IMHO they should give the core update for free so everyone can keep getting updates and bugfixes for old content. The 3 or 4 route packs are good deals, so most people would buy them anyway. DTG could make approximately the same amount of money without leaving anyone behind. They are hurting their own reputation for a small gain.
It looks like some people keep forgetting that DTG is company and a companies main objective is to make money.
Some people keep forgetting we are customers and customers main objective is to get what they paid for.
Absolutely! And DTG takes a path not correct at all. The TSW3 version should be free. This is an update, not a new version. I'm going to leave trains aside, and focus on trucks, more serious and less twisted than DTG
It won’t be long before DTG announce that no more work will be done to TSW2. There will be an apology stream, a Q&A with tough questions asked and not so tough ones answered, and before long we’ll all forget that TSW2 was even a thing. It may sound defeatist to say this but we might as well get used to that right now. Even if DTG have some intentions of backporting a few future fixes to TSW2 for a while, when it comes to allocating resources and QA time, that will be the first thing to go. I’d look at any future fixes to TSW2 as a brucey bonus. It’ll be just like when TSW2020 was swept under the big DTG rug, the lumpiest rug in Britain at this point.
I know a number of people have hinted at this, but, given what was on the most recent Roadmap and recent statements on streams and on the forum, do we really think this could happen?
You’ve got to understand that there’s a few people on this forum who are fully committed to 100% doom and gloom.
I would presume that after the current "we might fix a few problems" there will be NO more work done on TSW2 or it's routes or assets. Even 3rd parties have confirmed they stopped working on stuff for TSW2 months ago so all their projects are now TSW3 ones (even ones announced as TSW2 DLC back then)
I think it could. I don’t have a very good track record with my predictions, so this isn’t a prediction as such, it’s just they have done this kind of thing in the past.
i agree also they can't focus on both of them at the same time, and I am sure the team does not want to do that as well. They most likely are going to put all their effort in this new TSW 3 which is a whole new game and work to make this more successful than the previous version. It will also make total sense if you think about it from the business aspect. I also heard something about multiplayer might be added to this later down the road on some german stream from Gamescom but i don't understand german.
I fail to understand the obsession with multiplayer - we already know the dispatcher can barely handle current scheduling. For example, what happens if some genius has the idea of stopping his consist on a crossover just outside a station and then goes off to lunch?
Some station stops are longer than this... Maybe no keystrokes following an ebrake for 1 minute... (ie a safety feature has been blown, the DSD/DVD has gone off so nobody's at the controls. Though this would mean anyone who parks up to take a screen shot of their friends shooting past is likely to foul this rule
I watched that video with auto-translation to English. Yes, Lukas said that multiplayer could be added but he also said they are not working on it. Sam posted just a few days ago that it would be extremely difficult to do it since that basically requires completely redesigning the game as a multiplayer game that can be played solo. TL;DR: Multiplayer is probably never coming.
"TL;DR: Multiplayer is probably never coming." Good. More important priorities to be fixed before introducing more bugs.
Expected bugs seem to be getting reported so will just sit back with my popcorn and watch it all unfold and see how the fixes on the list get dealt with and the timeframe in which these are dealt with. At the minute my wallet is thanking me for staying closed, but I'm saying to wallet, give it a chance, you never know
Time for you to get off your high horse. The reason people are upset/complaining is because there's a lot of unhappy customers who have been jerked around in terms of time and investment financially. I myself bought into the franchise believing it would get better over time and whilst there has been improvements here and there, the series has been lacking and for DTG to be asking their loyal customer base to buy what is essentially (IMHO) an update plus DLC, it doesn't sit well with me. As i've said countless times, it gatekeeps future DLC unless you buy TSW3. If they were more transparent with their customers, if they are on a tight budget or something then they should tell as as perhaps more of their core userbase will be happy to keep investing but at the moment it just feels like they are being needlessly greedy.
That user hasn’t even been registered on the forums for a month yet so they need a bit of time to see the real DTG in action. We have this glossy DTG every couple of years where it all sounds positive but normal operations will be resumed in double quick time. Just ignore them for now.
