Hello football fans, you can see it on the new roadmap: There will changes regarding the further development direction for the rest of this year as well as for 2023.
The absolute priority for us is that the game is performant, stable and fun to play with the content already available at the start of the Early Access phase. This premise was also responsible for the release delay. Our main focus was sending an entertaining as well as functional game onto the competitive pitch. The three weeks of additional development time have helped GOAL! in every possible way. It is more polished, it is more stable, and it is even more fun to play. However, the three weeks spent on improving and bugfixing are now missing in the schedule to add more features and content. Also, with the launch into Early Access, we are expecting a huge amount of player feedback. In turn, we have to channel, filter and sort this before we start working on requests, bug fixes and further balancing or optimization issues. As a result, we are running out of time for the content and feature additions we had planned for this year. When we add a new feature, we want it to fit seamlessly and not feel like a hastily tacked on appendix. It should work as smoothly and bug-free as possible. That's why we've decided to dedicate the post-launch phase of Early Access almost entirely to community feedback as well as optimizations, balancing and bug-fixing of the existing content. In the background, the feature additions are already being prepared, but we don't want to rush anything, yet release everything as quickly as possible, but also as well-functioning as possible. We'd rather take a little longer to develop, but with a decent result. We will keep you informed about the progress in the next weeks and months and wish you a lot of fun with GOAL! The Club Manager. The teams of 2tainment and Toplitz Productions