They were in a development hell, sort of, but what they wrote makes it sound like they finally got together an idea of what they wanted to do, and they are less in experiment mode and more in actually making progress mode. The game is in development hell - This probably applied to this game prior to the July 2021 update, rather than after it. The answer is I think there are some misconceptions people have about what’s going on right now, assuming this is true: You might say “why does the distinction matter? what difference does it make”. This is my current assumption based on the things they have said in the blog posts. This may not be exactly accurate, and I don’t want people to read that as if I were an authority on the subject. Which means they have to overhaul a bunch of stuff to make it work.Īnd the overhaul process has been ongoing for a long while, and from 2019-2021 most of the progress they were making and showing off really just amounted to experimentation rather than true progress. But in doing so they realized the somewhat smaller scale game they were making was not a stable foundation to make this bigger game on. This of course is why there was no 2019 beta, but I even think this is the same reason why the game has been delayed out till 2023 minimum now: a massive reception made them think they needed a bigger game, and more budget and better advice made them realize they have the capacity to do so. Looking at this in retrospect, I think this is around the time they made the decision to change their plans from what they laid out in the FAQ after the trailer. And the thing is, blog posts have contained statements like this before and after this one. Which of course, probably sounds familiar to anyone who has been following Hytale since 2020.
We receive hundreds of messages every week asking us to release Hytale as soon possible, but we firmly believe that the best thing we can do is take advantage of all of the resources at our disposal and make the game as good as it possibly can be.” “Here’s the thing: with this amount of attention comes a huge amount of pressure to get the game right. There’s this very telling blog post from May 2019 where they say this: Obviously I can’t prove that exactly false, but I am now under the impression that it’s a lot more fuzzy than that. Re-reading the blog posts over and over has led me to realize that I had some assumptions about the current state of development that actually aren’t all that realistic.įor one, the cause and timing of the delay: a lot of people, previously myself included, are under the impression that after the announcement trailer they had been working towards a finished version of the game they were making, then in 2021 they suddenly decided to scrap it and redo everything. I have some impressions of the current state of development I’d like to share, based on the blog posts.
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