Most I would think would rather have the game "work" more properly than get additional content more than anything. Most MMOs don't tend to "pull" out non-working content, they have the content tested where the majority are able to progress through it without it just utterly crashing or just messing with player experience. It is just laughable that less than 2 weeks after release people already figured out how to mod the game and hack so that you would get the one-shot arkfalls, just pointing out just a single example there. Also playing through main missions there was(still) a bug that hangs up the mission having to play through that mission 6 times and on the 7th time it finally relented and worked, I reported that issue of course it did take about a week and a half for them to respond(2-3 business days would have been nice). Even after patch that did not really resolve the issue as post-patch it still hung up for me.
But it shows, when beta testing for example lasted only about a month. Most other MMOs have their closed beta and open beta last much longer(3-4 months some even longer). Some critical problems still retaining within that time frame that were reported by testers most likely within the first days of testing that were not addressed. Not many don't seem to also remember that this game was in development for 4 or 5 years( wiki says started around august 2008), most working MMOs that are out now for example GW2 was in development for 6 years(including beta testing) give or take before actual release. Everything about it screams "too soon". Also, patches that are pushed don't fix that they are intended to fix, that brings into question how they actually test things in their development lab, or whether they are using production servers themselves for it.
If Trion pushed back deployment for summer or a December of 2013 with beta testing lasting the actual time it should have taken, the game would probably have had many of the current critical issues ironed out and would have had better reception. Along with the TV show perhaps being pushed back a few months would not have been too bad for it as well, giving the devs the time needed to get a better idea of the roadmap they want to do, frankly the blog about them revisiting their development plan for the game does not inspire much confidence. It gives the appearance that the devs don't really know where they want the game to go and it was barely released.
As for DLC, I can understand that DLCs are paid additions to the game which is fine. But, I do find it funny that the world of defiance has 6 or 7 humanoid races tat are in the universe, yet at the start you can only play 2 out of the 7. Not say 4 out of the 7? And the rest can be DLC perhaps that would seem fairer as at least you get half of the races to see a storyline or get a view of the races. When you first play through the story, it does not really introduce you to any of the races or much of the story of that matter. What actually would have been a better story would have been a few years after the aliens arrive how the earth was being changed by terraforming rather than seeing the "aftermath" sort of deal.
Also the TV crossover you can tell is relatively last minute nothing planned out or something that would involve the WHOLE population of the server to influence what happens in the show. That was one of the draws of the game, reduced to a mundane item grind that only allows one person to get a "cameo". No event such as a server event that lasts for a month(or two) for instance, E.g kill a super hellbug queen that rampages from san francisco and is heading toward Defiance. Everyone in the server has to help to kill it else 1 or 2 months down the line we see an episode in the show where they can take direct references from the game. If the server fails to kill it the Defiance writers can make an episode about it a few months down the line or even next season it doesn't have to be immediate like next week's episode, San Fransisco and Saint Louis aren't even in the same state writers can easily say it took the thing a month or two to get there. Of course, if the server succeeds in the event the show can make mention of it in an already written episode. Or other ideas such as get a weapon you wanna see in the game be used in the show. Based on last kill shots on arkfalls depending on what gun is used the most as the last kill on an arkfall it gets posted and used in an episode as a last kill shot on something(see everyone use infectors or launchers towards the end of an arkfall...). Raising scrip to send to Defiance for something to happen, sending it even to the antagonist in the show(how original would that be you can send cash to the enemy)... Or even the TV show send scrip to the game for a contract to kill off something or handle keeping something away. The Writers can pick and choose when they wanna add in the content many cases really...
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Originally Posted by Raico Sansin
it was idelicious btw.
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