Has the game been discontinued?

[SchokEis]

I played a bit after release and explored everything, but there have been no updates since then. Has the game been discontinued?

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Released games are not "As-a-Service".

[Ruffio]

I think there is a malfunction among players these days, they have no idea what it means when a game is released and done. They been horrible infected by the "live service" virus.. -)

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Originally posted by Ruffio:

I think there is a malfunction among players these days, they have no idea what it means when a game is released and done. They been horrible infected by the "live service" virus.. -)

A plausible byproduct of "Early Access".

[PMBELL]

They released one DLC so the busines model of countinuous development and releasing DLCs to fund it could be the case, but sadly it's not. No more DLCs or updates are coming.
But everyone can contribute to the modding community!

[Captain Flappy]

Originally posted by SchokEis:

I played a bit after release and explored everything, but there have been no updates since then. Has the game been discontinued?

Not at all... it's just complete. :)

[Darsonov]

Originally posted by Captain Flappy:

Originally posted by SchokEis:

I played a bit after release and explored everything, but there have been no updates since then. Has the game been discontinued?

Not at all... it's just complete. :)

compare it with rimworld feels unfinnished with that potential

[Ruffio]

Originally posted by Darsonov:

Originally posted by Captain Flappy:

Not at all... it's just complete. :)

compare it with rimworld feels unfinnished with that potential

Then Rimworld should offer you the fix you want, and give you all the things you want for .. -)

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Rimworld? Oh, you mean the Prison Architect ripoff game.

[Ruffio]

Originally posted by WinterSolstice:

Rimworld? Oh, you mean the Prison Architect ripoff game. :csd2smile:

I had many hours with Rimworld, its a fun game, but I don't like to pitch one game up against another when they so different. It's a bit like "I want Rimworld with that game's graphic, and your game bad because its not like Rimworld who does it better"..

[Hairy Mouse]

Originally posted by Ruffio:

I think there is a malfunction among players these days, they have no idea what it means when a game is released and done. They been horrible infected by the "live service" virus.. -)

I think cause it just makes more sense. If you raise a cow, and it starts producing milk, you don't slaughter it cause you got your milk now. Keep it flowing.... If you have the foundation of a game already done, and people enjoy playing it and have opinions and suggestions, why not continue to profit from you hard built project?

IMO the service aspect just feels smart, because you aren't CoD, and can't sell updates and map changes as a full priced premium title every year. Just seems like a good way of maintaining an income to support yourself plus future development, especially for a small dev.

[Jaggid Edje]

I agree @Hairy Mouse, and if it is a game I really enjoy, I personally like getting regular new content. I still play games that came out over 8 years ago because I enjoy them and they are still getting new content regularly. In my mind, that's a good thing.

[Ruffio]

Originally posted by Hairy Mouse:

Originally posted by Ruffio:

I think there is a malfunction among players these days, they have no idea what it means when a game is released and done. They been horrible infected by the "live service" virus.. -)

I think cause it just makes more sense. If you raise a cow, and it starts producing milk, you don't slaughter it cause you got your milk now. Keep it flowing.... If you have the foundation of a game already done, and people enjoy playing it and have opinions and suggestions, why not continue to profit from you hard built project?

IMO the service aspect just feels smart, because you aren't CoD, and can't sell updates and map changes as a full priced premium title every year. Just seems like a good way of maintaining an income to support yourself plus future development, especially for a small dev.

Now imagine, you a farmer with 1 cow... you go up early in the morning at 06, huddle into the barn, milk the cow. Then you go to market to sell your milk, Spend all day there, and end up sell 1 jug of milk..... So, how's your profit going?

Even a game broke even, or made a small profit doesn't make it a good candidate to keep release dlc's. It's a given the number of people buying dlc's is less than the ones bought the original release. End of the day it's the publisher that sit with the ball, not the devs. Publishers goal is to make money so when the choice is to support make a dlc for a game that didn't do that well, vs chance on back a new game hope it would do better, they will go for the later.

[Včelí medvídek]

Game is finished, and Frontier Foundry closed so the devs would need release under new publisher and nto sure if it is even possible.. so no new content.
https://www.thearmchairtrader.com/frontier-developments-closes-foundry-to-concentrate-on-its-own-ip/

[Ruffio]

Originally posted by Včelí medvídek:

Game is finished, and Frontier Foundry closed so the devs would need release under new publisher and nto sure if it is even possible.. so no new content.
https://www.thearmchairtrader.com/frontier-developments-closes-foundry-to-concentrate-on-its-own-ip/

Then a new publisher would have to buy the rights to the game in that case. Or the devs bought the rights and got a new publisher which is even less likely.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Cut out the middle man and become your own publisher and make even more money (the only caveat is to do your own marketing but that is easy enough if you are creative).