Seriously I’ll do it for a ticket to and back from Sweden and the opportunity to see GHOST.
I gave you like six months to sort your game out, it’s still screwing player over. This isn’t good for you, for your job prospects at the company, or the shareholders if they intended to stay beyond the next quarter.
You need someone in the room who will actually care about the game, and clearly you’re demoralised to the warp, I’m offering to be that person, I’m desperate for the game to be good.
What do we need to do for you to get this? How do we help you help us? Talk tto us, PLEASE.
Seems to be a zeitgeist of commenting here and on reddit about the state of the game, likely spurred by the rotation of the cash shop and the “even worse” deal the bundles are:
Maybe I’m working myself up for nothing… but I have some serious concerns at the moment about this game’s future prospects.
Some points for consideration:
We know FS is working on console, but with no release date. The suspicion is that they are contractually obligated by MS to release the xbox version.
Dartkide has more on-going server costs for hosting games compared to Vermintiide (which was peer-to-peer).
The game has lost a substantial portion of its player base and is generally pulling the same “or worse” numbers of daily players than Veminitide 2.
Vermintide has more impactful new content released since Darktide’s launch than Darktide has - nevermind the fact that Darktide had even less content than VT2 did on launch.
“Regular Comm-Links” have ceased to occur with no defined schedule provided for when the community will be updated.
No movement on major community pain-points like crafting, RNG, mission selection. They continue to say “we’re discussing internally” which is a copout answer. Last comm-link said there might be something down the road which will be the “start of a journey” … whatever the F that means.
Cosmetics are back on rotation, which FS said would happen when the game was in acceptable state in their mind (see point #6 - they don’t plan on improving these pain points).
Speaking of MTXs - the last two have provided consecutively worse deals for the aquillas, which reeks of trying to stretch out the content you have left to reveal and/or squeezing people for more money.
What about those one new character classes per quarter? We should have 1-2 new classes by now and 3rd in a couple of months. There hasn’t been a single darn word from FS about this and other failed promises (solo mode, etc.).
My prediction?
I think Fathskark will release the console version (maybe late November / early December), make some quick $$$ from that, and then let the game limp along until server costs are no longer justified and then shut this all down. It’s happened to other games, and it can easily happen here.
So there is no new map tile set being worked on. No new classes/sub-classes being developed. The leaked cosmetics is all there is and will be. Forget about your meltagun or fighting genestealers in a greenhouse. Heaven help you if you think you’ll ever be let out of the casino-RNG hell that Fatshark called their “Progression & Crafting System.” What we have is, by and large, all we’re going get. And maybe even that for only another year.
Now announcing our exciting new seasonal content! Every 12 weeks we’ll be releasing one new modified modifier! Ever wanted to play high low intensity? Now you can! Stop the heretic threat on exciting new modifiers like the above or “Oops, all poxhounds!” and after the community has successfully completed 5 million missions on these modifiers* and 3 modifier releases, we’ll be starting the new exciting journey to upgrade Hadron’s equipment! If you also find 6 miscellaneous mechanisms on the maps with the aforementioned modifiers you’ll help progress the community goal of completing another 3.72 million missions with all 6 parts!** After season 1 you’ll have unlocked the ability to upgrade a weapon’s base stats by 3%!*** Further exciting developments like the possibility of removing the lock on one weapon or curio per season might also lie in wait**** if you complete the third community mystery goal! Please look forward to it.
*Modifiers will be added into the regular rotation and are not guaranteed to appear.
**Progress will not be counted until the initial 5 million mission goal is met. All 6 parts must be found in a single mission to count.
***One stat only. Stat is chosen at random and cannot exceed 80%.
****You may purchase one additional unlock per season with 2500 Aquilas.
If you were there I doubt you could make a difference no matter how hard you yelled, Fatshark uses a flat management style like Valve.
Flat management f*cking blows when it’s scaled into the hundreds of employees, and until Fatshark unf-ck their management style they are doomed to be painfully slow and un-nimble with poor responsiveness.
It’s funny, because low hierarchies and flat management were always hailed as the answer to everything for a while in the 2000’s and early 2010’s. Plenty of magazines were filled with advice and articles for professionals to go flat and to give employees more leeway.
Turns out - That only really works for companies with single digit employee numbers.
The moment you become a Mega Corp or something close to it (fielding a +100 strong force of manpower qualifies in my book), you do need tight hierarchies and clear goals to move projects and revenue forward.
