody to play it at the moment.

Looks like most people here on steam feel the same way.

Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny - Steam Charts [www.steamcharts.com]

[WarBaby2]

Fugures... for an oldtime fan of the originals like me, it's heart breaking to even look at the hidious loading screen, so. *shrugs*

[☠✠☩ Nekator ☩✠☠]

Originally posted by deca:

*lol*

At the moment I write a german walkthrough of the game in the official boards and no way, that I would ever tell anybody to play it at the moment.

you´re really hardcore, if you play this "game" enough to write a walkthrough ;)

Seems as the fading of new patches and messages here also hint to the beginning of the end? (if there ever was a true start, that is).

[Dungeoncrawler69]

Did the English manual ever become reality?

edit - NVM, found it :)

[WarBaby2]

Originally posted by Nekator:

you´re really hardcore, if you play this "game" enough to write a walkthrough ;)

Seems as the fading of new patches and messages here also hint to the beginning of the end? (if there ever was a true start, that is).

Yup, she sure is. ;)

...and yea, it sadly does. :(