Update will never come... My two cents

[Crystal]

Actually, I do. And to prove that you’re incapable of anything but sheer ignorance, let me spell it out for you.

In FEBRUARY, they announced that they are migrating to a new coding engine. This isn’t, as I’ve stated before, a game that requires little to no coding like Flappy Bird. This is thousands upon thousands of lines of code and I’d love to see you even get that accomplished in a month. For all the complaining you do, you’re sure trying to make it sound like you think you can do a better job? Go ahead. Be my guest and try it.

Another factor taking up our time is that we are simultaneously moving our engine from Cocos2d to Unity. This involves rewriting nearly 50% of our code, but this will allow us to develop more complex games in a shorter timeframe. We can also transfer future games to other platforms, which is a huge plus for us and fans who don’t have iOS devices.

As I already stated, Ryan said that they are in the final stages of testing the bug fix/pvp issue update.

@Developer

There wont be wild release of monster in the update. The online island idea is being tested. Not sure if we will do it or not (if it proves to be really buggy, we will just delay it to next update because we want to get this update out asap).

The move to unity is going smoothly as well as new game development. 

We are “updating” the game with weekly missions. New dungeon every week is a pretty big commitment for us (it takes time to prepare one!). 

That said, the update is in the final testing stages, should be able to submit it very soon. We have another update planned after that too, which is actually mostly done as well 

On top of this, they have personal lives to take care of as well as weekly events, that also take up time. As I also already stated, they have been in the hiring process for two new members, so again, that also takes up time.

@Developer

We were (until very recently) a 4 man team, so making a new game, moving to a new engine, preparing an update, and running events has been really keeping us busy. Not that interacting with players is any less important, but we just haven’t had the time.

Good news is, we are expanding (6 man team starting March) so more stuff will be done faster! Meanwhile, I’m usually on chat when the mission goes out so if you want to chat with me you are welcome to find me there! 

Ryan also answered the question as to why a quick fix wasn’t submitted, so anyone complaining about them not answering it has no backing there.

@Developer

> Ryan, can we have an explanation on what happened please? Why these three things weren’t submitted as a quick fix? 

It was… a bad decision. We should have just done a quick update to fix the easy stuff, and then work on the stuff that proved to be a lot of work. Its just that… the stuff that proved to be a lot of work we didnt think would take so long! Also, its generally a good idea to keep the number of updates low, because for each update we have to test the heck out of the game, maybe 2,3 weeks at least. We test that much because if an update somehow kills the app, we are in trouble. We are still like #2 RPG, so we cant screw up! Thats why we wanted to do everything with one update, but in hindsight it was a terrible decision to be honest 

No, they’re not abandoning the update.

@Developer

We are not abandoning the update!

Look, they haven’t stopped working on HI yet, either!

@Developer

we are not phasing out on this game yet, many more missions to come. We just have half our team working on the new game, and half on missions and updates on Hunter island. 

The other thing is that HI has an ending. There wasn’t ever an intention of adding more story to it. So yes, while people may hope and plead for more, unfortunately no, it’s not going to happen. That’s where the ‘sequel’ comes in. As stated somewhere above, Ryan said that you can migrate some arks over, too.

@Developer

Monster rancher is a monster training sim where you can put your monsters through different training to train diffferent stats. 

We are combining that aspect with monster capturing and evolving elements (as in pokemon). I think HunterEdik is right, Hunter Island, because there is an “ending” a lot of people just quit there. I think we address that issue in the next game though.

The biggest problem with people who troll like you, ‘The Assassin,’ is that all you do is complain. You offer nothing as constructive feedback. You said you quit back in December until the update, then why are you trolling the forums if it hasn’t come yet, hmm? That’s seemingly hypocritical.

By the way, yes, I do read. Maybe you’ll actually read this post.