Hello.
Please don't start the headache mode !
TFP will continue console version, that's now settled.
As console players/users, how they will do this is none of our business.
Let TFP managers bonk their heads into walls while trying to figure how.
Just wait for new updates and expansions to come, as they will come.
As a purely cynical point of view, I would add there will be the long-awaited for 100% sure.
Why ? Because it was to be a paid expansion, not a free update.
Most of the works is now finished, it would be stupid not to finish it and loose a money income.
Console lovers or haters, nobody would spit on fresh money.
The best we can as players is to support TFP with our words in the meantime, and buy the expansion in order to support them with our money.
So we will prove TFP we console users are reliable and they can count/rely on us.
We have a word in French for that :
(sorry, I don't know the exact translation in English, so I put an approximate one).
They have already lost a lot of money on this, and making a paid update to fix this mess will end the game fully. I am not the only one that is unwilling to pay for this game to be fixed. That is a ludicrous idea and one that will be the nail in this game's coffin on console should it.come to pass.
Whether or not most of the work is finished is irrelevant. If the work has not been paid for, then it's not going to be finished by the current developer, Iron Galaxy. Even then, Richard's last post suggests the console rights for 7Days is held by TT, which means they would need permission from TT before they can do ANY work on the console version.
Saying the console version will continue without those rights in hand means absolutely nothing. The old phrase that best fits the situation is "counting your chickens before their hatched."
Can it happen, oh sure. Maybe the remnants of Telltale will graciously return the rights no questions asked. That is possible. It's unlikely, but possible.
The reality is that Telltale is in a position where they need as much money as possible to pay their remaining staff. On top of that, the Fun Pimps had NO plans for a console version until Telltale came to them with the idea. And, the Fun Pimps have shown their dislike for the console version time and again.
Further more, we have no clue how far along the swap to the new engine actually was. The last thing we heard was that the UI was in place and that's it. We have had no clear update on the status of this update since that. To say, so much work had been done is reaching with how little we actually know about the update.
My frustration is not with the state of the game or the prospect of the next update not being completed. As I said in previous posts, I did get my money's worth. My frustration is that instead of being up front about this situation and saying this is what must be done before work can continue on the console version. Instead, they first gave an extremely vague statement that initially promoting the PC version which has now been edited out of the post. And then, they provided an equally vague second post. Before you jump on this part, its vague because they say they are not abandoning it, but then say they have to be cautious in their statements while things settle. That is not clear in my book.
