I'm X1 as well, we only got one patch 2 days after launch which essentially caught us up to PS users.....until they got a patch Friday, which we haven't gotten yet.
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Tennis World Tour was only 20% complete weeks before release, refined version planned for 2019
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This has looked like a train wreck from the start and am not surprised in the slightest. I feel sorry for the unfortunate (and slightly naive) people who paid anything towards getting this trash.
Naive and thirsty. It has been about half a decade since the last tennis game with real ATP/WTA players, and the first of this generation of consoles. Fans of tennis games wanted this to be good so desperately.
The latest PS4 patch makes the game better , but it is still not really acceptable in its current state.
More worrying after this declaration from the publisher is the radio silence from the devs on their social media accounts. Since the latest PS4 patch, they haven't said a word :(
I loved Virtua Tennis and would absolutely love to see a return of that. The Mario tennis games don't do it for me. I'm thirsty but not thirsty enough to knowingly drink liquid shit.
Game looks like an upscaled PlayStation 2 title, it's incomplete and full of bugs. This is even more hilarious than the incomplete Street Fighter V release, that was at least polished in some ways and looked fairly good.
I'm looking for years for a decent Tennis game. There is another one out, right? All in all, I guess Mario Tennis must do the trick here. These scammers don't deserve a single penny.
I'm looking for years for a decent Tennis game. There is another one out, right? All in all, I guess Mario Tennis must do the trick here. These scammers don't deserve a single penny.
"Game will meet expectations and be profitable because 500k shipped to distributors of which some have no right to return them"
This sort of shit really kills businesses. Usually several protection options to stop this.
This sort of shit really kills businesses. Usually several protection options to stop this.
Yeah apparently another game released back in January in Australia but I don't know how I can play it, being in North America.
same
You're talking about AO Tennis. You can now purchase AO International Tennis.
You can, but you shouldn't. Trust me.
Switch is still happening apparently. Can't wait to see footage of this version. At least when it comes to online it should be on par with the other versions.
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I found a (super small) YouTuber just reading out loud this OP lol. Not gonna link but yikes.
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I found a (super small) YouTuber just reading out loud this OP lol. Not gonna link but yikes.
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The recent entries in selected sports like Cricket , Tennis and rugby are so poor
Long gone the days of Top Spin
Long gone the days of Top Spin
Mario tennis aces just swooned everyone over and they have the balls to not have the switch version out already? Lol good luck
Mario Tennis is more like a fighting game than a tennis game.
Theres still plenty tennis in it, it also has a regular ass tennis mode so
The AO Tennis that was released in Australia was re-released as AO International Tennis and you can buy it on PSN or steam. It was another game released incomplete but it's been receiving weekly updates and the best thing is that we can download created players from other users and have all the real life top 100 in the game.
Here's an example of created players buy a user of other forum:
hilarious, so they used the Top Spin name to sell the game lol
This comes unexpected, it is and amazing game even right now. Can't wait to see the 100% EDITION!
Maybe it will have Nadal. And it will be for mobile.
They are fool -_-
Is this true? There are so many articles online mentioning Pierre Andre as the former producer of Top Spin 4 working on this with some colleagues from 2K Czech.
See this Polygon article: https://www.polygon.com/e3/2017/6/1...ion-4-xbox-one-tennis-world-tour-pierre-andre
And this Gamekult interview (French): https://www.gamekult.com/actualite/tennis-world-tour-viens-on-refait-top-spin-3050797233.html
What happened here?
I gotta be honest and wonder how much attention this whole ordeal would've gotten if it wasn't for us taking about it. When I saw the French interview it was almost 24h old and I hadn't heard anything about it myself.
There's nothing illegal about making a shitty video game. It's just bad business.
They announced on their twitter that both the PS version and the X1 version have big patches scheduled for tomorrow....however ( surprise, surprise) the X1 version hasn't been approved, so that can't guarantee that will actually happen tomorrow.
Pierre Andre hasn't been mentioned or been around since those initial articles/reveals , Etienne Jacquemain( now said to be director) and Romain Ginnocchio ( now said to be the producer) have taken helm as the leads since then.
