Telltale Games

I would like to start out this blog with a good note! Nice games might take some time to make, but i think it will be worth the wait! Also im realy exsited for the third episode and also for the second season which was allready confirmed!

YAY!!!!!! oh,wait... episode 2,not 3... I'll come back l8r lol

I really wish it was next week release to ep3 as well...... It just... would... be.... good... darniwishitwasoutalready!1 But i shall wait.

Very exciting news - I can't wait to see that little "1" notification pop up on my app home screen.

Wow ttg. These so called ”great news” just annoys me. I already know the games awesome. So much awesome its on different platforms. Just give us a better update on ep 3.

also,
stopraging comment wasnt first guessing by zombie dougs remark

Thanks for confirming this, TT. I've been wanting to get a release date for the ios release.

^^episode 3 news*

Cool! I played this episode over a month ago! Seriously, where the hell is episode 3?

Am starting to get pissed off now why don't they just give us a date so I don't have to keep being disappointed each day.

guys, calm down, it's out of Telltale's hands now as to release dates, due to waiting for XBLA and PSN to certify the game. IGN (which sometimes is not very reliable I know, but this looks more so due to a new episode of playing dead) confirms that Telltale are waiting on a release date, hopefully next week.
Source: http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/08/23/walking-dead-episode-3-as-soon-as-next-week

"Episode Three: Long Road Ahead is in submission with our first party partners and we are anxiously awaiting a release date to be confirmed. We anticipate that this could be as soon as next week, and as soon as we have a confirmation on all platforms, we’ll be letting everyone know as soon as it happens."-a Telltale rep, Circa Mid-August 2012

erg90 im not gonna calm down and the second ep 3 comes out im gonna start asking about ep4, the whole freaking game should have been out by now lmao.

hopefully they are trolling us and this is actually a "message" for episode 3.

This means that ep 3 may also come out next week :D

First, a kind comment -- thank you to TellTale for releasing 2 great episodes for PC/Mac/etc. so far.

Second, a polite criticism: please keep us informed of the progress of each episode. Back in early July, we heard that Episode 3 was coming in "mid-August" and now we've heard a couple of random updates about Episode 3 "coming soon" and thanking us for our patience.

In all honesty, we have no choice but to be patient since many of us have pre-paid for the entire season. I know it takes time to make a high quality game, but maybe it would be reasonable to finish one project (e.g., release Episode 3 for PC/Mac/etc.) than to work on releasing other episodes fo iOS at the same time and keep the rest of us paying customers waiting?

Any thoughts? I'm both thankful for a great game and really frustrating by this non-stop waiting. Who knows how long Episode 4 will take? Will I be playing it at Christmas or New Year's?

So I do not agree witth the harsh language and expletives used by others in this thread, but I do agree with the sentiment behind the harsh words.

The bottom line(s) are this, TellTale:

1. We all (or most of us understand and appreciate that it takes time to make a great video game.
2. With that said, however, it is unacceptable to offer a prepay option and then state from the outset that the episodes should be released roughly monthly.
3. If you cannot honor that end of the bargain, you should. a. avoid the prepay option entirely or b. offer refunds to prepaid customers who have been waiting months for installments that should have been released in May, June, and/or July.

It makes you (as a company) look bad when you promise a product (cf. Bilzzard) that is not delivered on time. The worst part about it here is that many (most?) of us have prepaid for the entire Walking Dead season and are now out that money and left waiting with very few specific on the likely release date for Episode 3 (let alone Episodes 4 and 5).

While Blizzard keeps its customers waiting for months (and even years, unfortunately), they do not charge up front for the game and thus you can choose -- after waiting for too long -- that you simply do not want to wait anymore.

In the case of TellTale and Walking Dead, I am out ~$25 dollars with no idea of when Episodes 3, 4, and 5 will be released. And no, I do not take comfort in being told that the release of Episode 3 will be "soon."

