I thought of calling them Wei² but Xianwei is even better lol
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Should
Honestly nothing would surprise me anymore.
I’m looking forward to very polished scenarios
Guys, don’t forget about the official X account! That’s where the social media manager tries to respond to some replies.
It seems even quieter there now, maybe they’re preparing a statement?
I often get the vibe that by ‘‘the community’’ they mean ‘‘a small clique of pro players and casters whom the devs are personal friends with’’.
I’ll brave FB…but not twitter. That’s too far to make a point.
Honestly they have been quiet everywhere lately.
Even the pros are not fully on their side about this.
There’s this if people want to go to the comments and give them a piece of your mind.
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This trailer also features videos of The Three Kingdoms!
“the community” is everyone who blindly agree with wahtever is coming, otherwise they get the Age of Noob treatment.
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They have been banning people from their Twitter.
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Still nothing, and that also concerns the broken medals. Ah well…all the good things come to an end. RIP AoE2 DE: 2019-2025
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they’ve stated they are aware of the broken medals, they’re probably compiling a bugfix for issues with the mega patch.
They said that the first day, but they haven’t fixed it yet nor said that they would - as a dev myself, we would have rolled out a fix the moment it was fixed, because it’s a serious bug.
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Its just a vanitey flair that only you can see, it’s not that serious compared to say a scenario that doesn’t even work currently.
not all bugs get fixed overnight. Not all bugs can be fixed overnight.
You’d be surprised how highly people value the medals. They also can be seen by other people in the user profile, and the bug removed them from there as well.
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It’s a “vanitey flair” to you, but not to thousands of people who left a negative review on steam because of that, with the overall score of the game dropping from “overwhelmingly positive” to “very positive”, and recent score dropping from 95% to 88%.
That is what MS is and should be worried about, and not rolling out a simple fix (that, along with the Barbarossa 5 fix) ASAP does not help at all, quite the contrary.
You’ve correctly stated that “Not all bugs can be fixed overnight.”, but it more so seems like you’ve never been in the development sphere yourself, because most bugs that can be easily reproduced and explained, can be fixed within hours, tested within hours, and released within hours. Bugs with ties to core game mechanics or those that are extremely difficult to reproduce, are the ones that take longer to fix. And even then, it’s been a fortnight, not a night.
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Having been in development, I know that even when issues are easy to fix, there is red tape involved before rolling out fixes. There are more moving pieces between community managers, marketing, so on.
Theres also the possibility that just because the bug is easy to recreate that the solution isnt easy to impliment. theres a lot of assumptions about whats going on under the hood here. It’s not always cut and dry.
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I would agree if something was as obscure as you’re implying. But here, I just can’t see the obscurity. There have been modders, who actually delved into this problem within hours, if not days, despite not having proper tools to decode/decipher core game files in their entirety - and issued a temporary semi-fix, such as the mod: Silver to Gold campaign medals
The red-lining your mention is, and should be, followed, except that this update has shown us how pitiful the QR and “red-lining” has been. It’s not a new function or a tweak, it’s a fix for a serious newly introduced bug. Once again, it’s been more than 2 weeks now, whereas this should have been addressed the same afternoon, or at least ASAP.
I think the next strategy they should do is blame it on the “haters” who threatened the poor WE into silence, disrupted their pace of working and all good intentions, distracted the dev time and money into useless things, and killed a good DLC.
WE, hire me.
Modders are never a good example of how fast something can be fixed because they don’t have the red tape for better or worse. Modders aren’t paid. They can do work whenever they are available and want to. They don’t have managers telling them what to prioritize. They have no quality control other than peer review. If the mod opens up additional problems, they have no obligation to fix it.
You know this is a more complex issue, why would you try to prove a point about development turnaround time with a mod that isn’t solving the issue? Even people who have dived into the API have pointed out there is a different functionallity with Art of War vs other campaigns and thats just what they can determine with the tools they have available.
I’ve worked for companies with massive resources (fruit shaped company) that have had reported issues for decades with software that hasn’t been fixed or even addressed. I’ve worked for small companies with one person responsible for development where things can take minutes or months entirely based on if that person is working on fixes, future updates, on vacation, so on. Anecdotal evidence from your personal job is not reflective of what the AoE2 devs situation may be. ASAP for them may be hours, days, weeks, even months. I suspect (or at least hope) that we will get some form of update on the 6th of May when the expansion drops and a patch will go through.
It’s a “vanitey flair” to you, but not to thousands of people who left a negative review on steam because of that, with the overall score of the game dropping from “overwhelmingly positive” to “very positive”, and recent score dropping from 95% to 88%.
I’m just gonna call this one out as blatently hyperbolic but I didn’t bother to check it before. The entire month of April (as of this post) had 1472 reviews of which 176 are negative. Of those 176 negative reviews, I’ll generously say maybe 50% are related to campaign medals. 88 people are not Thousands.
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I wish they could just man up and say what needs to be said regardless of consequences. Putting your values ahead of financial gain is what makes you an honorable person.