The Walking Dead Ep 4 RELEASE DATES ARE OUT! PSN NA October 9th, PC/Mac/Xbox 10th!

[Garrinski]

Originally Posted by lucidity02

But they ARE bringing it out near-monthly. And aside from some delays and some bugs that haven't really impacted my gameplay experience, they're doing an excellent job for a company that doesn't have the resources other software houses do.

The poster you're quoting didn't say "near-monthly" they said "monthly", which is EXACTLY what telltale told all of its consumers willing to pay for a game before its release, they would deliver.

You need to stop trying to defend a point that is obviously false. They DID NOT deliver on their initial promise. Period.

Since the misleading delivery dates were made public, there has been no mention from anyone within the company concerning either the botched advertising or failure of the design team. In short the situation has been handled in a childish manner by those at TT, who have ignored it so far, took a new stance, and hope we will just forget. This has obviously provoked some more than childish backlash as a result. Some, but not all of the scorn is deserved, mostly due the COMPLETE LACK OF COMMUNICATION on the matter.

So if you wish to blindly defend the company against the blankets of accusations people make, feel free... but on the previously mentioned point, consider this a suggestion; TT fucked up. Let them speak for themselves.

OnTopic: Still "COMING SOON" on Ep. 4

[Silvere]

Originally Posted by lucidity02

But they ARE bringing it out near-monthly.

They brought it out first on 24.04. That's far from near-monthly.

And aside from some delays and some bugs that haven't really impacted my gameplay experience, they're doing an excellent job for a company that doesn't have the resources other software houses do.

This isn't a game with overly complicated gameplay or highly difficult programming. Movement bugs of characters in static scenes are fast found / fixed. There is nearly nothing in this game which can bug so hard that it's highly annoying. [ Brenda-glitch for example was one of the possible ones, and yea.. You saw. ^^ ]

They're not idiots. They saw the value in an episodic narrative

Yea, it's not hard to see some value in that.

It doesn't make them idiots that they didn't pull it off with 100-percent success.

There are enough small things that sum up to call them idiots, making the same mistakes all over again.
Best example are the forums. Something especially went bad, when people ARE complaining about something. 90% don't say anything anyways, so you have to listen to the ones complaining...
But we are going to far and before you want me to list up their mistakes - No, I won't cause I don't care

It makes them ambitious, and it helps them learn for future installments.

Why do I think that this argument is used since the first game released by TTG 0_0
Hell, you can say that about every game by a company, and it's always true. No reason to mention it. IF they actually learn is another thing.

I'm pretty sure their reputation is just fine, seeing as how this game really put them on the map.

I honestly don't believe that at least 30% of the newcomers who came for TWD will stay for the other games. They gave enough reason to casual gamers to be fed up.
But I'm not their marketing guy, so who knows.

Comparing MI, which was a great game that had a fairly linear and static plot, to this, which is a game that changes in myriad ways based on what you've said or done, is not a good comparison.

Where did I compare?
And please, "myriad" ways is way exaggerated. Keep it realistic, there are changes, yes, but there would have been possible way more.
Not to mention that I don't know the size of TTG's Team, so yeah, they then could have needed more than one month.

[Accall]

"Your telltale account does not currently have a licence for this game. Would you like to go to telltale game and purchase this game now?"

Yeah. Yeah sure I would like to buy it twice.

Seriously, get your s%it together, Telltale.

[MrKain]

FINALLY downloading. I should have gone to work today, despite having the day off. I won't be able to play through all four until the weekend.

[abestinkin]

mine says coming soon still -- i also have to disconnect the internet until i get to the main screen in order to access anything. otherwise it just says connecting and freezes. e-mailed tech support over a month ago and got no response....

this was the first ttg product ive purchased and while the product is excellent i couldn't be more disappointed with the tech support/communication

[dx1]

Originally Posted by Accall

"Your telltale account does not currently have a licence for this game. Would you like to go to telltale game and purchase this game now?"