Bottom line : either eliminate the prepay option or be brutally honest and give your customers a worst-case scenario for the release date {i.e., if you are aiming for 'mid-August", be honest with us and say that it could be September before we have our hands on the game).

I'm genuinely disappointed at the perpetual delays in releasing this game and will strongly reconsider purchasing any of your products in the future (including the new Fables game) unless you can prove you can be honest and forthright and prove to us that your paying customers (and avid gamers) are important to you.

More "news" about old episodes.. I give up!!!!!!

I will really puke if I have to play episode 2 one more time. The 4th time playing that old story was a pain and there will NEVER be a 5th time!!!!

I dont give a damn about the rest of this crap anymore. I'm gonna play other games instead. Guess Telltale tricked all of us who bought a season pass. I will not even look for the following episodes. My loss of money. Great job TellFaile "games". You had your chance that climb from a mediocre studio to something good. But you blow it big time. Never again that I give a penny to Telltale!!!!

Have fun all of you still waiting. Perhaps you will play episode 5 in 2014.

1st - most of the people playing the pc version come to this website for info on guess what...the pc version!!!
2nd - I dont own a ipad so why would i care about an ios release???
3rd - why are you tormenting players of the pc version with these useless updates for other systems!!!
4th - if u have an update for none pc versions of the game give it to the none pc players of the game (ps3 360 ipad etc) not here your wasting our time with this BS we dont want to hear it!!!
5th - i cant believe i forced myself to sign up to type this cuz i had enough 3 updates in 1 week and not a damn thing about ep3 wtf thats all we care to knoe about and stop jerking us around with things that have nothing to do with us in the near future...please stop F**king with my head man!!!

"the only downside is that once I finish the second $4.99 episode there's another agonizing wait on the other side."
this was a quote from steam. do you really thing they would allow themselves this kind of comment if they were responsable for delays?
Nope TTG is just a bunch of liars who don't even give the right releases dates to their partners

1. Why do u need to pirate a game that is not bad and is worth the money?
2. Why are u people raging, just cause the game isnt out and u need to wait let say 1 - 2 weeks inst TTG fault right now the release is out of their hands.
3.Raging here and insulting telltale wont give u the game quicker and u wont make any friends like this either.
4.Play other games instead of playing only the walking dead episode while waiting for the third one!

what! but its already out on steam for mac.

@LULAisanidiot

People are raging because they purchased a game on the word that new episodes would be released monthly. Episode 1 released in April, but Episode 2 didn't release until July. If they stayed on schedule, the entire game would be out now. That's why people are raging. In the time they should have released the game, they've put out only two episodes.

A lot of people feel that they should finish the game before selling it off in chapters. They could submit the whole title for certification and then control the release dates and keep their word. A lot of people on here are long term customers who have experienced similar delays with several titles recently. I'm one of them and it's getting old.

Next week will be it

woa,I can tolarate you bashing TT but the God bashing was extremely unnecessary... your angry at TT 'member. I'm not going to come & preach to you but I have to hear religion bashing on the news,shows I like,movies,alien fanactics(who thinks all christians think the universe revolves round earth when it don't), & even my close friends... so please keep those thoughts to yourself.

"chuckle head above me"? if that was for me,is it 'cause I called myself joker, Goldrock? lol

naw i was talkin about the raging chuckle head sayin racist stuff lol

episode 3 wont be out till the middle of september sorry to have to say it

and people have been complainin to bbb already looked it up outa curiosity lol .

either that or pax will just be their hype game again we really dont need anymore hype we already know we like what weve played lol

@ 6f00t

Dont be fooled on the small picture.

Just stop bothering answering people who claim that it's not TTG's fault. If they are happy getting stoled well ok. Hum by the way guys, can you give me 30 dollars? I will give you my cellphone in exchange... one day... or not...

ahah yes i am but right now i just wish i had a huge cock so i can stick it in the ass of TTG's manager

@LULA

you can always use dildo XD

....And u really expect to create a game of your one in the futur and not reliyng on some popular licence? let me laugh... I'm gonna play the next episode of TWD but be sure it's the last time i buy one of your product... You Stealers!!!! We paid for something! The final product (5/5) should be ready soon by know and u only managed to release 2/5...

should i join this mob?

