Today we learned a blog post with 2 and a half weeks of lead time is apparently too difficult to put out without crunch.
Look. Fatshark gets sh*t on because they don’t communicate AND they don’t produce. They just sit there and do nothing for months at a time.
No Man’s Sky? From what I heard, they allowed refunds and actually got to work building the game up to what was promised. Fatshark took a year to implement a feature promised at launch and STILL hasn’t delivered on large chunks of the game, all the while refusing to tell people what their plans are and apparently being incapable of writing two paragraphs.
People are pissed off at the devs because they’re not seeing any indication of progress or actual work being done, from a company with a couple hundred employees. People don’t ask for crunch, but they do ask that the company deliver on its promises, and part of what was promised to people was a live service.
Yup, I’m content that FS is content letting this game become what it is.
I did log on after a few months to see I am limited to 3 missions at diff 5, unless I choose Auric, which just (again) limits the options I have to choose from. I immediately closed the game after looking at mission selection.
The lack of communication and obvious disconnect from what the forums/fans/supporters are asking is just more reason for me to shelf this game, lower expectations and most importantly, put away my wallet.
So the karnak twins update was just a dream and the one before that one? And the update we’re waiting on now. You’re saying the do absolutely nothing for months, while you’re literally staring at a post saying we’re about to get another major-ish update. You think they were just chilling for entire 2 months and put that thing that we’re about to get in 2 weeks?
Im not saying its going to be amazing or anything, im saying how about we wait and see what they’ve been working on instead of screaming insults at them before we get to actually see the thing.
every game is allowed refunds, and it didnt take 2 hours of play to see the state darktide is in. And what is fatshark doing now if not building the game up? So far they did put out updates and showed no hint or word whatsoever that they are abandoning the game.
Also everyone here seem to forget that you all LOVE darktide playing for hundreds and sometimes thousands of hours, if you didnt enjoy it then why tf are you still here? get tf out and play something better, there certainly are plenty of options. The oh so evil fatshark gave you a LUXURY OPTIONAL PASTTIME video game that you do not have to play at all. And you berate them every chance you get for not giving you more.
Again im not saying not to criticize, im saying stop acting like a bunch of spoiled brats.
Also, if they didnt listen to you asking nicely, do you actually think throwing insults at them is going to make them listen?
Go play something else, enjoy yourself and wait patiently for the next update maybe drop a forum post what you’d like to see in the game in the future and what you’d like to disappear (LOCKS), join the crafting post gang could always add more to that. And if you cant do that then you obviously are so infatuated with darktide that every other game seems sh*t. so fatshark clearly did an amazing job. (i think they didnt, thats why i havent played for 3 months and are waiting patiently for more updates)
You’re not wrong. And when I first got to the Forums I was the same way. A stalwart defender of all things FS.
The longer I saw how long FS actually takes, while releasing unfished products might change your perspective. FS is consistently behind their own timetables, and when they do end up releasing content its riddled with unfinished blemishes which takes months for them to catch up.
Thats exactly why we are here. We love the game and we see the unbelieveable potential FS can offer to grow the fan base. We are supporters and critics at the same time, its only fair.
Well if you dont like our posting, the forums, or how we feel, then go post somewhere else. You see the madness?
You have to admit, it’s really, really not a good look that when the community is, rightfully or not, clamoring for information, you miss a self set deadline for a blogpost giving out information…
As far as the community being “toxic?” I think they’ve brought a decent amount of it onto themselves. If there’s nothing to talk about but the bad, well people are going to talk about it.
If we were getting more consistent balance patches or weapon drops I would love to be talking about those. But we have neither, so the only thing left to talk about is the stupid screenshot they posted.
Oh, I’m sorry, I forgot that the twins dropped in early March. Oh, wait, no, it dropped in December, and April is just around the corner, and there’s been nothing of substance done since that December.
No, the impression of them doing nothing is something borne out of statements like ‘it’s only been a month and a half since we got back from vacation, totally not enough time to tell you what we’re working on’. It’s borne out of how they say nothing at all and fail to even write a few paragraphs about their future plans. It’s borne out in how bugs that are literally ‘change one value in this single line of code’ are still around.
And until Fatshark gets it’s act together and starts producing stuff like the live service this game is supposed to be, like other studios can do easily…yeah, I think I’m going to continue calling them dysfunctional.
If FS wants to change that? It has plenty of options. The forum mood 180’d to positivity for a week or two once they announced they were looking at updates. Keeping that momentum going and backing it up with content would’ve kept positivity happening. But the mood of the forum is shaped by whatever the latest announcement is, and this latest announcement is essentially ‘we couldn’t be bothered to do something in two weeks time, have a screenshot so you stop filling the forum with wondering if the game is dead’.
But keep on simping for the multimillion dollar corporation and acting like ‘hey maybe you should update like a live service like you advertised the game as’ is somehow the height of entitlement, just like every other white knight. I’ll be having my fun with Helldivers 2 and waiting for Fatshark to finally unveil whatever secrets they have, while probably adding in bugs from launch with their new update.
I never said fatshark is some saint, or that they’re a good developer, or that i like them. Take a good long look at the things i said.
I’ve a very very few devs that i actually like and fatshark is nowhere close to being one of them.
The only thing im saying is that people should stop clogging the damn forum with insults. When i stalk this forum half if not most of the posts i see is some pointless insult throwing instead of some actually useful talk like the good’ol gigantic crafting post.
And I’m saying there’s a reason for that, and something FS unintentionally seems to cultivate. Yes it’s not something that should be done, but when people are upset they “catharsis post.”
Sound familiar?
But yes if the development pace or process or whatever you call it wasn’t so frustrating the amount of people being so rude would be drastically reduced (not gone because it’s the internet).
Why the heck is it that whenever someone whines about the forum being ‘toxic’ their complaints boil down to ‘I’m not seeing the things I want to see on the forum’?
The ‘insults’ stop once Fatshark gets it’s act together. This is a remarkably forgiving community.
guy, communication is not hard to do.
They don’t communicate. Tell what they plan for DT? for the other games I played in past, I had an idea of what was planned. Here, I just get the information the day the patch comes.
Here I agree and I suspect this is the reason why they communicate less.
But, let’s be honest… their way to manage the game is not looking right.
Well, I return to Helldivers… I really like the game, especially cause it doesn’t last 30 minutes each time I launch a game.
Theres a difference between telling people to behave and telling people just how absolutely worthless they are.
i’d say my catharsis is more healthy, im not hurting anyone, im just trying to calm everyone down.
not my fault that everyone here is so absolutely volatile that i can get my satisfaction from it.
And I even said in my post that it shouldn’t be done. My point is that the “toxic” community comes from people being upset or frustrated at FS. And if FS handled stuff a bit better than it wouldn’t be nearly as prevalent.
Even though i played for 1000+ hours, Fatshark didn’t do anything to earn my support.
And if you look at the type of threads that get created in General discussion, it’s almost always a variation on “i am deeply disappointed”.
But at least they do get created right now. When there’s not gonna be any new ones - that’s when you should be worried.
Yeah. All the people who felt otherwise have said their piece or quit the game outright. Personally I like Fatshark because when they’re at their best they make very mechanically deep co-op games unlike anyone else and their art / sound department tend to produce real high quality stuff. I’d rather they succeed so I can keep playing those kinds of games but at the same time I’m not a captive audience. There’s enough other hobbies on the planet to occupy a lifetime.
