What's up with the recent reviews ?

[Michel Baie]

The review score tanked and it seems there's a lot of angry chinese people complaining.
Anybody know what is it about ?

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Maybe they complain about price increase. Game has 94% review score with English language filter.

[Ghigi]

Lack of multiplayer story mode. How a price increase affects existing owners is a new Steam mystery tale.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Originally posted by Ghigi:

Lack of multiplayer story mode. How a price increase affects existing owners is a new Steam mystery tale.

With people review bombing almost every new release recently there are weirder things then this.

[Piperbird]

Looking through them, they seem to be about the multiplayer story being removed from the game so late.

I can see their point, if the promised multiplayer storyline is why you backed the kickstarter, it's fair to be bummed out about it and maybe even feel a bit betrayed.

At this point, SunnySide is a COMPLETELY different game from the one I backed on Kickstarter. Super disappointing, but it is a risk you take backing a project so early on in development.

[Coltrek]

Steam store
Recent Reviews: Mixed (304)
All Reviews: Very Positive (12,211)

[Zewtastic]

I blame AI.

[Aerogems]

Originally posted by Piperbird:

Looking through them, they seem to be about the multiplayer story being removed from the game so late.

I can see their point, if the promised multiplayer storyline is why you backed the kickstarter, it's fair to be bummed out about it and maybe even feel a bit betrayed.

At this point, SunnySide is a COMPLETELY different game from the one I backed on Kickstarter. Super disappointing, but it is a risk you take backing a project so early on in development.

I'm still hoping that the old story multiplayer can be repurposed into a free expansion. Once they have the main game "finished" and the inevitable bugs that crop up right after release have been fixed, they can turn efforts back to the story multiplayer. Maybe it could even be released as a standalone prequel that is kind of a demo for the main game. Or, they could make it an expansion to the single player story. Like as you're exploring the secret of the oasis you find some kind of old world device that has the memories of individuals from Sandrock in its early days and it's like one giant series of side quests that provide more context to the main story.

[Michel Baie]

Originally posted by Piperbird:

Looking through them, they seem to be about the multiplayer story being removed from the game so late.

I can see their point, if the promised multiplayer storyline is why you backed the kickstarter, it's fair to be bummed out about it and maybe even feel a bit betrayed.

At this point, SunnySide is a COMPLETELY different game from the one I backed on Kickstarter. Super disappointing, but it is a risk you take backing a project so early on in development.

Ah. Yeah, make sense with the chronology of announcements, that trend started with the latest batches of MP tests. Why it seemed to me it's mainly chinese reviewers who're upset on that might be a statistical bias, as I suppose everybody wanting that feature is a bit disappointed.

TBH I understand why Pathea made this choice, the story line and game structure doesn't really seem adapted for MP in the first place and adding that after the fact can be a massive headache.
And, well, better have a mission based multiplayer sandbox than no MP at all.

But it's still a bit disappointing.

[shadowpirate250]

Originally posted by Ghigi:

How a price increase affects existing owners is a new Steam mystery tale.

why would a price increase affect existing owners? it never has before.