Yeah. Yeah sure I would like to buy it twice.

Seriously, get your s%it together, Telltale.

Same here. Around 15 minutes ago it actually started, but when I went to the download section Episode 4 was still "coming soon".

I think I will survive. It's almost sleepy time (2340h) and I have to get up at 0710h. Maybe tomorrow …

[Eozen]

Just tried this workaround successfully : http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/...ad.php?t=33233

Did it the manual way but I think it only works if you have the GET button appearing.

[spawner]

OMFG I still can't download :/ Still seeing it as COMING SOON. Apart from the fact that NOW I can't even get to the main menu as it says like others are encountering about the license issue :S I know that the license issue is a normal thing(happened before many times) but this is getting to insanity level :S It's 00:04am here which means it's Thursday and was supposed to get it yesterday the 10th :////// Gonna try it for the last time and if it still doesn't work gonna restart PC

[abestinkin]

TTG is so busy retweeting every positive thing ever said about them that apparently they can't take the 30 seconds required to weigh in on this issue

[boxman]

Originally Posted by boxman

Ugh... That was my fear.. Personally dont care much about achievements, but losing progress/choices would pretty much ruin the game for me.

So much for the certification bull*hit. This proves that it is mostly about money and not actual quality assurance.
Makes me wonder why microsoft needs weeks just to get it certified...

Just finished the episode and it luckily seems like there was no achievements issues here.

[dustpuffs]

Well, I got the "get" button and stared downloading. I believe that was around 2 hours ago. I haven't been able to download beyond 22%, and then it tells me I've lost the connection and starts over at 10%. I think I have tried over ten times with the same results. While I had this issue with episode 2, it was nowhere near as bad, maybe took 2 hours to download. Episode 3 was worse than 2, it had the same problem and took 4 hours to download. The difference with both of those and what's happening with Episode 4, is that they would get to a certain percentage of downloading, then quit, and after about 3 tries, they would go to a higher percentage, then quit, about 3 tries at that percentage, then on to a higher one, etc, until it finally completed the download. I have no clue why this download is different, and stopping at the same place every time. It is not late at all where I live, but I'm thinking I will join the camp of "try again tomorrow" so I don't get any more frustrated. Hope others are having better luck!

[spawner]

tried restarting pc and retrying to enter the game but it's giving me the license issue again and of course I can't get to the main menu :S TTG please HELP ?

[fatbarry]

I've tried several times to download the latest episode tonight (PC version) and have given up as it gets stuck on 60-70% and then fails with a "lost connection" error.

I'm delighted Telltale have scored such a hit with TWD but as someone who has bought almost every game they've done before I'm also pissed off they've treated their initial fan base so badly. It seems PS3 (US) or Steam is now the way to go in order to get 'first play' on TT games?

[spawner]

at least yours downloading.....myself I can't even get to the main fuckin menu :S

[Gaanj]

mine still says "coming soon" ....

[spawner]

Gaanj yours is allowing you to enter the main menu and mine isn't allowing me

[abestinkin]

Originally Posted by spawner

Gaanj yours is allowing you to enter the main menu and mine isn't allowing me

disconnect your internet until it loads to the main screen with the barn then reconnect

[codejerry]

Mine also says coming soon.

[Accall]

Originally Posted by spawner

Gaanj yours is allowing you to enter the main menu and mine isn't allowing me

spawner, take comfort in the fact that you're not the only one. After countless tries to enter the menu, and occasionally succeeding (I don't know how), it always failed to download episode 4. So I tried Eozen's trick and it worked - next time I clicked "GET", it was installed. Of course I tried to play it - what do you know, next crash. And now the program only starts in windowed mode and prompts me to enter my user name and password - upon which it does exactly nothing. Just the empty TWD screen with the hints scrolling at the top. So yeah - you're definetly not the only one experiencing recurring problems with TWD.

[spawner]

disconnected internet but still same issue