Fatshark has always had a hard time keeping up with promises and stable releases. Them trying to jump to a live service regular content update format is going to be a disaster lol
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A realistic sense of what can and can’t be accomplished should be optimal no?
So far the company has trended towards overpromising and under delivering.
A chance in tact might be advisable.
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We’ll probably get it tomorrow, not a big deal.
Don’t get me wrong, I also feel bad for the CMs here. But the messaging needs to be fixed or else its only going to get more negative sadly. People are already losing civility.
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Yes, it would have been better. And this is what is confusing me more than anything: they just don’t learn in this regard.
If I am really bad at expectation management and customer communication I will eventually need to set up double checks, better planning and more conservative deadlines.
I can, as a company, not work like this. This is affecting the baseline and the reputation.
I have a business. I am employing people. My name is attached to the products and services we deliver. If I were to act like this the mildest consequence would be “rude customers”. In reality, I’d probably get hit with a lawsuit. This is how b2b works. And I’d like for companies to take b2c as serious as they take b2b.
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I’d love for Fatshark to be better, I just think this is the best we’ll get. Their code seems so piecemeal that every patch always comes with new bugs, they’re only taking longer and longer to fix some bugs, and increasingly incorrectly claiming fixes. While transparency seems to be valued on paper, they only continue to make baffling design decisions and explain almost nothing.
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If this is the best we’re gonna get then honestly people’s positions need to be looked at. I for one will never give any money to this company or any company it’s decision makers work for ever again lol.
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I think its more because the people that call the shots as to when content drops and what the CMs say just don’t care about transparency or the communities opinion.
They do care, because it means lost money down the line, and they are definitely not stupid.
At some point, there’s a miscommunication issue, and I’m pretty sure fatshark themselves haven’t pinpointed exactly where yet.
The Tides haven’t been very civil in a long time.
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https://www.vermintide.com/versus
The fact that the versus page for VT2 is still live as an advertisement indicates to me that they don’t care about what the community thinks and it sort of does imply they’re stupid.
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Wouldn’t even surprise me if the project isn’t entirely abandoned internally, at least not officially, they tend to be a bit uh… messy, a lot, actually.
This doesn’t mean it’s ever going to come out, of course.
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I can refer you to the post I wrote today, if you are interested (I think its called “my opinion @ state of the game”)
From my experience, we are currently experiencing the shortcoming of failed top and middle management over the past couple of months. This is why we are having all these design elements that are focused on “buying time” and at the same time this total chaos in communication and expectation management.
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I’ve been working on software development too for quite a while now (10 years in February! :D), and it’s 100% that, it reeks of that one project where your manager was a mess and nothing got done in time because the project kept changing focus every two days, or even every few hours.
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