What went wrong? Why so many bad ratings?

[Blitzwing]

What went wrong? Why so many bad ratings?

[Buntkreuz]

read....the ratings?

[Krotos]

It's pretty obvious. Should've cooked longer.

[Venorik Barra]

To put it simply, this isn't early access. This isn't even a Beta. It's an Alpha, and honestly shouldn't have been put up on Steam as it is, and that is coming from a backer. Nothing is close to finished, and the Steam page says a lot of things that will be added, but it sounds like they are already in the game.

[Yemto]

I agree with the game shouldn't be on steam, keep it for people that comes from the Kickstarter, since I believe most people see early access as a game that's much closer to release, when the official version of this game being dev-0.2.0, which would put it even before alpha.

[Daniel.Kiwi]

It's an early technical demo without any enemy AI.
It's so bare bones that it's basically an asset show without a game

[WarStalkeR]

Originally posted by Blitzwing:

What went wrong? Why so many bad ratings?

Because its Alpha.

[wiggtai]

Should have been a backer alpha look, not a steam early access. People have the wrong idea so are blasting it. I don't blame them, certain things are expected once it hits early access.

[Velamont]

Because this is not even a real game but an asset farming series at this point. It's what, 4th game in a row with no changes - just flipping the same asset pack from Planetary Annihilation. Honestly this should not be allowed on steam.

[shadow]

Originally posted by Blitzwing:

What went wrong? Why so many bad ratings?

simple No planets. The devs could not even be bothered to add the main feature of the series.

This is just an asset flip of the Annihilation assets as a new game.

[Druark]

Originally posted by shadow:

Originally posted by Blitzwing:

What went wrong? Why so many bad ratings?

simple No planets. The devs could not even be bothered to add the main feature of the series.

They should've had more dev time or done this as a private access alpha sure... BUT planets were literally never advertised for this game and are a key part of why PA never took off on top of it's technical issues.

It was too difficult for many players to get in to with the weird camera controls. Me and my friends might've been fine with it but going by it's sales and ratings, the average RTS player didn't like it.

[EngineR]

Originally posted by shadow:

Originally posted by Blitzwing:

What went wrong? Why so many bad ratings?

simple No planets. The devs could not even be bothered to add the main feature of the series.

This is just an asset flip of the Annihilation assets as a new game.

Honestly I didn't bought it for planet. But to experience at least a little fun and be able to enjoy the concept. But so far it's very very hard because everything is so unpolished, and more importantly not finished or just not there.

It's not a problem not to have all the assets, not to have all game modes, to have some imrpovements to be made to the interface, not to have all the content.

But here even the core is not there, even the things that we consider for granted in any game, and the heavy interface/ergonomy is a fun killer.

You cannot even do a simple match against the AI, which is of course a big issue for any game, but here it's actually almost a good thing because if I had to make a serious game against the AI, that would be a disaster under these gameplay conditions.

[BasenjiMaster]

Angry immature kids are review bombing it because they don't understand what EA is. It's a beta, and being worked on.
I feel they should have just given the game to just backers, and work on the game more from the feedback from them before it hit steam. Just to avoid the people review bombing it.

[Talon]

Check Cities Skylines 2 forum, its more funnier. Just haters generation....

[drh]

Originally posted by Talon:

Check Cities Skylines 2 forum, its more funnier. Just haters generation....

Seriously, the focus people put on ♥♥♥♥ like playercount (especially for single player games) is unbelievable. Nobody cared about it ten years ago.

[Velamont]

Originally posted by drh:

Seriously, the focus people put on ♥♥♥♥ like playercount (especially for single player games) is unbelievable. Nobody cared about it ten years ago.

Yes, we just tracked sales data. Also 10 years ago there was no option to publish your unfinished steaming pile of ♥♥♥♥ and call it EA.