Labour of love

[Poison]

"This game has been out for a while. The team is well past the debut of their creative baby, but being the good parents they are, these devs continue to nurture and support their creation. This game, to this day, is still getting new content after all these years."

Since this game has been in an Alpha for around a decade I am sure that most of us can agree that the Labour of love award is not something this game is entitled to ask for on the one hand. On the other hand I feel like this can be considered a finished product that still receives support and the devs just decided to never leave alpha because they never want to finish this game. Either way, I think this games development might outlive us all. What do you think: Deserved or undeserved?

[Corsin]

I personally love the game and if it stays "alpha" forever and continues to update and give us new things etc, Im ok with that.

Some changes are good, some bad...but if they just keep going and keep updating, cool. There'll be things I like, things I dont, no game is perfect, but overall, its a great game.

Labor of love? Could be. They're definitely committed to it and do it their way which again, is fine with me.

[art]

Labour of love? Seriously? This got to be a sick joke.

[Real Mofo]

Hell of a job, and still groing nicely , what will the future bring ? :), Rock on folks !
Can't wait for new things/eyecandy/special FX/content in the game ;)
It's alive !!,

[kandar]

Originally posted by art:

Labour of love? Seriously? This got to be a sick joke.

And they wear the 10 years of development moniker likes it's a badge of honor.

[Mithrandir]

It really seems like some ppl in this forum would prefer all games to be falsely considered complete, released then milked with content that should have been included for free but sold as DLC. This is what a huge number of AAA titles are doing btw, so they have plenty of choices there.

They're still at it after 10 years, and without any money grabbing scheme ? Ofc they deserve the labor of love nomination. Would be even better if there was a "leisurely labor of love" award tho.

[Oparator Stalker]

Don't care for the new direction of things, it has gotten a lil more kiddie land verses what it was in 20.7
.....Award denied.

[augytek]

HAHA. Being in Alpha this long is like being with the same person in just a dating relationship for 10 years, while occasionally forgetting to patch them, or giving attention to other projects. Not sure why anyone would think that's worthy of an award. Maybe they should give up and go back to working at McDonald's. I hear they give out awards for things like this.

[aY227]

Originally posted by art:

Labour of love? Seriously? This got to be a sick joke.

They love it sooooo much they don't want to let it go :D

[Amins]

Games in Early Access should absolutely be disqualified from awards as they are unfinished products. But this is a decision on Steam's part.

[Dark Exile]

I don't remember when i stopped playing, somewhere around year 1, i was waiting for it to launch to play again.

Hell of a wait..........

Edit - Sept 2014

[Пустельга]

If there were an award for "labour of necromancy" - I would without a doubt give it to this game specifically, because they've been actively destroying it with each update, keeping the dead husk of a game that once was very fun and entertaining alive, for the reasons unknown (other than money and hype, of course)

[God Bless The Dead]

I'm surprised this hasn't been merged with the "In Alpha since 2013? [MegaThread]" yet.

[mr_bman]

They busted their bunz for ten years on this very ambitious game. They deserve it.

[Darren]

Wow, working 10 Years on a game seems to be nothing you could be proud of, hm? But i agree that we should be happy about the fact they dont abandoned it, right? Even if its worse with every update for a lot of people lol. Some quit while theyre tired of waiting, some because this Game is no fun anymore, or got nothing really added for a while. No, i dont think you cant make something good of this fact, it could and should be out for years or at least they could take their decision what kind of game this should be at the end and work to bring it forward. They dont deserve a positive named achievment imo lol

[Suoy]

I don't know what i should think about the game.
They feed it with new content but also reinvent the wheel over and over to the point where the game feels overdone in one section and outdated in many others.
It's like watching a developerteam argueing about the best direction but nobody has any idea about what should be and instead what could be something they like to see, only to threw it all away in the next update.

I would rather invest some time to look what people like in the current game and what they wish for in the future. I would learn to write better code for that particular genre and look into performance issues and bugs and where they came from (like memory leaks).

All this plus the vision of the devs and put it on a wall. Argueing about it, what must be the best direction and keep it this way.

Then i would start fresh with a new version of the game. New engine, maybe another programmer on board and finaly finish a game you made ^^.