So exited to play this game, but let me address some critisms, hate and trolling I've seen here

[Yoshino]

Yes I can't wait for the servers to open up and race about the map on all fours and take aim at the other team. From the moment I learned about WA I knew there would be haters and trolls and people who take offense because they can't leave their prejudice at the door.

But I suggest that people who read this watch some youtube videos of actual gameplay or better yet give it a try instead of judging the game before it even goes into early access. Anthropomorphic characters might not be everyone's cup of tea but if the game-mechanics are fun and you having a good time what does it really matter?

People got up in arms about a black samurai protagonist in AC Shadows and yet the game has turned out to find widespread approval for its intricate world design and plain simple fun factor. And it isn't like WA even tried to claim it is historical accurate.

Simply give it a try without biased prejudice, steam gives you 2 hours to try and make up your mind. If it is not for you you can ask for a refund, but keep in mind it is an early access release. The state in which the game is now is from what I've seen very playable but there is obviously so much more to come over the coming months and years.

But yes don't let peoples hate or dislike of a fandom dictate to you if something is fun or not, make up your own mind and ignore haters and trolls.

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As far as criticism goes, be it honest and born from legit worry or simply malevolent trolling aimed at causing disruption, here are some points to consider from my own personal viewing of them:

1. Why should I pay $15 USD for this game other games are free to play.

What gets you $15 these days? One or two cartons of eggs? Or 3 Big Macs? Or a movie ticket with tiny popcorn? Some games charge you as much for a single cosmetic that amount. Or perhaps you get 2 or 3 less fancy in-game cosmetics. $15 is an extremely fair price for which you get an entire game plus a standard battle pass. You buy potentially many hours of funtime and entertainment and for those really getting into the game it might even be years of having a good time.

But also consider that that money goes a long way to pay the studio of developers who put their sweat and tears and a large financial investment into making this game. Further more the money you pay for the game will support the ongoing development of the game and ensure new features like more maps and valiants and content in general is added.

$15 is a small investment in something that gives you so much back. I know many gamer are young or younger and perhaps they feel like it is a lot of money or maybe people have just become so entitled that they want everything for free. But generally speaking those "free games" come attached with a whole range of more sneaky ways to get money out of you. Or they are backed by huge gaming companies that have massive budgets and well established channels though which they can afford to just throw out a game as free to play to start with.


2. Why does this game releases with a Battlepass, I hate Battlepasses, Battlepasses are FOMO!

Lets look at the Mechanics of a Battlepasses in gaming, specifically for a multiplayer shooter.

First and foremost Battlepasses exist to motivate players who enjoy playing the game to have a progression experience in the game and give them a reason to play even if they maxed out character progression and unlocked all weapons options.

The formula is you play thus you progress on the Battlepass and earn rewards. The rewards need to be of course desirable enough to make players want them and give them a sense of achievement for gaining them.

Claiming a Battlpasses in WA is FOMO is plain wrong considering the devs announced a likely in-shop feature by which people will be able to buy BP rewards with money and that there will also be a DLC available.

A multiplayer shooter game is not like an MMORPG where you throw out every year an expansion. Or have new rare farmable item drops which give players a progression experience and reasons and rewards to play the game. Games like WA are by nature repetitive and people play them because the gameplay is fun and entertaining.

Players who dedicate their free time to play however shouldn't miss out on a sense of reward and that is where the Battlepass shines. It rewards dedicated players for playing the game with rewards that non dedicated players have the option to buy later on for cash.

It is the dedicated players that keep playing which make or break a game not the ones who pick up the game play it for a month then move on. And those dedicated players should rightfully earn (at least in my opinion) unique and even exclusive rewards (again my opinion nothing the dev's said).

I go even so far that this whole FOMO fear is overhyped. Some rewards should be only accessible by earning them through playing the game. A dedicated player should have something to show off and feel special about.

((My personal suggestion:)) I think rather then an in-game shop I'd give people a secondary Battlepass slot, which is not timed and into which you can slot any previous premium Battlepass for the cost of that BP to progress it to completion.


3. Really a game with Furry characters?

Apart from what I said at the very start of my post, consider what makes this game unique and stand out. No other game offers such unique protagonists. The whole spring on all four legs is a unique game mechanic thanks to the fact it makes sense for these anthropomorphic characters. Anthropomorphic animal characters aren't even something unique to the furry fandom. They have been part of human history since ancient times, be it animal headed gods of Egypt, satirical depictions of clergy in the middle ages or folktales and faerie tales. And so what if some people including myself enjoy the furry fandom that has come into existence these past decades?
Is mutual tolerance and free expression really an outdated concept these days?
And yes if you hate anthropomorphic character so very much that you can't look past that one aspect of the game then this game is probably not for you, but why trying to ruin other people fun or an studios hard work just because you hate?
I think you'd make so much better use of your time if you just went and played a game you really like or studied hard and cured cancer or brought world peace to the world.

