Herber Verlust: Tally verlässt die CoD-Szene

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I think a lot of you saw this coming, so here it is in the Staff forums first:

At the end of January, I will be leaving the Call of Duty community for good.

I have given this a LOT of thought, and I have decided that this franchise is going nowhere now. I dont see any future in modding for the COD franchise any more. Its already been said elsewhere: with a new COD title coming out every year, there is simply no time to build any modding project community around each individual title. As soon as a mod project gets going, its time to move on to the next title.

Why move on? Because there is simply no point modding or mapping for empty servers. It's because the players move on that modders and mappers have to move on.

In the old days of the Quake 3 engine, we had 3 to 4 years to get into modding projects. That's why we had all the great modding and mapping projects in the old vCOD/UO days. Projects like Revolt, Swat, Heat of Battle, Conquest TDM, German Front Mod (which I was part of). We will never see such things again with Call of Duty, as such projects require TIME to develop.

Take COD4 as an example: as soon as anyone got going with COD4, COD:WaW was announced and all work ceased.

Things will only get worse now: the modders and mappers have caught on as to what is happening, and so no one even starts a project now

Also, the other main reason I am going is because, as Wizz said better than I did elsewhere, this community is broken and cant be fixed. It is way too fragmented and full of small minded people.

I dont see the point in knocking myself out title in; title out, and have these ingrats shit on my hard work from a great height, and I can no longer tolerate it. It just makes me furious when it happens, and that stresses me out.

I have some loose ends I need to tie up before I go with several people here at RGN, so dont worry about that if you're one of them reading this. I will get everything done before I go.

Also, just because I am leaving, that doesnt mean you will never see me again. I'm pretty sure I'll be dropping by from time to time, letting you all know about the game I am making.

On the note of my game - I am developing it primarily for PC, and I will be releasing a full-fledged SDK (or at least, as much of an SDK as is possible under the terms of the license agreement with Activision). I definately want the game to have a few Total Conversions done for it.

I want to show the game industry that it is still possible to do an "old school" style game, where the modding community you build around it will help generate long term sales. If Crytek can do it, then so can I, but I want to do even better than they did.

So, I hope that once the game is out, that you - the people of RGN will appreciate the philosophy behind it, and I hope it helps fix all the mistakes that these damn console-fixated game devs are making.

RE: Herber Verlust: Tally verlässt die CoD-Szene

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... Doch Tally geht nicht einfach, Nein: er hat Großes vor!
Mit seinem selbst gegründeten Entwickler-Unternehmen „Shaped Illusions“ will er sich der professionellen Programmierung eines eigenen Projektes widmen. Die jetzt gewonnene Zeit will er in die Entwicklung eines Spieles stecken, wie wir es seit CoD’Classic sehnsüchtig erwarten:
Eines mit Fokus auf die PC Version, mit umfangreichem Support und einem voll funktionsfähigem SDK-Tool, welches wieder wie in alten Zeiten die umfangreichen Modifikationen möglich machen und das Spiel dadurch auch über lange Zeit hinweg aktuell halten wird. ...