1.0? Doesn't look like it

[ardelle]

This post is full of spoilers.
So, I bought this game around a year ago, played quite some time, and I was looking foward to this 1.0 update, because I thought it would have been a finished game, not WIP. But that is not happening, isn't it. The game has still many bugs, many unfinished spaces, activities and stuff. What changed from the last update? It seems like they just added a few outfits and some trees?
Merfolks kingdom (remember the one that we had to clear all the ocean from the trash? The one with mermaids?) still looks empty, boring, with no activities. The tattoo shop doesn't work, the other shop sells clothes with the same colors, the other place is closed, you can't enter some homes. The merfolks have nothing to say everyday. The dragon you set free is just there, doesn't do anything. You just get a quick cerimony and a tail (which is cool) but what's the point of all that if every time I dive I just have to clean trash and look for critters? It gets boring real quick. Also the machine that should go around clean trash for you? What a scam, the ocean is very big and that thing works like a scarecrow so you'd have to use so many of those.
Let's get out of the water, what about the Savannah? Not yet avaiable. What about the 6th giant? WIP. What about the big monkey? Nothing. What about the graveyard with the "something is missing"? 0.
The random pandas, the random monuments, the tree near the forest that should grow mushrooms, the building with the monkeys, the underwater caves that are just full of trash, the many awful hair, the phisic of the backpacks that straight up fly around instead of lightly bouncing, the many ugly clothes and the hats that makes you bald, the characters that always says the same stuff, the cutscenes that are just lifeless, the character replying wrong to your conversation options, the golf minigame that is not going to be there, pufferfish that asks for help first and then does nothing for the rest of the game, the pets that are still useless and don't even go outside. And I haven't even tried to start a family or date anybody.
This is not a finished game, at all. I am very disappointed, like a lot of other players, specially those that thought this was a finished product. I was really hoping that at least half of these problems would get fixed for the 1.0 and I'm still hoping that there will be soon an update with a lot of improvements, but for now this is just ridiculous

[RottenBoy]

I had my best hopes for this game and I tried defending the devs previously with the expectation that the 1.0 would deliver, but I have to unfortunately completely agree with you. In fact I am experiencing more bugs in the 1.0 than I did in the Early Access. The amount of times I have to use 'I got stuck' cause the character would just become unresponsive is appalling, and the most recent one wasn't even fixed by that so I really bloody hope my save file wasn't corrupted... I'm pretty sure that most of the 20K+ backers are really disappointing right now. This game shouldn't have left the Early Access yet

[Δ︎MΞ︎NTIH ✬]

Yea the devs should've kept the game in early access & the ''big release update'' should've been just a regular bigger update that implements marriage & few new items to EA.

I mean the characters don't even wear their Halloween costumes yet, they run around in bathing suits in autumn/winter, our pet is just a static decoration in our home that we cannot even give back & there are clearly many NPC interactions still missing.

All that, while main story & Merfolk story aren't finished yet. Heck, our character sometimes feels like a soulless NPC in a living world, because unlike the townies, our character isn't able to interact with anything in the world, like sitting down or playing pool with others.

Don't get me wrong I love the game & its general concept, it's lots of fun! But releasing the game in this state was absolutely stupid.

[Padgey]

1.0 was an excuse to put the price up and ship it to consoles to get more money coming in, the game is still buggy and unfinished thats why im not playing it till at least another few updates, its a shame they released it in this state but i guess they are short of money so needed the increased price and console revenue

[Kerry]

Yea I've been trying to hold off on this game until it was 100% complete and was definitely excited for the 1.0 release. Having said that...I noticed shortly after that, that the 2024 roadmap has some pretty important features not yet added. Features I thought were supposed to be part of the full package. I did try to make a character and wasn't pleased at all with the choices. No idea if they will add more options, but will definitely wait on mods to fix that and modding seems to be one of the last things they intend to add so yea...back to waiting.

