Community Address - 08/2024

Hello all!

So to begin, as mentioned in the post bringing this address up, this may not be informative to some of you. There are certainly folks who have kept up with things and may know as much as I do here. I'm working with whatever information I can gather, but I am not an employee of the company so I'm limited to what I can gather secondhand. At the time I also wasn't sure if it would be particularly positive or negative since I still had to verify some things, but I'm sure you can gather your own opinions on it as it goes along.

That said, we all know things have been... rough is probably an understatement. Not a lot of communication, not a lot of updates, hence why I wanted to make this address to consolidate the info I can here for you all. I feel like the main topics I'd like to cover here is:

1 - What's happening with the dev team

2 - Are the leaks real/planned content

3 - When will we or will we know when CN launches

To start here with the dev team, I've been able to gather that a new team has been established on this project. Perfect World Beijing has been assigned to the task, the former team was from Perfect World Shanghai. This is likely why we've had data packets coming through that can be mined and means that the intention to continue the project is clear (at least as far as I personally can grasp on it, you wouldn't assign a new dev team and push things if you're just planning to EOS it but take from that what you will).

Leading to the second point, I did get confirmation that the data leaks are indeed real. I'm sure this one is putting a hat on a hat given the previous paragraph, but one can never be too careful so I sought out confirmation on the banners and information that helpful users have posted here. To that end, I want to go ahead and reinforce our stance as a safe-haven in regards to that content. Provided the information is not gathered with illicit intentions that would violate other rules (like say selling information which would violate rule 5), it (datamining) is welcome here for civil and open discussion. As far as I have been informed on the matter of when it's coming, the answer was more or less that no official word had been given on the matter yet. For those who work in game development, this was probably obvious, but still, it takes time for a new team to learn new code and work through things. Things ARE being worked on, it's not certain when they will be implemented. Still, good news for the hope crowd.

Finally, the CN release. There's been no word on it, however to my understanding if such a thing were to occur or be imminent, other CMs would be informed as such, so hopefully in time I will have some opportunity to let you all know in the future. With the former two things, we can at least have some faith that the game is progressing forward in some way or another. As far as the half-anniversary, I don't have any info on who is coming after Tatsumaki but if I happen to find out more info I'll pass it along.

To touch on a few more things, thanks for your patience with this as I have been moving and it's been a pain to unpack and set up utilities and so on. Thanks for lending your ears to my mod Some_Ignorance when he came about to drop off tidbits, and please continue to regard him well in the future. I'm planning another community contest later on, not sure what it'll be yet. If you have further questions, please feel free to comment them below and I'll answer them if I know the information.

Thanks for reading, heroes!