Is The Storefront Update Still Happening This Year?

[Draven Crow]

Hey Red51, I understand with the new awesome update that now the refining begins as is custom with every update. My question, however, revolves around talk about the storefront update, I heard you had to push it back but is it happening this year or early January? Just wondering as you did state many times how vital it was for funding and such, we will still effort fully get this game for people or have many newcomers come and play this great game and if necessary go to Patreon and such to help fund it. Hopefully it can happen this year but first of January or so is just as fine, I understand how projections don't always become reality. Keep this awesome game going, you are a rockstar man!

[MustangMR]

I'm sure Red will answer shortly, but he did say that it will happen in January. He wanted to give this update time to settle in with bug fixes and then he can focus on replacing the storefront with the holidays behind us.

[red51]

Yes, the store page update is indeed quite important for us. It's a pity that the store page still represents the dated Java version... new players aren't necessarily aware of the new version, so this is definitely problematic.

However, the worst thing that could happen is a botched store page update, resulting in a loss of worlds or blueprints oO
The way we originally set up the new version (being installed in a subfolder, so the user can still play the Java version at any time without having to switch beta branches again) now makes things quite complicated unfortunately.

We definitely some extra time for testing. Changing the depot structure (moving the new version out of its subfolder) could cause a lot of trouble, so we really have to make sure that nothing breaks or gets lost ^^
But we also have to update the Java version and the new version, so they will still be capable of locating their worlds & blueprint files after changing the folder structures (losing worlds would be the worst case scenario, so we have to avoid that at all cost).

I really wanted to get the store page update done before Christmas, but the recent update took a bit longer than expected. Trying to get the store page update still ready during the holidays would be a nightmare (and honestly I doubt that this really makes a huge difference).

However, it was still important for us to get the actual update ready, so the delay of the store page update has no negative impact on the exising community ^^ We're now still working on hotfixes (there are a few smaller remaining issues, but we also want to incorporate some of the feedback we got after the update). Probably we'll release 1-3 hotfixes until we focus on the store page update, which will then happen in early January (but this will not add any new content, it's really just a technical update, so for the existing community, it's not that relevant) ;)

[Draven Crow]

Thanks Red51, you are right in how the storefront update is secondary to us over the content. Take the time you need, this game gets better every update and fix.