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That is basically all I had to say, sorry for the wall of text. One last time I can't wait to play Wild Assault and hope with all my heart that the game will be a success and that people will have fun playing it for years to come.

[Riskathewolf77]

all true and I do hope people will give this game a honest chance,

[smokratez]

I was going to try it for free. it didn't have enough for me to want to spend money on this.

[meowseverywhere]

I thought the same thing with the price of the game. The devs are a smaller team not backed by a gigantic AAA publisher and likely don't have the exposure like other developers do, $15 isn't bad at all. It's certainly a lot better then a multiplayer only game asking for $40 up front.

[Yoshino]

Originally posted by Octarius:

2. No one has complained about battle passes for a good 7-8 years. People have gotten used to them, it gives them motivation to play every day and now they often ask devs if their game will offer them. Especially since Chinese devs are increasingly opting for a system in which a season pass once purchased never expires.

Just look at dayshawncole13's comment, there was also a second comment he had posted here but that was either reported and taken down or he took it down himself, trust me he's been whining about the battlepass being FOMO, which is of course untrue.

[Yoshino]

Originally posted by Octarius:

It's about the fact that a large part of people don't want to pay for games of this type on principle. ESPECIALLY since on the day of release they can spend that money on the new season pass in Marvel Rivals. The decision not to enter the f2p model even before the release already cost us 30% of the potential playerbase.

I see a pure speculative assumption, the game has not even launched into early access so it has no player base you can make such assumption of. Any calculate-able playerbase comes into existence tonight when it releases.

Likewise you simply make unsubstantiated claims about players generally using your OPINION as the bases of what people are willing to do or not do out of principle. Let people try the game and make their own mind up. All you do is express your OPINION and try to make it sound like you know fundamental facts that have to be true for every game when in truth each game is different.

[Yoshino]

Originally posted by Octarius:

3. Well, the "furries" themselves are responsible for the atmosphere surrounding the concept of this game and the community to which it winks. It's a vast topic in general, but people dressing up in colorful animal costumes are not considered normal, to put it mildly. This is not my personal assessment - just the median of what is thought on the subject.

Beside the fact that not all furries dress up (nothing wrong with that) and a very large portion of the fandom simply revolves around people designing and identifying or role-playing their furry character (generally known as fursona) it differs very little from what other subcultures like cosplayers do.

Regardless if it is your personal assessment or not, the whole concept of pointing to prejudice attitude of uninformed/misinformed and generalizing mainstream perception is exactly what panders to intolerance in today's society and stigmatization.

Like with any subcultures or fandoms there are a tiny minority of people that oust their passion in extreme and sometimes outlandish forms of self-expression which then gets picked up by media or the general to prejudice-mindset inclined masses and used to paint the whole subculture as being that.

This is an age old playbook by which narrow minded people separate society into "the normal" folks and "the others". Someone who is into Ford cars, only wears Ford branded clothing, decorates his whole house with Ford memorabilia and spit polishes his F250 truck every single weekend and plays racing games where he drives a Ford is accepted as normal while someone who designs a Fursona, has art commissioned or makes it themselves and attends conventions of like minded fans in costume once or twice a year is the weirdo, the other, the not normal person.

Everyone is passionate about something, be it religion, politics, cosplay, gaming or the furry fandom. There can be made arguments about the crazy over the topness of a small number of people in each and every of those commitments. From violent religious fanatics, to extreme leaning political doctrines, to people who buy a gamer girls bathwater and so on and on.

The vast majority of "furries" are just ordinary people with a hobby and passion. Stop listening to and propagating prejudice and develop some tolerance and a mind that thinks for itself rather then recites prejudice. In the end we are all just humans, all very different and yet the same.

And closing off on your opinionated claim in your post:

NO!, "the furries" are not responsible for the atmosphere of hatred and intolerance people extend to them, their passion/hobby and the game's concept. It is narrow minded people who assume they have the right to divide society into normal and not normal, who assume the right to pick and choose extreme examples of a minorities individuals and paint them as crazy mainstream behavior of the group as a whole, who assume that one hobby or passion or form of self expression is fine and another is not.

