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rgsace

We Hear You!

Hey guys,

Just wanted to chime in and say, we hear you! Firstly, we're sorry for the radio silence, our goal is to be as transparent as possible with the community but as all of us are heavily focusing on the development, this often gets lost in the day-to-day. Heck, I was a community member myself who complained about the same thing with Paragon so I definitely know how frustrating it can be, this is not our intention.

Here's a little of what's been going on behind the scenes -

  1. Preparing for Early Access. We're committed to shipping Early Access this year and, as such, the team has been focused on this goal. The build is ready to go shortly and we're just getting our ducks in a row on some external factors and we're good to go.
  2. Console has been another huge focus of ours, so much so that we started to increase our hiring efforts to find console-experienced people as well as good partners who will help us drive the development forward with their experience. As the process can be very resource-intensive this isn’t something a company of our size can easily handle on the side. We can’t wait to share more with you in the next months.
  3. Scaling a company has challenges. What started out as a 4 people community project is now almost 50 full-time employees with countless more partners and contractors. This presents its own set of unique challenges that are common growing pains for an early-stage company. Just in the last few weeks, we’ve had 10 new starters coming from the likes of Epic Games, Ubisoft, Rockstar and many more established AAA studios.

With all that said, we know we could do a better job so here are the actions we've taken since the last post about the lack of community engagement.

  • We've hired a Senior Community Manager who is starting very soon!
  • We're opening multiple roles focused on Community and Marketing
  • We've engaged with a studio that worked with multiple AAA titles on Community efforts

We are also open to feedback and suggestions, so please keep it coming as we do listen!

!Keep an eye out for that Early Access trailer dropping in a week or so. 😉!<

Posted Nov 8, 2022, 3:17 PM UTC

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Swiftix13•

Hell yes Ace! that's all we need, we need to feel your love Champ! Keep it up guys!! And we definitely need tons of marketing so we get everybody to know about this masterpiece!!

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Sgt_Ogre•

Glad to see it guys! Keep up the good work and remember, the best games come when you give your team time to do their best work. It's not about who is first, it's about who did it right. Super excited for Early Access!

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dakotaray42Sevarog•

Fault was already “first” and we all saw what a disaster that was, putting out a finished game that is fun to play is key.

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PressSomeKey•

Finally! The time has come! :_)

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Blueshirt38•

Love the progress. I really hate how damn fickle this community is. "It has been two weeks and we haven't heard anything, so the game is abandoned and they scammed us!" Like holy shit calm down, it is a game developer, not your girlfriend.

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sunklunk•

This is too accurate. Reddit complained and we got an update that there is no update good job guys lol. It was two weeks like relax.

I’m sure it is promising to hear the company is growing at least.

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Blueshirt38•

Absolutely. I really hope that once the game is in full swing, community content and outreach is a huge part of it. I wouldn't mind a weekly "News from the homefront" here from the team, even if it is something simple as a picture of the team working, "here is what we are working on", or something big like the Community Corner productions Epic put on (as long as they are more open and honest than Epic about things).

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HoytageSevarog•

Bold of you to assume that those who are complaining have had a girlfriend...

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Coochiezilla•

Oh look, a strawman with an angry face drawn on it. No one said any of that. Trying to downplay the community voicing its frustrations is counter-productive.

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moonlaiy•

agreed, the guys with the pseudo serenity and morality are the most annoying in this community

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Coochiezilla•

Fr, he just made up a guy so he could tell him to calm down lmao

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HoytageSevarog•

This was one of the comments on your post fr Yesterday: "Their relation to community is terrible and it's fact. No serious news, no answers or details, just nothing. In my opinion, this game is already dying even she's not released"

Now, I'll admit it says nothing about a scam, and I'm not sure where that came from, but there were plenty of the doom and gloom crowd. Especially on your post.

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Coochiezilla•

A gloomy crowd is different than everybody supposedly freaking out like this guy was trying to portray. Dude wasn't even wrong, some people have been losing interest fast. In Omeda's post they even acknowlaged that they haven't been as transparent as they should be, and that they were going to start doing better. Thats all the majority of us were saying.

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HoytageSevarog•

Tone is difficult to pick up on in text, so I certainly read most of those in the same defeatist manner as he is portraying. Whether or not that's how it was intended, I sure couldn't say.

What I can say is I'm chuffed that we were given actual news and a tighter window to look for further EA release news!