Okay, so I doubt I'm going to get my episode 3 anytime soon, so fuck it I guess. I'm not angry anymore. It's not the first time I've been ripped off and lied to. I guess I learned a lesson about Telltale though: If you're going to buy games from them, don't buy their season passes.

I just see all these unhappy people here posting again and again and again trying to tell Telltale "You have us hooked on the game. Every episode is getting more intense and dramatic than the last, but you said you would release a new episode monthly, and then didn't do it. The suspense is killing us, and we just want to play it. And for some of us, waiting too long in suspense gets incredibly annoying and frustrating. And after awhile, I'm just going to move on."

And I believe that's what I'm going to do. Move on to a new game. I WILL WAIT UNTIL THE END OF AUGUST, BUT COME AUGUST 31st EPISODE THREE BETTER BE AVAILABLE. BECAUSE IF IT'S NOT, I'M DELETING THE GAME FROM MY PS3 AND WON'T PLAY IT ANYMORE.

Seriously Telltale, READ THIS POST. Because suspense is good too rile up the players and keep them panting for more. But too much will drive players away. Because who wants to spend months sweating over an episodic game that never comes out on time? And what player wants to give buisness to a game developer that doesn't provide whats promised and one who puts more effort into deleting posts than being honest and working on the game?

AUGUST 31st, Telltale. If it's not out, then I'm done. I hate to walk away from this game, but I will.

@scax Oh wow. How cool are you? You called me drama queen when my name pretty much gives away that I'm a guy. Damn you are such a deep thinker. Let me guess, after seeing my response you'll tell me that I have no life outside of video games and I'm a loser, right? And after reading that you'll tell me I'm a fag or something, right? Fuck off. Because it doesn't make you look cool and won't get you laid.

Episode 3 wont be released till after PAX because they want to show it off to random people going there and let them play it for free instead of releasing it to there fans that already paid for it first. FU Telltale go take a big 10 inch up your @$$3$

OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE FOR EPISODE THREE JUST ANNOUNCED! JUNE 2017!! LMFAO

@David Leal

They better let it walk till the finish line

While we're on the subject, what happened to Fables? The intention was to release it at the start of 2012, it was then delayed until 'third quarter'. Does that mean it's coming out before the end of September?

LOL Telltales facebook page is full of people wanting to know a SOLID release date, and Telltales response...? A BIG FAT NOTHING....On their own Facebook page, man that is like them sticking their middle finger way high on both hands.

Looking at the dictionary, it tells us that Telltale is : a thing serving to reveal or disclose something.
Whereas the opposite to Telltale is : Uninformative

Time for a company name change.
Dave Grossman, you Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert should have never split. Double Fine have good customer relations and answer their fans, that is why the kickstarter project they had went over 2 million dollars. People respect honesty. You guys on the other hand with this Walking Dead fiasco are going to have this hanging over your shoulders for a long time. People are going to think twice next time before ponying money upfront (to boost the interest in your bank account) for your wares again!
For shame.....Shot yourself in the foot, taking on more than you could handle and not being honest with your customers/fanbase. Vague dates are not acceptable in 2012!

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let's assume that "someone" has a little insight in the company Telltale. And let's assume that there are some issues involving money problems so that some of the devs paychecks have bounced a couple of times because funds are not in Telltales hands anymore.. Perhaps investors are going apesh*t about the situation? Also we can assume that many ppl working with Telltale saying that the company will most probably cease to exist next year.

More worrying is that we assume that working with these episodes is NOT the biggest priority. The big priority is getting $ trying to survive the week.

Well, assume they keep the keep the lid on with contracts and threats of lawsuits.. Perhaps employees has come up with a name "Baby Enron"..


Ask yourselff "Why is this happening".







