Reece Bolton wrote: I have spoken with Pavel today and he has informed me that the update is almost complete, and he followed this up with Despite my constant pressure to receive information, it would seem that I don't always receive the necessary information to relay to you and to make the appropriate decisions. My personal impression is that Oovee is glad to have someone who is responsible for any problems with the game, and it has been that way ever since the botched October 2014 update that fell so far short of what it was supposed to deliver.
There have been rumors that Oovee didn't pay Pavel even in January, but any talk of this is censored by Oovee as it does not and will not concern this community forum.
Game beta updates, which had been almost weekly during November, stopped during ths period, which Oovee referred to as "communication difficulties" in their January press release which followed a Skype conference that got Pavel to fix a bug that rendered Spintires unplayable on every other day (unless you rolled back the date on your computer). Following that, in December Pavel made some posts to the vk.vom Spintires community that alledged that Oovee still owed him money. Oovee censored that signature and even weeks later, moderators refused to admit that Pavel had left. The reaction was quick and obvious: lol Im out of this dumb-fuck forum. Initial multiplayer implementation: (13 Feb)Įffort to optimise network traffic (21 Nov) Here spintires was made from start to finish: I cant build up a team myself because oovee hold the rights to the game (and steam admin rights) so I need to discuss that with oovee, but I dont hear from them I paid for this game and realy like to see that you want to improve this game to the maximum. I believe that you give all of yourself, but try to hire more people. Hire some "designer " :) it is a pity that the game with so much potential, heve no better future :) Now, in November, Pavel started frequenting the Oovee forums and interacting with players, but on December 6th, Oovee censored parts of two of his posts: I see the Oovee working with Pavel rather than Pavel working for them the Oovee role is more of a publisher than an employer. changes to the gameplay or the maps mostly originate with him, and he apparently doesn't have to seek prior approval for those. It seems clear that Pavel, being the only developer, controls Spintires, i.e.
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For the first big Steam sale, October 28-October 30, which was a midweek sale in Halloween week(!), they needed to address community complaints, so starting in September, Pavel worked on the game again, and an update was announced for October 22nd which was delayed and delivered a lot less than what was announced (most important omissions were mod support and "free-roam camera") and instead provided steering wheel support (which was Kickstarter goal that so far hadn't been delivered). After the game came out in June 2014, oovee was out of money until royalty payments came in, so Pavel wasn't paid any more and, apart from some hotfixes, stopped working on the game. Oovee then ran a Kickstarter, and they used the money from that Kickstarter to pay Pavel. At some point (I haven't learned much about that yet), he went into a partnership with Oovee, who got the rights to the game, with Pavel retaining ownership of the game engine. Executive summary: it's Pavel who really develops Spintires, Oovee acts more like a publisher than an employer, and it got public since they censored him and didn't pay him.
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