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In addition to this video, we wanted to give everyone a very important update. In July, we let everyone know that we were hard at work on Episode Three – Long Road Ahead, and our aim has been to have it ready towards the middle of August. Some of you may have thought this meant a hard date of August 15th, but we wanted to be as clear as we could to let you know the latest news on the release date. The team has finished play-testing and tuning, and we’re nearing final submission to our partners for certification on digital platforms. As soon as we hear back from our partners on when Episode Three will be available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, PlayStation Network, PC, and Mac, we’re going to break that news to you right here.
Telltale always hitting their monthly deadlines, never disappoints lol
Look for it some time in Sept people :-)
Don't bother waiting for it in August, it will not come out. I thought it will come on time..but obviously TellTale thinks that mid-august in not 15th of the month.. I'm expecting it on MID-September (15th!)
Don't bother waiting for it in August, it will not come out. I thought it will come on time..but obviously TellTale thinks that mid-august in not 15th of the month.. I'm expecting it on MID-September (15th!)
wrong..
the mid august comment refered to the game being ready
now what they ment by 'ready' is open to interpritation..
but imo it does not mean the game will be released.
it only mean't the game is ready for certification.
Yes, and I gave him my answer: it defeats the purpose of episodic gaming. If they made it all at once, they wouldn't need to release every month.
That makes absolutely no sense. That is like saying that there is no point in releasing tv series on regular schedule either, since most episodes are already finished.
What they are doing now is clearly not working as they cannot keep to the schedule.
thing about tv schedules is they have to spread out a season to make more money and bump up ratings with repeats/encore's/ marathons
and the rather stupid missing a week for some stupid sport event or special day
for example tron uprising aired 1 - 7 episodes on disney xd but for ep8 they decided to postpone it giving no info out for 2 weeks then gaves us a date which was then cancelled twice august 2nd and august 9th.
now they say october for a new season..
so ttg aren't the only company with schedule issues...
That makes absolutely no sense. That is like saying that there is no point in releasing tv series on regular schedule either, since most episodes are already finished.
What they are doing now is clearly not working as they cannot keep to the schedule.
Exactly. In my opinion they should've started episode one and two before announcing the game. While episode one was out they could've gotten user feedback and started working on episode three. Release episode two and then start working on episode four. This monthly episodic gaming model is a complete and utter failure.
the mid august comment refered to the game being ready
now what they ment by 'ready' is open to interpritation..
but imo it does not mean the game will be released.
it only mean't the game is ready for certification.
another week or 2 to wait..
Yeah, yeah..they should have just said game will come out in August..No need for early/mid/late august.. It doesn't matter really, I will play it whenever it comes out..I'm not complaining, the game is awesome
Exactly. In my opinion they should've started episode one and two before announcing the game. While episode one was out they could've gotten user feedback and started working on episode three. Release episode two and then start working on episode four. This monthly episodic gaming model is a complete and utter failure.
I'm under the impression that there are other stakeholders involved that are not employees of TTG. I think TTG is doing what they said they would do..provide a really fun game to play in an episodic fashion. But these other people who are part of the game distribution network have their procedures, quality control, etc. that add additional delay and uncertainty to the release date....then to have them all release the game on the same day...what a mess.
Monthly releases - :rolleyes: or at least halfway monthly :rolleyes: - are a pretty new thing to the video game industry, which worked very differently in the last 30 years. I would assume that for everything to run really smoothly, new process highways would have to be built and broken in far outside of Telltale's offices. But you can't really change an entire industry for a single game developer, at least not overnight. It looks like a fast lived business, but hell these mills grind slowly after all.
WOW, it is good to know even the telltale employees agree with what i've been saying about the earlier blog post saying mid august is episode ready, not released
That makes absolutely no sense. That is like saying that there is no point in releasing tv series on regular schedule either, since most episodes are already finished.
What they are doing now is clearly not working as they cannot keep to the schedule.
It makes complete sense. If they made the whole series before hand, there would be no point relelasing it monthly. They would release the WHOLE THING at once then, like it was done traditionally. However next quote:
Seems to me, the purpose of episodic gaming is to irritate your customers. Anyone still waiting for Half-Life: Episode 3?
