Depending on where you live, you may still have avenues for restitution. Worth looking at.
Unless you’re in the US… that place has no protections
I live in the US. I never would have bought this game if I knew they’d go back on their promise to add solo mode. They’re deceivers, and frauds.
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There is one way we can make it happen…
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If they have then they need to be put in the spotlight. Complete scorch of their image; they shouldn’t be allowed to lie to our faces and get away with it. We’ve slammed shitty devs for such behaviour before; Fatshark shouldn’t be excluded because they’re “smaller.”
Liars should be exposed; and if they lied to us, they deserve any misfortune coming.
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The Swedish Consumer Agency might like to hear about this bait and switch as well.
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While I would caution y’all against expecting this to go anywhere (courts are bullsh*t) by all means make the attempt. If you actually start involving courts or consumer agencies it’s further evidence for the Book.
And if it somehow works I can point and laugh at the devs for trying to be scummy and getting smacked by the law.
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The developers must take accountability for their lies.
I wish you luck.
well you really shouldnt do that.
its been what two and a half years? it was apparently close so close a CM made the mistake of talking about it. as to what derailed it they never said.
my guess is they dont want to provide servers for solo players, and the plan was to ship some sort of server lite architecture to players to self host solo games. and that just couldnt be done in the end, or more likely not without too much security risk.
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I don’t buy that as it is perfectly doable with mods - just not with progression mechanics.
They could if they wanted and that they don’t is just their decision to not give a f..k about their promises and recurring wish of part of the player base.
As a Swede myself, I have to clarify that this is not America.
You cannot drag people to court because they look at you funny when crossing the street here, and even America-based game companies where some outspoken community member has previously discussed lawsuits, nothing has come of it because that is not how the law works, and the truth is that large corporations, not private individuals, wield power.
You can, however, make an inquiry with ‘Konsumentverket’, which should have been done earlier in the game’s lifecycle because you and I and most of the people on this forum have 100s to 1000s of hours played.
You should have refunded as soon as you realized there was no solo mode and waited to repurchase once it was added.
Use the tools at your disposal to voice your gripes; contact Fatshark’s community management, write on Reddit and post reviews on Steam.
If you dislike the way Fatshark handles things; stop buying their products, stop following them, stop interacting with their communities and write a negative review.
I’m not saying you’re wrong in your feelings about unfulfilled promises or Fatshark as a company, but you’re approaching it in the wrong way.
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So you bought a coop game, so you can play alone? Well. Okay.
I mean, FS lied, who would have thought. But buying something explicitly advertised as coop and being surprised that it is a coop game is something else.
I did. They wouldn’t refund it because I played in order to prepare the other classes to act as my bots.