Why did they take a holiday break? Can't wrap my head around it.

BLACKHOUND

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Krighten said:
I know this may seem like trolling, but I swear it isn't. I'm legitimately curious with my own toes dipping into the industry.

If I just spent years developing a game (Most I've spent is a few months), kick-starters, a labor of passion and love, and finally made it to release and put it out in the world - the last thing I would do is take the holidays off. Most developers view that initial window as a crucial time to get into the community, provide feedback, address bugs, keep that first wave "hooked". I know the holidays are a time to spend with family and perhaps I understand having a day off, but a two-three week hiatus? If I was in that position, I'd have a heart attack. This isn't a criticism of a game nor a criticism of the developers, I'm just awe struck.
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Since the release on December 16th they rolled out 3 version updates and more than 2 server updates the latest of which was on the 23rd.
The game is mostly bug free. The story evolves even during the holidays.
 
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Kazar

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Zmidponk said:
Why did they take the holiday off? Because they bloody well earned it, basically.
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Pretty much.

Like many others here, I work in development and took two weeks off for christmas and new years as well, we pushed out a couple of big releases in december and have at least one more coming for January but the idea that means everyone should "take a day" at most is a sign of either insanity or cluelessness. If we operated like that we'd never leave the office - and besides, none of our clients are in their offices to install anything we might send until after the new year anyway because they work exactly the same way.

Elite Dangerous seems to work fine for an initial release to me. There are still people keeping the lights on at FD, as evidenced by the patches, and I suspect there are people "on call" in case the servers catch fire etc, but they certainly don't want to be pushing anything major out now. I hope everyone at Frontier is currently happily full of mince pies. :)
 

Joe Spivey

Joe Spivey
supersane said:
a. murica, we gets money
b. murica, sleep is death - get money
c. old world - spend that old money while you got it playa ( winks )
d. murica - where the 65 year old fry station lady at Mc Donalds gets fired 2 days before the holidays for taking off to pick her grandkid up from school after her mom goes to jail for ..... getting money.
e. launch bad timing, obvious and forgone - vacations deserved nonetheless
d. get money
e. hahaha this forum now
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Yes, America gets money. But see how they distribute it...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
 

OxKing

OxKing
Work yourself up just for a game? No way!
If this would be Doctors fighting Ebola, Workers on ushima after it went off, ok.
But this is just a game! If 500.000 People can't play, then they can play another game. Come on!
(And almost (if not) anyone can play without gamebreaking bugs now!)
They probably exhaust em in bringing this game to a stable form for release and the 3 Patches ans Server tweaks after release.
(Working late at night on every new Beta Release and doing the Release Party and stuff.)
So they clearly deserve the Christmas holidays with their families!
 

gamecat

gamecat
Captain Howdy said:
I am a developer with a game that released on Steam last Sept. and I worked about 2 or 3 hours on Christmas day interacting with my new customers that bought the game during the Steam Christmas sale.
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I run a business and got a last minute set of important account queries from my accountant Christmas Eve which I promptly flagged for today. No way I work Christmas, getting up with the kids Xmas day and playing with them is by far one of my life highlights I don't plan to miss.
 
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Calebe

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Remember when the devs get back they will work on the Mac version of Elite Dangerous, and some will move to other projects. There will be some staying on Elite of course but it is no longer in development like it was. It is now on an upgrade an existing project and work on expansions. So the numbers dedicated to it will drop, and updates will be slower but still happen.
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They have a very stable release, and it works well. 2 weeks off as they always do to stop it would result in less progress not more as people would resent the loss of the time off with family and friends. So they take the time, come back and the group working on Elite will hit it refreshed and ready to go. If they have played the game during the break as I hope, they probably have things in mind to add. So this should be an exciting time when back, just at a slower pace, but lets hope an enthusiastic attitude.
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Calebe
 

GhostBirdofPrey

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Why they are taking December off is a stupid question due to its obviousness.

Why they released right before the Holiday season when they know the office will be empty is the more pertinent question
 

gmrussell

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Calebe said:
Remember when the devs get back they will work on the Mac version of Elite Dangerous, and some will move to other projects. There will be some staying on Elite of course but it is no longer in development like it was. It is now on an upgrade an existing project and work on expansions. So the numbers dedicated to it will drop, and updates will be slower but still happen.
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Where did you get this information from..?

