I knew this was gonna happen, holiday season is important to Europe company (as far as I understand). And based on history of VT2, they didn’t keep promise about VT2 roadmap, update classes that they didn’t patch in BBB. I didn’t think they can finish crafting.
But even then, I don’t think developers should work on holidays. Family matters. I wish they have good holiday vacation.
More like they fell into a crevasse right in front of the mountain and now need to climb just to get back to ground level.
Of course, it goes without saying, however I wish they didn’t release the game then. What did management think when they pushed for an unrealistic holiday release window when the game isn’t ready. Darktide still is filled with technical issues, missing essential features, and the game doesn’t even work for some users due to crashing. Management could have saved so much face for the company by pushing for another delay, then focusing on giving people an adequate gaming experience first. A satisfied customer is more likely to buy your future products if they were left with a positive impression from your prior product. Where else an unsatisfied user is not going to buy your future products and is probably going to warn others.
Speaking of which. The steam score is at 61%:
Once people get wise and realize Fatshark is not a third world company but based in Sweden where there’s laws and regulations regarding over time during holidays. The score will probably further decrease.
same, having fun here 
People can have fun and hate some of the systems in a game at the same time.
Investment (from Tencent), lack of money to hire QAs (or save budget), and misleading thought 1 month early accessing bug fix is enough. (I bet they did crunch work for this.) For revenue of this year to pay their workers.
Agreed. It would be better that they release this game next year. At least with 2 months bug fix beta for us.
Because this is my first Fatshark purchase.
I knew nothing of the company. I bought what I thought (based on their marketing) was going to be an immersive 40k action game with deep character customization and a compelling story written by Dan Abnett.
Jokes on me, I guess.
you paid money so you want your money worth? buy a dog dont buy games. there are games 1 year old out still bugy. hell even 10 years old games have them. you have internet do some research. “but we got promised” yea when i was small my mom put me in bed and told me she will be back and i fell asleep and she was waching tv. there are so many ppl with delusions. 
" the community is up in arms" im not,do you think bethesda learned from all the elder scrolls they made and new one will be bugless? (elder scrolls 2 is game with most bugs ever you could not even finish game how bad it was) im just going to wait for Fs to do their thing and make game better ( not best ever just better) over years like before.
It’s also remiss of Fatshark as a company to release an unfinished product before Christmas to maximize sales. Don’t worry, people who aren’t mad by this are “Coming Soon”
CGF this is weak lol…
No one cares. It’s the holiday season. Have some empathy.
Have some empathy lol
I could write some real hardcore snarky comment to this and harvest the hearts as fatshark harvested our money by lying to us.
But I wont, so I say to you this
I have the UTMOST empathy to players like me who were f*cking LIED TO MULTIPLE TIMES during the development INCLUDING after launch.
I have the UTMOST empathy to players asking on discord why is there no crafting, and community manager Hedge patronizing them with answers “its not lore accurate”
(while we are sitting on a fcking hive city PRODUCING A METRIC FCKTON of MILITARY equipment, THE ARMOR ON THE TANKS is better because of the harder ORE native to Atoma - even the couple meagre lines in the game SAY THIS)
I have the UTMOST empathy for the players who saw AND read DEV posts about weapon modifications
and looked forward to fiddling around with the lasguns bat packs, lenses, scopes, focuses… or chainsword teeth, motors, fuel … JUST TO make the perfect build they want to play.
ONLY to be ONCE AGAIN met with patronizing COMMUNITY MANAGER HEDGE f*ck you answer “this isnt COD”
I have the UTMOST empathy for the players who when they saw that DAN f*CKIGN ABNETT is working on the story got HYPED because he wrote one of THE best books series warhammer ever got.
ONLY to be met by a “story” which is … well I would be banned forever if I wrote what I think of it, but the least insulting thing I can say (which is still 100% objective) - there is NO story period.
I have the UTMOST empathy for the players who were looking forward class and character customisation… only to be met by 11 - ELEVEN! LESS CLASSES THAT WERE IN VERMINTIDE 2 ON LAUNCH. AND even tho those classes in V2 shared 2 rows of talents between them, THEY have THEIR OWN ULTIMATES - class passives - and talents.
Not to mention ultimates that are VISIBLE when used
I have the UTMOST empathy for the players looking for those 70+ weapons on launch, only to be met with … well what we got.
I have the UTMOST empathy for the players coming from V2 , who were hoping they get same premium skin system as was in V2. Where you can get cosmetic coins FOR PLAYNG THE GAME, AND YOU CAN BUY the individual items DIRECTLY.
ONLY to be met by DAY F*CKING ONE FOMO skins, which are SUPERIOR TO ANYTHING you get by playing. ON TOP of currency bundles that make you overspend.
I dont care this was removed later, they KNEW EXACTLY what they were doing!
I have … the UTMOST empathy for the players who were singing gospel of V2 to their friends (and in my case family too). Who played V2 with them seeing them enjoy it.
And I have the UTMOST empathy for the players who were saying to those same friends how Darktide WILL BE THE BEST coop L4D style game ever made, that FS needs to just copy paste V2 into 40K and its insta success.
Iam all of these above. YOu dont have to trust me, you dont know me. But this disapointment Darktide brought is the same as Anthem.
Darktide CAN still rise from the ashes of its own pyre, but my EMPATHY for fatshark is NON-EXISTENT until it does so.
how about having empathy for the hundreds of thousands costumers you ripped off… oh, sorry, thats simply too much. not saying they should work over the holidays, but they should have never released the game in the state it is in, especially right before holidays. fatshark’s amateurish attitude is disgusting.
Fatshark should have showed empathy towards us when they released a half finished game with bonkers systems that don’t respect us.
An update coming this week or early January won’t kill anyone and won’t cost us player much.
But would make it so that the Dev have to work on Christmas.
It’s just a game, chill
Why is EVERY SINGLE POST defending with “its christmas lol” ABSOLUTELY ignoring the fact - that Fatshark employs humans WHO KNOW what a calendar is.
And in Sweden 24.12. is the SAME 24.12. as in US or East Europe.
THEY KNEW the state of the game
THEY KNEW the missing features
THEY KNEW they were lying
And we are just supposed to sit down and be like “yes sure enjoy holidays no biggie”
If somebody said to you that he’s excited to give you the rest of the money he owes you by the end of the month… You would be surprised if he only gave you a quarter of it, yes? “The rest” does not mean “some of the rest”.
We’re not getting hung up on wording. You are trying to twist the common understanding of what words mean to fit your view.
My ass it does.
The simping white knights are grasping at straws again.
What did you expect?
Yes
This is accurate. Put down the game for a bit if it’s annoying you too much. We’re all frustrated but they’re not gonna suddenly return from holidays because people are screeching on the forums. Similarly no point making even more comments that they shouldn’t have released close to Christmas, it’s been said plenty, at this point give useful feedback to be looked at when they’re back in office or just log off and do something else for a while.
Which by itself won’t be that awful if those classes were actually unique or presented something new that’s different from Vermintide 2’s classes. Instead, some of them are too similar to pre-existing classes, almost uninspired in a way. The only class in which I see as ‘new’ to 'tide is the Veteran class - no doubt considering it has the most effort put into. The whole thing reeks of incompetency and laziness.