Prosper Realms of Arkania: Shovelware Edition

[Lady_Error]

I'll probably get it in a couple of months if most of the serious bugs are fixed by then. Hopefully it will be on GOG by then as well.

 

[Delterius]

It almost sounds like they tried to make a really fucked up game on purpose: I mean, dogs in combat showing up as human skeletons?

Wow, that's mysingno material right there. Wait.... quick! Someone! Lplay this piece of shit like you're decending into madness in a jadusable fashion!

 

[Stabwound]

IvanErtlov [developer] 31 minutes ago
Apology & next steps
First of all, I am neither a publishers nor a developers spokesman, and my CM times were over a long time ago. I am now speaking as helping hand of the dev team and coordinator of the next patching efforts.

Let me apologize first. It was in no way intended to deliver the game with a load of bugs, glitches and errors, and I fully understand the outrage of every single player who played the game now and stumbled upon problems that shouldn´t be present in ANY released version. There is no time for and no sense in blameshifting, so I can only tell you the truth. We ran during the work on the Day1 patch into unexpected troubles. Severe unexpected troubles that costed many days of otherwise productive bugfixing and optimization work. I know that the release should have been delayed by the lost time (+ an additional security timeframe), but that is not the developers decision.

However, we are tackling the issues fast, and we hit them pretty good. (As former American football champ I like the words "tackling" and "hit" here). This means, we will give you DAILY updates and fixes, and we will adress many of the issues during the next days.

The first patch today will already bring relieve to many of you, and you can look up the plan for the next days here:

http://forum.schicksalsklinge.com/index.php?page=Board&boardID=93

And I will keep you updated on a daily base untill all is done and good.

So, someone finally admitted that the game got pushed out early. It still seems like they had a lot more trouble and days wasted than they admit, but at least someone finally admitted it. The guys on the official forum (at least English section) were acting like everyone was overreacting and that there were only a few minor issues. It's pretty obvious the game, especially the English version, was barely playtested. Patches implementing features that were supposed to be in the game? Come on.

 

[Delterius]

The guys on the official forum (at least English section) were acting like everyone was overreacting and that there were only a few minor issues.

Tell us more, are we speaking in team gizka terms here?

 

[Gord]

Team Gizka terms?

That would mean that the game was nothing but hyped vaporware, with no communication from the devs after a few months and talking about it on the official forums constituting a bannable offense.

 

[Delterius]

I doubt these things happned, so I actually meant the cult-like side of internet forums. Wondering if people stood up for the game, for some crazy reason.

 

[mondblut]

Patches implementing features that were supposed to be in the game? Come on.

That's so 2008. DLCs implementing features that were supposed to be in the game is all the rage today

 

[Luzur]

so it turned out to be shit after all?

 

[Infinitron]

(As former American football champ I like the words "tackling" and "hit" here)

What the fuck?

 

[Bobbles]

The Russo-Austrian community is very invested in American Football.

New Patch is out:

Patch 1.04 - July 31st, 2013 (8pm GMT+1)

• Fights: Fix random Crashes
• Fights: Remember Player Avatar setup
• Fights: Fix Turn and Zoom buttons
• Character: All-to-Parry fix for new Characters
• Character: Fix delete Character despite of Cancel
• Character: Fix Scrollbar on Load Character after first refresh
• Character: Remove Levelup positive attribute can fail
• Lore Talents: Levelup max improve 3 points instead of 2
• Character: Magician can now increase his schooled skills 3x
• Character: After Levelup Display Bugs removed
• Tavern: Fix stealing response text, fix cheating result (latter: german only)
• Translation: fix half-translated character screen
• Trader: 999D Bug fixed
• Character: Fix Editor messing up Character Images - not reproduceable anymore
• Fights: Fix Camping Fightstart problems
• Villages: Guards in Thorwal changed
• Villages: Rovik Harbor update
• Trader:Fixed choose but don’t pay for Items
• Fights: Changed Damagetype of Ignifaxius from Magical to Fire

FWIW, they already fixed a couple of things that had been announced for later patches and a bunch of new stuff.

