Fate/Grand Order General Discussion (CONTAINS SPOILERS)

[R.Lock]

Remember when Endwalker for FFXIV got delayed by only two weeks, and on the stream announcing it YoshiP spent 15 minutes sincerely apologizing for it, even crying because he failed the playerbase.

Yoshi-P kinda sets the golden standard for player-dev communication.

That being said, still waiting for them to unfuck housing.

[Comun]

I now expect time-gates.

May 2 hear you.

[Nanaya]

I'm just looking forward to how they spin it. Fake it until you make it.

[Reign]

I now expect time-gates.

I expected that anyway in the form of raid battles against ORT.

[TomPen94]

"Everything is just fine!!"
*Looks over shoulder to see the dev room in shambles, fashioned into a makeshift dorm, with corpses sleeping ppl strewn all over the makeshift beds, chairs and tables*

[GDB]

I expected that anyway in the form of raid battles against ORT.

I expect ORT to be end-of-chapter stuff. I'm talking time-gates to get there so they have more time to work on the Servants that we'd be fighting along the way.

[Pendant]

I do feel for the people who are slaving away at the expense of their incompetent management. I have no idea how Kanou is still around.

I've been agitating for his dismissal for a very long time but I usually would just get hand-wavy responses that I'm being too "emotional/extreme".

Glad to be vindicated.

[Kirishima]

I do feel bad for the developers that have to work on this poorly coded game with bad management, all my frustrations are directed at the higher ups and Kanou who will of course offer no transparency, and probably won't try to make things smoother and better in the future, or offer compensation.

[asterism42]

It's so much the delays (though they are annoying), it's the reticence that I despise the most.

just be honest with your fans, say you're struggling and sincerely apologize, people will understand

[Pendant]

As ever, fire 2.

[Kirishima]

Honestly, just saying "We fucked up, things are delayed because of this and that, but we are striving towards improving by changing our priorities, we still want to do strengthenings, animation updates and such, and provide a roadmap and proper scheduling in the future" would go a long way, but they will probably pretend it's all fine, and it kinda is because it makes big bucks anyhow.

[Dartz]

It's an unplanned dead week, clearly. The part 1 cubes would expire on the 25th if it weren't for this sudden extension.

This means the Servants and bosses still aren't ready. And the suspicious date of 31st screams "we don't expect to get this ready this month, but we made the huge mistake of promising a January release, so we have to drop it on the 31st no matter how incomplete it is".

So by this release date, we can assume some sacrifices on the most complex animations. The first thing that comes to mind as hard to make is Camazotz's boss sprites, so I'm calling right now that Camazotz's animations will look shit. If ORT has multiple forms, the most intricate looking one will also have lackluster anims.

So what you're saying is the delay is not likely to affect the story and lore?

[Comun]

I don't see why it would.

[Nanaya]

and it kinda is because it makes big bucks anyhow.

Fucking Consoooomers...

So what you're saying is the delay is not likely to affect the story and lore?

How would it? Unless they were so strapped that they had to cut things entirely I guess. He's talking about presentation and delivery(flubbed hardcore) which absolutely matters regarding how you experience something.

[Formless Creature]

Will Lasengle ever learn to stop promising stuff that they aren't absolutely CERTAIN they can deliver? Properly? How many times now has this habit screwed them over?

[OnesFleetingGlory]

They already started to do some. Them not showing silhouettes for this year was a decent move given this mess of a schedule.

[rxrx]

News update, they have extended a lot of their campaigns to last until February apparently. Oh boy...

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Part 2 releases on the 31st btw, I knew it. And so many campaigns being extended to late February screams of Part 3, but that's me being cynical I guess.

I think they fucked up, which is why they extended the campaigns. If it is planned, we would have a re-run in between.

[Deathhappens]

Yoshi-P kinda sets the golden standard for player-dev communication.

That being said, still waiting for them to unfuck housing.

How is player housing still/again fucked? If it's about limited space, Apts are there for everyone.

[manafusion]

I think they fucked up, which is why they extended the campaigns. If it is planned, we would have a re-run in between.

I'm still surprised that they didn't plan an event in-between. Not even a Valentine's event just to let people take their minds off Part 2 for a bit. It would be 2 weeks-long, started on the 4th/11th and would've given them the time they need to work things out. We already know it's slated for late January meaning that it's already eating into Valentine's period a bit, if not a lot with how many potential banners to be had. So, moving it forward would've been fine. Unless that's not done yet either.

[fumei]

If they don't have the apparent time or resources to even pull out reruns just to fill time, what makes you think they could just easily whip up a whole new event to fill time? Even if you reuse all sprites and backgrounds and don't even release a new servant, after it is written (which doesn't take actual dev time, sure) several people still need to put the whole thing together, inserting the script (I'm pretty sure we know the writers just write the script normally and someone has to convert it to a game script with all the relevant tags by hand), creating all the battles with their respective mechanics, set up shop and missions or whatever, code in timegates, banners, assign bond bonuses. And all this in supposedly dogshit code that I can only imagine makes the simplest thing into a herculean task.

The fact that it's apparently hard enough to make a rerun of something because of shitty old code is one thing, but you can't really expect them to make NEW content to give them time to catch up when they're already behind on making other new content.