Games Launch Set to Run Aground

how do not think this game will die I think it will be the best game for years I just hope it comes out good 🙂🙂🙂 I play lots of games in hope this is a success One think I also want to bring up is will it be too repetitive?

hey I mean after full release
get repetitive.

hey guys I think this game is going to be the best
and I hope it'll be a success and I'm going to be there, the entire way.🙂🙂🙂

I can't help but to feel as though this thread was purely click-bait.

@musicmee I hope you're right.

First off, I'm glad to see so many responses to my post and other have taken the time to give their take on the situation as well.

@apocacide I agree that this has become the norm, but it never should have. Players expect a game to crash after buying it? that sounds AWFUL imo. These are easily avoidable scenarios that get looked over because of rushed productions or improper procedures.

@FireTadpole7469 that is great others are getting to test the game still, but that is a very narrow window of testing. The more players playing the game, the more chances of a bug being found. Have you ever experienced your ship flying hundreds of yards into the sky because of bad collision detection in a storm? Falling through an island while carrying a chest you dug up, but get the white screen back to your boat with the chest still stuck under the island? The more the merrier when it comes to testing, and shortening those numbers prior to release seems counter productive to me.

@Psych0-KnIghTrO I was implying the closing of the closed beta hurts because having more testers searching for these bugs and providing accurate player numbers helps in a smoother launch. And the majority of Triple A titlesalso follow through with a closed Beta closer to release date as well as an open beta days before the real release. Granted DAYS do not help much in fixing major bugs found in that period.
The closed beta stress test did have load issues... as they said for days throughout the closed beta on forums and on twitter, so no argument needed here.
Having content "under the hood" can mean many things... that they have nothing at all but want to sound like they do; they have content that players may not like; they are saving a huge surprise to WOW players. It isn't always a good thing to hide content from players.
It's great Pioneers and Rare get to test their game, but that isn't the best way of getting results. Rare develops something and they test it. "We designed 'this' to do 'this' and on testing it works!" A player will say "I want to do this with it though..." and find an exploit or break the game. Just because something is designed to do one thing, doens't mean players will use it as intended. (I Beta tested Dreadnaught and would hide under the map with a sniper and win every match cause no one would hit me due to a bug I found)
It's unfortunate you think it will be smooth sailing for all the rocky shores I see coming our way.
@ShadowStrider-7 Sorry you feel that way?

@apocacide I have been a network admin for 8 years and have worked on a number of large, small, closed, and open networks. A games launch due to traffic should not be an issue if you can get an accurate guess of how much traffic you will receive. This is easily monitored by closed betas and open betas. Let the problems occur there, not when players buy a game and expect it to be ready to play and finished.

@canadianmuscle3 And I commend the pioneers and Rare testers for their diligent work, but I am strongly adamant that is a very poor decision to make. I can list off games that have followed this path step by step and has fallen on it's face.
No Mans Sky
Tom Clancy's: The Division
Wild Star
Star Wars the Old Republic 2
Battle Field 4
Evolve
Street Fighter 5
Star Wars: Battlefront
Titan Fall

This list can keep going but I think my point was clear.. poor content, rushed development, improper procedures, lack of testing... a lot of these games fell because of some or all of these reasons.

It's fine having content stored away for release. It's like opening a surprised gift when it isn't your birthday or Christmas. My issue with it is will it be pulled because it wasn't ready? Is it a carrot on a stick leading us to believe more will come?

Sorry but my trust has been broken too many times, and SoT was a great Beta time for me, I just hope it lives up to the hype everyone holds for it.

This is so true and I really think Rare should consider this. especially since some people maxed out gold hunters but not other professions because they werent in the game and there might be bugs in it.

@theamadox And I addressed some of these points in other responses.

The fact that you can't remember a game that never had issues is exactly why this is a problem.. it's become normal and forgivable for things that should be easily avoided.

@armament-jay Now that article was straight click-bait lol...4K assets was the subject matter. Got my hopes up for something new and then crushed it... hopefully not like SoT.

@stephenfarren And I don't fault your opinion. I do hope you are correct and this game does as everyone hopes it will.

I am strongly looking forward to being proven wrong, and I will take all the "I told you so's!" while you sink slowly away under my hull.

However, in the history of game launches that have come before this, I believe the methods of the launch are poorly planned and will hurt more than help. You argue that the play style of the game will alter the way a server will handle it's load, but when players were locked out for hours because they could not connect had no bearing at all on how many ships were on a server.

And my point about a falling community wasn't to say the player base was falling currently. It is growing, but this is how you create an over-hyped scenario. If you are referring to my comment about how player bases fall after a poor launch then that has yet to be proven or disproved in this case. I did however point out some very popular games that went down this same path as a reference.

@lintaglen or rare and microsoft have been developing video games more decades than you've been alive, and know more about how to make a game than you do.

Games do alot more testing than public betas, they have inhouse testers that are paid, as well as other testers under NDA that are testing, [mod removed]

@kruqnut Personal attack all you like, but you didn't disprove any point I made.

(Also, considering my age, they actually haven't been making games longer than I have been alive. Poor assumption.)

Those testers are also focusing on specific aspects most the time. Very rarely do they tell a tester "Go explore the world and tell us what you find!" It's more common they say "We just put in this new mechanic, test it." Or "You are to test this 100x" and that is the only thing you test.

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Also, looking up their Wiki, it seems that the core personnel of Rare aren't even the original members anymore... so their experience may be lacking in certain aspects.

I already anticipate headaches for PC players on day one thanks to the Windows Store and how awful it has proven to be.

-Gears of War 4
-Forza Horizon 3
-Forza Motorsport 6

all had issues for the first few weeks whereby if you paused the often 100gb+ download...it would resume at 0gb and then error out endlessly.

Also the problem people on PC had getting access to the BETA.

I imagine there'll be angry tweets and posts come launch day.