Director Interview with 4Gamer.net - 08/15

Similar thoughts, Senator.  Perhaps he should have waited until initial sales numbers come rolling in before giving such a forthright interview.  As someone else pointed out, of course, some intent might have gotten lost in the translation, but, still, some of those comments don't seem to serve much of a constructive purpose, unless the goal was to possibly guilt folks into supporting them LOL

If the target audience is review bombing the game, that's pretty much the nail in the coffin.
Especially since they put so much of their recent development time into it.

Yikes, just looked at them. Can’t blame the people thou, looks like a lot of complaints about freezing and lagging which really should have been taken care of. It’s pretty clear the game wasn’t optimized on Steam and it seems like those issues may have been carried over to PS4, not good.

That's a shame if the optimization issues are what sinks the future of World, after all the effort and goodwill that got the game made and supported.

One translation said, "Fatal Defect."  I know we're all pulling for the game, but, that got a guffaw, if not a chortle,  out of me

The first set of negative reviews were focused on the price tag, as has been the case in general. Basically that there's not much content to justify the 50 dollar price tag.  And that it's silly to go, "oh, they'll fix (so and so) later."  An example being the shoddy selection of entrance themes and how the answer given is "just wait a month."

Post-launch, it's been focused on the number of freezes/crashes and other bugs that have cropped up post-release. Basically, "How can you release a game in this state?!" Which is also fair, I suppose. I've seen the game crash a few times on PS4 and there are still some issues that need to be fixed. It's kinda laggy when there's 8 wrestlers on screen, and in general a lot of the little hitches that have persisted since the PC version are still there. There's also been an issue where game saves are corrupting.






Basically, the Early Access development team that was outsourced by Spike was sacked shortly after the announcement of the NJPW collab. The updates to the game over those first 6 months or so actually managed to make the game less stable. I think the breaking point was when they released 2 or 3 patches in a short time span trying to fix optimization issues on PC, only for it to break something else in the process.

If I recall correctly, the director tweeted months ago that the original team left the PC version in such a bad state that they had to start over with the original Early Access release of World for the PS4 version. From there, they focused on making the PS4 version as close as possible to Steam, which probably wasn't the best idea since Steam still has optimization issues (lag when changing characters, bugs that move promotions around, etc).