I got an email today:
The title of the email was:
“Darktide’s first content drop is live!”
there were a few lines of text and then it began listing the features of the aleged content drop, and the first “feature” was this:
- Expanded Crafting System: Refine Item
I dont think Im wrong here to say that this is, a what the hell moment.
Apparently adding promised launch-day features is “content” this has to be some sort of perverse joke.
Is this some transparent attempt to blind us from the fact that we got 4 classes and far less functional systems then darktide? are they intentionally staggering the release of launch-day promised systems to satiate the masses and draw out “content” so that it obscures the fact that remarkably little was released at launch, and barely any actual “content” has been added to the game, and that the most expansive and complete added “content” was the cash shop?
Maybe its an attempt to distract people from the fact that we were promised customisable weapons and that pre-launch footage and advertisement images clearly demonstrated that weapons were meant to be physically customisable e.g replacable sights and attachments… and now when this is brought up reps are pretending it never happened like they are trying to pull some jedi mind-trick on us…
I wouldnt put it past them at this point to string us along for a month or two before they actually release the entire launch-day promised crafting system, so that they can feature every part of this gradually released “core system” as individual pieces of content.
Bug fixes to fix a broken game, and releasing day 1 promised features is not content, in any way shape or form.
Im genuinely suprised, dismayed and disappointed.
And back to that original point… at this moment all I can say is…
What the hell…