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Product release cycle (please release more often)

This product released in ~Mar 2020
Last update (v2.0.8) was in Sep 2020.
Today is Feb 2020.

This means that this product doesn't receive updates for about a half of it's life.

We all appreciate your efforts on fixing bugs and adding features, but not being able to use them discards your efforts on providing a nice customer experience.

This is a very new asset which sells for a full price, but it has a lot of problems which needs to be fixed. I will not list all of them here, this ticket is about the current release cycle paradigm of Map Magic 2.

In it's state it looks for me like it will be much better to release as fast as there are new bugfixes or small incremental changes.

I love your asset. But not receiving updates for it feels like I am using an abandoned product. I see that that's not true, you're making some progress towards release. But there is no estimate.

Please don't take it personally. I just want to use your product in my games and recommend it to more people and not to warn them about the current condition of MM2. Faster delivering could help it.

pure_luck, 09.02.2021, 21:17
Idea status: completed

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TheAtomAnt, 09.02.2021, 21:46
I haven't found one for this project, but it'd be nice to see a feature timeline (or bug timeline) of things in active development and thoughts about progress. I realize it's hard to put a date on fixing a bug, but a timeline and normal release cadence would be nice! Once a month, or once every three months.
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Wraith, 10.02.2021, 21:48
I'm trying to make an update once per month - and as you can see 8 updates (v 2.0.8) has been released. However I'm currently preparing v. 2.1.0 which involves too much changes and fixes some core drawbacks. Unfortunately these changes are related with each other, so I can't split them in several patches. After releasing this version I plan to return to usual cycle of 1 release per month.

You can find the timeline here:
https://quire.io/w/mapmagic2?sublist=2.1.0&filter=all
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pure_luck, 10.02.2021, 23:44
Thanks you for your response, Denis

By a timeline you mean an overview graph, this one?

https://quire.io/w/mapmagic2?view=stats

Looking at this timeline it's hard to make any assumptions on release dates as amount of uncompleted tasks increases, not decreases. It seems that you keep it in mind which todo tasks are crucial for v2.1.0 and which are not blockers.

So sorry, but this doesn't helps much. I see and appreciate your efforts on closing tasks but still question remains the same.

Could you please give us an estimate?
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Zimnek, 11.02.2021, 17:52
Hey Denis, it's so good hearing from you and knowing you're ok : ) Thanks for your effort, waiting for version 2.1.0 and the Brush. Cheers!
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pure_luck, 24.02.2021, 13:28
MM2 2.1.0 update is available on Unity Asset Store, thanks!
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