I've been monitoring Kickstarter and you guys various websites and I'm starved for information. I'm eager to contribute to this Kickstarter but am bereft of info. What's the latest!?

General Havok wrote:

Patients, remember they all have full time jobs, and are all working on their extra time to get this project up and going.

While it's way later down the line, but hope they thought about it at least.

building a game with volunteers is one thing. They can come and go and take their time. But running a game with volunteers is another. MMOs usually require tech support and given that an MMO run 24/7, that is very hard to supply effectively only volunteer basis and not many people are going to be keen on being stuck into a wall or bugged in other ways for days until someone can take a break from their day job.

Then of course since from what I gather is going to be some sort of sub, that means they will need some sort of payment support, again, usually not effective with merely volunteers that come and go and work during the day and only have a few hours if that to fix stuff afterwards.

Then of course going back to tech support, probably should have someone hanging about just in case of server crashes, and other widespread game breaking bugs or error happens. And all of that on top of making updates and possibly fixing bugs or making adjustments, account problems, connection issues, moderating the forum, still fielding questions, while taking care of the business aspect and budgeting, and possible fighting off legal stuff friv. or not, purchase problems, credit card problems, reward problems, and at least until everything is delivered, kickstarter people wondering where is their stuff.

If the volunteers are already feeling the crunch, they have a long road ahead of them when the game get released, unless of course this is one of those release and forget cases. Right now they have the luxury of coming and going and going at their own pace. But when the game is released, someone has to be manning the ship, and especially when given mod power, those people should be impartial, regardless of past feelings for certain people, and regardless of their friendship with a person and be ready to respond to all types of complaints from all types of reasons.

And before someone say it "Yeah I know some games like CO have sucky tech support." There it's out the way and I hope there isn't a aim to start off with sucky tech support especially when that is usually the time when the most bugs are found. Unless there will be super metic. bug testing and squashing during the test phases that would eliminate every single bug prior to going live. Which is ideal but usually don't happen like that.

Yeah we know they are volunteers, because that seem to be said with every other message. We get it already. But you are still a business. Says so right there on Washington State's Business directory. For profit LLC and the riding the excuse of volunteers only will go far once the game is released.

Like if the cable keeps going out and you paying for it, and each time you call, they tell you to "wait, and you should be glad it's on at all because these are volunteers that work a day job and do this In their spare time so be thankful it's on at all." That excuse wouldn't fly with a business for most people that I know of. Right now it's all fun and games but eventually there will be expectations to act like a professional business. volunteers or not.