PlayStation Add-ons Manager

DTG JD Do we have any update on the Add-ons Manager and when it's going to release, it's been a month since our last update where we were told it would 'release soon'

 

From the last roadmap, it was still close to release and fixing bugs that arose. So probably will get the same answer

 

Yep, can always try though

 

They will be discussing it on the roadmap.

I hope it’s not the same discussion we’ve had the last 14 times.

 

Given what they have been working on I expect we will be told again it’s close or it’s still being tested. Bottom line there is too few of us on PS5 for them to bother about. I for one am sick to death of having to delete a route to play another and certainly won’t be buying anymore until it’s fixed.

 

The latest is that there may be good news in this week’s roadmap. Let’s hope so because I feel the grim reaper getting closer with every day I have to wait. The UK has had three or four Prime Ministers since the limit was first imposed. Let’s see if the fix can be released before Katie Price’s next autobiography and divorce.

 

I really hope it’s coming in the near future. I’m sick and tired of deleting content to play content. It should have never gone on for this long.

 

I think DTG is more under pressure to release the Addon Manager than the Playstation players themselves. Because so many new DLCs are coming up soon and it must also be annoying for the staff to constantly hear when is it finally coming.

BTW: since my PS5 will also be delivered soon, the timing would fit.

 

Lets just hope its ready for the patch that will come when the Acela and Trenton releases.

We know that it went out to the beta team before last weekend, so just fingers crossed there are no issues

Need this desperately now. Updates to both Boston and Sherman Hill releasing, both of which I currently have uninstalled, will be a nightmare trying to work out what gives way.

Also, now over 5 months since this 'soon after launch" fix is looking more like DTG deliberately misleading customers with every passing week now

 

Hope it’s soon. It’s the first time I have not purchased a new route instantly such as Scotrail. I feel slightly negative about it all when all I ever hear about is info about new routes/locos and route upgrades which for me won’t work until the Addon Manager is released. I stopped deleting and installing add ons a while ago and figured I will wait.

 

Hey look at that, it is the same thing we’ve heard every month for over a year.

If it isn’t coming soon, just say it. It’s frustrating hearing this same line every time you’re about to release new content.

 

Here’s the issue.

Engineers were busy changing the back end to be able to work with the DLC limit so everything had to be changed to look for the correct DLC to mount after the player selected what to play rather than having it all mounted. It took around 9 months to achieve this.

During this time it was decided to change the way players select what they want to play with a new UI, so some designers and other engineers were busy making TSW3 incompatible with the Add-ons Manager (as it was now being branded) even as it was being worked on.

The Add-on Manager was shown to be quite successful in TSW2 but that won’t work with the new UI in TSW3. So many more months of waiting while they rewrite the back end again.

University students will study this in the future as an example of exactly how not to do things. They will be shown how someone spent time and money changing the shape of the widget holder and just as they were getting it right the bosses made them change the shape of the widget.

 

This is not an update and to be honest a bloody insult. The team haven’t been working that hard as we have been waiting over a year. In the past 6 weeks we have it’s coming soon, it’s close and now the latest it’s within sight.

The bottom line is that for DTG this is a low priority as new releases are the top priority and the number of PS5 users is low compared to other users and so it remains a low priority. Even if we say we won’t buy any new content until it’s resolved it will have little effect on DTG.

 

Agree . It’s not an update it’s just the same response as always , it tells us nothing. It’s “How long is a piece of string “ I’m not confident that we will see it anytime soon or ever . I have not played the game since before Xmas . I can’t be bothered with the Tetris agro .
I’ve not purchased a DLC in that time either, as good as they look , which is a shame . Once again we are not being treated equally but I guess money talks

 

Even now they still cant give us a release date for the Addons Manager, that tells me they are still months away for a release. Tomorrows Roadmap they will say 'We have found more issues and hope we will have more info on the March Roadmap'.

 

So, the end is in sight.

Question is, is it eyeball, binoculars or the Hubble Telescope?

 

I'll never understand what actually happened there. I mean, TSW 3 is the future, right? How can anyone in management look at

We'll release the add-on manager for TSW 2 and maybe we'll get around to doing it for TSW 3 somewhere down the line.​

and think: "Yeah, that sounds reasonable." A crushing lack of foresight. I'd argue TSW 3 should never have been released without the add-ons manager in the first place.

 

There is a saying: Good things come to those who wait! Shouldn't sound ironic, but the community managers can also only reflect what corresponds to the current status. The TSW2 version was probably easier to handle than the TSW3 version, which may be due to the different UI and that's why the TSW2 version of the addon manager came much earlier. The TSW3 version may already work 95% of the time and only the last 5% is stuck, i.e. if the tool were already out there, error messages would certainly arrive continuously in the forum and people would complain again why DTG is releasing an unfinished addon manager. But it's long overdue, that's true!

