CellyTheDork
Terrarian
Title says it all really.
I'm seriously afraid for the future of the game and perhaps even the company, being such a long-time player. Updates are taking longer and longer, development teams for ports and other versions switching left and right, poor development and management choices galore... Terraria's been going through a lot.
First from the poor quality (in my opinion of course) of 505's ports, to the absolutely abysmal project planning and management coming from Pipeworks Studios, which resulted in the poor quality (initially) of the 1.3 ports, the cancellation of Otherworld, EVERYTHING being off-schedule by extreme amounts of time, as well as a stupidly long development time for Mobile 1.3, only for it to be ONCE AGAIN switched to another team before the team hired for it could complete even a single update! 1.X.X updates are taking as long as 1.X updates did once upon a time, the teams chosen for the ports have been poor at best and abysmal at worst, so on, so forth...
And especially after the announcement of Hytale, i have no hope for the future of this game anymore.
Hytale is literally everything that Terraria is, and then some; as i've frequently put it, it's like Minecraft, Terraria and Roblox did steroids, had the craziest gang-bang imaginable, and had a lovechild that did hard drugs at the age of 7.
It maintains the fantasy aspect, exploration, and combat of Terraria at a much higher quality than even Terraria itself, whilst having the more free building and exploration of a 3D work from Minecraft, and the extreme moddability and promise of "infinite games in one" of Roblox, all to a significantly crazier extent than their source games.
I wouldn't go as far as to say Hytale has a chance at overpowering Minecraft; they occupy two completely different sides of the market for these games. However, Hytale and Terraria share a demographic in creators and people who understand games well, and considering Terraria's significantly lower sales numbers than Minecraft, and the poor project managing and planning, it... really isn't much of a stretch to say that Hytale could overshadow Terraria.
Now, don't get the wrong idea; i don't want that. I want Terraria to be successful in its own right, i've been playing it almost six years. But i really do fear the worst for the game, and perhaps even the company.
But, what do you all think? Do you agree or think my fears are unfounded? (Because i sure hope they actually are...)
I'm seriously afraid for the future of the game and perhaps even the company, being such a long-time player. Updates are taking longer and longer, development teams for ports and other versions switching left and right, poor development and management choices galore... Terraria's been going through a lot.
First from the poor quality (in my opinion of course) of 505's ports, to the absolutely abysmal project planning and management coming from Pipeworks Studios, which resulted in the poor quality (initially) of the 1.3 ports, the cancellation of Otherworld, EVERYTHING being off-schedule by extreme amounts of time, as well as a stupidly long development time for Mobile 1.3, only for it to be ONCE AGAIN switched to another team before the team hired for it could complete even a single update! 1.X.X updates are taking as long as 1.X updates did once upon a time, the teams chosen for the ports have been poor at best and abysmal at worst, so on, so forth...
And especially after the announcement of Hytale, i have no hope for the future of this game anymore.
Hytale is literally everything that Terraria is, and then some; as i've frequently put it, it's like Minecraft, Terraria and Roblox did steroids, had the craziest gang-bang imaginable, and had a lovechild that did hard drugs at the age of 7.
It maintains the fantasy aspect, exploration, and combat of Terraria at a much higher quality than even Terraria itself, whilst having the more free building and exploration of a 3D work from Minecraft, and the extreme moddability and promise of "infinite games in one" of Roblox, all to a significantly crazier extent than their source games.
I wouldn't go as far as to say Hytale has a chance at overpowering Minecraft; they occupy two completely different sides of the market for these games. However, Hytale and Terraria share a demographic in creators and people who understand games well, and considering Terraria's significantly lower sales numbers than Minecraft, and the poor project managing and planning, it... really isn't much of a stretch to say that Hytale could overshadow Terraria.
Now, don't get the wrong idea; i don't want that. I want Terraria to be successful in its own right, i've been playing it almost six years. But i really do fear the worst for the game, and perhaps even the company.
But, what do you all think? Do you agree or think my fears are unfounded? (Because i sure hope they actually are...)