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Developer thoughts on the Victoria 3 leak

維多利亞3開發(fā)團隊對泄露事件的回應

Wizzington - Game Director of Victoria 3?于4月20日發(fā)表于 Paradox Froum

As the saying goes: We’re not mad, just disappointed.

正如俗話所說那樣：我們沒有生氣，只是感到失望。

Last week the Victoria 3 dev team was alerted that streams of an in-development build of the game shared with a small group of testers was being broadcast within a small online community. As these things go, this footage quickly ended up in public. As hype grew around the leaked video so did demands for more, and before long links to download a cracked version of the leaked build started getting shared around.

上周，《維多利亞3》開發(fā)團隊被告知，與小部分測試人員分享的游戲開發(fā)版本在一個小型在線社區(qū)內傳播。隨著事件不斷發(fā)酵，這個版本很快就被公開了。隨著圍繞泄露視頻的炒作愈發(fā)激烈，對更多內容的需求也越來越大，不久之后，泄露的破解版的下載鏈接開始被分享到各地。

We understand you’re excited about the game - we are too, and we’re anxious to share it with you properly! But there’s a reason why we haven’t yet launched Victoria 3 in open beta, Early Access, or similar. Yes, the game is technically in a playable state, but its current lack of balance and level of polish obscures many aspects of the mechanics and how they interrelate. Some interfaces are tedious or just not fun to engage with yet. It lacks a lot of crucial AI work, contains game-breaking bugs, and has only the most rudimentary tutorial and player guidance. Especially in an interconnected game like Victoria, just a single deficiency like that can have a negative domino effect on the whole experience of playing the game.

我們知道您對這款游戲感到很興奮 ——?我們也一樣， 而且我們更渴望正確的分享它！但是，我們并沒有以公開測試版，搶先體驗版或類似的方式發(fā)布是有原因的。是的，游戲在技術上已經達到了可玩的程度，但仍缺少平衡和打磨，掩蓋了很多機制以及它們之間的關系。其中一些交互界面也很乏味，或還只是玩起來不好玩。它缺少很多重要的AI作用，包含導致游戲崩潰的bug，而且只有最基本的教程和玩家指引。尤其是像維多利亞這樣的相互關聯(lián)的游戲中，一個小小的不足就會對整個游戲產生負面的多米諾骨牌效應。

We can explain at length in dev diaries how our mechanics work and what our intentions with them are, but once you get a feel for how the game mechanics work in action, all those words lose their meaning. So when something isn’t fully realized in the game yet, you’re going to come away with an inaccurate impression of what we intend it to be. That’s not good for either of us, and it greatly damages our ability to have an open dialogue with you. If what you want is less interaction between developers and community and a more closely guarded development for future Paradox projects, then leaks like this are the single best way to try and make that happen.

我們可以在開發(fā)日志中詳細介紹我們的機制是如何運作的，以及我們對它們的設想是怎么樣的。但是一旦你們在實際中了解了游戲機制是如何運作的，這些話語都將失去了它們的意義。所以當游戲中的某些內容尚未完全實現時，你們會對我們的設想產生不準確的印象，這對我們雙方都是不利的，而且極大的傷害了我們和你們進行公開對話的能力。如果你想要的就是減少開發(fā)者和社區(qū)的互動，以及我們對Paradox未來項目的更嚴密保護，那么像這樣的泄露就是實現這個目的的唯一、最佳方式。

We have (of course) read many of the posts community members have made since playing the leak, both positive and negative ones. Fact is, no matter how in-depth or insightful, none of them identify anything that’s new or surprising to us. Many of the concerns raised were already scheduled to be addressed in the development plan up to release. Even the most positive posts about how fun and engaging the game is even in an unbalanced, unpolished state are tainted with the knowledge that this first impression is still a let-down compared to what it ought to have been. For this reason, none of the feedback we’ve gotten as a result of the leak is really actionable or of any real use to us. It has mainly served as a hit to the team’s morale and a distraction from finishing the game, and in fact made it harder for us to act on your feedback, tainted as it is now by all the factors mentioned above.

我們（當然）閱讀了很多社區(qū)成員在玩過泄露版本后發(fā)表的帖子，包括正面的和負面的。事實上，無論多么深入或是有見地的，他們都沒有提出任何對我們來說是新的或是讓我們驚訝的東西，很多提出的關心的問題我們已經打算在發(fā)布的開發(fā)計劃中著手處理了。即使是最正面的，討論即使在不平衡、未經雕琢下關于游戲樂趣和參與度的討論中也被玷污了認知，第一印象仍然比我們期望的要低很多。出于這個原因，我們沒有從泄露的結果中獲得任何對我們來說是可操作的或有任何實際用途的反饋。它最主要的作用是打擊了團隊的士氣，分散了完成游戲的注意力，而且實際上這讓我們更難對你們的反饋做出行動，因為受到了上面提到所有因素的影響。

Once the game has reached a state where we could really benefit from and respond to your feedback, we’ll be eager to be able to properly show it to you. Paradox has always maintained a quite open development process, and in the Victoria dev team we intend to double down on that responsiveness to community input because we think that’s what’s best for the game. But for that communication and trust to work, you have to also trust that if we’re not showing you something yet it’s because it really isn’t ready to be shown.

一旦游戲達到了我們可以真正從你們的反饋中有所收獲的狀態(tài)，我們會渴望的向你們正確的展示它。Paradox一直保持相對開放的開發(fā)流程，且在維多利亞開發(fā)團隊中，我們希望能夠雙倍的增加對社區(qū)意見的回應，因為我們認為這樣對游戲最好。但要讓這種溝通和信任發(fā)揮作用，你們需要相信，如果我們還沒有向你們展示一些內容，那是因為它真的還沒有做好展示的準備。

Before the leak, we were already looking forward to streaming the game in the near future, and to focus more on showing off in the game in motion, and we’re of course still planning to do this! We understand your curiosity and how excited you are for the game and what has happened isn’t going to change our focus on delivering a great game at release. However, while doing so, we can’t help feeling disappointed and demoralized by how all of this went down.

在泄露之前，我們已經期待在不久之后可以直播游戲，且更多的關注游戲的動態(tài)展示，當然我們仍然計劃這樣做！我們理解你們對游戲有多么好奇以及多么激動，而且已經發(fā)生的事情不會改變我們專注在制作好游戲后再發(fā)布。然而這樣做的同時，我們還是不禁感到失望和因這一切的失敗而消沉。

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