Is it dead?

[Mirrebex]

I bought this game after playing Raft and loving it but the development seems to have halted long ago. Is it really dead?

[Sir Budgerigar]

Depends on who you ask. The devs are still posting the occasional update on Twitter, and post a devblog around 2-3 times a year. The community is split as to whether the next update will ever happen. If it be people who defend the devs, people who claim that the devs abandoned Scrap Mechanic, or people who are just infuriated by how long this update is taking, there are plenty of each stance who strongly hold their position, and borderline lash out at anyone who thinks differently (because its the internet, of course that would happen over some video game). Practically every recent discussion that has something to do with the next update ends up in a pointless death spiral of bickering (the only thing that this has accomplished was make Axolot avoid Steam drama, only doing updates on Twitter).

The one thing that cannot be debated is whether there was any work put into the next update: the screenshots and gifs all point to that as evidence. The branching logic between the sides comes to the question of whether the devs are still working on the update, or just drip-feeding past accomplishments to show signs of life. The second scenario doesn't make as much sense to me, seeing that this studio has a history of releasing updates over a long period of time anyways.

Axolot has moved most of its people to a new project, so thats an explanation as to why development is so slow. But slow is very different from abandonment.

[DB Gaming]

1-2 Million sales.. 20 bucks a pop.. That's around 20 million dollars they made off this game. They owe the people who paid them to give us an update. Take 5 minutes out of a month and write something... tell us what's going on. We don't need gifs and fancy crap we need to know what's going on.

I don't think it's being worked on at all anymore... and they're just hoping more people will buy it before they officially give the project up.

[Rawstylerzz91]

the Developers made a cool little game, but no one should play this even if its good, those guys have a massive fanbase of this game but to give us an update or just a short text explaining to people whats up, to atleast give the impression they give a ♥♥♥♥ about their fanbase would be nice.

I personally love scrap mechanic, but i refuse to play it even if an update hits, its just human to communicate a little and since they lack the common sense to do so i'm personally done with those people. Go onto steam where there is many good little games with active developers who give updates and communicate stuff with the masses.

A girl cant take u to bed and when u lying there strapped arms and legs be left there hanging.... thats what they doing.

[Slenkhar]

looks like it, no update, devs don't say anything. shame

[guillermoelnino]

I feel the only reason they give us dev blogs would be have to do with some obscure EU law related to abandonware we haven't heard of. They'll still happily take your money, but they don't want to do any work for it. Take it for what it is. Mod the hell out of it and make it the experience it could have been today.

[NoirSoldats]

.... This is a fully featured, fully released game.. Do people not understand that that's kinda how games work.. Developer makes a game, developer releases a game, developer fixes bugs and handles user feedback requests for a bit.. BUT THEN THEY MOVE ON TO SOMETHING NEW! You can't leave your whole team making free content for a game forever.. That's a surefire way to go out of business... Wow people.. Think a bit... eh?

[King DaMuncha]

Originally posted by NoirSoldats:

.... This is a fully featured, fully released game.. Do people not understand that that's kinda how games work.. Developer makes a game, developer releases a game, developer fixes bugs and handles user feedback requests for a bit.. BUT THEN THEY MOVE ON TO SOMETHING NEW! You can't leave your whole team making free content for a game forever.. That's a surefire way to go out of business... Wow people.. Think a bit... eh?

This game is still listed on the store as Early Access. So theyre not finished.

[NoirSoldats]

Originally posted by King DaMuncha:

This game is still listed on the store as Early Access. So theyre not finished.

I stand corrected.. I got a bit tilted because I always see people complaining that game devs don't constantly update their games and went a little off the deep end.. Sorry all!

[Noiro1]

While chapter 2 may be very big with a whole underground cave system, and even add new places (grow labs, scrap yards, warehouse v2, snowy caves, caves with lava, underground mining facilites, underground warehouses) and bots (green tapebot, yellow tapebot, red totebot, blue totebot, yellow totebot, cablebot, scrapbot, and trashbot), it's definitely taking a little long, and while people are still modding scrap mechanic, it's not the same as having a fully polished and complete game with what they promised, and raft has definitely been having more attention than it needs.

[TJ the HedgeScout]

Devs are working but they aren't communicating with us so we are completely in the dark except for when they make tweets which are pretty rare, i really hope it does come this year

[BraveCaperCat]

Originally posted by Sir Budgerigar:

people who are just infuriated by how long this update is taking

That's me!

[TeddyBear4444]

its on the verge o destruction.

[o_b]

big SAD :(

[Noiro1]

In MY opinion I don't want them to release it as it's a great modding challenge, but the community definitely needs it's release

[BBGeer]

It looks like their pattern is to give updates about every 6 months, Well I just took of my shoes and by counting on my fingers and toes it looks like we might expect an update this month.