 

[InspectorRumpole]

..It looked pretty at first..

Except for the entire combat part..

 

[Berekän]

Serves everyone right for buying a remake that's actually uglier than the original game

 

[thesheeep]

I just wanted to inform the unwashed masses that Crafty Studios is an Austrian company, not a German one. Mhkay?

Also... lol
Once I have time for it I want to play this game in an unpatched state and make a video of it while doing so.
It will be

 

[sser]

The Austrians' greatest feat was convincing the world that Hitler Crafty Studios was German.

 

[HiddenX]

http://www.craftystudios.com/contact/home

A stands for Austria

Crafty Studios Game Development GmbH
Lichtenwörthergasse 112a, A-7033 Pöttsching
(info (at) craftystudios.com) - Lowlands
Business Management:

Ronald Haider (ronald (dot) haider (at) craftystudios.com) - Alpine
About Crafty Studios
Crafty Studios was founded in January 2006 to develop, set up and publish browsergames and MMOGs. Today Crafty Studios is proud of its good reputation in the german-speaking browsergame scene. The most popular Crafty-game "Devilfight 2" is targeted mainly at women and offers an optional payment concept. This type of gameplay renewed the possibility to focus on special customer groups.
Crafty Studios experienced that browser gamers are mainly played by an audience aged 18 to 50 years. New projects and games will mainly focus on the same audience, as Crafty Studios now has a good base and experience in supporting and managing games for this target group.

 

[Bobbles]

Haider, eh?

Is it common for a game developer to be based in a private residence in a village of 2,800 people?

 

[Stabwound]

Today Crafty Studios is proud of its good reputation in the german-speaking browsergame scene. The most popular Crafty-game "Devilfight 2" is targeted mainly at women and offers an optional payment concept. This type of gameplay renewed the possibility to focus on special customer groups.

Yeah, that's really something to be proud of.

 

[mondblut]

Well, we are a special customer group. Somewhere between trannies and autists

 

[Bobbles]

I've heard that 80% of DSA fans are female.

 

[Excidium]

Must be those toned viking warriors

 

[:Flash:]

Haider, eh?

Is it common for a game developer to be based in a private residence in a village of 2,800 people?

Attic was based in a private residence in a village as well.

 

[Gord]

I've heard that 80% of DSA fans are female.

Must have been long after I stopped playing PnP...

 

[Infinitron]

This disaster of a release is finally getting some mainstream coverage:

http://www.incgamers.com/2013/07/reams-of-trouble-realms-of-arkania-launches-in-a-broken-state
http://www.gameblog.fr/test_1637_realms-of-arkania-blade-of-destiny-pc (French)
http://www.bluesnews.com/s/143802/realms-of-arkania-blade-of-destiny-remake-woes
http://www.rpgreporter.com/2013/07/31/realms-of-arkania-blade-of-destiny-isnt-looking-so-sharp/

 

[Bobbles]

Today's patch:

Patch 1.05 - August 1st, 2013 (8pm GMT+2)

Character: Robes and Coats moved to “Coat” equipment slot
Fight: Fixed Fastness of Body Spell
Ambient: Footsteps Volume changed
Ambient: Spell Voiceovers activated
Texts: Update english Item descriptions
Camps: Spellcasting activated
Towns: Spellcasting activated
Dungeons: Spellcasting activated
Texts: Talent Descriptions
Placeholder: Map fixed
Questbook: Click closed the Screen - fixed
Questbook: Content Mismatch fixed
Character: Parry updated
Hostels: Rent-Time fixed

Work in progress (planed now for 1.06):
Fight: Implement flee Battles
Fight: Fix irritating weapon display discrepancies
Fight: Improve Action Feedback (Sounds, Texts)

 

[Drowed]

When it reaches a playable state, someone please post it here.