What is the staff even doing???

Lots of people was indeed expecting the update today yes.

Just to be positive, im guessing they testing it out and fix stuff before releasing it.

But then again, what happend couple of months in game and with the staff, they are very unpredictable/unthrustworthy.

Like you said.

Communicate and fix it.

Yes it was a huge bummer. Cause it was most expectedly today, if you follow the last year, how dawnlight expansion launched at the same time this year. I also read a lot about the untamed patch, that there is a critical bug with a new PVP arena, that can be rented. Upon entering it whipes your Engraves, Flyer enhancements, equipped lucky coin spurrs on your boots and many other add ons on your gear. Maybe the staff is actually trying to fix it or waits with the launch until the spring boutique update, that came in march to china this year. There was also the high resolution animal forms of the untamed class being added. The other option is, that they didn't bother to purchase the update until the transition from Perfect Wold Entertainment to Gearbox Publishing was completed, which is what I feared the most. That means it takes longer for this server to get this update. This thought was lingering into the back of my mind, when the Archosaur Warsong Event was currently active. I personally don't think that they plan to get rid of PWI just yet, as they made the Heavenly Profanity Ring (latest R9 Ring update) available.
Also comparing PWI with Forsaken is a different pair of shoes. Forsaken had an exploid where people was able to farm huge amounts of some currency they buy normally from PWE. There people was buying the currency from third party. It was openly discussed on the official forums after the announcement of Forsakens closure. Of course that left a sour taste with me, so I researched it. I also was playing another PWE game named Jade after 2011, because my laptop wouldn't handle the massive world maps for long and started to overheat. That game looked a whole lot different, when I came back in 2015, after my laptop literally died a year on me in 2013. And I was literally standing alone there in the capital, with one player shop sitting in the Trading Realm and every time I wanted to interact with banker, I got Bug Report. That is how Jade went down. This game is compared to those PWE titles comparably maintained.
So I would not call it right now. There is things that need to be addressed, and changed. For example this game does need a community manager who talks with the staff, because that is currently completely absent. Without that, things can't be communicated directly. For a while this forums mods took over functionality of a community manager, but lately the forums have been quiet for a while, since the look changed.

So tl;dr. Need more feedback from officials side, need a community mod, needs adjustments that suit western consumers needs (R9.3 for monkey), more consistent content updates, not just the big patches twice a year. That is at least what I hope for.

The maintenance was the regular extended arc platform wide maintenance. I had the idea to dig through the forums of other gearbox publishing forums, especially neverwinter, cause that seems to be their favorite, and found there, even if it was a bit late, the notice that it was that type of maintenance.

About PWI dropping updates without notice. There have been times where this has actually happened. Most notable one was the Wings of Rebirth expansion, which was only heavily discussed on the forums and in official site updates, there was never a mention. Just suddenly at a regular wednesday maintenance (europe), the classes in the updates discussion thread have been renamed from Paladin and Gunner to Edgerunner and Technician. So it is not completely impossible. What I also could imagine to happen in this case is, if they finally drop the update, that they do it on launch day in an update post.
This patch is mostly about skill changes in all classes, mainly untamed and a new sky level with a new instance. So it is nothing too big to expect there. It is similar to dawnlight last year, which added for human classes visuals. So does this one for the untamed race, but this mostly not works as it should.
Their beast forms don't even have their high resolution models, yet. That is going to be added with the next little patch, that arrived in china in march. That is btw also why I was wishing for more regular patches to occur, rather 2 big ones twice a year. There is so much stuff broken mostly, and waiting another half year for that is not helping the community much.

About reaching out for staff members: I personally think, that the marketplace updates posts are pre-written and maybe set on a timer for a program to post this newspost. If you look on them all, they are all posted on round hours. Never 2 or 5 minutes late. It is always a full hour. Which leads me to believe that a program is doing these news updates. A program obviously can't post things itself, if a human wasn't preparing them beforehand. Therefore I find it indeed likely that we receive a surprise patch, than hearing from officials before.

Well ofc there is no harm in trying to reach out to any sort of GM or so and ask, especially now since there is a change in management and there is open questions. But another thing: Arc does have a new look, and I am well aware, that the lack of a push message from arc might be, because I am still using the old arc interface.