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Whats total bullshit is that its clear that bit off more then they could chew like somone else pointed out a 2hour episode then a 2 month gap inbetween. So clearly its not going to be monthly but then not going is it an issue of making it for PC/XBOX/PS3 now they making extra work for themselfs by wasteing time putting it on the fucking Mac and Ipods WHO THE FUCK CARES. Get your core sorted out 1st then the morons on Apple products. Fuckers keep making extra work and clearly can not fucking handle it.
Your wasting time.
pissing off customers
loosing future customers
and ppl are loosing interest, i mean who the fuk wants to play 2 hours of gameplay REMEMBER what happend 2 months later, unless you wanna dick around wasting your owntime refreshing your memory of a game that should have had all eps out by now.

I kinda feel ripped off too. Had I did the research, I would have waited until all episodes were completed and ready to play. Yes, you figure they would offer a rebate or some free amenity for those trusting enough to have faith in their company. Older than some here, I realize the ramifications of not meeting deadlines.......generally a loss of contracts and customers happen. Dead Space three comes out in February and it looks like it will beat all episodes of Telltale to the customers.

Can you still win the Game of the Year award even though you cannot meet the game's deadlines?
I hope not.

Cancel the game? I don't think so, since they would be liable for a lawsuit if they did that. However, as it currently stands, a case would fall flat on its face in court, because the price is such a menial amount, and it is not stealing, as customers WILL GET their game. Also, somewhere within the contract when you buy Telltale's games is that you WAIVE the right to sue Telltale in federal court, but if the game fell through, this agreement would be nullified due to the failure to deliver the games.
HOWEVER, this is Telltale's first "mainstream" game and it had sold over a million copies (whether this meant season pass or individual episodes, we'll never know) in the first few weeks alone, let alone as things currently stand with the IOS release. Therefore, Telltale have enough money to continue to develop at least this project to completion.
It should also be bared in mind that Telltale were previously an Indie company, whose games were successful in that they were sold, but no way near as successful as Walking Dead has been for them. They managed to survive economically with relatively little money and continue to produce great games, so I very much doubt that they will be going into liquidation any time soon, especially now Walking Dead has very much increased their audience for the games. (Note that some people will be turned off by the eclectic release schedule, but I'd say that the majority of people will recognise the quality of the games does overshadow this fact).
I think telltale are doing an amazing job at translating The Walking Dead into game format, and even though the release dates are far apart, and the public relations of the company could be drastically improved, the game at the end of the day is worth waiting for, and I'm glad that they have my money from the season pass, in order to give them the resources to make the remaining episodes as good as they can possibly be, and as long as the episodes continue to be of a high quality, I will remain this way.

On another note, I don't understand the need for people to be so offensive and angry on here. Everyone is in the same boat, so wait like the rest of us. You ranting on here isn't going to speed up the interval between episodes, and if anything, it could possibly have a detrimental effect on Telltale, as you are being so negative towards them, when most of you don't quite understand that the episodic model is how Telltale work. It has done them well in the past, so they continue to use it, as they can develop the game bearing in mind public opinion of the story and characters.

I know I might get grief for this post from some of you, but I'm not going to get angry at you and use obscenities, because you're pathetic if you think insulting me because voicing the opinion that Telltale is a perfectly fine company disagrees with your opinion on the subject. Thanks for reading this.

erg90, read mine post one more time "What's will hapen if you cancel the game"
I do not say, that the game will canceled. But sheath happens!
Why people have to grief on you? Every one has a right on hies opinion.
Telltale are doing an amazing job, but they must inform their clients about deletes!
Because of this, i have a filing that they do not give a sheath about the fact, that people are waiting.
For them would be beater to give some information to people about dilate.
They ported ep 2 to iOS, but ep 3 is not ready. What dose that mean? They must focus more power on continuing the product, not porting it. I thing, that they do not have the labor force to focuse on every thing. They must give 100 % of their labor force to continuing the project! There game was promised to be monthly...

