This game is just dead

[SSerponi76]

https://x.com/spearheadmtl/status/1765092027702624662?s=61&t=zGU7RWpubZfs0XjKBtLv_A

How sad.

[This Username Was Taken]

This is why buying early access isn't worth it.

[YEAARRGGGHH!!!]

Very sad. I played an early demo at PAX a few years ago. I encountered some bugs that broke the demo at the time but it seemed like a cool enough prospect for a game that I loosely followed it for the last few years hoping something would come of it.

I wish the best for the dev team. The people that were at PAX seemed pretty cool.

[Aegix Drakan]

OOF. :( My condolences to the dev team.

[chantellier888]

This is just ridiculous. After years of back and forth between vaporware and "we are still developing it", they launched early access just to close after not even 2 months. I have no longer any patience or sympathy for this developers. I have requested a refund and I hope they will never be back.

[Solidchaos]

Originally posted by chantellier888:

This is just ridiculous. After years of back and forth between vaporware and "we are still developing it", they launched early access just to close after not even 2 months. I have no longer any patience or sympathy for this developers. I have requested a refund and I hope they will never be back.

Unfortunately, my refund request got denied.

[Elysium]

Originally posted by Solidchaos:

Originally posted by chantellier888:

This is just ridiculous. After years of back and forth between vaporware and "we are still developing it", they launched early access just to close after not even 2 months. I have no longer any patience or sympathy for this developers. I have requested a refund and I hope they will never be back.

Unfortunately, my refund request got denied.

Same here. Sucks

[isaacaderogba1]

Originally posted by Elysium:

Originally posted by Solidchaos:

Unfortunately, my refund request got denied.

Same here. Sucks

Mine too. They didn't even achieve any of the early access goals that they claimed they would. That's what I get for supporting early access

[redwitch]

Originally posted by chantellier888:

This is just ridiculous. After years of back and forth between vaporware and "we are still developing it", they launched early access just to close after not even 2 months. I have no longer any patience or sympathy for this developers. I have requested a refund and I hope they will never be back.

well, I guess, that's the very last EA title I've bought. I had already stopped supporting kickstarter projects because it also got misused by ***** like this.

[biogokhan]

I'm one of the EA buyers. There's a month and a half between the early access release date and deciding to pull the plug for the whole project. I'm sorry, but this is the very definition of scam. You don't realise in one day that your company is in financial bad shape. It shows itself months in advance. So, they must have known it from the beginning. My real sadness is that people's trust in EA will be shaken because of such companies. Mine has been already shaken to the core because of that.

[redwitch]

Originally posted by biogokhan:

I'm one of the EA buyers. There's a month and a half between the early access release date and deciding to pull the plug for the whole project. I'm sorry, but this is the very definition of scam. You don't realise in one day that your company is in financial bad shape. It shows itself months in advance. So, they must have known it from the beginning. My real sadness is that people's trust in EA will be shaken because of such companies. Mine has been already shaken to the core because of that.

I'm not even sure it is genuinely a scam. Of course, they knew of the lack of funds before the EA launch but decided to go on with it in the hope to attract enough funds to continue with development. Apparently it didn't work. So, it was a gamble and everyone involved lost, except for steam. And, it is dishonest of them not to disclose their financial problems to the people willing to support them and to clarify how risky the project was. What is misssing in this EA stuff is a way to assess how risky a project is, it's totally intransparent, and of course, steam doesn't have any interest in providing such kind of transparency because they haven't anything to lose and everything to gain.

[Cahalith]

What's really annoying is that Steamworks Documentation makes it clear that Early Access is not to be used for crowdfunding a project. Given that this project has been abandoned less than two months after EA release suggests to me that they already knew the financial situation they were in and they released the game hoping it would sell well enough to finance further development.

Two things I'm personally hoping I can learn from this:
1. Don't buy any more Early Access releases unless they've already had a few months of support and content updates, showing the developers' sincerity. Maybe give up on EA entirely, depending on how this works out for me.
2. Don't give positive reviews to Early Access titles if they're just based on the game's future potential. Steam says we should not buy EA games unless we're happy with the state they're currently in, and developers can apparently just drop EA titles whenever they want, so it's only fair for the game to be reviewed as a final product in its current state.

P.S.: Just checked the store and it's still full price.

[They Live]

release a game in early access, adjust the pricing at some AAA title level, go broke.

[Jackie Daytona]

Originally posted by Tater Tot:

This is why buying early access isn't worth it.

Buying EA is fine but you must think instead of buying on impulse, I wanted this game but when it released in the state it was I waited to see what the devs did, if they fixed it for one and how fast. low and behold they shut it all down instead. Same with nightingales I wanted that but waited and the devs are slow game runs like ass, bullet dodged. I did the same with enshrouded i'll give that game a few years because when it comes to EA if it looks fancy it'll take a decade to get anything. hell even then PZ though creating what i bought into are slower than a glacier. EA ain't for everyone and it's def not for the impulsive.

[Neynh]

Originally posted by They Live:

release a game in early access, adjust the pricing at some AAA title level, go broke.

Yeah the price really didn't helped them, I'm sure it's what ended them, they asked too much, it should have been 15$/€ for the EA launch, and then maybe 35$/€ as a full release price

[Strife]

I'm sad for the people which lose their jobs but this product should be taken off Steam, still selling it is steal.