People still care about warz?
its called Fanboys!!!
From the head person on the forums (Dev I believe)
"The packages sold by our partners, such as active Russian servers, are the responsibilities of that local operator. We have no direct control over these packages but are investigating it and will work out restrictions for RU packages that only allow them to play with others users that purchased those packages. These packages are not purchasable in if you purchased your account through one of our partners. IE if you bought the game from thewarz.com you will not have access to those packages.
I hope this clears up any confusion on those packages.
Thanks for your dedication and patience." (talking about the Russian price packages, as there is a $100 package you can buy)
"I hope to have some news out this week but I need the entire team back in the office so we can have a good discussion about the past two weeks and everything has happened while we were gone. Unfortunately there is the possibility of some people being sick (I've had strep throat for a week ) So I cannot promise anything this week. It is my goal and I will try as best as I can to get some good info out this week. "
(Lol game is falling apart, and Devs still won't come back to work)
(FANBOY ALERT!)
No, the devs NEVER did anything WRONG They never did anything wrong. But, they have been cutting corners in every aspect.
- The devs didn't LIE. They said specifically that the game is an ongoing development, the features advertised will be implemented later. But, 10 years later the game will still be an ongoing developement, while the devs still can say the missing features will come *one day*.
- The map is completed, but anyone can see the blurred areas were intended to be more content (town, farm)
- They took a long vacation during christmas/new year, partied too much and came back with strep throat. So more sick leaves. Yes, they are humans so we can't blame them for resting. But there's something called "initiative" in the job field, which means you do more than what you are asked to do, outside your 8 hour shift time, when you are really passionate about your work. Do you think warz devs are passionate about their game?
- With some evidence we can guess that the warz and war inc are running on the same servers. I'm sure they did buy new servers with the money, but they probably sold off the old servers to maximize profit. Nothing wrong that maximizing profit, but binding two games to the same bottleneck/failure point is not exactly a good thing.
- The devs kept missing deadlines. Nothing wrong with that, other game companies miss deadline too. But missing every major deadline, puts the devs on the incompetent side. But again, every games misses deadlines... at least occasionally...
- With all the money they earned, the core dev team is still the same ole same ole after three months. Again nothing is wrong with maximizing profit, and since as they stated the game will forever be in development and will never die, they have all the time in the universe to keep making this game with the same handful of guys.
- Reusing code and assets from war inc is not wrong. Every game developer does that. But, the degree of reusing asset from war inc is astronomical, they didn't even bother to redesign the menus in order to make it fit better with a survival game instead of a mediocre twitch shooter. This has led me to believe that they did have some talented artists and programmers while they worked on war inc, but after learning about the company's business conduct, those guys left to protect their resumes, so the remaining devs with no equal talent can only reuse whatever those good guys left. I even believe that the nice towns such as smallville and clear view were still developed by some talented devs, but after their departure, the remaining devs could only copy and paste the same structures elsewhere to form the other cookie cutter towns.
All in all, hammerpoint reminds me of a small chinese takeout restaurant, ran by a chinese family, and the boss is the wife who scrutinates every penny they spend, using the cheapest ingredients, reusing the frying oil three times over, making sauce with pig blood to save on soy sauce cost, etc. etc. ... Did they do anything wrong? Of course not, all those things are edible, they won't kill anyone, so they are perfectly legitimate.
(FANBOY!)