Now, THIS is a far point. I'm not a fan of episodic gaming. That being said, the Walking Dead is PERFECT for episodic gaming. It's already based on a comic book series made into a TV series.
WOW, it is good to know even the telltale employees agree with what i've been saying about the earlier blog post saying mid august is episode ready, not released
Myself and others have been BEGGING for them to clear that up since the day they posted it. Judging from how they actually waited until mid-august to do so, I think they were ambiguous on purpose, so they could come out like heroes if they hit a mid-august release, or buy themselves some more time without admitting to a mistake ("we said ready but not ready to release") if they don't. The latter is what ended up happening.
Myself and others have been BEGGING for them to clear that up since the day they posted it. Judging from how they actually waited until mid-august to do so, I think they were ambiguous on purpose, so they could come out like heroes if they hit a mid-august release, or buy themselves some more time without admitting to a mistake ("we said ready but not ready to release") if they don't. The latter is what ended up happening.
yes but ttg doesn't/hasn't done that cos they have the episodic build the game as you go business model..
So Milo, if I understand you correctly, you're saying that they don't make all the episodes beforehand and have everything ready before they start releasing the episodes.........because they have the episodic build the game as you go business model???
That's an astounding revelation! Thanks for enlightening us.
The poor communication makes them not heroes in my book.
And the lies and keeping everyone in the dark all the time, they missold this game big time.
'Misselling'
The ethically questionable practice of a salesperson misrepresenting or misleading an investor about the characteristics of a product or service. In an effort to make a sale to a potential customer, a financial products salesperson could leave out certain information or describe a financial product as something the investor urgently needs, even though sound financial judgment would come to the opposite conclusion.
And the lies and keeping everyone in the dark all the time, they missold this game big time.
'Misselling'
The ethically questionable practice of a salesperson misrepresenting or misleading an investor about the characteristics of a product or service. In an effort to make a sale to a potential customer, a financial products salesperson could leave out certain information or describe a financial product as something the investor urgently needs, even though sound financial judgment would come to the opposite conclusion.
BUT regardless of the monthly release thang, people are still buying the game with the wrong idea, they are expecting an fps, good graphics not cel shaded, not aware it's episodic/don't understand the concept of it, expect more than 2-3 hours of gameplay per episode, they expect full control and shooting zombies, plus people are complaining about the choices...
And the lies and keeping everyone in the dark all the time, they missold this game big time.
'Misselling'
The ethically questionable practice of a salesperson misrepresenting or misleading an investor about the characteristics of a product or service. In an effort to make a sale to a potential customer, a financial products salesperson could leave out certain information or describe a financial product as something the investor urgently needs, even though sound financial judgment would come to the opposite conclusion.
I'm sorry to go all legal on you, but I belive, that there is a huge diffrence between a normal sale/buy and a financial advised investment. The biggest diffrence being the increased amount of legal obligations.
Now I live in Denmark, and we have a sh**load of F***ing boring rules, that a financial salesperson must obey when giving anything remotly linked to financial advising. Otherwise the company are looking at fine so high, that its amount matches the number of kalories a avage MC. Donalds resturant hands out doing a dicent business day:)
Well all the BS aside, when you provide financial advising you do not only have to meet a lot of additionel legal obligations (at least that complies to most of all western contries), you do also have a huge etical responsebility, since you are dealing with peoples money, and because a wrong decision can have devestating impact on the a persons life in a lot of years after. I do not belive, that the same thing can be said about the sale of a TWD game.
BUT regardless of the monthly release thang, people are still buying the game with the wrong idea, they are expecting an fps, good graphics not cel shaded, not aware it's episodic/don't understand the concept of it, expect more than 2-3 hours of gameplay per episode, they expect full control and shooting zombies, plus people are complaining about the choices...
You can read about the game or even play the demo before you buy it (you even get confronted with those options before buying). If people buy the game before doing any of that TTG can't really be to blame... or did I get you wrong?
