It’s that time of year again, folks! We’re officially at 3 years since Solo Mode was revealed to be “Coming Soon to a Darktide Near You!” That’s 36 months, or 156 Weeks, or 1,095 Days! Gosh. How time flies… I’m sure some of you are asking yourself, “But Darktide doesn’t have a solo mode, right?” and to you I say “Very astute observation!”
Despite being told that we’d be receiving solo mode by December 2022 (or shortly thereafter) we still do not have Solo mode implemented into Darktide. In fact, Fatshark refuses to acknowledge that Solo Mode was even planned! Isn’t that just amazing customer service? Telling paying customers that they’re going to receive something and then refusing to tell them why they still haven’t received it in 3 years? The last piece of information we officially received was that solo mode was “not a priority”, but that was in October 2023! Over two years ago! I’d ask if you could believe that, but it’s Fatshark and they’re the in the running for the “Worst Communications" award.
Ultimately, I know this is a futile effort, Fatshark has shown time and time again that the players do not matter, only the player’s wallets, and that they’d be more than willing to sacrifice their players to the Chaos Gods if it meant they could save $0.01 on development costs. Well, I should say Fatshark Leadership has that mindset anyway. I do believe the actual developers want to make a fun game out of passion, but Fatshark’s corporate suits only want the money even at the player’s expense.
Moving on from that weird tangent, it’s clear to me that unless something fundamentally changes with how the players interact with Fatshark, nothing will change for the better. Solo Mode is my promised feature that was left to rot in a dark warehouse marked with an “Under No Circumstances Are We To Address These Issues” sign, but there are many other promised features that Fatshark has pretended they never made and refuse to acknowledge. There’s an entire Book of Grudges filled with issues and the most engagement from Fatshark Enployees we see in there is when the text limit needs increased because the post is too long. What does that tell you?
I’m not giving up on Solo Mode and you shouldn’t give up on what you wish to fight for either. We eventually had the locks broken, we can improve this game by fighting for what we want. Stop letting Fatshark get away with this heresy! As a company, they serve us, not the other way around. They can’t exist without our support, and it’s long past the time they remembered that.
