What bugs me the most about this is that the game got advertised as 9/10 best game EVEEEER by payed magazines and scoreboards and still proudly promotes those “badges” on the steam site while basically all of the good reviews from actual players are from people who haven’t seen the game in total and already left. I also was positviely surprised shortly after the beta but that changed fast. Thats the archetype of a corporate greed cashcow. False or shady advertising, gamedesign that revolves around generating good reviews in the first few days and ratings that are simply not mirroing what the game acutally has to offer. Not a problem if I buy a shovelware game from some big corp like EA but my intention when supporting indie devs is to get a product that is not garbage promoted as the holy grail.
Anyway I found a pretty good workaround for all these problems. Simple software you can acquire in the Steam shop, most people left probably already have it.
Its called Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide and its basically like this game but you can have fun with it and since FS is busy running V2 into the ground with supersonic speed, there are no devs to ruin it anymore.
Most importantly I learned my lesson to NOT spend money on things I can only see the “box” of.
Preordering in particular. Giving people money before they deliver because they promise to do so is what kills games since people get their cash and just dont give super happy bunny rabbit anymore after that.
I wont make the same mistake with Fatshark again.
Also:
Yeah sure. Calling a multiplayer dead that looses 80% of its playerbase in roughly three months, because of flaws that aren’t even touched by now while the people behind it are concerned with random weapon balances, no one ever remotely asked for is fatalistic.
Especially when the tendency of people leaving isn’t significantly slowing down. I remember a thread just a few weeks ago in which a user posted stats around 9k. Whoops, 5k. Basically everyone who reaches beyond veteran abandons the sinking ship in astonishing time.