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[miscreant]

Most of us know you will delay either Alpine or Desert, which sucks because most of us know that we are probably only getting those two maps for the whole year.

Is it possible for you to outsource the map production so we can get maybe one per month for the next year?

The same 4 maps over and over is getting so old - hold on...I puked a little - ok, please think about outsourcing map production...and maybe the bug fixes and maybe even some of the other stuff...what do you guys do all day anyway?

PS: You might think that 'trickling' the content out to us is helpful, but I think you'll find you're losing players based on how stale the game feels...

Edited by miscreant, 31 January 2013 - 01:33 PM.

[Volthorne]

Give it a ******* break, miscreant. You're actually starting to live up to your name with all this ******** you keep crying about. 1 map per month? Okay, give me four FULL map-making teams (7 -10 people) and I can get right on that.

[Bhael Fire]

As a senior artist for a prominent MMO, I can say this; a single artist can complete a map of comparable size to those in MWO in about 1 month (give or take a week). Factor in scripting, props, fx and design time and you're looking at about a 2-month turn around time for a map comparable to those seen in MWO.

That doesn't include bug-fixing and pre-pro time.

[miscreant]

Volthorne, on 31 January 2013 - 01:48 PM, said:

Give it a ******* break, miscreant. You're actually starting to live up to your name with all this ******** you keep crying about. 1 map per month? Okay, give me four FULL map-making teams (7 -10 people) and I can get right on that.

If you're ok with only 4 maps then I suppose we should all be ok with just 4 maps.

Christ, I spent $60 so far on the game - I didn't expect the game to feel this stale so quickly - who could have assumed we'd still only have 4 maps at this point.

They should have released TWO maps this month.

[Xyroc]

Sadly this would be great but even myself and many others have brought this up with no response ...

[Bhael Fire]

I imagine if they only have 2 or 3 artists on board, the art pipeline is probably pretty backed-up; between environment tasks, props, character models (mechs), animations/rigging, and fx — well, it suffices to say that a map per month is unrealistic.