I feel like I need a shower just reading the OP. Gross.
It's like they're flaunting it, too. They're like yeah we made our money back after putting out some trailers and selling to retailers who can't return it even though customers may be pissed off. This is just so ... gross.
It's like they're flaunting it, too. They're like yeah we made our money back after putting out some trailers and selling to retailers who can't return it even though customers may be pissed off. This is just so ... gross.
It seems that patch 1.0.3 is up on PS4 :
https://www.facebook.com/notes/tenn...r-playstation-4-version-103/2073129049613351/
I'm at work :( Someone able to try it out ?
https://www.facebook.com/notes/tenn...r-playstation-4-version-103/2073129049613351/
I'm at work :( Someone able to try it out ?
I've always said I'll never buy a Tennis game unless it has the words Virtua or Mario in front of it.
I hear it's not much...the big one (with online) is coming early next week.
The French founder of the French publisher BigBen spoke to the French newspaper Le Monde.
How could that be a mistranslation.
It's a solid tennis game with all the nonsense turned off (classic mode).
Because Carlos Rosales, the Spanish founder of BigBen Es was asked about the article
http://www.meristation.com.mx/notic...a-informacion-sobre-tennis-world-tour/2285416
That doesn't change the words in French that a french newpaper reported and that french resetera speakers translated here.
I don't know spanish but it's most likely just doing damage control because that was the worst kind of PR you could even imagine.
But maybe you could give us a rough resume of that spanish interview, without mistranslation of course :p
Given the information that Tennis World Tour was launched at 20% of its development (in this house we scored it with a 5), according to an interview with Alain Falc of BigBen in the French newspaper Le Monde, a Spanish representative of the same company denies the words of his French counterpart, assuring that "his words have been misrepresented" , adding that "it is not true that the game was not ready for commercialization".
The statement of Carlos Rosales, CEO of Bigben Spain, reads as follows:
"Part of an interview published in a French written medium has been misrepresented It is not true that the game was not ready for commercialization, it is true that the update patch thought to be available simultaneously with the launch of the game was delayed several days, so the company asked and apologizes, the error is corrected. "
"We are also committed to a policy of constant improvement of this title, frequent updates and support for players who have relied on Bigben to enjoy a great game of tennis."
"We are in permanent contact with them, through our social networks, and from here I want to thank them for their support and comments, we listen and we improve thanks to them".
Notice he didn't do any damage control on the bits about the 500k sales and the no return policy or the refined edition next year.......coupled with the fact that, in all reality, a 20% completed video game DOES NOT look like that, i'd venture to say that he is being honest.
This is seriously maddening. How can you rush out a game that is barely complete for full price in time for a tennis tournament and release a much more complete version next year?
This is even worse than Mario Tennis Ultra Smash, and that game barely had any content when it was released.
If it has something to do with legal issues, I can kind of understand. But at least try to change the model's face.
This is even worse than Mario Tennis Ultra Smash, and that game barely had any content when it was released.
If it has something to do with legal issues, I can kind of understand. But at least try to change the model's face.
Are these remarks from the dev? Reads like venting out of frustration with their publisher, Bigben.
These harsh facts are likely true; devs do not write press releases, hence the unfiltered statements.
These harsh facts are likely true; devs do not write press releases, hence the unfiltered statements.
Ahh the brandon greene model of game design and product. Release something early and promise to fix it with patches. Welcome to game developers 2018.
I mean, yeah. 20% is not a state you can release any game in. But he chose those words. They are his words. He might have meant 20% content wise of what was planned initially or whatever. But that doesn't change his words.
I get the Spanish branch wants to calm down the customers but that still does not change what was said. And what the game actually is.
I get the Spanish branch wants to calm down the customers but that still does not change what was said. And what the game actually is.
No, it's the founder of the publisher.
This is damage control buddy.
We know a 20% complete game doesn't look like that. It's an exaggeration but he meant to say the game didn't have much time in the oven.
You can't defend this. It's a travesty. An insult to the sport of tennis and it damages the possibilities of future quality tennis games.
