Edit 11/02/2024: Updated Title
Hey all,
Its been 2 months since I announced the intention to delete Table Ball in August 2024. I understand a lot of people downloaded the game due to it's status as "at risk of removal". However things have changed since then. I have plans to continue with a few more updates before August 2024 and will revise whether we fully remove the game then or not.
If I do choose to remove the game, it will still be available for download (along with DLC) forever as long as you add it to your library. From august 2024 to October 2024 you will be welcome to send us an email to [email protected] for refunds of the games DLC, you will be required to send us a link to your steam account and a screenshot of your receipt from the purchase (should be in your emails from Steam), I'd love to be able to service refunds through Steam, but valve is very strict on their refund requirements and you will need to make sure that if you do choose to go in that direction you follow steams refund requirements.
If however I choose to keep the game listed (and continue updates) there will be a few changes. For example I'll be heavily revising our update process, instead of updates being released when no bugs are reported for a week, it'll be changing to no bugs reported in the public beta for a month. I'll also be opening up a public beta branch on the main steam app. The game will remain using the Unity Engine until such a time in which it is ported to another engine, I wanted to work on an unreal port before posting this message and then uploading it as a branch on the playtesting build but I haven't gotten around to porting it.
Ok, that's all well and good but what about the next update?
The next update will be MUCH smaller then some of our other "major" releases, it may as well be considered "minor" or a part 2 to the 2.2.0.0 update. However it will include many more skins, more "colours" added to each DLC (and the base game), major additions to the Survival game mode (remember it's meant to be a "demo" for another game we're working on, so I'll be adding a feedback form to that in the future), various updates to the UI to make everything consistent, I'll be working on that Steam Deck compatibility much more to make it "Steam Deck Verified", and of course, bug fixes, bug fixes and more bug fixes.
Anything else?
No, but I never know how to end these... Uhhhhh... don't do drugs and stay in school? Yeah lets leave it at that.