To the devs. Concerns about game direction

Old Crow said:
My honest theory is that they're just tired of working on the game after 13 years, and just want to get the game out.

Then again, they've come up with some weird ideas in the past, so maybe they just have a weird way of thinking.
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You do have to wonder at the rush to completion with major systems, e.g. the bandits (I don't personally care about), still undone. I can't say it's a universal sentiment, but have heard the echo of voices who aren't looking forward to 3.0 and 4.0 at this point. I don't know if TFP lost patience; are out of time and budget for this paricular game; the console sync-up and/or rumors of a new Real Engine* game on the horizon introduced pressures we can't see; or whatever else I can't guess, but the rush is deinitely on with the soon to be renamed smoothies and badges taking the place of actual gameplay, etc. I don't imagine there will ever be an explanation for it from TFP.

Some have expressed the hope TFP can "turn things around," but they were clearly happy with the 2.0 shipped, but for the storms they made clear they were still working on, and more than just a little miffed with the community in the dev stream. (Rick did lay blame on the community for "[putting them] behind" no matter what the true believers say.)

From where I sit, the vast majority of the development cycle has been comprised of the tug of war between the devs and supposed exploiters bragging on YouTube and elsewhere about supposedly defeating zombie AI and other systems, which may have started out creative and healthy, but certainly wasn't when I picked the game back up with A21.

It'll be interesting to see where it winds up, but I can't say I hold out much hope for 3.0 and 4.0 myself.

*The Real Engine rumors no doubt stem from the Unity controversy, which I'm sure had a lot of developers scrambling for other game engines.
 
It seems to me that the devs can't decide on the direction they want to go. They have changed progression and gameplay philosophy several times over at this point. I do think they get annoyed that modders add stuff in a week that they have failed to add in a decade.
 
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