Welcome to the community @karma52! I also have the Speed Demon pack and I decided to not go further. I know for a fact that luxury apartments should be located more conveniently in the full game, while I know that I'll be able to buy more apartments in the future. I also thought that spending $250 would be more than enough to support the developers. If you're new in the forum, don't hesitate to check some of the links in my signature.

Not truly an Alpha, but I get your point. I see is as an early development demo of the game, because it'll feature a small part of the game. I'm fully aware that the modules are for testing purpose and to get feedback from the players who made a pledge ($30+). And some are showing their opinion about the game play video. It did leave me with mixed feelings, but as it has almost nothing to do with Town Square, and that it's still very early development, I won't let that affect my thoughts about the game. I'm still on the "defending" side, because I'm not the type of guy who will complain about things. I prefer to give an honest opinion and give constructive criticism. It's also true that the developers didn't have to provide a video, while they knew the community was asking for it (since the apartment video). But they still did provide one because otherwise it would be breaking their promise about showing a gun play video and people would still be upset. For a small team of around 20 developers, I'm still impressed by what they have done, while we should not forget they were even much smaller several months ago. Some people wonder why they don't hire more people. Asylum is still looking for talented artists and developers, but they don't grow on trees as far as I know. But anyways, I'm just here giving my opinion and showing facts, answering questions and trying to help as best as I can. As a Speed Demon pack pledger, I'm really looking forward playing all the modules and the game. But for now I just play wait and play other games.

They won't because most of what's left to do is mainly bug fixing. They're also waiting to put some stuff together for the TS video. https://clips.twitch.tv/HilariousIronicSardineMau5

You can role play as an event organizer, because there's no jobs for that.

Everyone has their own opinion. I strongly believe it'll come out on the 21st of March because it's an actual scheduled date. Over 4 months ago, they briefly talked about the calculation of the Town Square release date (https://clips.twitch.tv/CourageousSavoryShrimpDancingBanana). And as of right now, the most part of the stuff left to do is bug fixes from what John has mentioned (https://clips.twitch.tv/HilariousIronicSardineMau5). If you still don't believe it'll come out at that date, let's just wait and see for yourself.

I got this bad boy (Speed Demon). I worked my way from 30$ up to 250$, but I'm not planning to go further than that. I'm mostly supporting the developers, but I also wanted the luxury apartment which should be located more conveniently in the beta.

Nah it's still too early to know about what kind of material you can get. I actually forgot to post the Twitch clip here.

Do you use a translator? Because I don't understand anything at all.

Hey @Daner2234 and welcome to the community!

There will be speed radars. Twitch clip: https://clips.twitch.tv/NurturingTrustworthyDogeKlappa

It's our choice to pledge and by doing so, we accept the risks the development of this game may encounter. Some people will ask for videos for a proof that there's progress being made. We are given monthly blogs, bi-weekly Q&A streams, some other developers also stream almost everyday too. I've seen people asking for the developers to stream the back end coding, but I highly doubt they'll do that as I'm pretty sure they don't want it to be open source, as it might cause issues (you know, people with bad intentions). There's stuff being hidden for security reasons. The community manager have said on Discord that he can't just roam around in the office with a camera to film everything, but he wanted to ask John or Sean about it. The only remaining option at this point would be to show game play video. But look, the first module is coming in less than four weeks, and their next video is about that. Then after that, I think the next one will be about SWAT, but I'm not sure as it's still early. But for the C&A video, yes people have their right to be upset and criticize. It's just I find it shameful when people do it hatefully and blindly rely on that one video to ask for a refund. I already gave my thoughts about it, which was to have mixed feelings about it, but I don't rely on that one video to judge whether the game will be good or not.

All aboard the hype train! I've pledged for the Speed Demon package and I'm also really looking forward to play this game and see how it develops.

There's no Q&A stream that talked about Minecraft Realms. Servers will be hived on a cloud if I understand it correctly. https://clips.twitch.tv/BlatantTentativeParrotKAPOW It's not going to cost you an arm. But price will vary depending on how popular your server is. https://clips.twitch.tv/ProtectiveOriginalPorpoisePermaSmug

There is no details on what requirements you will need to run the game. Town Square will just be a small portion compared to the future full game and they haven't done much optimization yet. If you can run games like Ark, GTA V, you should be able to run Identity just fine. That's just a rough example and you should not rely entirely on it.

First, there is no source that says it's "guaranteed" to come out after the Town Square module. Second, this Twitch clip shows you that the plan is to actually release the updated website before TS: https://clips.twitch.tv/CharmingHelplessToadCoolStoryBob

October? Please do me a favor and do your homework (aka search). The very first mention about gun play mechanic video was on the 13th of January 2017. And people DID ask for more videos. I'll give a few examples as I don't want to bore you with a bunch of forum threads. The "new" website will come out before the release of Town Square module, as well as the TS video. But for me, a video isn't fully representative of how the game will be. I'm less worried about a not so well done video than the actual module. But hey, if you're not satisfied, you can always wait and see for yourself in four weeks.

Ohh guys, I'm from Canada.

There's the people who respects the work of the developers and enjoy every bits of information provided by PR, then there's the people who are utterly disappointed because they are asking for videos of the state of the game and being given a small video which left some of us with mixed feelings. What I can't understand is how those people making pledges think that they automatically deserves the right to have all the behind the scene information, why this and that has been delayed and all. I've pledged 250$ and I'm not here to complain about the lack of videos, in fact videos is not the top priority in making a game, even though it does help with publicity. In my opinion, the team still does a great job. Even though PR has to deal with all the people who's constantly asking for stuff.

I agree with you @MrClark , I really appreciate the hard work from the developers, even if it's not perfected. And for me, a delayed video is less of a concern for me than a delayed product. I can confirm people have been asking for the video for quite some time.

I do believe so, and it's sort of true. But a delayed video is less of a concern for me than a delayed product. Hope we'll see each other at Town Square.

I know there's people interested in zombies, and I'm not one of them. I would highly doubt they would put such feature in this game, as it would break the immersion in my opinion. But even if they would consider it, it probably wouldn't be their top priority.

There could be wars between gangs, which would requires police intervention. I'm not sure if the SWAT will be called as there's not much info about them yet. There will be different ranks in the police, and it was even said that your rank will be displayed on your uniform.

It'll be one map. The only instanced things that I know about are the inside of houses/apartments, garages, bank heists, and I'm not sure what else. But it's still too early to talk about performances, server or client wise.

There's only one deadline at the moment, and they are confident about it at 99%. The remaining 1% would be server side related issues. I've only seen estimations which is not to be confused with deadlines. You'll be able to judge if they are bad at meeting their deadline when it'll be past 11:59 PM (EST) at the 21st of March 2018.

In my opinion, what's best is constructive criticism without being entirely pessimist and negative about the subject. Nobody loves to read posts from angry people. I honestly think at this point, it would be pointless to reply to this thread.