You like money right? The cash cows will come so bring solo offline play

Still waiting for an answer regarding new Hive Scum cosmetics.

as I said… [image]I cannot read, write, or speak Oh… and what is a community manager? Because I don’t understand, at all, what his role is. In other games it is a relay between players and developers… and so they speak to the players. In Fatshark’s world, it seems that it is one-way communication… players to developers, and we never get the return. and I perfectly know… [image] Ralendil: We really want an answer… And this is not against you Julia. We all know that you cannot dicuss things without the proper authorizations. So, I know the employees CANNOT speak to us unless someone releases the leash. However, Fatshark is well known to need months to write a statement that has been polished so much that you get the minimum of information. I hope… I pray… I really would like… hope… and anything you can add, to be wrong. And believe me, I add bookmarks after bookmarks and will keep posting here until we get an answer… I will post also in each patch thread opened… but I really think they don’t care AT ALL about their users. My feeling is that they are saying to me: “Continue… we don’t care. Go %#$^ off” with the finger raised…

I firmly believe that the devs, CMs, and even the CEO of Fatshark care deeply about the playerbase, but politics, as in any business, gets in the way. Take Blizzard, for example. They used to be extremely player-driven, interacting with their community, organizing meet-ups, signing game boxes, and so on, but when they got too big for their own good, all of that changed, and Blizzcon, which used to be the place where players met developers, became this overproduced Oscar’s gala slop show where the team leaders (not the average dev, but the top brass) glazed themselves like they were rockstars, something that is very similar to what the Game Awards have become as of late which was originally a award show meant for gamers, but now it’s just a marketing show where they hire expensive celebrities that has nothing to do with gaming. Unfortunately, this is the way things are nowadays. You do something very well, and everyone wants a piece of your pie and a chance to make more money while bastardizing your product and destroying every foundation you built your small company on. The days of good old ID Software, working out of their garage and producing bangers, is looooong gone. Remember when the word Ubisoft was not a slur?

[image] Jado: I firmly believe that the devs, CMs, and even the CEO of Fatshark care deeply about the playerbase, but politics, as in any business, gets in the way. I believe that employees are between the hammer and the anvil. But there is a person, or the board, that thinks that not communicating is the right stance here. This guy should be fired for the reputation he has built for the company. If it is the CEO, then he should delegate to persons that can understand how to handle business. Not communicating at all and releasing the bare minimum when forced, is really not the right answer.

Exactly. Fatshark is super weird about comms. What they can say: 2% What they can’t: 98% I’ve never seen a video game company operate like this. Hell, any company that isn’t shady shouldn’t operate like this. I work for a company that does defense contracting (among other things) for the US Government. We were one of the companies being selected to build the next lunar lander. NDAs and Clearance requirements out the wazoo, and the general public knows more about what we’re working on than Fatshark’s playerbase knows what Fatshark is working on. Because there’s a massive difference between “here, look at all this classified information as I breach this NDA” and “Here’s a general overview of what we’re working on that isn’t classified and is allowable by an NDA.” Aka A FREAKING ROADMAP!!! Slap on a “this roadmap is subject to change at any time” disclaimer and you don’t have to worry about meeting deadlines set by the roadmap. Stop hiding behind bad practices and negligence and operate like a functional company for crying out loud

1200 days (171 weeks) have passed since Fatshark said you can play Darktide solo. [image]Community Update #1: Pre-Order Beta Hotfix 1.0.6 Now we are confident in our Dedicated Servers, we would like to take the time and answer those recurring couple of questions that remain; “Can I play Darktide solo?”, “Can I play a private game with one or two of my friends?”. The answers will be Yes, and Yes. We’ve been working on an option to play exclusively in Solo Mode, where you will be hosting locally your own instance with bots. Because you will be hosting the AI and other game systems locally, this will increase performance cost. However, we continue to monitor and improve the performance where we can. Solo play is in its final stages of testing as we fix the last issues that remain. We aim to release this at Launch. If not, a patch shortly after that in December.

weeping.moon: But do you guys appreciate building a transparent respectfull and honest relation with your auditory? You’re missing the bigger issue. In affirming that the devs have “visibility” on these discussions, and that FS thinks it’s important that people can express their opinion, FS is pretty much committing to complying with basic human rights when it comes to free communication. It may not seem like a lot, but it’s something.

[image] FatsharkJulia: Hi alsozara! Sorry I’m late to the party, I’m catching up with my mentions. Hey I’m stoked to get a response on this at all! Thank you for confirming that our complaining is at least visible to the Devs. We will keep at it until they are forced to confront this promise one way or another. Being vocal and annoying has a good history of getting us somewhere so keep up the good fight all!

At this point there has to be a very specific reason they are actively avoiding adding/talking about this. I am going to guess it has something to do with them somehow making less money as a result. Splitting the player base and creating a situation where the current average player count drops even lower because a percentage of those “online” aren’t actually participating in the entire purpose of the game.

[image] Cosmophase: I am going to guess it has something to do with them somehow making less money as a result. I really do think it’s as simple as it having not been a priority, and that the various modes and systems that have been layered on the base game since the original solo announcement have made creating a proper solo mode vastly more complicated. Accordingly it is now in need of so much work that they simply do not want to talk about it until it is enough of priority and has had enough work done on it to be less than a year away. Hence they won’t give a hard yes or no. It’s too far off to make any sense giving a yes, but it’s not actually scrapped for sure so they’re not going to give a no either. This makes sense to me anyway.

Put solo in the game Devs. You’re gonna get more sales like do you not want more money?

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Harridas March 3, 2026, 10:26pm 331

1200 days (171 weeks) have passed since Fatshark said you can play Darktide solo.

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Put solo in the game Devs. You’re gonna get more sales like do you not want more money?

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