A Question for the DEVS ( please read)

[AEROBLITZRacing]

Community manager please do not lock this thread.

Hey Fatshark I hope you are all enjoying your holiday season because when you come back to the office you will have a mountain of work to do to fix this game and to earn OUR trust back because with this one release you have single handedly ruined your companies future release and ANY creditability that follows with it is out the window. At 49% Steam rating now you are literally relying on the fact that this is a 40k license game and people are literally only playing it because of the cult following 40k has and because there isnt any good 40k games out right now.

My question to you Devs is this.

Are you actually happy with the direction this game went? With the extreme RNG and timegating. The heavily RNG crafting system that you had to pull from the game last minute and completely rework it to avoid even more backlash, the cash shop with FOMO psychological manipulation of buy now or forever make your peace. I understand that You are only paid a salary and a bonus, the rest of the money made goes to your overlords. Your overlords are the ones who imposed extreme anti consumer mandates on you and you delivered a game with amazing core gameplay but your overlords ruined it with their greed. Your entire game reeks of GREED.

Please make no mistake. I am not shifting Blame on your overlords. They themselves are merely lizard people and it is in their nature to be greedy. There greed is their nourishment and to deny them of that is inhuman. I also want to make it absolute and clear that I am still pointing my FINGER at YOU (Fatshark). You as a developer still have a obligation to stand up for your fan base. WE love your games and even with 40k darktide we can tell you put in so much effort into making the core gameplay amazing. its literally one of the BEST zombie shooters I’ve played in my life in terms of game play. But you failed us by giving into your overlords demands.

So what should you have done? Well its very simple. You should have propose a way to make clear you will not compromise your moral integrity to impose their monetization and anti consumer mandates on your customers us, but provide a way to still maximize profits in a moral way so that you do not hurt the future of your company.

That is all. Happy new year.

[Mike_Rotch]

As an alternate universe Chubby Eel employee, I can tell you we don’t feel anything bad is happening and are happy with the release and player engagement(statistically speaking at least), and it’s reasonable that during holiday season player count would keep dropping, because people are with their families.

We have managed to deliver the product in time for the end of the year bon----for the players to enjoy around the holiday season and have big plans moving forward! Big major patch (TBD, January-Match~ish?) will introduce a whopping dozen of small percentage changes on weapons and class abilities, around twenty new and improved bugs, five new weapon blessings, such as “increase weapon damage by 3% for 1.5 seconds after chain panicky weapon switch” “deal 2.35 screeching dmg on close special unarmored kill within 6.18 meters” or “recover 0.1% corruption health on heavy chained critical hit to the groin” and we will introduce a new map condition :
freezing sandstorm!

"freezing gales have invaded Prima, reducing visibility as well as slowing down players, making the ground slippery and increasing disabler type special enemies spawn rate and maximum amount by 100% See you in the snow, regrets!

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