Excited for this game

[PopGamer46]

Im very excited for this game to be released. I play SS13 every day and SS14 will improve the experience because in SS13 its a bit laggy because of the engine BYOND. Im glad that SS14 is practically the same as SS13 because SS14 will not be a threat for SS13 popularity it will improve the SS13 experience maybe you wont know what i mean. And im very excited for the release or contribution as a play tester maybe some day.

[gliv]

It's good they're developing this game, but they seem a bit power hungry for whatever reason.

The constant need to third party accounts (rather than using steamworks). They even locked down the steam discussions at one point and FORCED players to use their forums.

This game will not last long if they keep this attitude up. But I guess time will tell.

[zeeb]

I mean, hopefully when SS14 or Unitystation has reached the point where they surpass SS13 both content and feature-wise, I do hope SS13 dies, because there is by then no point for players to stick with SS13 (that will be the same game but on an inferior engine) and splitting the playerbase. Unless SS14 or Unitystation goes closed-source for some reason, because no one would support BS like that, especially since SS13 has been open-source for so long.

Also a switch will feel good, not only because of the engine but because /tg/ has been wiping their ass with their codebase for years now.

[Visne]

Originally posted by gliv:

The constant need to third party accounts (rather than using steamworks).

This was done with the express purpose of giving you more freedom. This allows you to

1. Play the game without using Steam at all.
   
2. Host your own hub, if you don't agree with how we handle the hub (the code is free and open source).

Originally posted by gliv:

They even locked down the steam discussions at one point and FORCED players to use their forums.

They were closed because the average post quality was very low, and because Steam discussions are pretty barren of features. Anyways, we enabled it again and here we are.

The conclusion is that SS14 is one of the only games that is open source and allows you to host everything, from the game server to the hub yourself. That seems like the opposite of power hungry to me.

[Raw Master]

Originally posted by gliv:

It's good they're developing this game, but they seem a bit power hungry for whatever reason.

The constant need to third party accounts (rather than using steamworks). They even locked down the steam discussions at one point and FORCED players to use their forums.

This game will not last long if they keep this attitude up. But I guess time will tell.

The moderators of RP games are some of the most stuck up dinguses you will even see, so no real surprise there.

[Fenix]

Originally posted by gliv:

The need for third party accounts (rather than using steamworks).

This is not a steamworks game. This is a game available on Windows, Linux, and mac that also happens to have a Steam port. There's no need to have to shove extra lines of code into a system that doesn't rely on steamworks, which is a good call as if this did ran on steamworks we'd get disconnected every tuesday due to maintenance with no actual in-game warning, at least.

Originally posted by gliv:

They even locked down the steam discussions at one point and FORCED players to use their forums.

uh, have you actually read any of those steam "discussions"? the average "discussion" on steam is about on par for a twitter or youtube comment section, aka: extremely low quality posts that only serve to instill anger. They're in their full right to direct discussions to a place they can more easily moderate it (especially since there is an age restriction that is actually enforced for SS14, unlike steam, $5 those kids were part of the issue)
I'm honestly kinda surprised they decided to reopen steam discussions.