Figured i would change it up a bit and post a fusion review that dozens of people will surely read...
I was highly ticked off like many in April with Fusion because it was so unfinished it was ridiculous. I posted a couple different threads, got 1 thread banned in less than a day, blah, blah, blah.
8 months have gone by.
I play fusion about once a month...usually looking to see if a new DLC has come out or to see if anything has changed. I can't say how i truly feel because the thread would be banned...again.
So to skip a 20 paragraph rant, i simply say this:
Devs, Mods, Whoever, you should have listened when your fans were talking. For whatever reason, you chose and continually choose not to. Not even simple things have been added at our request. No examples will be named because that isn't the point here. The point is that you have lost, continue to lose, and will continue to lose core fans of the game. Do you care at all?
Either way, i have optimistically checked back here every couple of weeks for a good positive change to Fusion. I'm not saying haven't been any at all, just none worth my time.
Care or not, like it or hate it, really doesn't matter...you may not be suffering a huge loss here, but you at least have a small one.
You trials players are awesome in my book whether you like fusion or not. You high level ninja guys are freaking fantastic. I don't know how you do it lol.
See ya in EVO, Fusion is done for me.
Have you every installed a Minecraft mod? The simplest thing could cause everyone's game to crash. The add-on also needs to work on 5 different platforms using different hardware. That's like making a minecraft mod that works with PC, Mac, 360 and PS3. We can't be informed on what's being added until it's a definite, in the event a fatal flaw is discovered and the new feature/bug fix needs to be pulled.
Question for you and anyone else still stuck on the topic.
To see any feature added within a week, would you put up your account, including Gamertag, Download History, and all of your Achievements and Gamerscore, as collateral in the event everyone's game, across all platforms, suffers in some way due to unforeseen consequences? Progress may be lost from the servers or next-gen clouds, saved tracks could become unreadable by the game, or it simply refuses to start, would you accept the consequences on RedLynx's behalf?
Everyone involved has to be 100% sure that nothing catastrophic could occur. Bugs may happen or it's a shutty feature, but at least the game is still playable.
-- I'm not an official so this is simply my opinion.
Yea redlynx doesnt have access to microsoft/steam/psn databases or cloud saves. That could literally never happen even if redlynx were actively trying to do it.Originally Posted by JolanXBL Go to original post
They have no ability to effect anything outside the realm of their game. But even updates have to go through a certification process, so the odds of something catastrophic happening within trials are slim.
The better question is, is there any other professional video game developer slower at churning out updates? Keep in mind trials evo came out 2 years prior to fusion. Within those 2 years they released DLC packs, a PC port of evo/HD, and 4 different version of trials fusion with a new FMX system... plus 2 versions of a mobile game.
Now 8 months later, what have those same developers done for fusion? The reality is, they arent prioritizing support for fusion... they got our money, they do not care. And I want to specify this isnt the fault of any of the devs that post here on the forums. I do believe they are doing their personal best to make fusion a better game. These are the decisions that happen on the management level. The management team, sold the game.. sold the season passes and after the revenue stream dried up, they left fusion with a skeleton crew... they simply decided it would be more profitable to allocate resources elsewhere and chase other revenue streams rather than support fusion.
Dont get me wrong, I give the staff guys here as hard as a time as the next guy in hopes they run the grievances up the food chain and more support is allocated to fusion. But ultimately they cant make those decisions.
I dont believe the devs are lazy or incompetent, they have churned out an impressive amount of content over the past 2 years. I dont know if its directives from ubisoft, or just the business suits over at redlynx.. but fusion is willfully being given limited support post launch.
Fans should be upset, and rightfully so... selling an unfinished game then offering such limited support post launch is objectionable. However the expression "dont shoot the messenger" should probably apply on these forums... albeit some of the staff here could probably avoid a good amount of the malice with a little bit of PR training, so I dont give them a complete pass.
Tl;dr game is bad, post launch support is bad... dont defend it. This is a professional video game studio, not some random dude cranking out crappy minecraft mods in his parents basement.
Jolan, you haven't experience the changing the savegame folder thing that's happened twice on PC....you boot up your game after an update and come back to a virgin game...first time you see that it has you worried, not hard to fix thankfully, but if you've never seen it, you don't know what to do, you will initially get worried, then you will get angry - after quite some time you may finally track down a thread with the solution
the lack of optimisation that goes on is what bugs me somewhat, the game may be fine on certain pc setups, & PS4 & XB1...but half of the DLC's [and cross platform picks] run like poo for both 360 & my PC
I'm now starting to get worried that ubisoft will do to this what they do to everything else, and force out a sequel ready for the week after the final DLC for fusion.....hell, they have until the sequel to that releases to finish it, that is the ubisoft way, ignore fans, make money....fire staff, more money....I seriously dislike that publishers practices...I decided longa ago that making a post of information wasn't much good, I don't know too much that can provide useful information, and from what I've seen a large portion either gets ignored or the team aren't assigned time to work on it
there are a few features of fusion I love :- notifications, teams are good [need to be bigger possibly] & some of the challenges...however, I still much prefer Evo personally, everything feels better, and I dread the day when ubi pull the plug on the servers... that will probably be the last time I play anything that mentions that name on it, maybe even the last time I game at all
Yes this is something i would like to know, when do they kill the EVOservers?Originally Posted by GR4V1G0R3 Go to original post
probably wouldn't be too long now. in their mind fusion is the best trials game ever...Originally Posted by fleskeknoke Go to original post
Yeah im afraid of that... could a dev or someone who can answer please do so?Originally Posted by Sandholm Go to original post
I want to get a heads up, preferably a couple of weeks in advanced, so i can set some time of
and download tracks i never tryed (maborosi etc) plus weed my tracklist.
No, they don't. Fusion is a major success! They may have lost a few hundred fans of the Trials series, but they gained thousands more customers. Plus, those hundreds of fans brought Fusion anyway, so it's a win win for Ubisoft.Originally Posted by stinky_the_goob Go to original post
We (true fans of the Trials series) are no longer the target market.
And no, Shifty, this isn't trolling. It's an observation.
P.S. Don't expect to get an answer on when the Evo servers will be shut down. This is something negative. Ubilynx do not post anything that makes them look bad. But yes, expect them to be shut down soon. It's unlikely that anyone is buying Evo anymore. As soon as that number drops to the point where it costs more to run than they are getting back from sales, it will be shut down.