Yeah… this is one of those prickly situations that ‘would have been better not to get here but now we are here might as well continue’ that is patently FS.
It’s also the same reason a curated Q&A is a good idea imo, because they get to let slip as little as they want while appearing to satisfy the community curiosity. As opposed to, for example, a live stream with cheeky devs…
I do think if they answer a few of our juiciest questions it would be a good way to promote some good-natured discussion.
Who would want to herd enough cats on this forum to produce a real community-sourced list of questions rather than a ‘nobody asked’ corporate-approved version, is another question!
Some have, not everyone. There are also people who have not been polite or understanding.
No, I’m not complaining about the complaints. The complaints are fine, it’s the people who take it too far and the people in the community who boost them.
To go with the restaurant analogy. If they get your order wrong, politely letting them know and asking for it to be fixed is the way to go. Every restaurant and server is going to try and make it right. Yelling at the server and calling them and the chef incompetent is not going to get a better resolution to the issue. At best they’ll take it on the chin and work on fixing it, but most likely they’ll fix it late, and/or it’s gonna have some extra stuff in it.
It doesn’t matter how justified people feel with their grievances. Being toxic is not going to get the issue resolved any faster, it just makes it worse for everyone.
if you go with the restaurant policy, would you say it’s justified if a restaurant stops giving out a menu because other people who aren’t you were being rude about it?
The restaurant analogy clearly doesn’t extend well here because a restaurant sells many dishes to many individuals where as FS sells 1 product to many people.
That’s the issue, no one is justifying being toxic. You can check my entire post history and if you see anything that would be considered toxic, I’ll be the first to apologize. I’ve called out the Suits at Fatshark for being out of touch money grubbing bastards who refuse to do anything for the game that doesn’t result in short term profits. But I’ve also actively defended the CMs and pointed out that they’re the messengers and are caught between said out of touch money grubbing bastards and the community.
Using the restaurant analogy. The waitstaff are CMs who deliver customer complaints to the back of house (devs and Suits), the devs are the kitchen staff who want to deliver the product that the customer ordered, and the Suits are the ones telling them to send out undercooked food and to leave off the side orders so they can get food out faster and save money on produce.
The only ones to blame are the leadership who won’t listen to their customers and staff
The game tends to cling to people who “get it” and we become hyper attached to it (I certainly do with ADHD lol) and due to this we yearn for more with a passion. It’s also why emotions can run high on the forums IMO. Always add a punch of salt to your restaurant goers remarks here
If people didn’t ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS GAME and desperately wanted more of it, then they wouldn’t bother visiting the forums. They would simply go play other games and not waste their breath here. BUT they do love the game and so come here, sometimes too emotionally charged…but with reason.
Many of us have a connection to DT that almost causes pain when things move in a direction we’re not happy with. Again, emotions run wild.
Many people just want this game to be exactly where it deserves. Turbo charged and fully staffed, and listening to the core players on the forums.
The combat is so good in DT that I can only assume it acts as a serious form of stress relief for many people too. Stress relief and dopamine hits = intense emotions.
We all just want it to succeed so much…and we want MOAR of it
Having a Q and A (even with preselected community questions) would help in so many ways.
Are there any plans for a cosmetic release with a feminine model, or an update to the same effect?
I don’t mean to come off any kind of way - I’m certainly not asking for an OG Repentia set, but it’s somewhat off-putting to have featureless tight leather jerkins or random clutter hanging over the chest of the paid cosmetics if you’re playing a femme character. It also just feels kind of lazy for a paid cosmetic, being honest.
The fact that I got my DT refund over a year ago and I’m still here fighting for Solo Mode and other promised features proves your point exactly. If I didn’t care, I’d have gotten my refund, left a negative review, and shoved DT and Fatshark into the “never touch” box in my brain.
Instead, I got my refund, left my negative review, and shoved DT and Fatshark into the “could make a comeback” box in my brain. Fatshark has the potential to win me back as a customer, but the way they’re handling things has been slowly eroding that potential.
Let’s submit our questions… Mine is simple and not made to make them uncomfortable…
When will we get a solo game mode? I am happy that they created Havoc for people that want extreme games and mortis trial for the ones that want a darktide “arcade version”.
Now, can we have a solo game mode?
I don’t know what you said here but clearly enough people thought it was toxic enough to get reported by enough people. I’m not gonna bother going through your history. I’m sure anything was was too toxic was said and later removed.
More generally I’m sure you’ve seen posts calling the devs incompetent, their work trash, etc. That’s what I’m talking about. And no, examples are hard to find now because they get removed, and rightly so. It’s hard to point to the truly vile toxic posts because they do get removed. Doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
When we first released Darktide almost 3 years ago, we had made a very clear promise that you would be able to play the game solo or just with friends. However, over the years the promise to allow players to play solo like we promised just didn’t matter to us anymore and we decided that anyone who wants to play Darktide Solo can go suck a big fat one because we don’t want their filthy money.
FTFY
Which got flagged as “spam” and not for toxicity or harrassment
