The Horus to Money Spent Ratio is not bad. Don't get started on the Abaddon to Money Spent Ratio though. That guy just can't catch a break!
When the players are on their break the Devs come out to play! View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnQKET83qKg
Dont forget that these 400 ppl which i havent confirmed in any way, work for 1/4th or even less of wage they would get in us, youre looking at 2300$ monthly wage at average(thats average from development and management) On top of that companies always have more ppl for actual game development than they keep post launch for fixes and dlc. Also for comparison wow vanilla had 60 ppl working on post launch content, server maintenance and bugfixing, diablo 3 30.
Which was a mistake really. I don't really think UE4 is meant for large scale multiplayer, at the very least it wasn't optimized for that yet. Should have stayed with UE3.
I'm not angry, and I don't feel the need to bash the devs. But this does not mean I am blind or stupid. The game is not so good, it needs improvements that we are not seeing and the size of the team is such that we will probably have to lower our expectations again. I already took a break, it's many weeks since I played last time. And I don't even feel the need to login again.
I usually get revived when I remember how well Nathan has actually done salvaging the train wreck that was Miguel's plan. Miguel was an awesome dude with wonderful vision, but he put all the eggs in the pikko tech basket. This game should really have been wiped completely off the map when pikko got delayed... somehow, Nathan did what he does best and turned the wreck into a running functioning game with an active player base. I have some small hopes for EC's ascension. I feel with a few good cosmetics, new purchasable elites, some melee balance and a new elite spawn system, this game could be really something... and expansion could very likely happen. For now, I'm rather grateful that it still exists after I invested into it as a founder. It could have died after Miguel's plans did. As for the cosmetics, I'd love to get in blender and learning how to do some modelling to submit to them... but I have my hands full with other artistic pursuits at the moment. There's only so much art stuff I can take per day.
I can think of several people who need to seriously take this advice and get out and breath some fresh air once in a while.
I keep taking a break in hopes I see the things I paid for. Still no looted 'umie bolter *aka missing ork relic* Still no pioneer pack items *positive they decided to just cancel these all together* Still no splash burna or kombi shoota *devs forgot they confirmed they forgot a few streams ago and even laughed about it* Till these things come I plan to only log in to get my campaigns and that's it.
