Temtem Dev Tracker

Hi hi! I come with exciting news today, so let's get into it already:

The big Arbury patch passed certifications successfully! This means the likeliness of Arbury coming out in December is now 99%. The patch is fully translated and tested, but we've found some small stuff that we want to fix and/or improve on, so we want to have another internal patch before we hand it over to you. This is also why we can't give you a day yet, but we're aiming for next week, or the one after it if something were to go wrong. Stay tuned here, or on any of our socials, for the final announcement with the full date!

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Hold your wishes about rewards and economy for 1.0, Arbury is focused on new content.

I am not part of the tech team, so I cannot speak on the viability of that or whether our systems could be compatible with it. My advice would be that you post about it in our forums, where people with the appropriate technical knowledge can look at it, sorry.

The online element of Temtem is a core part of its nature for us, with its pros and cons, so an offline version is not on the table for us.
With this change, some users in the Discord server suggested we add the chance to increase storage via a paid subscription, but it's also something we had never considered before, so we'd need to think with it for a while. We can return to this topic in the future, once we're done with current features that require our attention right now.

I am not a technical expert nor directly involved in this process, so I cannot provide a lengthier explanation, but the people involved in this have no reason to lie. We have one single server and a lot of accounts.

SPOILER :)

Again, it was a joke. I'm also not the whole entity of Crema, as a human being I make jokes too. I did not cause the entire phenomenon of alts by making that joke.

Most of our recurring/dedicated playerbase is in the Discord server and know this. I am glad it's given you hope, but really, I don't think this is enough for most people as we've already said this often.
The final project is still far, and we don't know how it'll look like. We don't want to give people the false hope that it's going to be exactly what they want, because we haven't even had time yet to sit and think about it.
What people think about Crema varies from person to person. We've said often that Temtem was created as a campaign game with online elements built in, which directly clashes with this idea that we're trying to get people to log in and dump hours. We also encourage breaks when people get burnt out, when they find the game is no longer entertaining. The only thing we're actually trying to get people to do is enjoy Temtem for as long as they can, and give us some time until we can show a finished, coherent and consistent product.

The account migration will happen before we launch Switch and Xbox XSX ports, and as far as I know this is not usual cross-save, it's account migration, so it might not be a system that gets implemented for PS5. It's something we've had to pull out of thin air today, upon learning the news. As we progress on the system we'll be able to tell you more, this is just a really early info post.

I've answered to you on the Discord server as well, but a joke I made 8 months ago about something that was already being talked about doesn't equal an official push to get alts and play that way. I joke about people being mean and that doesn't mean I encourage it.
Discord wasn't "the place for alts" for us, it was just another platform and one we didn't think we'd end up losing. Playing on more than one platform is indeed not against ToS, or people who got the game on PS5 after having it on Steam would be in trouble. People play on two platforms for more reasons than having an alt.
If I had the gift of clairvoyance I would not have made that joke, but I don't, and this couldn't be prevented either. We're trying to minimize the losses caused by this.
Switching from one account to the other is always available with one computer, even with two Steam accounts. Your 2nd account will be there anytime, you're not losing anything you've played for.

Hi! I already answered on the Discord server but I'm going to answer here now so the info is available on most places:
Storage size is a technical issue, not us not wanting to just grant it. There's a lot of data associated with each them, and limited size in our server (which also costs money). Also, you can still have two steam accounts and double the temdeck and club size.
We've never encouraged alts, and Discord was a platform for us like every other platform. There are other platforms now and there will be more in the future, so the thing with the clan size can still be the same. You could also delegate the new clubs on other friends of yours instead of on your alts, as I know other clubs do.

In short, this sucks for us too, and if we had known 2 years ago that this was the way it was going to go, we probably would've never stepped into Discord at all. Sorry for the inconveniences.

Hi Tamers! This one's for the Discord players of Temtem. If you're a PS5 or Steam user, this does not affect you at all and you can keep enjoying your Temtem adventure.

We recently got news from Discord that they've made the decision to deprecate the Store channel functionality and the ability to sell SKUs through Discord. The change will take place in March 1st, 2022. This means that you will not be able to purchase Temtem through Discord past that date, and that the Store channel will be deactivated.

While Discord was a great chance to distribute Temtem in its earliest stages, and we've enjoyed a very long run with it, this decision raises concern, as we cannot be sure how long support for the games will be provided, and could potentially complicate t...

haha I actually liked your answer a lot from someone who's named AngrySaiyan.
I've covered some of this in other comments and I don't wanna be a broken record, so I'll skip to the concrete ideas you mention at the bottom.
When we share stuff on Twitter or Facebook there's always the implied info that this is something the team has achieved or finished and that we're showing progress on the new island. If you think we should explicitly include that, do say so. In the last few months we've shared VFX, tems, music and clothing, which usually serve as a pointer of which parts of the update are already complete. But if we need to be clearer about it, I can try.
Q&As are spiky because people always want the design team, and the design team cannot stop to breathe right now, and even if they could, most of the questions would be answered with "we still haven't properly delimited that/we can't currently talk about that". We've held Q&As in the past and I'd love to have more, ...

You bring up a good point that gamers don't exactly think about devs' lives when they play, but we do have lives nonetheless haha And by no means should you ever force yourself to play a game you don't enjoy. Temtem gets so many changes and updates, and has so much room for development, that we actually recommend taking breaks and coming back when we've had time to fix some of the current issues it might present.
As I think I mentioned in either my reply to you or someone else's, we do answer concerns when they reach us and if we can. But I think that when these threads come up, the reactions to concerns being addressed are portrayed in a very euphemistic and utopian way. Sometimes you guys ask us about current problems that have solutions in the future, but it's stuff that isn't even designed or planned yet, and when we say "yeah, we're thinking about that", that does never, in my experience, cover the "need to be heard", even when it should. take 5% radars, for example. We s...

As I said, that's a long answer that I thought maybe you guys would not want to read, not that I didn't care to explain. But first I wanna point out that we do show tiny sneak peeks of a lot of stuff, from new tems and VFX to patch notes to island music and concept art, so I don't think it's fair to say we don't do tiny sneak peeks at all. If you're on here, Twitter, the discord server or even Facebook or Instagram, you should've seen us post and spoil stuff, which I'd consider communication, so you're either going to have to detail to me what you consider communication or specify on which places you're missing these sneak-peeks or spoilers. I don't think all communication platforms serve the same purpose or have the same unspoken rules, and I don't believe a piece of music is fitting for a Steam update, but that doesn't make it less of a sneak-peek, and we place them out there on various different places so they'll reach everyone somehow.
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They are being taken seriously, and it's really hard to echo everything that gets talked about in the Discord server where we usually chat with players, but it's been addressed by the game director and will see changes with or after 1.0.
The problem with explaining what we're thinking of is that nothing is set in stone yet, really, and it needs a solid foundation to work. Sharing such an early stage of an idea leads to a massive amount of noise that we cannot handle at the moment. As soon as we're in that stage of development we'll talk about it more, but it's def on our radar, and it's being handled internally!