 

Now now, they did say 'Hopefully the resolution is within sight'.
You all know very well that when you got on board with DTG/TSW3 that hope and faith is what you paid for. If you didn't know this before, then I'm sorry for your loss.

 

I think it's clear that the software engineers at DTG have been working very hard on a solution to this vexing problem.

They have no reason to delay the unraveling of what is obviously a Gordian Knot.
Indeed they have every reason to solve it asap because it affects a large chunk of the player base. Every day that goes by, more players invest in a PS5 and the problem becomes more widespread, the complaints louder and the sales hit greater.

So, while the frustration is understandable, if I were on PS5 I wouldn't be calling out the developer for any slowness. But I would be asking for more specifics on progress and a more concrete ETA.

" Soon " is not an action verb.

 

There is already a concrete ETA and it's been published for many months:

 

This is pretty much what the frustration is, DTG keep saying it’s coming soon - when it obviously isn’t. They oversold this fix dropping before TSW 3, then promised it very soon after release & ever since then it’s been ‘soon’.

Now DTG are releasing a large chunk of content & they’re starting to oversell the fix again, when in reality it’s much more likely that all this content will release and we’ll still be getting told the same thing.

They know that PS5 players need this fix, because before, it was a case of only being able to have one country at a time installed. Now though, each country has a DLC catalogue which goes over the 64GB limit & it is going to affect sales even more.

It’s one thing only being able to have one set of DLC at a time installed, but another when you have to start picking and choosing which DLC from a country because you can’t even get all US routes in, for example, in one go.

 

The add on manager is becoming the biggest joke ever tsw 3 should never been released until you could use all your DLC that we have spent a lot of money on with so much DLC coming out this month more bugs more crashes to fix, add on manager will just get pushed back I'm not expecting any good news in the near future all DTG are interested in is money and they are getting that from PC and Xbox users money grabbing jokers for me. I'm so sorry to have to say that but as a PS5 player DTG have let us down to many times

 

Sounds like they've lost yet another customer. Time to increase DLC prices now to cover off their losses

 

Is it possible to release in line with the new America dlc?

Looks so good but definitely don't have the space to install it all

 

I don't think it can come at the same time. It's quite a large thing to fix and like JD said, some bugs to sort out. And since more detail will be shared next week, the 21st is quite tight for it to release

 

I’ll be genuinely surprised if we get it before summer.

 

Why oh why am I not surprised.

It's amazing that fixes get constantly pushed back with one excuse after another, but paid DLC gets released on time no matter how broken it is

 

I'd love to buy all your shiny new Ford Mustangs and Dodge Vipers but I'm gonna need a bigger garage.

 

I’ll believe it when I see it. Sorry JD, I know you’re just the messenger, but after all this time and the continual promising of it coming ‘soon’, a “we’re close” and “hope to give an update next week” isn’t going to cut it for me.

 

In its absence, is it possible to put out a list of compatible DLC?
I also have TSW2 on my PS5 with all my DLC present which I use for cross-checking in timetable which layers compliment what. It'd be good to have lists of DLC recommendations up to the permitted limit. Eg; German/USA/UK etc.

 

Well, that comes as a surprise to me. If you actually manage that, I'll happily eat my words.

 

He might only be the messenger but this is just ridiculous. The limit issue was never a problem for XBox players. They have complicated the problem for PS5 players who are the only ones affected. As I have said previously PS5 users are a small minority and because they found or felt there maybe benefits for players on other consoles with the fix they were working on they expanded the fix rather than dealing with it for the players who had the issue. You watch them self congratulate themselves when they eventually release it.

 

Thanks.

 

It’s a small final check and it is a good thing they are doing it. As a PS5 player myself, and having waited so long already, I’m happy to wait a short time longer rather than have my whole game scuppered by a broken release. It has to work and that’s what DTG are checking. It will also have smaller benefits for other platforms and that’s a good thing for everyone and the xbox beta team that are testing it on behalf of everyone may just have saved the PS5 players from a broken release. I also think that after such a big job if it comes out working well they will be perfectly entitled to feel good about it.

 

Good news is that it looks like the end is finally in sight.

 

Hopefully this is the week we can find out a release date. Keeping fingers crossed

 

My main worry is will this happen again when the next TSW decides to come along ??

 

DTG well most probably have the add on manager in as 100% in the bass of the game will it still work no one will now

 

Wonder when the update is coming this week

 

Not very surprised at the news today

 

Well I for one am just shocked.

I did not see this coming at all.

 

So my problem is solved. I wanted to buy some DLC pack of American content. They no longer play add.on tetris. SnowRunner Season 3 gets my money. It's a big disappointment for me.