Black star opening date?

[Sentinel]

I would like to know when b* comes out. Any people knowing when it will come out please posts your answers.

[Thasaint]

It will be either may or june.

[Sentinel]

You now when it cmes out? Yea right

[Tvis]

It was said that they are in "pre-alpha" testing, so really nobody knows.

[Major]

STS will let us know, for now all we can do is be patient.........

[maddogcharlie]

Patience ! ....ack ...look what happened to Cinco .....went completely loco.

[Major]

Patience ! ....ack ...look what happened to Cinco .....went completely loco.

This is true....in fact....I think Im starting to feel it.....hurry STS!!! lol

[maddogcharlie]

This is true....in fact....I think Im starting to feel it.....hurry STS!!! lol

Im just trying to get my post count up in case beta is based on that LOL wow SOE is still.offline too, market opportunity.

[Pokechmp]

I can't wait till it comes out...

[Chosen of Diara]

The date is important......your fellow humans will need that to put in your epitaph HA HAHAHA HA HA

[karmakali]

The date is important......your fellow humans will need that to put in your epitaph HA HAHAHA HA HA

What gives? Red words...rambling about humans...kinda creepy dude. Just wondering.....I come in peace... (don't they all say that before they suck the neurons out of our brains and kill off the species?)

[Jbboss]

What is the day

[Mageprodigy]

hmm i think i like PL more

[thugimmortal]

You now when it cmes out? Yea right

The saint was only trying to help and he gave the right info too.
The only info we have is b* will be out in Q2 of the year.
the year is split in to quarters

Q1 january-march
Q2 april-june
Q3 july-september
Q4 october-december

all game developers use this format to release games without a specific date
im sure its not too far away and it will be announced on this forum before release.

[maddogcharlie]

Good call Thugimmortal, the quarter thing isnt used much in Europe, like the semester, trimester too, only in certain industries.

Reason Dev's (in pretty much all industries) use the Q method is because narrowing them down to more than that is a chore, project tracking over multiple games and with many variables can be very difficult, and would literally require staff dedicated to just that purpose. The environment created by such micromanagement isnt one any developer wants to work in and is counter productive to creativity.

A concept can be proven technically in the initial planning stages but real world environments bring in a host of variables its almost impossible to foresee. Some industries do use more accurate tracking and estimating but often fail to meet a deadline, in customer service terms its seen as much better to estimate quarters than a month or even a day, and so more likely to deliver the goods on time.

With the STS situation that becomes ever more complex when targetting multiple platforms, producing a cohesive storyline and credible plots, balancing ongoing development of PL, evaluating art and storylines, gauging market popularity for new releases, contract negotiations, testing gameplay, planning future patches and usual business maintenance tasks.

Some could argue that software is out there to track project process's and estimate more accurate dates but it would also need persons just dedicated to analysis and quality control and with something like PL/B* that would be a very fluid process, difficult to pin down. I would guess STS's focus has been to get really talented dev's onboard as a priority and that has certainly paid off with the success of PL.

They could probably give us more accurate dates but that would need more staff which means Ellie in Forest Haven would be charging a way LOT more for potions as plat income for STS would need to increase.

'Just my 2 plats'

[Ovocotto]

I cant wai

[Ovocotto]

[QUOTE=Ovocotto;306521]I cant wait

[Trav19ktm]

OMG IM GOING CRAZY WHEN IS IT COMING OUTTTT!! im gunna beat everyone to lvl 25.......... maybe

[Fyrce]

My brother and I used to play Federation so I'm very excited. Gotta get more work done, so I'll have more play time

[F1zzzzp0p]

If u r banned in PL will u be banned in b*?