still no roadmap, no patch, no updates and no DLC?

[Pophet]

so for real now, what is going on?
it feels so wrong, they just stopped developing like 1 year ago and that was it.
there is still so much in the game that needs to be fixed and updated, and the first 3 years looked fatastic with getting updates every 1 or 2 months....
but then everything shut down all of the sudden.
they also pretty much stopped all communications on their homepage and i dont get it.
they made TONS of money with mount and blade 2.......
just remember back then with mount and blade 1.
the game came out, patches on a weekly base, then 1 year later, the first dlc came, with tons of updates every week, then ANOTHER dlc came out with updates every week and then, you guessed right, ANOTHER dlc came out and we got even more patches........
but with mount and blade 2, it feels like they just fixed everything so that it is smooth to play, and then just stopped.
there are still no political options, shops are still not upgradable, caravans are still crap, leveling perks is still unbalanced, the economy is STILL broken, and tons of more issues that SHOULD be take care of by now.
the economy is something that annoys me the most!!!!!!!!!!!!
it would be SO INTERISTING to play with taxes and ESPECIALLY wages......
i mean some units are balanced around wages........
but you never care because you have literally BILLIONS of denars.
and dont get me wrong, im super patient, and i wouldnt mind waiting for a big update, patch or dlc for YEARS if they would announce it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but they simply stopped ALL communications.
it feels like they took the money and just closed the company!!!
they told us soooo many things that they wanted todo with the game, so much stuff they worked on.......
and then all of the sudden:
"here, game is done, we dont care anymore."

i have over 5k hours in the mount and blade franchise, so you can bet that my post comes from my heart.
mout and blade 2 was on its way to be the best game EVER made.

[Tussin The Goat]

Agreed. M&B2 will be the biggest what if in gaming history. Apart from the dozen glazers still roaming this forum, the rest of us have given up and moved on because we recognize they will will never fix or finish this game.

I agree, it could have been the best game ever made. I was on vacation when I first bought it, I put 80 hours in the first week I got it. I was obsessed with a game for the first time in many many many years. 3 years later I have like 158 hours total and I doubt it gets much higher than that.

The end game AI is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad. You can be kicking the ♥♥♥♥ out of a nation and then suddenly your faction leader is PAYING THEM TRIBUTE TO END THE WAR.... WHAT???????

Or in the middle of a war suddenly you declare war on a second nation like hitler is running your faction resulting in you getting your ass kicked.

Your City is being sieged? Forget defending it, let's take our giant army and capture a useless castle.

It's just awful. Then you get a bunch of nut riders on here talking about this is by design? Stop sniffing glue.

[Urmel]

a fief with wall lvl 3 + siege building 3 cant be conquered by the AI. its impossible.
(maybe with 0 , no garrison and only militia)

and if both is only lvl 1 ,
it cant be conquered if you are fast enough to walk back and fight the attacker.

[Damedius]

I think it's as ready as it's going to be.

It looks amazing and it's awesome to fight in large battles. However the AI is frustrating in a lot of ways.

The economy is kind of broken. Why have caravans and workshops when you can craft swords that you can sell for more than either one can make in a year.

Big battles are frustrating because when you are winning, you end up chasing the AI to their side of the map. Then 100 troops appear out of nowhere and you are all of a sudden outnumbered. Then if you get more troops they have to travel all the way across the map to get to the battle.

It's a game that I feel will never reach it's full potential.

[Aya]

There's apparently a 1.3 update in the works, and while I can be in full denial mode over how bad I am at a competing product, it's more likely that the upcoming update will really only contain a termination of service notice for the multiplayer mode. Said wall of text will still somehow break singleplayer mods because of course it will.

[Pophet]

Originally posted by Aya:

There's apparently a 1.3 update in the works, and while I can be in full denial mode over how bad I am at a competing product, it's more likely that the upcoming update will really only contain a termination of service notice for the multiplayer mode. Said wall of text will still somehow break singleplayer mods because of course it will.

yeah like thats another thing.........
if they would say:
"guys thats it with mount and blade 2, and we will stop all furthe development and focus on something else"!!
then the forums wouldnt be as hateful towards them.
its just that they stopped all communications and every now and then, they put out a "fix", that ruins all mods.............
if we knew they stopped, the modders could start spending even more time with the game.
prolly even going as far as giving us a coop campain.

im just frustrated as i stated.
i always remember how they supported mount and blade 1.
there was a DAILY communication with all of us, for almost 5 years.
one DLC after another, and all ending with a HUGE remastered version.
and when they announced m&b 2, we all thought it would go the same way.
based on all the success, myself and most in the community can not understand why there is no roadmap, no dlc announcment, a big patch incomming or ATLEAST telling us fair and square that they stopped development.
but they just ignore everyone on their homepage, banning and deleting left and right.

like for real no, some people speculate that the main dev died and ♥♥♥♥ like that.........
its hillarious how you can go from the greatest developer 10/10 to a 1/10 that blocks all communications.

[Aya]

Originally posted by Pophet:

Originally posted by Aya:

There's apparently a 1.3 update in the works, and while I can be in full denial mode over how bad I am at a competing product, it's more likely that the upcoming update will really only contain a termination of service notice for the multiplayer mode. Said wall of text will still somehow break singleplayer mods because of course it will.

-snip-

I mean, most people have resigned themselves to the belief that modders would finish the game, and I'm sure people would be pissed if a wall of text that's "tl;dr we're shutting down the multiplayer mode" were to undo 1.5+ years of fan-made patches for no apparent reason

[Bulletpoint]

In the modern game development economy, it's more profitable to not finish the game, but keep selling it half-finished for as long as possible.

[Clovis Sangrail]

Originally posted by Aya:

Originally posted by Pophet:

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I'm sure people would be pissed if a wall of text that's "tl;dr we're shutting down the multiplayer mode" were to undo 1.5+ years of fan-made patches for no apparent reason

Indeed. We surely do not want to risk pissing off the hundred or so people who still play multiplayer.

[Aya]

Originally posted by Clovis Sangrail:

Originally posted by Aya:

I'm sure people would be pissed if a wall of text that's "tl;dr we're shutting down the multiplayer mode" were to undo 1.5+ years of fan-made patches for no apparent reason

Indeed. We surely do not want to risk pissing off the hundred or so people who still play multiplayer.

Love how you ignore the "break singleplayer mods" part even though you quoted that text

[Clovis Sangrail]

Originally posted by Aya:

Originally posted by Clovis Sangrail:

Indeed. We surely do not want to risk pissing off the hundred or so people who still play multiplayer.

Love how you ignore the "break singleplayer mods" part even though you quoted that text

If an update breaks your mods, that is on you since you didn't make the effort to lock your version to prevent the mod-breaking auto-update from happening.

I don't use mods, but even I know that.