I'm actually a bit surprised of this post. When the release of the game was delayed, i was fine with waiting another year or two, to not get a rushed game. I loved the game (even with the expensive price tag) and saw a huge potential for an innovative concept done right with passion and knowledge. That's why I'm especially sad to see it left to die like this. I've gone through the discussions of this post and read all the answers of the developer and come to the conclusion that this seems to be the end of support to this game.

I agree with most of the comments in which steps to take to somewhat save the game:
1. Make it offline/Lan capable
2. Give/Sell it to another developer Studio
Both options would have been logical steps to save the game that you as a team put alot of time in. But from what I've read, for some reason it's not possible or there is no interest in pursuing these steps.
Instead of letting all the passion, time and labour go to waist and prolonging the death of "Second Extinction", I propose a simple solution:

Put everything -finished and unfinished content, future ideas, pictures, assets, code- in the game files and release it as a final update. Make the game open source and free to use for everyone instead of letting such a great game die a slow, underserved and dishonorable death. There are many talented people and dedicated fans out there, who would gladly make something out of the game, which you already abandoned.

That damage in trust and reputation is unavoidable, but you can save your legacy by releasing a great game by a good development team to community you failed to satisfy and saddened by giving them false hope.
That's my only message to you as a part of the community you've gathered around this gem of a game. Good luck in the future.

leleblock님이 먼저 게시:

I'm actually a bit surprised of this post. When the release of the game was delayed, i was fine with waiting another year or two, to not get a rushed game. I loved the game (even with the expensive price tag) and saw a huge potential for an innovative concept done right with passion and knowledge. That's why I'm especially sad to see it left to die like this. I've gone through the discussions of this post and read all the answers of the developer and come to the conclusion that this seems to be the end of support to this game.

I agree with most of the comments in which steps to take to somewhat save the game:
1. Make it offline/Lan capable
2. Give/Sell it to another developer Studio
Both options would have been logical steps to save the game that you as a team put alot of time in. But from what I've read, for some reason it's not possible or there is no interest in pursuing these steps.
Instead of letting all the passion, time and labour go to waist and prolonging the death of "Second Extinction", I propose a simple solution:

Put everything -finished and unfinished content, future ideas, pictures, assets, code- in the game files and release it as a final update. Make the game open source and free to use for everyone instead of letting such a great game die a slow, underserved and dishonorable death. There are many talented people and dedicated fans out there, who would gladly make something out of the game, which you already abandoned.

That damage in trust and reputation is unavoidable, but you can save your legacy by releasing a great game by a good development team to community you failed to satisfy and saddened by giving them false hope.
That's my only message to you as a part of the community you've gathered around this gem of a game. Good luck in the future.

Reasonable. And better than simply letting the project rot (not to mention the paid players).

Never buying anything else from you or Avalanche Studios. No transparency with your customers, still selling the game for the last two years even though you never updated it. Sugar-coating everything with the miserable "Updates" on the News tab is not the way you should treat your customers.

Torque님이 먼저 게시:

Pekmez Pita님이 먼저 게시:

https://www.secondextinctiongame.com/news/a-love-letter-to-our-community

They're nice enough to provide us with a bit more evidence of just how out of touch they still are. For those of you who still had some doubts.

Might kind of them! :BL3Thumbsup:

"A love letter to our community"
And its about themselfs lol

"A love letter to ourselves" 🤣🤣🤣

I'm very sorry that this happened. I played quite a bit as I was waiting for the final release. But this won't happen now. I am sure you will draw the right conclusions from the situation. Good luck to you in the future.

Silo님이 먼저 게시:

To Devs:
You could consider selling the game in it's current state to a different developer or maybe even just handing it over for free. This way you at least don't have to lose money by refunding people and save face by keeping your existing clients happy.

I'm sure you can convince at least one developer team to continue the effort.
For example:
Make it into some 1v1 or 3v3 game where both teams race to complete task(s), while fighting each-other and the dinos or have methods to have the dinos attack the opposite team.

......exoprimal, your thinking of exoprimal

I'll be locking the thread now so those who are asking questions that have already been answered can see the answer here:

Offline Mode: We can't add an offline mode because it would require major restructuring of the way the game works, which we do not have the resources for (If we did, we'd have used them to finish the game).

Mod tools / Open Source: This would also require a major overhaul and extra work to implement the tools, so the answer is the same as above.

Refunds: You can request a refund through Steam. If they decline it, there is unfortunately nothing we can do as we can't give refunds ourselves for transactions that happened on another platform.

Game Servers: The servers will stay online for you to play on until sometime next year, when we will take them offline. You will not be able to access the game after we take them offline.

Our lack of communication before this announcement: Rather than share our plans before they were finalized, we decided to wait until we had discussed every available option and settled on a final course of action. This ended up taking much longer than anticipated, so we apologize for keeping you and all of our players in the dark for such a long time without any news.

Remember, you are very much allowed to be frustrated, that's understandable. However, insults and personal attacks are against Steam TOS, so they will get removed and actions will be taken accordingly. Remember to stay civil in these Discussion forums.