You can read about the game or even play the demo before you buy it (you even get confronted with those options before buying). If people buy the game before doing any of that TTG can't really be to blame... or did I get you wrong?
if you mean you thought that post was my own experience of the game, then no, as i always check the fine /small print..
what i mean't was it's what i see on these forums most of the time i'm on reading others experiences
i'm actually rather happy with the game, the delay's suck but i was expecting at least one or two since i played bttf..
As long as they release a relatively bug free product, who cares how long they take to release each episode!
i bought the season pass to play each episode before other people so then i can record for youtube. if it takes long then the longer the better because it will make the episode more bug free and more exciting. im hoping Episode 3 comes out this week because i put on-hold amazing spider-man for this episode and then i got lots of games to catch up on plus RE6 demo comes public Sep. 4th or 5th so im on a tight schedule
In my opinion this has turned into a debacle if this episode doesnt realease sometime this week (next 7 days). i remember reading this thread two weeks ago and thinking these people are rediculous for complaining for the poor time table for episode 3 but now after seeing all of this hype i gotta say telltale... time to get your explicit-s-word straight. Who cares how long it takes as long as it is a quality product? I do!!! geeez the fact that telltale hasnt come out and set a date probably means it wont be out anytime soon (august) and if thats the case i will not buy episode 3 as a result i will be in college. they have really messed this up. not to mention there missing sales everyday that passes, they better hope the actual season tv premiere causes a spurt of some sort. then again the only one to blame is themselves, so if they dont care ( which it seems they dont) i dont either
Since we have not heard anything from Telltale about episode 3 I doubt we will get it next week as they said in their statment when episode 2 was released.
i bought the season pass to play each episode before other people so then i can record for youtube. if it takes long then the longer the better because it will make the episode more bug free and more exciting. im hoping Episode 3 comes out this week because i put on-hold amazing spider-man for this episode and then i got lots of games to catch up on plus RE6 demo comes public Sep. 4th or 5th so im on a tight schedule
Lol, sait, wait. So you somehow thought that the season pass would grant you the game before everyone else? Did you just not understand episodic gaming or what? As for your tight schedule, play your catch up games now since you seem to have put games on hold for some reason.
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In addition to this video, we wanted to give everyone a very important update. In July, we let everyone know that we were hard at work on Episode Three – Long Road Ahead, and our aim has been to have it ready towards the middle of August. Some of you may have thought this meant a hard date of August 15th, but we wanted to be as clear as we could to let you know the latest news on the release date. The team has finished play-testing and tuning, and we’re nearing final submission to our partners for certification on digital platforms. As soon as we hear back from our partners on when Episode Three will be available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, PlayStation Network, PC, and Mac, we’re going to break that news to you right here.
Telltale always hitting their monthly deadlines, never disappoints lol
Look for it some time in Sept people :-)
I think he means, make all the episodes and then release them on time every month
yes but ttg doesn't/hasn't done that cos they have the episodic build the game as you go business model..
Yes, and I gave him my answer: it defeats the purpose of episodic gaming. If they made it all at once, they wouldn't need to release every month.
also, this gives them time to take player feedback, and add in more stuff, i.e the Carley joke about batteries was awesome!
wrong..
the mid august comment refered to the game being ready
now what they ment by 'ready' is open to interpritation..
but imo it does not mean the game will be released.
it only mean't the game is ready for certification.
another week or 2 to wait..
Seems to me, the purpose of episodic gaming is to irritate your customers. Anyone still waiting for Half-Life: Episode 3?
What they are doing now is clearly not working as they cannot keep to the schedule.
it will be epic though...
thing about tv schedules is they have to spread out a season to make more money and bump up ratings with repeats/encore's/ marathons
and the rather stupid missing a week for some stupid sport event or special day
for example tron uprising aired 1 - 7 episodes on disney xd but for ep8 they decided to postpone it giving no info out for 2 weeks then gaves us a date which was then cancelled twice august 2nd and august 9th.
now they say october for a new season..
so ttg aren't the only company with schedule issues...
Exactly. In my opinion they should've started episode one and two before announcing the game. While episode one was out they could've gotten user feedback and started working on episode three. Release episode two and then start working on episode four. This monthly episodic gaming model is a complete and utter failure.
