Marlenus
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Posted - 2010.10.30 21:24:00 -
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 Originally by: Malcanis
I'm still struggling to understand how, after over 4 years since the project started, CCP still haven't decided what we're going to be able to actually do in Incarna. For the love of God, tell us you're sandbagging us. Please tell us that.
I mean guys, come on - you're supposed to be releasing this thing in the next 8 months, you've had 70 devs working on it for god knows how long, and at least some working on it for much longer than that, you had a semi-working Demo in 2008, and you STILL haven't even got to the point where you've decided what's going to happen?
What? The? Hell?
I think you need to get used to the idea that it's not going to have any actual gameplay features.
OK, maybe one. Torfi said "It's definitely going to be more than walking around, maybe gambling." So when the agile development gets bloody and they start cutting "user stories" out with a bloody axe, they have to leave at least one thing in. So you'll be able to walk around in stations, and maybe use a roulette wheel.
But note the bit about how "The implementation as it is now allows you to exit your ship in every station and go to your captain‟s quarters; it is just the large communal areas that might not be available on all stations." For the first release, "walking around in stations" may not even be in there; all they have now is going to your bedroom. "Large communal areas" might turn out to be one of those "user stories" that doesn't make the cut.
And thus did "walking around in stations" get agilely scrummed into "playing roulette with yourself in a bedroom". No, that hasn't happened yet. But the potential is there.
They said it over and over again. "Nothing has been decided." They don't have any plans. They haven't built much yet. They don't have any actual vision for how this avatar tech should be used to make a better spaceship game. There isn't any sandbagged coolness.
There's a ton of cool stuff they could have been building all these years, but the .pdf makes it brutally clear: they haven't actually been building any of it. They haven't, apparently, even drawn up much of a wish list. And on the schedule they're on, it's too bloody late now.
You can hold your breath for later iterations if you want, but I'm not gonna.
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