Slipping release dates
All of us noticed that release dates are slipping ahead month by month.
Going like this will result in having episode 4 hardly released in October.
The message to TT is:
I DON'T CARE.
I prefer waiting two more weeks than having a punctual bugged release.
Take your time, guys, we waited 9 years, we can afford waiting few more weeks!
But that's my personal thought, so I'm asking everyone to express about this topic.
Write what you think, guys. And don't be selfish
Going like this will result in having episode 4 hardly released in October.
The message to TT is:
I DON'T CARE.
I prefer waiting two more weeks than having a punctual bugged release.
Take your time, guys, we waited 9 years, we can afford waiting few more weeks!
But that's my personal thought, so I'm asking everyone to express about this topic.
Write what you think, guys. And don't be selfish
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Usually when the game is released, I'm way too busy to play it straight away anyway... too many other things come in the way, like work and social committments. It was two entire weeks before I even installed Chapter 2
But seriously, I trust Telltale will make the right decisions regarding releases. They've been doing this whole episodic thing for a while now, they know what they are doing... I hope...
I'm quite used to waiting (I am EU WiiWare ToMI player...).
Bring back Murray!
You know that the people who are whining about it taking so long are the same people that whine about the game being buggy anyway.
One in July, one in August, one in September..
But, like the OP said, I don't care that much. They better spend some more days polishing up the episodes then release them buggy and crashy.
The fake turtle bug (and the bugged cutscene you can trigger with it) was bad enough. No more of those please.
Gotta admit I look at the site every day tho, to check if there is a release date. Im really looking forward to the next part!
I'm in Europe, so I'm used to waiting for next to everything [especially games]. Take as long as you like TTG!
If it means less bugs and more awesomeness, I'm up for anything!
(Still love you, Telltale, even with the bugs.
~ PA
I don't think they have ever said there will be no more than 30 days between releases, or they will be at exact monthly intervals.
I always took it to mean one per calender month and thats what has happened so far, so I'm happy!
No offense but... it seems like nearly everyone on this site is singing the same song. About 90% of the people are saying "Telltale take your time to sort out the bugs, we dont mind waiting"
So yeah, he's nothing special.
I just wanted to "bring our support out" once and for all
However, to be clear, as a new customer to them and their brand of gaming, it is important for them, as a company, to manage my expectations. If they got me to prebuy, promising an episode each month, then they should deliver. Even when it took 6+ weeks and there was a thread like this, someone affiliated with TTG commented that they NEVER miss a release target. I think that's fantastic, except when we as an already paid customer base don't know when those targets are.
I have many of the same sentiments that everyone else here has expressed - I love the game, I'd rather have fewer bugs, often can't play it on release date, yada yada yada...
BUT
I also want TTG to live up to what they promised that secured me as a customer. It is called managing expectations. I'd even be fine with every-other-month episodes, so long as that is what was communicated and adhered to. Right now, all I've got is "montly" episodes that have been, on average 5 - 6 weeks - the only "monthly" thing about that is that each release has been on the following month (July, August, *September **we hope***). It is conceivable that if Ep4 doesn't release in Oct, someone will say - "hey, they said monthly, didn't they? November IS a month."
All I'm saying is that it isn't unreasonable to clearly communicate to your customers and then hold to that.
Hopefully Telltale can wait until they've finished a product before they need to release it.
As much as I'm chomping at the bit waiting for the next Episode, Lets face it, It would look a lot worse on them if the game was buggy than if it was late. (lets face it, everybody expects software to be relased late nowadays anyway).
I am very tempted to fish MI:4 out of the loft now, since I can barely even remember it.
This is exactly where the idea of "a delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever" comes from. That works both ways. A good game, with more time spent on it, can be better, and in the long run, all I care about is the final product and the mark it leaves on gaming history, not when it came out - because once most games are out, that's it, and many games have been ruined by being rushed to a release date. There are already signs in the existing episodes of Telltale being rushed and working on a very tight schedule. I think this was inevitable, considering the actual development only really started this year. We waited years for more MI, I'd be happy to wait longer than a month for a perfected product.
You left it on the cliffhanger of episode 4? You're either very brave or very crazy :eek:
Through the whole production they promised that it wouldn't be released until it was finished, there were blog entries talking about the lead developers playing against each other, then when it's finally released, there was no Multi-player, no AI to play against, and the creature was barely independant (unlike the first game).
Plus, this is not a news in the gaming industry: lots of games were announced and released with long delays (pick one Final Fantasy of your choice) or even never released (does anyone still believe to the Duke Nukem forever fairytale?).
So, comparing those periods of time to ONLY A WEEK MORE to FIX STUFF AND RELEASE A BETTER GAME, I can surely say that it's ok to me.
People who don't browse these forums daily and who (probably) haven't bought previous TT games will now be customers waiting to play TOMI.
They assumed one every month. Now fair enough most will accept waiting for a better product if told, but go onto the official site and it's hard to find out WHEN it's being released.
It's a click away before you actually find out the date but it's a lucky click if you get it first time.
Oh dear... you said chill-ax. And I think you meant it.
Just a thought. Luckily for us TT's seems to listen to there customers