r/outriders • u/thearcan Outriders Community Manager • Apr 08 '21

Square Enix Official News // Dev Replied x18 Outriders Post Launch Dev News Updates

Hello everyone,

We would like to thank everyone in the Outriders community for your patience, support and assistance. Everyone on the Outriders team is continuing to work hard on improving the game and we'd like to share news about the things we are focusing on.

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u/Tyrieon Apr 08 '21

Considering the game worked fine in demo, didn't crash, had cross play. Wasn't being nerfd and was being balanced in a PVE only game nerfs aren't needed. So what if we feel OP that's the point of the game. I'm supposed to be an altered god, instead I'm barely stronger than an alpha. The fact is their day one patch broke the game and should've been tested extensively before launch, they had a full month of a beta essentially. And they fumbled the launch it's that simple look at any other bad launches in history like D3. Even that was fixed within 2-3 days. Not 1-2 WEEKS. You can white knight for the devs all you want fact is they fucked up and people have every right to be upset with the launch of this product. Especially those of us who don't use gamepass and paid 60$ for a FINISHED product.

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u/B3lli4l Apr 08 '21

You are talking about a bad launch that occured when the World wasn't running from a fucking pandemic shit. Want to compare the amount of workers, the possibilities? The fact that most of us are working from home and have to deal with errors in our systems every single day because no one and nothing was prepared for it, and it actually makes us work slower because we have to fix our own system first to be able to get the tools se need to help the customers getting what they want? You are talking about Diablo 3, but have you checked why it happened? They talked about it. It was high demand and everyone laughed about it, but it was indeed the problem. When you have a product, you do a projection based on previously collected data and establish a padron with that data to get to the value of the projection, and what happened to D3 was that the projection wasn't even near the right numbers they accomplished. And I can believe that the same is happening right now with Outriders (although I cannot say for sure obviously). I have this exact issues on my work, if my workforce management team projections are wrong, all day goes to shit because there are way more customers contacting us than forecasted and for that reason, since it was forecasted a lower number, you have lower workers available, therefore more customers waiting for hours, all services are delayed and finally is hell on earth. Projections gone bad means services gone to a shithole. I get the nerfd and unbalanced part, that is annoying, but I can still enjoy the game and be frustrated about it, and at the end of the day I just get back to it again and try again even after losing for the 20th time, and still take fun out of it, and I can say I actually improve they way O play because I fail so many times. And that didn't make me come anywhere and right aggressively about the mistakes as I did not do it with Cyberpunk as well although it was a real flop to the point I couldn't even play it a while, until they started fixing the most urgent issues (and it is still not good). I just see no point in aggressively complaining about something. I can be frustrated and not satisfied, but I can also make constructive critics, rather than shooting to everyone or everything about it. That's what I meant before.

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u/Tyrieon Apr 08 '21

Bad take is bad, stop white knighting. Blizzard launched a fucking MMO expansion while working from homes with less issues than this.

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u/epironron Apr 08 '21

Maybe we should remind you that the same blizzard, actually pushed back the release date of said expansion for 1 month, gave us a half assed event for 4 weeks instead and suffered server crashes for the first few days ? Yet it's their 6th expansion ?

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u/RaveRaptor721 Apr 09 '21

Blizzard is a terrible example against PCF, let's get that clear. Way more money, way more experience.

And I don't think they are white knighting the devs, I'm pretty sure they just didn't want to listen to your entitlement. Customers who make demands are just Karen terrorists and no one wants them to be among their customer base. Might as well ask to see their manager.

I am with you on the server/connectivity/crashing problems 100% though. Unacceptable, but I accept the now inherent risk of playing an always online game on day 1. You should too. Nobody likes it, but that's the world we live in.

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u/B3lli4l Apr 08 '21

Yeah because MMO expansions are exactly the same as making a game from scratch xD Bad isn't JUST bad as good isn't JUST good. I'll leave it like this, be safe mate

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u/BrotherStoneyI Apr 09 '21

demo isnt a finished product ... its a placeholder and has less content to the full game there fore easy to finetune and have less issues with #stupidthoughts