Subspace - Continuum has been Greenlit on Steam!

[M_M God]

Hello fellow Trench Wars players,

This might sound as amazing as unexpected, but Subspace - Continuum has just been Greenlit on Steam!
Check out the details here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=144913037



So let me give you a quick update on how things went down:

About 1,5 years ago we decided to take a shot at getting our game on Steam, which could have far reaching consequences in terms of players, exposure, survival / revival of the game and the zones and much more positive foresights. It was high aimed, surely, so we never expected to actually be where we are now: Getting the green light from Steam and moving to the preparation stages of publishing our game on Steam.

Please know and realize that this doesn't mean we are on Steam already. We've been given the go to move on, to make all necessary preparations to publish our game on Steam, but there are still a lot of things to prepare, submit, make changes to our installer and a lot of requirements to fulfill. But let me assure you that we are doing everything we can to make this possibility a reality. We have no rush in terms of time frames etc, once you're Greenlit as a game you can prepare and decide the launch date of the game on Steam yourself, after everything has checked out.

I hope you all realize what potentially could happen to our game and our zone in a positive way when we launch on Steam, so please let's all try and work together as a game and as Trench Wars players so this opportunity will NOT go to waste!

So what can YOU do as a player? Show your support to us, to everyone involved, all zones in this game, by giving us feedback, comment on social media platforms and Steam, spread the word, invite your friends and prepare them for what's to come or simply help by just being more active in the game again! This already draws good attention and exposure to our game and zone, so if people download Continuum and see active gameplay, this will obviously help too.

I'm very well aware that there will still be a lot of questions from all of you, we still have to figure out certain key things ourself but we will try to keep you updated on our progress and make sure we can launch on Steam soon.


Kind regards,

-M_M God, Beasty, zreqdf, KrynetiX
SSCU Trench Wars Head Sysops

[Pressure]

Something to be considered:

SS/Continuum has been Greenlit, not TW. Are steps being taken to involve all zones in cooperation to make this integration as smooth as possible?

[RaCka]

is there a rough estimate in the time frame it will actually launch on steam?

[Infrared]

huge

[2pac]

big tings

Lets see what prittk gotta say about these I hope he knows its greenlit.

[Jessup]

That is great news! When we launch please have a clear and concise explanation of how to download the zones and explain the basics. If we can get a practice arena set up for new incoming players for 15 minutes or so that would be really cool too. Good job you all. I'm thrilled to hear this. Also when we launch.. please let's all be active to greet the incoming new players. My main concern is not letting new players get frustrated by lack of understanding commands and also by being owned by all us nerds who have played so many years. Be kind and gentle.. give them their own arena perhaps with a time frame to graduate to a true trench wars pilot.. just make sure their first experience when logging in is the best possible one we can give. Great news!!!!!

[Downfall]

THE SECOND COMING OF TW

[idkidc1233]

THE SUBSPACE STRIKES BACK - Episode 5. Must mean we're reaching towards the end tbh if this is the 5th episode.

[Magi Koz]

That is great news! When we launch please have a clear and concise explanation of how to download the zones and explain the basics. If we can get a practice arena set up for new incoming players for 15 minutes or so that would be really cool too. Good job you all. I'm thrilled to hear this. Also when we launch.. please let's all be active to greet the incoming new players. My main concern is not letting new players get frustrated by lack of understanding commands and also by being owned by all us nerds who have played so many years. Be kind and gentle.. give them their own arena perhaps with a time frame to graduate to a true trench wars pilot.. just make sure their first experience when logging in is the best possible one we can give. Great news!!!!!

I say we just drop 'em in spawn and let them figure it out. That's how I started. In fact, back in MY day, I had to fly through the spawn fest of flying bullets EVERYWHERE through 20 different coordinates before making it to the base ENTRANCE before getting blown into the next arena by some leviathan bomb from one of the safeties AND we never complained! If anything it only made us stronger! It gave us character! You young whipper snappers now-a-days just waiting for your greens to be greened and your points to be given for you. Not enough hardships! That's what you youngins need! To get your butts properly wh-zzZzzzzzzZZZzzzzzZzz

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[Rab]

If you need help with client code or website stuff hit me up.

[Ricko]

magi, whilst I understand what you're saying the modern gamer is far different from what we were and knew 10+ years ago. These days players expect to be hand held and shown everything when they start a new game; it's the norm the modern market has come to know. If a player is just dumped amongst 10 year vets and gets destroyed for 5 minutes the chances are extremely high they'd just quit the game and go find another one; the harsh reality is that when we started playing SS the options for online gaming was very limited, whereas now there are so many hundreds of thousands of games there is minimal game loyalty or willingness to spend the time to learn a game that's going to take effort to master.

Very happy we've achieved this greenlit status, now it's up to all of us to embrace newer players rather than segregate them and to be as active as we can so people aren't downloading the game only to enter it and find no one actually playing it.

[Ricko]

magi, whilst I understand what you're saying the modern gamer is far different from what we were and knew 10+ years ago. These days players expect to be hand held and shown everything when they start a new game; it's the norm the modern market has come to know. If a player is just dumped amongst 10 year vets and gets destroyed for 5 minutes the chances are extremely high they'd just quit the game and go find another one; the harsh reality is that when we started playing SS the options for online gaming was very limited, whereas now there are so many hundreds of thousands of games there is minimal game loyalty or willingness to spend the time to learn a game that's going to take effort to master.

Very happy we've achieved this greenlit status, now it's up to all of us to embrace newer players rather than segregate them and to be as active as we can so people aren't downloading the game only to enter it and find no one actually playing it.

[Children]

Something to be considered:

SS/Continuum has been Greenlit, not TW. Are steps being taken to involve all zones in cooperation to make this integration as smooth as possible?

PRESSURE KILLS ME. just be straight up and say it.. "Have the EG heads been notified of this news. I sure hope so because EG rocks compared to TW when not enough events are being hosted and zizu is online"

[paradise!]

Great news. I'm with Magi on this one. No clunky tutorial needed. Just drop them in the game and they'll like it for the same reasons we all did. Although I'd like to see a streamlined process to put the newbies in squads so they don't turn into lifetime pubbers like Primary.

PRESSURE KILLS ME. just be straight up and say it.. "Have the EG heads been notified of this news. I sure hope so because EG rocks compared to TW when not enough events are being hosted and zizu is online"

Shut your fat fuckin' mouth. Honestly had it up to HERE with those antics.

[M_M God]

We will try and answer any question there might be, but there is still a lot to figure out, goes for all of us. All zone sysops have been informed, as well as SSC staff and we've reached out to former and current developers and possible copyright owners, etc.
Please understand that we need to take every precaution we can and investigate every tiniest bit of information as in terms of what 's needed for us to successfully launch the game on Steam. This should and always will be a joint effort of players, staff and zones, because we're launching the game on Steam, not just our zone. We need all other zones to be active and prepare, because this will show our game as more complete and a better variety of gameplay that we can offer to the crowd. We will not set a date or timeframe yet, to avoid having to dissapoint people and because we simply still have a lot of work to do. But imho, the biggest step was actually getting Greenlit on Steam, in which we have now succeeded. So yes, be proud of our little group of survivors and stay positive because this can be a huge thing for all of us in the near future.