[Fury Fairy]

Автор сообщения: Padgey

1.0 was an excuse to put the price up and ship it to consoles to get more money coming in, the game is still buggy and unfinished thats why im not playing it till at least another few updates, its a shame they released it in this state but i guess they are short of money so needed the increased price and console revenue

Absolutely!.. But peeps here are smart enough, and very soon Stardew 1.6 will be released with lots of new content. Let's remember Stardew costs 2.5 times LESS, and it's quite easy to guess how this is gonna end...

[ThatGuyKhi]

I'm glad that the Discord is also asking for answers and not being oblivious. Many of us are here because we enjoy the game and knows it deserved a more engaging and completed 1.0 experience.

[Vulture]

yeah, this is just not a 1.0. its a 0.8 still and i dont get why it was released unless they needed money before they went down or so.. just a few minutes ago finished the mines and not even getting a proper reward or anything and then just "hey, there is more giants, look for them (WIP, which means there actually isnt, but mabye one day)" .. thats not just anticlimactic, its disappointing and feels scammy.

[Tico]

+1,unfinished, slop work… very disappointed, they ever reply ppl?

[katy]

And like... they took away a lot of features that I found made EA a much more fun game. I don't get it unfortunately.

[Rei]

Yeah this game is absolutely not ready for a 1.0 and just calling it so doesn't make it so. Random crashes, missing sound effect, missing assets, losing your progress because the game decided your auto-save randomly stopped working, and questlines that literally still shows "WIP" on it, and marking future romanceable character as romanceable now as a blatant false advertising.

Marking it 1.0 and out of early access justify them increasing their price for this garbage and I never been this glad to ask for a refund.

[Arturia]

Getting some My Time at Portia vibes from this 1.0 release. There are so many 'little things' that are still buggy or missing, and it really adds up. The 'Disable low stamina animation' option still doesn't work for me and apparently many others. Ben's caravan shows open when Ben isn't there AND it's not even the weekend. Can't buy tacos from Emma's Taco Truck...

[ardelle]

Автор сообщения: Arturia

Getting some My Time at Portia vibes from this 1.0 release. There are so many 'little things' that are still buggy or missing, and it really adds up. The 'Disable low stamina animation' option still doesn't work for me and apparently many others. Ben's caravan shows open when Ben isn't there AND it's not even the weekend. Can't buy tacos from Emma's Taco Truck...

I bought My Time at Sandrock around the same time I bought Coral Island, last year, both in early access, while the first one realeased version 1.0 with a full main story and the possibility of having a family (of course there are still bugs here and there) I've seen much less progress with coral island, but I guess they are different games, with different teams and styles. But what pisses me off is the idea of considerating this as a finished product. What does it mean? Will there be other updates? How long will it take? It feels kind of a scam. Imagine those people that waited for this game to come out as finished, bought it and now they have a sort of half game full of bugs that crashes. And what about the devs? Anybody heard anything from them? Are they talking about this and maybe giving a good explaination? Or will they just ignore it and maybe leave the game like this?
I lack of faith for its future but I still hope they will do something soon, or at least talk about it officially

[ardelle]

Also forgot about Casper?? Why add a random ghost if you can't interact with it and nobody talks about it?
Again, every goal you reach, every problem you solve in this game....it just doesn't give you a sense of accomplished, lack of a reward feeling. When you clear all the ocean from the trash, when you free all the giants, when you donate all the items to the Goddess. You just get some cutscenes that really don't add anything to the game. At least they added some rewards for the museum, hats and weird clothes, that's cool. I really just feel like I'm doing so much for nothing (I mean, I am wasting my hours on a videogame but they aren't really trying to hide it huh) but maybe that's just my problem? Maybe it's just me I don't know

[Chibitan]

Thank you for posting this! I was starting to worry that I had my expactations too high when I thought the game is by far no 1.0 release. I'll also be more wary of these devs in the future.

[Rei]

At this state, just better to get My Time at Sandrock. At least the developers of that game really shows what a passion project looks like.