The people who are responsible for the holocaust, for the bombing of innocent civilians belonging to an undesired ethnicity or the killing of homosexuals because they are homosexual are the people who do the killing. That is the Nazis, the people dropping the bombs, the people that hate gay people who belief their god or believe of normal and not normal gives them the right to do so. Don't mix up the roles of perpetrator and victims.

The people who won't give this game a chance just because it has anthropomorphic characters and rage about how dare someone make a game like this are responsible for their intolerance, not the furries.

[slysudo]

$15 is tiny for a multiplayer game when you actually grew up during the primetime COD and Battlefield era. Ignore the children that expect every game to be free. The fortsh!te effect.

[TMW001]

$15 is nothing if anything I'm hoping they don't make the battlepass a slog with 100+ tiers they least confirmed you can buy items you miss hopefully in game currency isn't a pain to earn.

[Yoshino]

Originally posted by dayshawncole13:

this person also reporting people for disagreeing with them

If you think I reported you, I gotta disappoint you, I saw your deleted comment and knew it would get reported by someone and deleted.

[Yoshino]

Originally posted by Octarius:

Late edit: Everything turned out to be even worse than my darkest suspicions

Not my experience. I had a total blast and despite it being midnight to 4:30 am on the asian servers I played with heaps of players, just judging by the numbers of people in my matches the game is clearly popular.

[Auntie Hong Ying's Tasty Beans]

Originally posted by Octarius:

Originally posted by Yoshino:

The people who won't give this game a chance just because it has anthropomorphic characters and rage about how dare someone make a game like this are responsible for their intolerance, not the furries.

I'll just say this. I haven't lived in this world since yesterday and I'm more than certain that what I wrote is an accurate analysis of the problem and a pretty good prediction of what will happen to this game. Still, personally, I hope you're right. It would be a shame if 5k people bought the game and the whole project died after a month - especially since the game needs at least 30k copies sold (and not returned) to pay off and earn anything from it. I've been watching Wild Assault for a long time, I've been eagerly awaiting its release and the entry fee and battlepass don't put me off. I certainly hope I'm not in the minority.
P.S. And for God's sake, let's not use the word "fursona" because it sounds so cringe that it can make average Joe not want to buy this game.

Late edit: Everything turned out to be even worse than my darkest suspicions

"I've been eagerly awaiting its release, and still haven't bought it"

Says a level 0 steam account, okay.

[Yoshino]

Originally posted by dayshawncole13:

imagine thinking opinions is a troll tactic

I am not going to repeat the content of the comment of yours that got deleted, but yeah when you make xenophobic remarks and base your criticism on something so unsubstantiated as the studios country of origin and make wild false accusations people take action and report your contribution. Steam reviews it and clearly there was grounds for the deletion.

[Yoshino]

Originally posted by Snow:

"worship the company that only wants your money" is what im getting from your TOTALLY not chatgpt written wall of text

LoL tell that to yourselves, maybe if you get to my age and would have learned to write at a time when there weren't any computers around you would have developed some abilities to construct sensible arguments and put them into writing.

[Auntie Hong Ying's Tasty Beans]

Originally posted by Octarius:

Originally posted by DVerde:

"I've been eagerly awaiting its release, and still haven't bought it"

Says a level 0 steam account, okay.

I'm not going to spend money on an online game that has an initial peak of 1.9k (and as we all know, the initial peak is always the highest and never repeats itself) xD It doesn't matter if it's 5$, 50$ or 500$ I'd rather buy myself something to eat or a beer. And don't bother with the details of my account, weirdo.

Pot meet kettle.


I am sure that beer can be your next "research project".

[Yoshino]

Originally posted by Octarius:

I'm not going to spend money on an online game that has an initial peak of 1.9k (and as we all know, the initial peak is always the highest and never repeats itself) xD It doesn't matter if it's 5$, 50$ or 500$ I'd rather buy myself something to eat or a beer. And don't bother with the details of my account, weirdo.

I just don't quite get why you and others don't go and buy yourself something to eat or drink or play other games YOU actually enjoy. What is the whole point of going on and on and on with the same complaints and doom saying regarding a game you clearly believe to be in YOUR OPINION a failure.

Are you hoping to get a rise out of people or do you think posting on and on the same stuff will sabotage the game? Anyone who is interested in the game will likely still try it regardless of what you think and write. You could just put up a review and move on and play something that is to your taste.

I mean I for sure wouldn't waste my time with raging against a game I decided isn't for me. People leave a negative review and move on don't you feel like you are wasting a hell of a lot of your freetime? I usually don't even ever write on steam forums but because I like this game the way it is, especially after having fun playing it today for the first time and because I see its potential in the future I have a good reason to write here. What is yours?