Is this game abandonware?

[xadmin]

Is this game abandoned and no longer being supported?

[DA_Kimika]

I don't know if i'd consider it 'Abandonware'. It had a 2.0 Update :V. It's probably not being updated anymore no. But well worth the buy if you like Space combat.

[Zakor]

I believe the game is done, no need for anymore updates

[Scourge012]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Zakor:

I believe the game is done, no need for anymore updates

It still has some bugs related to its jurry-rigging of a decades old engine to modern programming and all that.

After verson 2.1 there was supposed to be a 2.205 patch that never arrived. However, recently, (November 4th of this year) players and modders released the "2.3 Players Patch" which rolled together all the official fixes and balance changes including a major and lingering issue called the 666 Formation Targeting bug (which made it so only one ship could fire in a formation in reproducible circumstances in vesion 2.1). This 666 bug and the lack of progress on it by Gearbox is largely responsible for the decline of the game last year in MP circles.

And after people stopped playing the game seriously, Gearbox pulled the plug. Let's hope that people see a 2.3 Players Patch is available, and that the game is much more enjoyable now and we can get population numbers up.

[xadmin]

Sheesh, with developer like GearBox leaving such a blatant bug like this out there, no wonder others do not support their games.

[Zakor]

there is something like that in the workshop, can anyone confirms if it works

[McFlurry Butts]

It's more like discontinued. But the community is picking it up, which is good. It's a great game, but I guess RTS Genre is dead except for games like Starcraft 2 and Age of Empires 2

[Zakor]

RTS will never die son, it will just evolve

[Cooper]

He probably meant that the good old RTS style is rarely seen these days. For example, I haven't often seen multi-mission choises like C&C Tiberian Sun has.

[Zakor]

i miss that as well

[Cooper]

TS was for free. Not sure it EA still let it be free. Haven't play it in ages. The TS Retro mod is great as it shows how would TS look like if EA didn't butt in and let Westwood guys do their job. But with it you can't finish the NOD mission where you have to infiltrate GDI Control Center to find the Mammonth MK2 Prototype. Unless they fixed it.

Get me McNeall!

[jackhickman999]

I dont think you know what abadonware is. Abadonware is when a game can no longer be sold as no-one owns it anymore or they have no intention to sell it anymore so it become free.

Homeworld 1 or 2 are still owned and they still have the intention of making money from sales.

[Matt [Linux]]

Oprindeligt skrevet af jackhickman999:

I dont think you know what abadonware is. Abadonware is when a game can no longer be sold as no-one owns it anymore or they have no intention to sell it anymore so it become free.

Homeworld 1 or 2 are still owned and they still have the intention of making money from sales.

We know what OP meant.

"Is this game abondoned by the devs" is how I read it.

[Zakor]

Oprindeligt skrevet af arnzzz:

Oprindeligt skrevet af jackhickman999:

I dont think you know what abadonware is. Abadonware is when a game can no longer be sold as no-one owns it anymore or they have no intention to sell it anymore so it become free.

Homeworld 1 or 2 are still owned and they still have the intention of making money from sales.

We know what OP meant.

"Is this game abondoned by the devs" is how I read it.

indeed, but its nice to actually know what abandonware truly means

[Boots of Doom]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Scourge012:

This 666 bug and the lack of progress on it by Gearbox is largely responsible for the decline of the game last year in MP circles.

That's just an opinion. I'm sure it was different strokes for different folks. e.g. the toxic community, the people screaming constantly about how the game didn't compete with their impossibly rose-tinted nostalgia for a game they played 17 years ago, the fact that HW was always a more interesting single player campaign than MP skirmish in the first place etc. etc.

[xadmin]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Zakor:

Oprindeligt skrevet af arnzzz:

We know what OP meant.

"Is this game abondoned by the devs" is how I read it.

indeed, but its nice to actually know what abandonware truly means

It means that with bugs still in the game, will the developer put resources into making an official patch to fix the game.