Odyssey is now Early Access on steam. (As tagged by players)

[lysan]

That is a downgrade, and there is not much there can be done about it, however it's a fair evaluation. Regarding the so called roadmap, it would be good to see when
FDEV actual consider the game to be in a good place? We heard 30 FPS was acceptable, I would like to know how 30FPS can be acceptable in a MP/MMO? 60fps would be acceptable, unless we are talking about PVE only.

Projects often fail without enough early thinking during an initiation phase. At this point, think about who your stakeholders and sponsors are?
In this case the gamers and the investors, however you can't have the investors running the show, as they are not the customers.

Maintaining communication channels with stakeholders isn’t always easy. But it is critical to the success of a project. This is 101 PM textbook education for project managers, it's constantly pounded into their memory during classroom sessions. DO NOT LOSE FOCUS, AND DO NOT HIDE INFORMATION!

Project Management is about communication. Communication is needed to initiate the project. Communication is needed to establish the project plan. Communication is ongoing during execution and control. Communication is needed to effectively close the project. Communication is also required as projects move though the phases appropriate to their application.

If you lack any of the above, you will end up in a very bad place, and here we are....

 

[Fishy]

It's tagged as 'Early Access' by users. Not by Steam. It's also tagged as Simulation, Massively Multiplayer, Adventure, Action, RPG, Strategy, Space Sim, Space, Sci-fi, Open World, First-Person, Exploration, Multiplayer, Psychological Horror, FPS, Walking Simulator, Singleplayer, Sandbox and VR.

 

[Montgomery Dog]

The psychological horror is pretty accurate. If you are also a forum user.

 

[lysan]

It's tagged as 'Early Access' by users. Not by Steam. It's also tagged as Simulation, Massively Multiplayer, Adventure, Action, RPG, Strategy, Space Sim, Space, Sci-fi, Open World, First-Person, Exploration, Multiplayer, Psychological Horror, FPS, Walking Simulator, Singleplayer, Sandbox and VR.

Ok, it's not officially tagged by steam, however the tag is there, no matter how you turn it, it's not that comforting is it.

 

[WR3ND]

I too am a professional backseat driver.

But yeah, cheers to them sorting out their mess and making a good game from it, eventually, hopefully.

 

[Amy Pendergast]

Didn't we have this thread directly after release before?

 

[Ian Phillips]

We've had a thread on this mis-information before.
Corrected the title for clarity and accuracy.

 

[Mrc_NorthEast]

Oh yeah, Odyssey is definitely in 'Beta' or early access, in my opinion. Straight from Alpha to release... I haven't left a Steam review yet, I should go do that.

 

[lysan]

I too am a professional backseat driver.

You missed the point, so let me explain.

You're a company, and in a bit of distress, you COMMUNICATE that you will fix whatever is the issue and will issue a plan how to do it.
Then a few days later you issue the "plan" 10 lines, nothing that actually gives more information than what was already communicated.

Actually you could just have said, we will continue fixes and optimization until console release, end of story no drama needed.

Instead you set up an expectation by proclaiming to issues the grand roadmap! You see where this is going?

Spoiler: oops!

Miss managed communication

 

[Fishy]

Miss managed communication

Worst beauty pageant EVER!

 

[WR3ND]

You missed the point, so let me explain.

...

No, I was just making a joke. Don't let it sweat you.

 

[Erei]

It's only the tag, not the actual "early access" thing. Tag are people made, you can vote for anything, even psychological horror or female protagonist if you want to. You can't change if a game is classified as early access.

Also, steam can remove the tag at any moment. They did it in the past more than once.

 

[lysan]

It's only the tag, not the actual "early access" thing. Tag are people made, you can vote for anything, even psychological horror or female protagonist if you want to. You can't change if a game is classified as early access.

Also, steam can remove the tag at any moment. They did it in the past more than once.

headline was correctly changed, still being tagged as EA by users is not very good is it? combine that with the horrible reviews just make it even more so, No? It's going to take some major effort to turn this one around, and that's is where the communication and how it's done comes into play.

Why they even came out and said they would give a roadmap is beyond me, all this could have been avoided by just doing what they already did, we will keep updating the game until it's where we want it, estimated time from now until console release.

 

[Erei]

headline was correctly changed, still being tagged as EA by users is not very good is it? combine that with the horrible reviews just make it even more so, No? It's going to take some major effort to turn this one around, and that's is where the communication and how it's done comes into play.

Why they even came out and said they would give a roadmap is beyond me, all this could have been avoided by just doing what they already did, we will keep updating the game until it's where we want it, estimated time from now until console release.

The tag can be changed anytime. It's funny, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't accomplish much.

Still I liked it. Also voted for psychological horror. Yes, I'm childish.

 

[Robert Maynard]

Closed as a duplicate of: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/odyssey-on-team-is-officially-demoted-to-earky-access.577794/