Cant really say it was a mistake, its just that life happened. Im pretty certain it would have been similar if the other option was voted.
But god knows how i miss this place. Sadly i dont really have time anymore outside of about a few minutes round midnight, which are usually used up checking on e-mails
lol, I was sarcastic.
At this point the people that are still active in the comunity care much more about the comunity itselfh as a hub for freetime/fuckaround more than the project.
I have the feeling that they prefer to delay any substantial progress because once finished they could lose their “happy place”.
I too am married with kids now, but the love for ESF still persists. I feel like when we do see that big release there will be a pretty big inflow of interest from special media.
Being the oldest mod is a pretty fun novelty I think will spark a bunch of Youtube and Tiktok vids.
I was a teenager when I first played this. I am now entering my 40’s… I drop around to the website about roughly once a year to check on any updates.. Most of the time it’s minimal/non-existent… Yes I am on discord, not much happens there either, well… Publicly anyway.
Decades of promises is all we have had, If Esforces is just a sandbox with a bunch of characters and moves, then it’s really not representative of decades of development.
I get that it’s a passion hobby project, but there gets a point where change needs to be made to complete the project, otherwise it’s just vaporware, the community has already (for the most part) moved on from when this forum was lively with activity and discussion and ideas.
I personally believe (Strongly!) that the current staff should open the mod up as an “open source” kind of project to expedite development and just be the curators of the appropriate assets.
It’s worked for Skywind and Skyblivion… Mods that are orders of magnitudes larger, more complex and completed in a fraction of the time as Esforces… The community got behind them, the community supported them, the community built the game.
Maybe it’s just a fools dream. But I would like to play the envisaged game while I am still alive. (Which almost ceased 2 years ago in an accident, but I digress.)
Just food for thought. I’ll check for replies next year.
The charm of ESF has always been the open form exploration and mayhem of deathmatch.
There definitely won’t be a story mode, and I don’t know what game mode they could include other than Collect the dragonballs which was always unpopular outside the RP element.
At the end of the day we’ll be seeing an updated ESF with modern gameplay and graphics for this coming release. We’ll see it goes anywhere after that.
OMG… Its been soooo long >>
We are all old now >>
But, i still know a few Boardnames here ^^… Havent used those smilies ^^ in ages since smartphones are a thing >_>
Its obvious that the team has picked up other interests, which I dont blame them for. It was a long time coming, never committing to deadlines will cause procrastination. If they want to give the mod any shot they need to opensource it.
I still remember how I had heated discussions about the phrase “It’s finished when it’s finished.”
Even back then, I said a game is never finished, especially mods when they have active programmers. Because more and more ideas are constantly flowing in and there’s always room for optimization. And how I was laughed at and torn apart and received hate from the developers and fanatics.
Now I read it and follow it casually, and I have to chuckle about it again and again because I mentioned exactly that, about the fact that we’re getting older and will set different priorities, like jobs, families, children. But hey. The main thing is that people hated me with their exuberance.
Well, I’d already mentally said goodbye to the “It’s finished when it’s finished” attitude. And back then, I went by the name Kid-Vegeta Yes, a silly name. But I was young back then.
The main thing was that people had fun with the betas and demos in a closed society and fed us videos. And every year, new Dragon Ball games keep coming out. The lack of interest is just getting too great. Because the engine is too outdated and we’ve already had better games.
