Why were the store and the ship dealership prioritized? Please silence the trolls with your answer.
TL;DRThey say the ArcCorp store and dealership weren't a prioritization over other work, since character animators simply do that job, and populating ArcCorp with NPCs helps make the universe feel alive.
It's from ATV this week. Jake Ross talked about how a lot of the animators are getting ready to put NPCs into ArcCorp.
Well, obviously it wasn't prioritized, because we released ArcCorp four months ago. This is the part that wasn't prioritized.
The thing that always gets me is that there's this perception that everybody can do all things. Like, oh, if this person's doing this, they're not doing something else. It's like, no, that person's doing that because that's the job that that person does. It's not taking away from work somewhere else. So we have character animators whose job is to animate characters. And you work with one skeleton for the player characters, slightly different skeletons for the big guys like Bishop and stuff, and then a different skeleton for the NPCs. And so the guys who work with the different skeletons work on the different tasks. So populating ArcCorp and making it seem like a living, breathing place is pretty darn important to making the Persistent Universe a living, breathing place. So people are like, why are you working on that now? It's because that's a very important aspect of making the Persistent Universe... Is this really what people are trolling us about right now?
First of all, this is the act of selling less stuff. We're going to the in-game economy instead of the one where you buy stuff on the website. It's not something we're prioritizing. I don't get it. This is the thing about trolls. With every single thing we do, it's oh, here's the bad version of it. You're releasing Squadron 42? Well, why aren't you focusing on this other one?
In the Luke Pressley interview, we talked about how we were going to add voxel asteroids and they'd be used for mining and for racing. And I got sent a PM, very concerned that we were prioritizing racing at this point. I'm like, no, in the interview we specifically say it's not tomorrow and it's not any time in the immediate future. It's something we're going to do in the long term. And I got PMs about how we were prioritizing this. We can talk about things that aren't the very next thing that we do.