Media Is Wynncraft Losing It's Fanbase Because Of The Wait For Gavel?

Cruuk · Nov 3, 2015

Grian said: ↑

All of you acting like you know what's going on behind the scenes really ticks me off you know.

You can't say "the content team should rush what they had planned" - THIS IS WHAT WE HAD PLANNED, this takes a good amount of time, its a 4000x2000 sized detailed map with about another 4000x2000 worth of off map content.

You all seem to think that an unfinished Gavel is what Wynncraft needs, just get it out now, no matter what. That's such a terrible idea you have no clue. We can't release even half a map that size that covers over 60 levels without adding any content. You act like you'd love Gavel just as much without the content and secrets and all the fine details we put in, but the truth is, if we released something half finished people would leave after release and complain about how the update was underwhelming or didn't meet expectations etc. This would make the game bomb and possibly beyond recovery as we want to install some faith and legacy to our updating capabilities. We want to get a reputation for putting out some sick updates.

you may say we bit off more than we can chew too - but truth is we bit off more than we can chew from the very beginning, 3 inexperienced people going into an mmo design of all things. But now we actually have some experience behind us, we know what we're doing and we certainly know whats best for the game.

I agree the wait is both unprecedented and extremely long.

We encounter issue after issue, especially on the dev side, imagine this, you're building a sand castle to the same height as you, but everytime you build up, the bottom crumbles beneath you. This analogy sums up the plugin side. Every time something is altered, changed or improved, something else breaks, stops working and it can often take ages to find and fix the issue. We're changing and improving so much of the game it may be unrecognisable in some aspects, the lag will be gone, the game will look so good with the resource pack, the elements, the exploration, the quests, the new items, character slots, building your character and who knows maybe we'll even fix swarms since mobs will be improved.

Soooo much, a lot of you probably didn't even consider the scale of this project and how a lot of it can't function without the rest, you can't just do one system and leave another outdated. Everything is connected. If we do one thing, we have to do all the things. If we change items that means spells, identifications damage calculations all have to be changed and updated. Game development and design isn't as generalised and easy as you make out. Gavel is much more than a province with 50+ quests.

The content team work their asses off and I don't want to see anyone telling them what to do or to work faster. It's not their fault its not out yet. The map is legitimately 95% done. We essentially need to make dungeons and we're finished on the content team side. We have 51 quests finished, of about 30 I would say feature unique and high quality content. I tried extremely hard to make sure all the content we made was enough to keep people entertained all the way to level 80. We'll be adding more content in a follow up Gavel update to address the lack of end game content.

So please, I know its a wait. But you act like we can do differently or just release it. It's just not true. We all have to wait. We all have to be patient.

And when Gavel is finally there, you won't regret it.

-Grian
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Now for all of you complaining and whining about the little things like the new item system, resource pack, etc. at least wait for the update to come out for your final opinion on it.

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