Icegrx

I’ve lost most my optimism. I’m in the anger stage currently.

He’s a good sales guy, and a great PR person, but he shouldn’t be in any management position at all. Even if he had the best intentions all along, the team was clearly mismanaged. I fail to believe the dev team was so incompetent that updates and content took as long as it did to be delivered. Especially with a couple notable names on the team. Their time was clearly managed improperly. after going through two separate teams with minimal results with the same guy at the helm. I’m blaming him. worse yet, he gets to still have a job, while the rest of his team lost their livelihoods. Great example of someone pretending to be someone they are not. Stick to the art and talking, leave it to someone else for direction and management.

I hope I’m wrong, but I highly doubt we are getting colonies. With the little info they showed us, it seems they are way aways off from a playable colonies. Especially without performance optimization

I’m expecting them to quietly sit on this for a few months before coming forward and saying the plug is pulled. I had so much hope and optimism last week, and this week I’m just not feeling it. This game meant little to nothing to them, why should I let it mean something to me.

You guys are really arguing about where the nav ball should be on a dead game?

No empathy from me. If I slack off at work and decide to stop working or do a poor job I get fired. @Nate Simpson just gets shuffled around and sent to another team. I do have empathy for those who worked under him though. They all lost their jobs and livelihoods.

KSP2 failed because the team lacked the ability to deliver almost all of the promised features and updates. Completely mismanaged project, where the teams skills were either not utilized properly or they completely lacked the skill altogether. EA was a hobbled together project that lacked any sort of refinement or passion. Even the small details completely overlooked, such as parts of the same size having a different number of faces and not visually matching up. Down to the big core details, such as ferrings doing nothing at all, and maneuver lines disappearing. Update frequency was a joke. It felt like 2-3 people working on this game in their free time, not a full blown studio. When asked for better more frequent communication the team failed again and hid behind the two CMs to deliver their poor excuses and dodge all accountability. Zero passion, low effort, deferred accountability. This felt like a school project, where you pick all your friends to work on it with you. Come time for presentation day, you realize that you fooled around the whole time and have nothing to show. If anyone is left in the studio to read this, what on earth were you doing with all of your time?

The comprehensive false promises archive

He still has a job over at Private Division. He’s fine.

You didn’t need to copy paste all that. It’s right here

Besides the literal disclaimer before you buy an EA. I’m also skeptical trying to pin down “the game is fully funded to 1.0” as a legal statement. Even if they can, what does 1.0 legally mean? They could change the version number tomorrow if they want. How are you going to bind them to these statements, how are you going to define completion? Im skeptical. No one even mentioned this

Goooooooood luck with that, you’re going to need it

Imagine having a kid who requires a medication/treatment to remain alive. Your insurance covers 70% of the costs, but still costs you $1000-$5000 per medication/treatment out of pocket. you live paycheck to paycheck, you lose your job. You file unemployment but your previous employer fights it. You’re now in a weeks/months long debate between unemployment and your previous employer as to if you qualify. this is devastating, and only one scenario out of 1000s of other scenarios that could be equally devastating. this is just not something to argue. You have no idea what situations others are in. You can’t tell someone something is devastating or not to their situation.

Agreed, steam literally warns against such things before you buy an EA game.

Yep, that’s why I stated that it’s sad news. Thankfully those two are more than their roles and hopefully better opportunities come to them.

Thank you @Flush Foot & @RileyHef This is indeed some sad news, I liked both Dakota and blackrack on the team. Blackrack will likely still work on mods and be apart of the community it sounds like, which is awesome to hear. At the end of the day KSP2 can still go on without these two though.

While it is indeed sad news, I think we will all live without pretty clouds and a weekly challenge. not really critical roles when it comes down to it..

Where is this information at/from?

This is silly

The steam build tracker does not reflect this. Someone is in a studio doing something. it might not be meaningful development, but there are actions taking place. Wendsday and Thursday had build changes.

I am ready for that. I can wait. do I think the community as a whole can wait like that though? No.. no I don’t. Unless one of two things happen. The refreshed team gets wildly better with communication, and becomes more transparent. Upper management loosens their NDAs a bit. (Unlikely) or The community largely gives up, forgets about KSP2. The team goes silent, but keeps working on the project. The team then releases a majorly updated version with multiple milestones hit in 2+ years more of slowed silent development. Surprising the community and driving a large resurgence of interest. (more likely, I think they were honestly trying to do something like this with their recent bout of silence over the past few months. Can’t gripe and complain when you’ve forgotten) *edit, idk why my quote broke, and I can’t fix it*

KSP2 drops half its team, with others laid off the 2nd game Intercept is working on. Intercept studios close. The remaining KSP2 team is shuffled directly under Private Divison. With other projects getting canceled and laid off, the remaining team members from those projects and studios are placed on the KSP2 team directly under PD. KSP2 gets delayed even further under the restructure. KSP2 lives… eventually *Disclaimer, I am just speculating and making this up as I write it. This is just my prediction. Too much doom and gloom, so here’s my overly optimistic prediction. feel free to quote me and laugh at me as news develops and if my prediction is way wrong.*

Okay bet, mark my words, the game is not canceled. The one who is correct gets to tell the other I told you so.

No, let it die before this.

Class action is the joke, I’ve spent $50 on far worse things. Not worth the time or effort