Dirty Devs: The Isle Game and the Not So Dandy Dondi

[Malaclypse]

since it was published on steam several friends and i have been following the development process.
we also watched the dev live stream on twitch.
partly the complete streams ...

firstly you could see that your chief developer, or whatever he was supposed to represent, had no idea what he was doing ...
it was primarily about the entertainment of the twitch viewers and himself ...

secondly, when you switched to evrima, there were many promises on your part regarding content and publication period ..
nothing was respected ..
why can't you, like other workers from the private industry, try to do a good job and communicate with customers if there are problems?

Are you so interested in maximizing profits that you totally give a ♥♥♥♥ about your customers, me and everyone who owns this game?
is your goal to become a "no man's sky" scandal to get more attention?

-as an example, a kickstarter promise made by the devs:
"the isle should supposed to be in essenz a open world shooter game with three human factions..."

-argument from the devs why there have to be humans:
"But, why wouldn't you just play as a dinosaur and forgot about the humans? Playing as a human will have it's own strengths. For example, play as the Ranger faction and create your own pack of vicious raptors...


it's a shame and very sad how you deal with your customers.
you are destroying the video game industry and helping to normalize this business model of never finished games.

here is a good compilation about whats wrong with this game and the devs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zlJnYdb3po

[Khanivore]

I watched the video, to be honest nothing I haven't seen guys talk about before in forums for the most part, the fact he only played 70hrs and mostly hated it isn't my experience of the isle at all, I've had my share of fun with my 1000hrs over 4 years.. yeah I don't know, it's all rather depressing

I for one will greatly miss The Isle if the Devs just throw it all in, we wont get a game like it, maybe in years

[Khanivore]

𝒦𝒾𝓉 ~ 𝒦𝒶𝓉 původně napsal:

Roadmap: https://trello.com/b/G5tsb4XI/public-roadmap

If that Road map is correct and timely I for one would be very happy

[Bunuffin]

i don't know which one is worse, this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and devs or DOD ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and devs... i say DOD devs =TI devs...

[Stryder]

Krona původně napsal:

powerferret původně napsal:

So, while I agree that this video verifies the fact that Dondi is pretty much an @s$hole(which he openly and often admits), I didn't see anything that was illegal, and I don't see anything that warrants this game being labled a scam. A scam is someone taking money and intentionally not providing the product or service, and this looks more like mismanagement and incompetence.
It's fairly obvious that Dondi is not good at managing people or projects, so the best idea is for someone to take over the reins as the lead dev, and leave Dondi to be the idea guy and map builder for the game(which is the part he seems to actually be interested in doing anyway). Probably have someone else be assigned as CFO who can handle the money better. All I'm saying is that the game is not a lost cause yet, it can still be saved. It still has potential.

its quite literally in bad hands, or it could just be doing so much better.

Dondi sent $10,000 to his own co-worker dying of cancer
Dondi sent $400,000 in total to just Twitch Stream donations alone

No, seriously, F*CK THAT.


The game has practically been like this and he's probably been using the money from the game to do this, he's also not paid people that worked on the game and owes people money.
https://twitter.com/TheMarigoria/status/1297770692256174085

And he did do illegal activity in the forms of sabotage, where he attempted to violate the works of others. By intimidating or rewarding content creators to not review a game or to do so in a bad light.

Not to mention its pretty clear that he knew of the drama beforehand of the allegations with Paradymshift. Which IIRC is guilty by association and not reporting it, at all.


Regardless if he did illegal activity or not, the dude just needs to go.

https://twitter.com/adaptedprocess/status/1297987813321801728?s=21 https://twitter.com/adaptedprocess/status/1292566494543405057?s=21 wait there’s more

[Zandarmon]

Stryder původně napsal:

Krona původně napsal:

its quite literally in bad hands, or it could just be doing so much better.

Dondi sent $10,000 to his own co-worker dying of cancer
Dondi sent $400,000 in total to just Twitch Stream donations alone

No, seriously, F*CK THAT.


The game has practically been like this and he's probably been using the money from the game to do this, he's also not paid people that worked on the game and owes people money.
https://twitter.com/TheMarigoria/status/1297770692256174085

And he did do illegal activity in the forms of sabotage, where he attempted to violate the works of others. By intimidating or rewarding content creators to not review a game or to do so in a bad light.

Not to mention its pretty clear that he knew of the drama beforehand of the allegations with Paradymshift. Which IIRC is guilty by association and not reporting it, at all.