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AngelsAnonymous•

That spoiler tag has made my day!!! Love to see it, and straight from the Champ himself. Thank you Ace ♥️

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Comfortable_Range_42•

My biggest point of feedback would be to put more effort and focus into introducing the community to what predecessor is and the staff behind it. This community loves RGSACE, Nibori, and other staff but I’d like to see a behind the scenes look at Omeda and why everyone loves the game they are working on. Especially with two similar Remakes in the market — the BIGGEST DIFFERENTIATOR is the staff behind the games!!!!: help us fall in love with Omeda!!!

Secondly, a lot of the media that is put out does not hit the sweet spot in telling us about Pred. Id like to see more media with commentary explaining what’s going on as a lot of times we will complain about things we don’t understand or think is uninteresting. If there was someone explaining what’s happening during gameplay videos/highlights the viewer is much more engaged. This is another way to talk to the community through your video posts. I remember this intro to paragon blew me away and I loved the banter between Zeke and Mooney as this really helped make it feel like a game made for the community. Have fun with this stuff! https://youtu.be/1CClVICwow8

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MuglokDecrepitus•

It would be amazing to have some kind of interview/documentary film/behind the scenes of Omeda Studios and Predecessor, in collaboration with one old Paragon YouTuber, a self-made project or directly hire a company to make that video, interviewing RGSACE and other employees talking how it evolved Predecessor from what was just an ideas to what it's now. To know the history of this new project and help new people to understand what is Predecessor and why does it look like the Paragon that they played years ago, since there are many people who will not understand anything at first when they see this game.

It would be really cool

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Comfortable_Range_42•

Yes would love to see that. It’s much easier to be drawn to a project when you support the people behind it.

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Arrinity•

LETS FUCKING GOOOOO!

As suspected, when you finally broke the silence you guys really did it right. No backtracking promises, further commitment to the time frame given, and then a pike of new information to keep us sated.

Can't wait to see the new trailer and be on the receiving end of all this new community management/support. We love you guys and you're doing great!

Need any hero concept designer yet? When you do you know where to find me lol. I have about a dozen high quality concepts on this subreddit from ages ago, check them out :)

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MuglokDecrepitus•

The snail xD

I would be main Florp.

You should try to apply to their job offers in predecessor page, maybe they have work for you

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Arrinity•

I did early early on when they were basically only in need of people much more experienced than me. But I have been gaining experience since then, I work as a junior game designer currently. So maybe as they expand out to new heros in another year or two xD

Florp is great, glad you like him! I would love to try Bypass/Hada/Jak... I think they would be really fun, but honestly I play so many mobas and try every hero so every one I've designed I think would be fun in their own way.

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sungsam89•

Marvel's Avengers could learn a thing or plenty.

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MuglokDecrepitus•

Niceeeee, those are really great news :D

I'm really glad to hear that you are pushing on the marketing side, this game deserves to be know for more people and this push was what the project most needed right now.

Just don't forget that nowadays doing an amazing game is not enough to success, multiplayer games need a lot of continuous marketing work, game events, Streamers playing it, tournaments (casuals with youtubers/streamers and professional ones), twitch drops, TikTok... things, Twitter repercussion, YouTube trailers etc. Work hard in that aspect the same way you are already working hard on the amazing game you are doing and everything will be fine.

Thanks you and thanks to the rest of the team for the amazing work that you all are doing :)

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RagnarkTheviking•

SO IT BEGINS!! :D

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Working-Wrap9453•

That spoiler tag made my week, thanks for the update, Ace.

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Pumpus411•

Hype train is leaving the station 🚂

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Devanomiun•

Just heard about this game, can't wait to try it out!

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joeyoungfitz•

Thank you so much for the transparency! It has been amazing to see how much the studio has grown this last year and how hard you guys have been at work in bringing not only a beloved game back, but ensuring it is of high, polished quality! I’m very excited for early access release and beyond!

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death_ray_mx•

Ok as someone who constantly asks for dates this is good enogh

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AMedkit•

EARLY ACCESS TRAILER IN A WEEK OR SO?! Yoo I am so ready. It's about damn time I talk to my manager and schedule that week off and I can't wait. I've saved up all this PTO just for pred let's goooooooooo!!!!

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roryvn•

Yes sr 🙌🏻. Glad to hear that marketing is getting handle also like I always say sponsoring big streamers to play the game is key nowadays.

Btw“ Countess is a Goddess “

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HitPlayGamingYT•

LESGOOOOO

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WingsThings•

I still firmly believe that the first game to console wins this war. Glad to see you're being intentional about investing resources toward that goal. Can't wait to play on Playstation.

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Sh0cktechxx•

thanks for this

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DBellBoi•

Most people are just anxious because Paragon: The Overprime Final Beta is dropping in a few days and they want to know where Pred falls in at on the scale of releasing anything, be it news, Beta, or anything.

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