Here is the end of year State of the Game for A Tempest Season.
Overall 2014 was a successful year for the game. We had some new players, staff and new RP events. We released two new classes, a new spell line for Mages, several areas, introduced many quality of life updates and rebalanced the older classes to be more inline with the game's overall vision.
Many of you ask: How can we help the game? And we answer with: Be patient! You have all really shown your patience and dedication to this game, especially in a time where it's more of a niche than mainstream. Your dedication and patience is what keeps the staff moving ahead and towards to opening officially!
It has become clear to all of the staff that when this game opens it will be a successful one. Every day, we see the fun and excitement of the players as they log in and play. Sure, the game isn't perfect, but I think it's darned good! Nothing is prefect and striving for perfection is a folly and that leads me to the question: When will we open?
Hopefully, we have answer for you! We are planning to really open in 2015. There must be a few things finished though, and I'll list them out plain as day:
- 1. Areas up to level 100. We're almost there – roughly 4 remain to be completed (half already contain descriptions).
2. The 3 additional classes need to be finished: Ranger, Blood Shaman and Evonian Agent.
3. Attribute system update.
4. General pass of updating the newbie area, quests, help files and some polishing of lore on the website.
Our current focus is finishing the areas up to level 100 in order to do better high level balancing. After, we will move forward in finishing the other tasks*. We really hope to open in 2015 and we will strive to do so. It is our end goal to have the game in a state where the staff can focus more on RP than implementation of systems that should already be present in the game.
Thank you for your time in reading this update and for playing the game!
Dayrinni, Actinate, Verdandi, and Elric
*If anyone wishes to help with the above 4 tasks, please contact me and we'll see if you're a good fit. Any help that is given will be awarded with in-game beta rewards(which has always been our standard policy).