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Ok! I can't lie, I was hoping for a different answer ahahahahah

Thank you for finding the time to answer and good work!

Hello Zakk04 :-)

But I don't understand this total lack of communication on your part.

Well... I wish I could tell more about this and even reveal a definitive release date, but it's difficult to share details about the project right now since there are a lot of things that are still not set in stone.

Right now, even sharing screenshots of the current version (essentially it's super ugly with debugging output all over the place) could possibly set wrong expectations about how the game will look like.

At some point, we even had an internal devstream (which I do intend to resume), but right now it'd bore the hell out of even our own staff since it's all about type theory at the moment.

Maybe I'm totally wrong about this and people don't assume anything from in-development versions and just love looking at a bunch of data types.

However, my past personal experiences have shown, that as soon as it's all about monoids, functors and monads, viewers tend to be dropping rapidly even though these concepts are very simple and elegant.

(A side note here: There were actually still a few viewers left who actually cared about these things, but we're talking about one or max two persons)

Nevertheless, I'll bring this up for internal discussion to see whether we'd like to go down this route. Maybe not necessarily doing a non-staff devstream but at least talking about some more details.

You know, if you start introducing new concepts, people (me included) tend get very hyped, but as soon as something is not working out, people tend to be very disappointed.

At least there will be an app dedicated to smartphones to adapt to the times?

Let me answer this with a question:

Do you think it would be good idea to rewrite something from scratch and completely forget that the desktop is not the future? :-D

a!

PS: I know I didn't address a few of your other points, but I'd like to have that internal discussion first.

Ok! I can't lie, I was hoping for a different answer ahahahahah

@Nostalgia_kaos: Just out of curiosity: Which answer did you expect? =)

Well you know, I think you can agree with me if I say that from a player perspective it's kind of disappointing knowing that a year after the announcement there is still so much uncertainty.

As far as my gaming experience goes, it's not even about the new features of the game, since nothing as been told in this regard so there's nothing to be excited for. I played this game a lot of years ago, from '06 to '10, so, coming back after ten years, i'm not tired about the old features. But playing alone it defeats the purpose of online gaming.

Moreover as an engineer, although i have no idea of the time and resources employed in this project, and this is a very important premise, when time estimations can't be made, when a lot of thing are not set in stone, it usually means that devolpment is nowhere near the end.

And this increases my pessimism. While it's not obvious that development will follow the same rate as of the past year, tangential projects will always be there, i'll have a guess and say that rewriting a game it's hard :D so in my mind i'm starting to believe that we're talking about late 2021 for the game to be launched.

But of course, as i said before, i know nothing about rms so mine are just hollow words.

I also want to clarify that it's not my intention to criticize anybody. I've enjoyed the game so much that there's nothing but respect for you