Good afternoon everyone,
Launch week has flown by us and it’s been a really amazing experience to watch people from all over the world come together and enjoy Raji: An Ancient Epic!
We also noticed something really special from this community that we want to highlight. Simply put, the level of support that you have shown us-and-each other, and the way that you all have banded together to help bring awareness of the game to all corners of the internet has been frankly amazing. So, a huge thank you to everyone!
Post Launch Issues and Fixes
One thing that every game ever launched will have are a few nagging issues that are only picked up on after the game’s launch.
Why’s that you may ask? Surely we tested everything, so how did this happen?
The reason for this is down to the huge variance that exists from each PC set up. Take our studio for example, even between us where we use similar systems, what our Game Designer, Avichal Singh uses is different from what our Game Artists Ian Maude and Shruti Ghosh use, and it’s not just the hardware, it’s the software configuration. Now think about the countless number of people playing Raji and the hardware and software combinations will explode. From our side, we tested the game with over 40 different hardware and software configurations that covered the most popular specifications to ensure that everything was working well. With that said, we were always on standby in case unforeseen issues came up - and so we were ready to act when we began receiving reports from our community.
A huge thanks to our Game Programmers who have been hyper-focused on an update to Raji - one that we just pushed live now!
The Update - Listening to the Community
Our update covers two main points. The first is straight forward, we realized that there was an interesting exploit that allowed players to defeat the Chieftain very easily, the frustrating thing about this was that players could accidentally come across it and so would have their gaming experience somewhat damaged as the fight would become very anticlimactic, so we’re happy to have this bug fixed and we hope that you will be as well.
The second point is perhaps more important to a rather large group in our community, and that is the DRM. To give it to you short, this update has removed the DRM from our game, and so any bugs that are related to the DRM will vanish.
The point of DRM is always a very sensitive topic for gamers. On one hand, DRM can be vital to developers as it slows down (never stops) the more unscrupulous types from pirating the game. However, even the best of DRM will have its issues, sometimes it can block honest players who have done nothing wrong, or sometimes it can harm the game’s performance. That said, we want to be clear that our DRM did not impact performance, something we are very proud of.
With that said, looking at the feedback of our community, we saw that there were too many players that had purchased the game and were unable to play it - an unacceptable situation to everyone who works on the game. Then, we also had the players that for personal reasons extremely dislike DRM due to the reputation and nature of it, something that we have nothing against at all, after all, we are gamers at heart as well and can understand some of the sentiments behind it.
So, after listening to what our community has had to say, and after doing our best to try to help the innocent - but affected players - we made the decision (today) to remove the DRM from our game with this update. All you need to do is update the game and it will be gone.
Anyone that has had a problem with ‘[Cord] Game load failed’ should now be able to play.
Looking to the Future
We know that this update is a rather small one, however especially with the DRM issue, we are sure that you will all agree that this was a vital update. There are more things that need working and there are some other bugs that need squashing, so rest assured that we are now preparing work on a much larger update - but one that will take a bit longer to put together.