Yeah, yeah..they should have just said game will come out in August..No need for early/mid/late august.. It doesn't matter really, I will play it whenever it comes out..I'm not complaining, the game is awesome
I'm under the impression that there are other stakeholders involved that are not employees of TTG. I think TTG is doing what they said they would do..provide a really fun game to play in an episodic fashion. But these other people who are part of the game distribution network have their procedures, quality control, etc. that add additional delay and uncertainty to the release date....then to have them all release the game on the same day...what a mess.
Also, Vain, I applaud your continued efforts at reasoning. xD
Now, THIS is a far point. I'm not a fan of episodic gaming. That being said, the Walking Dead is PERFECT for episodic gaming. It's already based on a comic book series made into a TV series.
Myself and others have been BEGGING for them to clear that up since the day they posted it. Judging from how they actually waited until mid-august to do so, I think they were ambiguous on purpose, so they could come out like heroes if they hit a mid-august release, or buy themselves some more time without admitting to a mistake ("we said ready but not ready to release") if they don't. The latter is what ended up happening.
Very true.
But heroes they are not...
They are just people, good people, hard working people. TTG trying their best im sure of it, that makes them heroes, okay?
That's an astounding revelation! Thanks for enlightening us.
Now I see why you're called "Superspesh"!
i guess stating the obvious is crime to you ?
because that logic is too simple for the simpletons to grasp...
And the lies and keeping everyone in the dark all the time, they missold this game big time.
'Misselling'
The ethically questionable practice of a salesperson misrepresenting or misleading an investor about the characteristics of a product or service. In an effort to make a sale to a potential customer, a financial products salesperson could leave out certain information or describe a financial product as something the investor urgently needs, even though sound financial judgment would come to the opposite conclusion.
BUT regardless of the monthly release thang, people are still buying the game with the wrong idea, they are expecting an fps, good graphics not cel shaded, not aware it's episodic/don't understand the concept of it, expect more than 2-3 hours of gameplay per episode, they expect full control and shooting zombies, plus people are complaining about the choices...
I'm sorry to go all legal on you, but I belive, that there is a huge diffrence between a normal sale/buy and a financial advised investment. The biggest diffrence being the increased amount of legal obligations.
Now I live in Denmark, and we have a sh**load of F***ing boring rules, that a financial salesperson must obey when giving anything remotly linked to financial advising. Otherwise the company are looking at fine so high, that its amount matches the number of kalories a avage MC. Donalds resturant hands out doing a dicent business day:)
Well all the BS aside, when you provide financial advising you do not only have to meet a lot of additionel legal obligations (at least that complies to most of all western contries), you do also have a huge etical responsebility, since you are dealing with peoples money, and because a wrong decision can have devestating impact on the a persons life in a lot of years after. I do not belive, that the same thing can be said about the sale of a TWD game.
You can read about the game or even play the demo before you buy it (you even get confronted with those options before buying). If people buy the game before doing any of that TTG can't really be to blame... or did I get you wrong?
if you mean you thought that post was my own experience of the game, then no, as i always check the fine /small print..
what i mean't was it's what i see on these forums most of the time i'm on reading others experiences
i'm actually rather happy with the game, the delay's suck but i was expecting at least one or two since i played bttf..
i bought the season pass to play each episode before other people so then i can record for youtube. if it takes long then the longer the better because it will make the episode more bug free and more exciting. im hoping Episode 3 comes out this week because i put on-hold amazing spider-man for this episode and then i got lots of games to catch up on plus RE6 demo comes public Sep. 4th or 5th so im on a tight schedule
ttg have said mid august the game is 'ready' but not released they meant read to be certified/complete/tested in house.
1 week seems a bit short for ms/sony/steam...
2 weeks is most likely..
the butcher have you not read the blog page and or this same thread a few pages back ?
I just didn't understand, if you blamed TTG or the people, who did not read before buying:)
mainly the people it's ok though
'bro fist'
Then I must agree with you:) You should always read before buying:)
Bro fist
Lol, sait, wait. So you somehow thought that the season pass would grant you the game before everyone else? Did you just not understand episodic gaming or what? As for your tight schedule, play your catch up games now since you seem to have put games on hold for some reason.