Ofc as a venomancer main i want that update too. But compared to for example wings of rebirth, it is way less. Wings of rebirth was overhauling the entire questing system, added new systems (marriage and master/apprentice). But I agree on that, its a quality of life update for the classes. I was really hyped when I read about that, and I thought we would get it. But then this change of management happened.
It doesn't look like they are going to give up just now, especially after they made an important ring update available. Something is just taking longer. Personally I want to believe, that they actually testing things and release them as soon as everything works as it should. It's just that I am myself a bit disappointed that nothing has happened right away, after management change in april. So I am not yet sure, what they will be doing.

About the update I had this guttwrenching feeling, that they wasn't really getting it before the transition from PWE to Gearbox wasn't finished. And that they just translating it now. That is my actual personal fear that I had, while the Archosaur Warsong Event was in its final stage. That was when the arc client changed, and the forum suddenly looked weird. I researched it, why the forum looked "broken" and found why. Since then I got this random Idea in my head, that they only just started now with translation of patch. All other pw servers didn't have an Embracer buy their Publisher. So this is a clear possibility, and I also would like to know about that. I just share my ideas why things are like this. And especially with the last statement, that the translation & testing process cycle started just probably in may, is very bold, but currently it looks like that and I wish they would prove me wrong, by dropping it in the next week, but my personal hopes on that was not high since 8th of june, where I originally expected its launch, because of one error in Fero's news post on the x2 event and wonderland ending on 7th june.
Which was removed few hours later.(is good indicator that he is actually a person) The thing with that is, that the launch of an expansion has been previously always paired up with one month full of x2 drop and tripple exp buff for all servers. That is why I put my hopes on the 8ths june. Can guess how I feel now after the hopeful maintenance on 22nd june...

To be fair I'd rather wait until the developers have got the game into the correct position.

I hope it will be with us soon. Sadly I don't have any more information on this at this time.

Thanks.

dawnsilver10 wrote: »

Maybe this time they are seriously discussing about a server merge. That would need adjustments and testing a lot. It would fit in perfectly to coincide with a new update, I think. I doubt that fixing Chrono Hunt would postpone the update for this long, so I put my bet on a discussion on a possible merge. Does the Arigora Colisseum 3v3 and Chrono Hunt work to this date? I didn't test these yet. So if they don't work since quite a while, they are also where they could be working on.

But overall it should be soon, as they was releasing, if I got it right for all their games an expansion the last months. Maybe that also contributed to the delay?

I find it difficult to intake all of your responses, respectfully saying. Do you have links to back them up or a friend in the staff perhaps or you're simply full of 1/3 interesting assumptions: because you throw a lot of without-substance suppositions of "I think" and "I bet" and "personally". What we need is a member of the actual staff to answer 1 simple question: When is this update launching? Or a Mod to reach out to ask when the update is dropping. One post is enough. All this wait and anticipation post-maintenance is awfully annoying.

mankiller wrote: »

Starting to think Pwi going shutdown just like FW.... Been over 9 month from cn pw update and 1.5 month since pwru update...pw cn already got their next new update already....

No official announces for a planned release date. For the Windwalker update, I believe an official announcement was 3 or 4 days prior. For Dawnlight, we had 2 full weeks before release. With this one, there hasn't been a peep. It makes me think they want to just let people keep cashing until they announce the closing of PWI and let you transfer your currency to another game like they did with FW.

I suggest everone hold off on spending until we hear something official.

Would you like me to ask?

Also, general rule of some topics and or subjects are not allowed to be discussed on the forums. It's remove the post or edit that point.

Thanks.

heero200 wrote: »

Would you like me to ask?

Yes please, the most of us asking for it they gotta give answers at some point.

It woud be very sad if gearbox decide to kill pwi.

This game is nostalgic for lot of players and provide us lots of fun.
Even with all its bugs!

Thanks in advance.

Have a nice day all!

I wouldn't be surprised. the disregard for pwi is so great that even the Twitter button they put on their own website belongs to a personal profile and not a company LFMAO

Not as of yet, awaiting a reply.

Thanks.

Thank you heero200 !