Inno Games developer talks about recent Ithaca event fail
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One of the Inno Games developer talks with our reporter about the recent problems that caused the players to outrage, cry and mourn a level 40 Allied Culture milestone as it could have not been reached even by paying for gems.
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| 00:00 - 00:05 | prod owner said "cmon guys, no gooning, ithaca has to be good" |
| 00:05 - 00:07 | "marketing overhyped, sales expect big bucks" |
| 00:07 - 00:10 | no preview testing, i expected bugs |
| 00:11 - 00:16 | we release, prod owner said it's good cuz it's exciting for the players and will pay more |
| 00:17 - 00:21 | you cannot reach lv 40 even with gems |
| 00:21 - 00:24 | no one knew |
| 00:29 - 00:31 | no one knew |
| 00:31 - 00:34 | even premium buildings were bugged on day 1 |
| 00:38 - 00:40 | no one knew |
| 00:41 - 00:47 | i was lucky i got to office early and left early, before the hell broke loose |
| 00:47 - 00:50 | the ceo started yelling 2 minutes after i left |
| 00:50 - 00:56 | some guy was "you could see his blood pressure go up second by second" |
| 00:58 - 00:59 | hide the knifes |
| 00:59 - 01:03 | everyone thought he's gonna sepukku |
| 01:04 - 01:06 | hold them in the office by force |
| 01:06 - 01:10 | until the game was fixed |
| 01:13 - 01:14 | no one knew |
| 01:14 - 01:16 | a dev said he goes to get a snack |
| 01:16 - 01:20 | he never came back to help us |
| 01:21 - 01:29 | no one could fix it that evening, waited for the ceo to fall asleep and left one by one |
| 01:35 - 01:36 | mutyuu handled it well |
| 01:36 - 01:39 | he had to say nothing and clock off |
| 01:41 - 01:44 | ok, we get it, he made a bad call |
| 01:44 - 01:47 | as an executive you can go wrong |
| 01:47 - 01:50 | i dont want to know about the PR team |
| 01:51 - 01:53 | 90% were in their annual leave |
| 01:54 - 01:56 | phone turned off |
| 01:56 - 01:58 | we had to use gpt |
| 01:58 - 02:04 | prod owner said "we'll test on preview first", same what i said a year ago |
| 02:05 - 02:07 | no one knew |
| 02:10 - 02:11 | we test... |
| 02:11 - 02:13 | we tested... |
| 02:15 - 02:17 | we tested internally |
| 02:17 - 02:20 | but no one thought of seeing if it's possible to reach 40 |
| 02:21 - 02:28 | thanks to those free preview players we managed to test atlantis, otherwise would have taken 9 years |
| 02:29 - 02:30 | helped fix matchmaking? |
| 02:30 - 02:32 | still gives unfair matches |
| 02:36 - 02:39 | we said we will fix the matchmaking |
| 02:40 - 02:42 | they think we did something |
| 02:50 - 02:55 | our data scientist cried too when pulling the charts |
| 02:56 - 02:58 | dont you take MMR into account? |
| 02:58 - 03:04 | we do... say we take into account but our dev working on it got very sick and couldn't come to work |
| 03:04 - 03:09 | we said just look at total power and should be fine for now |
| 03:09 - 03:11 | covid took him before he could fix it |
| 03:16 - 03:22 | i will put in my two weeks notice tomorrow |
| 03:23 - 03:26 | dont worry, minos will be nerfed soon |
| 03:31 - 03:36 | 5* will be the same as now and the 4* will be nerfed |