Do you not think the reason why your comments are being deleted is because you are using an extremely bad expletive, and this message board is meant to be family friendly, also note your lack of respect towards TTG.

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erg90, thx you comrade.
I also thing, that the game will be released next week, and i do understand that the game is out of Telltale's hands at this point for certification, also that they will no be able ti release it monthly.
They must inform us about it. For example they could write here about certification.
General public will understand it. In any case these game must bean released as a whole game, not episodes. That way it would be easier for them with this game, i do know that would be expencier for them.
In any case the promise is promise - if you made one, you should hold on to it. If you are incapable to hold it - you must explain why!
Not all people will remember what was in previous episode 2-3 months ago.
For example they could make episodes from 1 to 3 and only then release episode 1, after one month the second one. That way they wold have 3 months to develop episodes 4 and 5.
Sadly they f...d up with this one...

The iOS version development team is different then the episode 3 team, which was confirmed by Telltale. Rolling out the episodes for iOS does not slow down the development of new episodes.

Episode 3?????????

What day r u going to release episode 2 ios???

They should inform us of delays and give reasons why. Are all the games finished now and waiting certification? You are right ergo, 14.99 is not a big chunk to an adult, but what if you are just starting out and on a tight budget. That is a steak to some and to others four gallons of gas needed to drive to work so they have money to purchase games. I wonder if they work on Saturdays. That is overtime and time and half wages but sounds like they have the manpower to me. My sister's company works seven days a week if they need to to meet the needs of their customers. Course I know that this is a luxury item and not an item that other companies require to carry on their production.Telltale's customers are at the end of the road, but the end product is still at the beginning. TT needs to try to keep their customer number base high and keep them happy.

Ow wow ... TTG IS deleting the unfavorable, yet well-written arguments and keeping the silly ones. Doing a little history revision, eh? Absolutely amateurish!

C'mon, TTG ... you invite abuse. It's really impolite not to accept it with humility.

IT AIN'T EZAY BEIN' CHEEZAY!

WHEN EPISODE THREE COMES OUT AUGUST 28TH, DON'T FORGET YOUR CHEETOS, BITCHES!
- Chester Cheetah

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The problem is not in deleing episodes, the problem is in ignoring public interest.
They promised to realize a new episode in mid-august, today is already 26.08.2012.
So if there would be frighten something like “Sorry we will no realize the game in mid-august, but we will try to make you able to play it in first half of September”, there would not be so much haters.
HAX, will address these personally to you. Who the f***e are you to judge adders here?
I mean “you are all so pathetic”. No offence but because of that, I have a filing that you are a rag ore tell tale games worker.
Really do not judge adders and they fill not judge you! All people are different, some can sit and wait quietly some can not! If you are ready to wait as match as it take – sit quietly and wait 
If you are a ground up man/woman with no mental problems – you must understand these!
I really thing that tell tale games have a bad attitude and must communicate with there costumers to avoid haters.
P.S.
By the way I do not give a sheet about mine English gramatick, because I’m Russian.

Take your time cause your doing a great job :)

I agree with VKS01 above. I'm an adult, not a child, but that doesn't matter. To each his/her own and though I do not agree with the harsh language some people use here, I can't prevent it.

With that said, if a company intends to release episodic games, then they MUST (in my mind at least) communicate with the public and let the customers know what the status of the game is.

In the case of The Walking Dead, Ep. 1 was released in late April. Updates were scarce (to be generous) until Ep. 2 was finally released, and now the same has happened with Ep. 3.

TellTale: I would much prefer that you have someone put up a blog post and say "Episode 3 is complete and we're waiting for certification from our digital publishers" or "Episode 3 is taking longer than expected -- please bear with us!" than to ignore us completely. I'm not a spoiled brat; I'm a paying customer who has gotten rather tired of waiting.

