Best Posts in Thread: Meepshop - Delay

Hey Meeps!

You may have noticed that the new shop system is not yet up as promised. Unfortunately, we have encountered several issues and have not been able to complete the plugin on time. We have set the new release date for the new shop system as of March 19, 2014. We are truly sorry for this delay and hope you can comprehend.

- negative_codezZ

PS. Donation ranks are 5% off today to compensate for your inconvenience.

 

I would like to announce that today, a beta build has been put out for staff members to test. Tomorrow will be the official release of this new shop system, as stated.

 

During a project like this, when you reach a point where there are too many bugs and problems, you may have approached it the wrong way. It's better to get the foundation laid correctly to protect against bugs than to try and patch it endlessly. You sure you aren't at a point where you should scrap the current development and start over? Just give us a good deliverable eta next time so as to not stagnate the econ to this degree.

 

I can see the developers reaction to everyone un happy about this -

 

First make something, and then make a release date.

 

Prices of items will be a huge change, just wait and see...

 

I think if anything staff will walk away from this learning a good lesson:

If you're going to change something on the server, don't tell the population until it is ready to be implemented.

The devs have opened themselves up to be criticised from multiple directions here, least of which promising something to be implemented and then not seeing a week after it's original due date. And yes we understand there are going to be bugs and so on, but this delay has meant the vshop prices have skyrocketed. People were told to take their items off a week ago, and I for one am too afraid to put my goods back up on the shop in case the vshop does get pulled off when I'm offline and I lose the chance to make money off it. I'm sure I'm not the only with this concern, otherwise the prices on vshop wouldn't be so high.

 

I'll challenge this just so I can do my homework.

--- Double Post Merged, Mar 20, 2014, Original Post Date: Mar 20, 2014 ---