The Problem With the Updates

[CDProjektBlue]

What I'm wondering is that there seems to be a plethora of requests and challenges the team is trying to take control of, yet instead of posting all the updates ASAP, they seem to want to wait and include their "fixes" into their road-map for this game. I've seen many people requesting features that are missing or broken, and though Ubisoft acknowledges it, they don't seem to include them in their latest updates and rather wait weeks or even months out.

I'm not saying I want a new update every day, but adding the most requested features sooner rather than much MUCH later to the point where the modding community is getting so frustrated and are creating their own fixes for the game. If a single person can mod in a patch so quickly to add things like visible headgear during cut-scenes and much more, whereas an entire team is taking literal months to do so in a single update, then maybe they're doing something wrong?

No hate towards the Ubisoft team, but there seems to be a much bigger focus on making expansions or adding items to the shop rather than fixing what was already here.

New game +, headgear during cinematics, turning off special effects (parries, dodges, heavies and stealth for example) and more. Maybe focus on these more to make people want to consistently come back much more often. I'd even appreciate seeing legacy outfits from previous titles in the Uplay (aka the ubisoft connect store) store or even as a reward from a mini side quest like how AC Valhalla handled it. The last actual decent update was them adding the ability to make your horse follow the marked path without you having to control it.

I'm just seeing so many people in so many update discussions, forums and even Reddit threads and YouTube complain about these blatantly obvious features, I'm not hating, I just want to see this game do better

[Grimzy]

You seem to entirely not understand how development cycles and developments in general work and are planned.

[Harris]

Originally posted by CDProjektBlue:

No hate towards the Ubisoft team, but there seems to be a much bigger focus on making expansions or adding items to the shop rather than fixing what was already here.

Well, duh. You wouldn't pay them for a patch, now would you?

Originally posted by CDProjektBlue:

Maybe focus on these more to make people want to consistently come back much more often.

People are gonna come back when the DLC is out. For now we've all finished the base game and moved on to playing the other ~200.000 games on Steam and beyond. And that's fine.

I mean, is it nice to get a fix here and tweak there? Yeah. Am I gonna do another playthrough for the sake of it? No. So realistically, it doesn't matter at what pace they're making it, if most people won't be coming back to check it out until NG+ anyway.

Originally posted by CDProjektBlue:

I just want to see this game do better

I don't want to describe post-launch support for this one as palliative care, but you hopefully realize their announced plan to listen to community feedback and do what players want is a fancy way of saying they never expected Shadows to perform well and decided to minimize their investment a long time ago. Shadows reminds me of Watch Dogs: Legion a lot - a great game a lot of people wanted to do better, but we all know how that went.