Aliens

I love you walking dead

One more thing. I can see why ppl r mad @ ttg's if they bought the pass. 1 episode every 2+ months when they said 1 a month. PPL agreed to buy the pass cause 1 month is nothing to wait. But 2-3 months is Ridicalous!!!!

i'm not even mad anymore for one its a small part of my life I spend 2 hours maybe less a play through I have a Pain n the ass Good guy file and the Asshole file. Then I don't play it again till the next one comes out. Will I buy seassion 2 you bet ya I'm a Zombie fenadic. But because I disaprove of how Tealtell treats it's coustmers I won't buy it till they have realesed all of the episodes. So for all of you that are pissed I feel ya but get a cheepy from GameStop or get a GameFly account.

Three days left tell-tale. Tick-tock tick-tock....

thank you tell tale for episode 3 of the walking dead.

@Ashley

please tell me your address so i can stand under your window when you make your next investment XD

4 days left until the lie is official, i bet all my money that episode 3 will be released in september for PC.

i dont want to play this game anymore it is booring to wait this long and i forgot all about it so bye telltale..

Okey... I discovered this:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/23/walking-dead-episode-3-as-soon-as-next-week

Seriously? I mean, why did they just post the information on twitter, but not in their blog? Well... okey, that's strange. Well, check it out those who haven't already. Seems like we might soon get episode 3 after all.

just found this, said it was published 30 minutes ago. So we have to wait till September now??


http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/119272-The-Walking-Dead-Episode-3-Hits-Soon

I'm really glad i didn't buy the season pass

When is episode 2 coming out on ios ???

Guys you are only so upset because the game is that good.. i know because i am upset too!! but its not like they didnt do their jobs... its not realistic to have made a promise of an episode a month but we all know that now so that will not change probably!! Last episode they didnt give any updates but atleast they did this time.. and i think if they release it in the states first again we will be pissed!! so they are probably waiting to release it all at the same time!!
movies and games get pospond all the time!! I have been waiting for Hitman to come out on the ps3 since they INVENTED ps3 and still not mad because its a great game!!
just wait and enjoy then support them games on the ps3 suck!! rarely do they make one like this
this is my wut i think.. so

where the hell is episode 3 ?? It is almost September and it should be in the mid-August
Go to hell Telltales , i wont buy any other game from your company and i tell to do same to my friends ,

the long raod ahead trailer out on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IclY8H0Cd4&feature=g-all-u

: )

So happy i get to play this game 4 free on playstation network cuz if i would have had to paid for this 5 months ago and only had 2 episodes came out i would be piss also.

@ques1134 Works fine. Let's try not to mislead people now.

Robert Kirkman shouldve gone with another game developer better prepared and with actual customer service to deal with his franchise

TellTaleGames,
I and everyone else who reads this will probably agree that the delay for episode 3 is uncouth. The work you do and the story so far is amazing in terms of the fact that the average play time is only 2 hours per episode. As you can see you have a very dedicated fan base, who hopes that there will be more than one season. We can only hope that if or when the next season comes out that you will have ironed out the kinks in the system to releasing your fabulous titles so they may be enjoyed in a more timely manner.

PTJ

Can we get a firm date, so disappointed the episode was not available today.

Ok, "next week" is now so where's the episode?
I've pre-paid the whole lot of episodes. There are a lot of disappointed customers on this
Thread; maybe a PR response is in order?!?!!

I purchased the in game multi pack. It still said ep. 2 coming soon. I redownloaded the ap from iCloud and now it is asking me to pay for the multipack again. I want a refund! Your company does not respond to multiple emails I have sent. Refund my money, fix my game or I will be writing the better business bureau... mdhkauai@gmai.com

Awww thanks for the info...The first chapter was so cool so i must try this one aswell...
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Episode 2 for IOS never be downloaded... it always broken download at 30%. Make it resumable so we can continue download at any time. How can we play Telltale? JUST ANSWER OUR QUESTION! WE PAID FOR THE GAME.

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Great game overall, very nice graphics... but why does it take so long for the episodes to be released?? Especially for the Ipad, feels like I've been waiting for forever... the thrill is startig to wear off.

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