Fatshark really is just run by
“How do you do fellow kids”
And their word is law, no matter what community manager says or tries to actually improve their community engagement by making it more meaningful and engaging the leadership goes no, these hip gamers have these emote things use those and only those.
Especially the case when it comes to the cosmetic store, hey the community keeps yelling at us that if we give them the tools to make our poor recycled, recoloured and kitbashed cosmetics they’ll pay us more money for the extra customisation options and freedom hell they have a mod for it if we were to make that functionality more accessible and that all players can see it. NOOOOO STICK TO THE BASIC HOW TO RUN A COSMETIC STORE IN 1 EASY STEP GUIDE BOOK NEVER LISTEN TO PEOPLE SAYING WHAT THEY WILL GIVE YOU MONEY FOR.
It’s not even new info. The emoji stuff is falling flat because FS already told us what’s coming. A better one would’ve been something like the vox comms we had before and someone firing the bolt pistol. I think the Twitter campaign was suppose to have to started before the Skulls event leading to the info drop but someone forgot.
Unfortunately for Fatshark, most of us care about the crafting instead of the level. They’re missing both what their community clearly wants and, even if we did want the level over everything else, they’re doing a terrible job of advertising it because everything they’ve posted relates to a mission description they’d already teased.
I’m not even sure why I’m responding to you, whatever you respond to this with is prpbably gonna get flagged by the community anyways. TBH I shouldn’t be surprised you’re here talking about this, both you and Fatshark’s marketing are about level when it comes to missing the point.
Yeah, that’s the problem, the customer base that pays their bills and uses their product is telling them one thing, while they’re intent on ignoring that feedback.
That’s also why Darktide’s competitor titles are enjoying average play rates 10x+ that of Darktide right now.
And speaking of Deep Rock Galactic, Season 5 is AWESOME, and got me back into the game after several months of a break taken out of frustration from S4’s content. It is well-developed and objectively made the game far better with so much more to do and experiment with.
So far, Darktide has provided nothing exciting to keep me playing, nothing major other than Path of Redemption’s okay-ish new achievements and season-pass thing. I’m not excited about anything for Darktide’s future. I’m not even convinced it HAS one.
I can’t tell if Jakal is being dogmatically stubborn about this because ‘crafting complaints=stupid whiners’ or if it’s because he believes that listening to players creates a game built around the lowest common denominator.
But they even fail on this point, considering we already saw what the emojis refer to in the teaser trailer? So even for someone who does care about this mission, it’s still useless.
The pickaxe ig has some speculation but the gear and the ice cube are incredibly stupid.
I think the emoji thing would be fine (if still a bit stupid) if it was way further out. Like if it had started 4 weeks before the teaser trailer came out it would be fine. It shouldn’t be the main way to generate hype for the patch leading up to it’s release.
you guys aren’t the ones paying the bills. the console players that are only like level 12 and bough a full set of cash cosmetics you find in low-level missions are. you should play those missions from time to time and take note of who’s got paid cosmetics.
It would be less tone deaf, but it’d still be a pretty useless approach to exciting the community. It’s too vague. Especially with FS’s record there’s no scenario where they can get away with something this ambiguous. People are beyond fed up and want some clear indications of what their plans are to fix the game’s glaring problems. Even if they had plans to address them, trying to excite people using emojis is still a horrible idea. You let your work do the hyping for you, just make sure it’s good work.
They were awarded with an ancient and highly venerated handheld vox machine as a reward. Unfortunately, they accidentally entered the E̶m̶o̶j̶i̶ arcane cipher mode and have no idea how to set it back since the sacred ritual book for it was lost long ago. So now Wyrmwood can only communicate in pictographs.