Zueuk said:
Finally, a sensible answer by Antenociti, after so many pages of broken record repeating the same (irrelevant) things all over again.
+rep!
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What does and doesn't make a sensible reply is what your view of the question is. Obviously many more people are with FD staff taking time off then against it, this doesn't make there post irrelevant!! Just because someone has a different opinion from you does not nake there one irrelevant, this is an open forum on the internet and if people want to show there support they are more than welcome too.
 

Antoon

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You cannot compare this with a " normal" game. In beta and gamma a lot of testing and tweaking has been done so the release was a formality.
 

Beachlight7

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If a business has more than 1 person employed then staff should be working over any cultural holiday period to support the business. If FD has 200 staff say, there are 52 weeks in the year. The maximum number of staff to be allowed a holiday in week 52 for example should be 16 persons. So at any point of time in a year FD, even on xmas day should have 184 staff in attendance for full time work.
It is not like that, but in my view it should be. It is also perfectly fair and non offensive in religious or belief aspects.
 

gmrussell

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Beachlight7 said:
If a business has more than 1 person employed then staff should be working over any cultural holiday period to support the business. If FD has 200 staff say, there are 52 weeks in the year. The maximum number of staff to be allowed a holiday in week 52 for example should be 16 persons. So at any point of time in a year FD, even on xmas day should have 184 staff in attendance for full time work.
It is not like that, but in my view it should be. It is also perfectly fair and non offensive in religious or belief aspects.
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LOL, that did make me giggle!

My head tried to explode looking for any logic in your statement.
 

Lestenio

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Beachlight7 said:
If a business has more than 1 person employed then staff should be working over any cultural holiday period to support the business. If FD has 200 staff say, there are 52 weeks in the year. The maximum number of staff to be allowed a holiday in week 52 for example should be 16 persons. So at any point of time in a year FD, even on xmas day should have 184 staff in attendance for full time work.
It is not like that, but in my view it should be. It is also perfectly fair and non offensive in religious or belief aspects.
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The studio I work for completely closes between Chrismas and new year. People work unpaid overtime and weekends though out the year, so everyone needs a break.

considering how hard the FD guys have been working, they all deserve a break
 

Branoic

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Beachlight7 said:
If a business has more than 1 person employed then staff should be working over any cultural holiday period to support the business. If FD has 200 staff say, there are 52 weeks in the year. The maximum number of staff to be allowed a holiday in week 52 for example should be 16 persons. So at any point of time in a year FD, even on xmas day should have 184 staff in attendance for full time work.
It is not like that, but in my view it should be. It is also perfectly fair and non offensive in religious or belief aspects.
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“But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.

Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
 

Aldaris

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Beachlight7 said:
If a business has more than 1 person employed then staff should be working over any cultural holiday period to support the business. If FD has 200 staff say, there are 52 weeks in the year. The maximum number of staff to be allowed a holiday in week 52 for example should be 16 persons. So at any point of time in a year FD, even on xmas day should have 184 staff in attendance for full time work.
It is not like that, but in my view it should be. It is also perfectly fair and non offensive in religious or belief aspects.
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Thank god you don't run things.
 

nats

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nats
I dont disagree with their need to take holiday and spent time with their family.

I do disagree with them releasing a game two weeks before they do so and leaving it completely unsupported over that time. That was ludicrous and it was a completely stupid time to release a game as I have said before. They should have released end of Nov or start of January. But I guess Frontier felt obligated to release sometime in 2014 as they had said all along that they would. It is pretty much business suicide though. There must be hundreds if not thousands of people unable to play the game, with a posted ticket, waiting for them to come back (if they are lucky) or they have already left the game in disgust never to return (more likely).

I do find things that Frontier do very strange sometimes and this is the latest in a long line.
 
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OillyRag

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Beachlight7 said:
If a business has more than 1 person employed then staff should be working over any cultural holiday period to support the business. If FD has 200 staff say, there are 52 weeks in the year. The maximum number of staff to be allowed a holiday in week 52 for example should be 16 persons. So at any point of time in a year FD, even on xmas day should have 184 staff in attendance for full time work.
It is not like that, but in my view it should be. It is also perfectly fair and non offensive in religious or belief aspects.
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