They don’t care about updates and don’t communicate.
They don’t care about anything, not even “Money” anymore.
Complete neglection for this Game and Community.
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Everything got delayed as of last week dude. The review bombing by this very toxic and negative social media part of the community has changed some priorities to stop the overwhelming meh corporate evil theme and 20 threads to say the same thing because we are all special snowflakes syndrome that is happening. They started a Survey this week and a community message is due next week ish. Now queue the rash of haters and trolls who will call me a white knight for telling the community to calm down.
(tl:dr Fatshark shat the bed and are working on fixing it but need to get a gameplan and ‘community’ is so impatient that it’s beyond mere toxic.)
(Edit: apparent the snowflakes got hurt with me saying above, wow. How sensitive to take that personally when not even interacted with.)
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Tbh its a better PR move to not update the cash shop. It’s like the least they could do as a show of faith that this whole game isn’t just a cynical mobile gatcha market.
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If you could provide some evidence to back up that claim, I’d appreciate it.
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Check out the steam reviews, a majority of the negative reviews and complaints are from the VT2 crowd basically complaining (sometime justified sometime not.) that it is worse than VT2 in some feature or that it has a cash shop. Yet a good amount of them have over 100 hours at time of review. And we have what 20 threads of one troll doing woo it’s stats dropped again every few percents. Then the Reddit community literally has a daily poster doing strawman arguments trying to compare peak work hours attendance against other games and be like “see it’s dead.” Those are only a couple examples. Until very recently if you so much as complimented a feature that was good or asked a question on the reddit that didn’t say the game was bad you would get downvoted into oblivion by them. The Facebook community still daily asks if it is dead then does some vaguely hey this game is horrid post go play L4D2 or VT2 post every few days. We have a very large vocal toxic core in this community. It drowns the legit complaints and those who are doing things in good faith. Also makes finding real info from various sources hard. Literally missed the new CM talking about timelines for a bit because it was buried in the numerous hate threads that offer no substance.
Edit: since someone is still being hurt because they can’t take criticism. The thread and several of my posts are locked until a staff member looks at them. This is literally what I talked about toxic. We have community members falsely reporting stuff because they don’t agree.
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I don’t agree with either of your posts, this is not the fault of the community
I actually was hoping they would update the cash shop today so I would at least know they are still alive. Should we call the police to do a welfare check?
all they would have to do for me to personally to be satisfied with Darktide is to release the rest of the crafting. they said by end of December, we’ll here we are mid-January and NOT A PEEP! No communication at all about anything, not even about the rest of the crafting (much less any other updates/bug-fixes/etc.
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The most unethical and malicious business practice of all, nothing new to buy!
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The game in a bad state is not the community fault. The vitriol, the excessive special snowflakeing, and thread bombing for likes and votes is the community’s fault.
You can call legitimate critique and truth “review bombing” all you want. Facts won’t change. Simp harder.
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I said there was legit gripes and I am no simp but you are the Toxic. Thanks for proving my point.
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Of course I’m toxic. I’ve been giving feedback since the closed beta among thousands of other people and FS flat out ignored everything. Even doubled down on bs and gaslit people.
At this point I’m ready to hand gasoline to anyone willing to burn everything down.
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Honest question time!
Why stick around?
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And that is the definition of being toxic. You went from legit discourse to handing gasoline and hating on anyone not as mad as you. Trying to share your outrage instead of mature responses.
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There is a good game burried in there somewhere and for lack of a better alternative I will bully them as hard as I can to make that game.
Unless the core gameplay guys split off and build their own studio. In that case I’d simply forget FS existed.
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How many people do you know who respond well to bullying rather than positive and constructive feedback?
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sub-par games usually do not improve by saying “everything is alright you are fine” - and don’t start me with this whole semantics game. I am not interested in arguing the divide between toxic and non-toxic because there is no objective measurement. People have put hours and hours of thought into highly detailed and objective feedback which has totally been ignored since beta. Just look back a couple of weeks into the detailed and well-crafted postings about UX improvements, design principles, crafting systems etc.
Now some of the same people are losing their patience but are they to blame? When they tried the well-crafted way and did not get any acknowledgment? Definition of insanity… you know the saying.
I tell you what happens if my company delivers a software product on release day that is lacking core features and functionality: I get 0 money and the announcement that I will hear from their attorneys if I don’t fix this ASAP. And you know what? They are right to do that. They are going to pay a lot of money and they are holding me to an agreed-upon standard. Try writing corporate lawyers “stop being toxic or I will not further engage with you” and see how far that gets you.
I’d advise consumers of games also to hold themselves to a certain standard. There are things that are just not OK and that need to be brought to the attention of the developers. My “job” is not to appease the goodwill of a development studio I already gave money to.
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I love your make up, did you do it yourself?
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The negative review score is well deserved, so you can go and sit in that corner right over there
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So badger I agree mostly with you for a measure reasoned response. And it is sub par. There is proper discourse like what you did and then there is the clown after you whose significant other loaned me their time to make this work since he enough of a clown that I had to respond in kind. Personal attacks, vitriol, threats, and excessive threading for attention are not methods of improving a game. They just harass and make for toxic environments.
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