Regardless if he did illegal activity or not, the dude just needs to go.

https://twitter.com/adaptedprocess/status/1297987813321801728?s=21 https://twitter.com/adaptedprocess/status/1292566494543405057?s=21 wait there’s more

https://twitter.com/arvalis/status/1297938017668091906?s=19 wait, there's more more

[Jelly the Fish]

Zandarmon původně napsal:

Stryder původně napsal:

https://twitter.com/adaptedprocess/status/1297987813321801728?s=21 https://twitter.com/adaptedprocess/status/1292566494543405057?s=21 wait there’s more

https://twitter.com/arvalis/status/1297938017668091906?s=19 wait, there's more more

Ooo so many mores

[Royal Tar]

That Trello roadmap is such BS. Also who is going to on Trello to get updates on the isle development? These devs really are stupid my god.

[Truly Meaningless]

Gopnik Child původně napsal:

That Trello roadmap is such BS. Also who is going to on Trello to get updates on the isle development? These devs really are stupid my god.

That’s literally one of the thingns Trello was made for, roadmaps

[Fenris]

Truly Meaningless původně napsal:

Gopnik Child původně napsal:

That Trello roadmap is such BS. Also who is going to on Trello to get updates on the isle development? These devs really are stupid my god.

That’s literally one of the thingns Trello was made for, roadmaps

it would be nice if they road mapped everything promised 5 years ago from the kickstarter so people who funded the game before it made 20 million+ from game sales alone over early access and not including merch would actually respect the people who funded the team

[Kanni]

LimticRage původně napsal:

Zandarmon původně napsal:

https://twitter.com/arvalis/status/1297938017668091906?s=19 wait, there's more more

ooooh Anthomnia, he will fall so hard... so many delusional ppl in his comments, the manipulation is strong there... dondi is like yandere dev, gets criticism "oooh im gonna off myself", manipulative scumbag...

It really feels like guilt tripping people into forgetting everything that's wrong with The Isle and its management. You'd think a guy who thinks his friend's gonna end it all would contact a professional therapist instead of outing the man on Twitter.

[Adam__86]

𝒦𝒾𝓉 ~ 𝒦𝒶𝓉 původně napsal:

Roadmap: https://trello.com/b/G5tsb4XI/public-roadmap

I mean that roadmap is pretty much pointless because it's nothing new, just features they say they will add between now and never with piss poor reputation to back themselves up.

I always suspected The Isle was nothing more than a vanity project to boost Dondi's ego and self importance. The man is unfit to work in the gaming industry and the game can only survive with his departure but since he has a narcissistic personality disorder he would sooner let the project crash and burn than admit responsibility

[Adam__86]

KingBee původně napsal:

I watched the video, to be honest nothing I haven't seen guys talk about before in forums for the most part, the fact he only played 70hrs and mostly hated it isn't my experience of the isle at all, I've had my share of fun with my 1000hrs over 4 years.. yeah I don't know, it's all rather depressing

I for one will greatly miss The Isle if the Devs just throw it all in, we wont get a game like it, maybe in years

I mean the point was that a lot of people say their fun stems from playing with friends and that's because you're getting enjoyment from the social interactions between friends whilst playing, something you would experience regardless. Objectively the game is boring without friends

[Soggy Bread]

Adam__86 původně napsal:

KingBee původně napsal:

I watched the video, to be honest nothing I haven't seen guys talk about before in forums for the most part, the fact he only played 70hrs and mostly hated it isn't my experience of the isle at all, I've had my share of fun with my 1000hrs over 4 years.. yeah I don't know, it's all rather depressing

I for one will greatly miss The Isle if the Devs just throw it all in, we wont get a game like it, maybe in years

I mean the point was that a lot of people say their fun stems from playing with friends and that's because you're getting enjoyment from the social interactions between friends whilst playing, something you would experience regardless. Objectively the game is boring without friends

This. I could enjoy even the worst games with friends, that dosnt mean the game is good in any way.

[brownie689]

Is there a way we can get rid of Dondi from this game and let the actual developers continue working on the game? Dondi just seems to be the one dragging this game down and stopping it from being finished in a timely manner.

[Adam__86]

brownie689 původně napsal:

Is there a way we can get rid of Dondi from this game and let the actual developers continue working on the game? Dondi just seems to be the one dragging this game down and stopping it from being finished in a timely manner.

Only if he agreed to leave which he won't - Explains why so many leave him