I would not recommend supporting this developer and their games.

[animueb]

Their past project, snowbrake, was immediately dropped into EGStore as soon as it stopped making money. I followed development closely and participated in all tests, but the game on release was just awful. And after so many months they still haven't done the promised character balance, new weapons and new mechanics, more maps, more enemies, more story, quests, events... Snowbreak latest patches consist entierly of stupid pay skins and another "swapped" map with reused assets.

My advice, don't spend money after release and wait until it becomes clear that Seasun want to develop and advance their game, not to make a quick cash.

[KALIFA]

Damn, did not know this. Good looking out.

[HunterH]

hmmm il wait for the game to come out then i wont bother testing anything

[S1mon]

Game publisher and dev seems kinda fishy ngl

EDIT: just took part in the survey aswell...

Why do they ask how much money i usually spend in a game, what does this have to do with the game quality xd

This game is hella fishy and probably was made fast after the success of ac6

[Sckarton]

Originally posted by animueb:

Their past project, snowbrake, was immediately dropped into EGStore as soon as it stopped making money. I followed development closely and participated in all tests, but the game on release was just awful. And after so many months they still haven't done the promised character balance, new weapons and new mechanics, more maps, more enemies, more story, quests, events... Snowbreak latest patches consist entierly of stupid pay skins and another "swapped" map with reused assets.

My advice, don't spend money after release and wait until it becomes clear that Seasun want to develop and advance their game, not to make a quick cash.

good thing you warned us about their past history. now it's on wait and see list instead of buying day 1.

[Chariothe]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3095604217
Nah Snowbreak is still going strong. If there is any warning I'd give it's microtransaction, they have been delivering good patch after patch. They haven't had any late delivering, always on schedule 40days ish for each big patch iirc(ofc there are small bug fixing patches in each big update), typical mobile game style of updates, your info is wrong, they have been delivering new maps, weapons, characters, bug fixings in each patch. Next patch will be chapter12 and events occurring around it.
The swapped map/ reused asset is dumb accusation, latest(current) update is a Summer event in tropical island, selling Bikini skins, while the patch before that was set in post-apocalyptic town map, they have completely different vibe, concrete forest and tropical island.

[Chariothe]

Originally posted by S1mn:

Game publisher and dev seems kinda fishy ngl

EDIT: just took part in the survey aswell...

Why do they ask how much money i usually spend in a game, what does this have to do with the game quality xd

This game is hella fishy and probably was made fast after the success of ac6

Context: Seasun is a gacha mobile game company first, then they started doing cross platform with snowbreak, this is probably their first PC/Console only game. it's not weird and not the first time for gacha company to ask for how much you spend on games.
They do take feedbacks on what changes players want, but I doubt this game will feel like a complete game experience, I guess It'd feel more like a gacha mobile game but on PC quality, given what their past experience is.

[AUTISM DIVIDED BY CINCER]

Originally posted by animueb:

Their past project, snowbrake, was immediately dropped into EGStore as soon as it stopped making money. I followed development closely and participated in all tests, but the game on release was just awful. And after so many months they still haven't done the promised character balance, new weapons and new mechanics, more maps, more enemies, more story, quests, events... Snowbreak latest patches consist entierly of stupid pay skins and another "swapped" map with reused assets.

My advice, don't spend money after release and wait until it becomes clear that Seasun want to develop and advance their game, not to make a quick cash.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this is already leaving me a bad taste already,

gacha companies will always be gacha companies

[Alex]

Chinese survey website, gacha making game company, and I can't even get to the survey cause I am IP blocked since I am an American. That's fair I guess? Leave it to scrum companies to put out bait, get my hopes up, and crush it within a few hours.

[Kinshorin]

I'll still give the game a shot (depending on how much it would cost me), I just don't have very high hopes it will be very long lasting given the survey's questions seeming to focus a lot on how much you spend/would be willing to spend on games, with a clear mtx focus when talking about that.

[Call Sign: Raven]

I mean, I would want more proof besides an opinion post accusing a company of things. Not gonna just take it at face value, either way.

[weirdee]

I was more concerned about how influencer focused the next part of the survey was, after the initial part that was not only fishing for spending numbers but also asking which monetization scheme was favored, and it listed every single kind of microtransaction model with only a tiny attempt at presenting "buy the game" with a subscription model attached to it. Like, I get that they want money, but these days it's never enough money for them and it's always about getting more, and fishing for influencers is going even harder on that because they only care about player numbers and the whole point of the alpha being "making the game good" is just an afterthought in the discussion with maybe one page dedicated to talking about past game experience. They just don't trust player communities anymore to enjoy a game and just want to fish straight for the moneybags. There is no longer any kind of social contract with the people who play the games, it's just a pump and dump to scoop them up to stock their monetization warehouse. All they want is unpaid labor.

The survey feels like it was designed by a startup trying to make a presentation for investors for getting buy ins rather than somebody setting out to make a game and looking for people to help them make the game, and that's just the reality of game development for many.

[YSR715]

Originally posted by Haru:

Chinese survey website, gacha making game company, and I can't even get to the survey cause I am IP blocked since I am an American. That's fair I guess? Leave it to scrum companies to put out bait, get my hopes up, and crush it within a few hours.

really? Im also in the US and didn't have an issue with the survey

i don't know i got the vibe this is a gacha company trying to move into non gacha games like a couple of others which is why its so odd

[Shork]

It's just a platform. As long as it works.

[YSR715]

yeah Mihoyo also drop their games on the egs and they do well

cn games are use to trying to bring their games to every platform

[raqyee]

Developer aside, look at the game itself. Daily quests, battlepass, game being a hero shooter with roles, character "artstyle". I've seen it a million times before. The gameplay itself better be SICK to compensate for all of the above.