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Telemecus -> RE: Team games (12/21/2019 1:25:57 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Elessar2
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ORIGINAL: Beria
There is a plan to start a team game out of WitE2. Probably after the air system is finalized. There are enough people who have played these team games in the testing group to start one now.
Do you have permission from Matrix/the authors to override your NDA? [note: If I were Matrix, I'd sure as heck consider it, good publicity cannot hurt]
No and to be honest this is only an idea being floated around. And the feeling was it would not start until after the current big change they are making in the WitE2 game engine.
In practical terms I am not even sure we can talk about the game to other testers outside of the special matrix forums provided for them. In a team game where real time chat through discord helps the game go a lot faster, not having that could be a real handicap.
Others know the gaming industry better than me. But in the more general corporate world the marketing department gets very skittish about any message that is not controlled by them. Even if the message is probably very good, they would rather not have it due to the risk of someone else delivering it. That said I know Slitherine-Matrix do allow youtubers to cast their play throughs before release dates. So at least to some extent I know the gaming industry is different in that way. But we have had a lot of trolling problems with the team games in these forums for about a year. And someone was actively trying to stop anyone interested in a team game from joining until Slitherine moderators intervened. So I could understand that they might be worried about what would be seen in open public forums?
If we were to do this I would spend a lot of time working on an AAR. My presumption was it would be mainly to help the developers (bug hunting or querying features). But as the game would likely run on into when the game is released, I would hope the AAR could simply be ported into the public forums for WitE2 when it is released at least?
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