EPTProject Zomboid. [The story of your death] - Page 3
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Aocowns
Norway6070 Posts
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Sqq
Norway2023 Posts
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VPCursed
1044 Posts
On June 11 2011 22:54 Sqq wrote: I bought it now, gonna see if its any good It's only alpha... can't really judge it.. There is alot of potential tho. And the developer is heading in the right direction. | ||
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VPCursed
1044 Posts
Public demo released.. So try it if u haven't ;D | ||
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Aocowns
Norway6070 Posts
On June 21 2011 02:56 VPCursed wrote: http://projectzomboid.com/blog/index.php/2011/06/free-public-demo-released/ Public demo released.. So try it if u haven't ;D I dl'ed the demo last nigth, and damn, this shows great promise! Don't think they should pull a Minecraft though. People will be tired of it months before the release  | ||
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nemo14
United States425 Posts
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Kira__
Sweden2672 Posts
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Hesmyrr
Canada5776 Posts
On June 22 2011 02:14 Kira__ wrote: Why does this game scare the fuck out of me, knowing that I WILL die.. the feeling of impending doom Lovecraftian? | ||
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Kira__
Sweden2672 Posts
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heishe
Germany2284 Posts
http://projectzomboid.com/blog/index.php/2011/10/project-zomboid-burglary-statement/ This is far beyond stupid imo. Creating a SVN Repo somewhere takes 5 minutes, and backing up the code takes a couple of clicks and less than a minute for uploading. Meh.. they always made a weird and incompetent impression on me. They seemingly took a lot of time to implement relatively trivial things and half of their blog posts consist of "We're sorry the update is delayed, the reasons for this are: [insert things which are basically not related to the game code at all]". This seems like the topping on the cake. | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32046 Posts
How was progress going?? Because this was pretty cool, even if it didn't hold interest for terribly long in alpha | ||
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heishe
Germany2284 Posts
On October 17 2011 00:28 Hawk wrote: Geez, that sucks. How was progress going?? Because this was pretty cool, even if it didn't hold interest for terribly long in alpha Well nothing dramatically new was added. They added basic modding support, really basic classes and a couple of items two months or so back and fixed a little bugs and since then nothing's been happening. The biggest feature they wanted to bring in on the next update was multi map support and savegame support. They need more than two months for that? Really? *puts on tinfoil hat* Really, now that I think about it this seems somewhat suspicious. They need that much time to implement these kinds of things. Maybe they just have no clue what they're doing and realize that they're in trouble (since a lot of people have already bought the game and they realize that they don't quite have the know how to finish this thing in a reasonable time frame)? Suddenly, someone breaks into their home and steals nothing but the two laptops, which incidentally contain the only valuable copies of the code and a phone or something? And this happens by chance when, during a time where 4 of the 5 guys are at or around the location for the weekend since they have a team meeting on monday, are not actually at "the office" (which is actually just the flat of the 2 main coders)? *puts off tinfoil hat* Anyways, if a lot of people (like me) will want their money back right now, they're pretty fucked, I think. They can't deny people their money (super bad PR) and if they give back the money they will lose a large percentage of their funds. | ||
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Playguuu
United States926 Posts
On October 16 2011 21:23 heishe wrote: So, the guys were robbed and are now back to where they were a couple of months ago. http://projectzomboid.com/blog/index.php/2011/10/project-zomboid-burglary-statement/ This is far beyond stupid imo. Creating a SVN Repo somewhere takes 5 minutes, and backing up the code takes a couple of clicks and less than a minute for uploading. Meh.. they always made a weird and incompetent impression on me. They seemingly took a lot of time to implement relatively trivial things and half of their blog posts consist of "We're sorry the update is delayed, the reasons for this are: [insert things which are basically not related to the game code at all]". This seems like the topping on the cake. No offsite backup? Isn't that like a rule for development, or life in general - prepare for the worst. Not to berate these guys because their game certainly showed some promise, but I feel pretty bad for the fans and supporters that were constantly let down after they invested in the project. | ||
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Shockk
Germany2269 Posts
It also really helped with their publicity that one of their developers went on to post on Twitter while drunk after all of that. Amongst other things, he insulted critics, babbled about taking all of the money and jumping from a bridge and going back to "professional programming since gaming sucks". ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/x9mcK.jpg) He apologized afterwards, but still, this is ridiculous. I realise having your home broken into and your worken stolen is devastating but you're not exactly helping your cause with such reactions (especially considering the circumstances, not having backups etc.). I think a quote on Reddit put it right: So let me get this straight. My porn collection is backed up on more external hard drives than all of Project Zomboid. With large parts of their code gone and their dev team apparently being in some limbo between apathy, misery and cluelessness, the chances of this game being published at some point in the future just got dramatically worse. | ||
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PaqMan
United States1475 Posts
I think I'll hold back a month or two and see where PZ goes from here. | ||
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rebuffering
Canada2436 Posts
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fishbowl
United States1575 Posts
On October 17 2011 07:31 PaqMan wrote: Wow! I was seriously about to get this game too. I think I'll hold back a month or two and see where PZ goes from here. I was in the same boat. The game showed a lot of promise but the way that the developers have handled this situation has made me iffy about it. | ||
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Playguuu
United States926 Posts
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QuanticHawk
United States32046 Posts
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
Don't give up hope yet folks, we could still see a great game if they can get through the hard times. | ||
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