What's wrong with chucklefish?

[x Princess Leliana x]

After browsing the forums, it appears everyone hates chucklefish, and this game isn't getting the reception they should due to chucklefish's own reputation. But... why does everyone hate them? I love chucklefish, they've made/published some of my favourite games of all time, and have been really helpful when I've contacted them for support, seriously, what's the problem?

[Zagz]

I think what the issue is that Starbound which is Chucklefish big title has been split into two branch... The unstable branch and stable one. The Stable version of Starbound gets an update like every 2 or 3 months and it feels like a big drag.... While for those that kept reading through the multiple posts and figured out how to load in the unstable branch will notice that the game is actually getting a patch on a nearly nightly basis.

Though as I write that, I'm sure MOST players have no ideas of both branches. So in a way, you have 1 side of the medal where it's really shows that there's hardwork behind it and on the other side, Chucklefish looks like a bunch of lazy folks, chilling with our money.

Kickstarter campains are very dangerous. You place extremely high expectation on your product and if you're slightly under the bar, you're pretty much dead in the water. Starbound had an OK release but then Terraria came out with an extremely potent expansion (for free too).

- Bad marketting
- Bad timing
- Bad communition
- Bad executive decisions

Don't get me wrong, I do not hate Chucklefish, in fact, I like them. I understand what they did wrong and simply hope for the best. After all, this is not EA or UBI, I can forgive mistakes of little indie companies.

[ReverendBonobo]

Starbound wasn't everything they wanted it to be, and they're never going to get over it.

[Klumpatsch]

I don't hate Chucklefish. I didn't even know about them before I bought this game. First of all, they are only a small indie company. From what I've heard they aren't worse than any experienced "established" AAA company. Also their logo is cute as ♥♥♥♥.

And what people don't realize: not buying the game only punishes the developer himself.

I know this might sound very light-hearted, but keeping yourself from enjoying an obviously very great game just because of "principles" you probably break some other day by buying any EA/Ubisoft/insert comapny here game seems stupid to me.

[JoeShmo]

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UPDATES NEVER
OPTIMIZATION NEVER
THANKS FOR THE MONEY KIDS

Thats Chucklefish. When I saw their name on the game I instantly went to refund it, but stopped when I learned they're only the publisher.

Except... They update frequently, and have good optimisation. I have no idea where you're coming from.

You can't really call them "updates" and "optimizations" when they're redesigning the features 2,3 or 4 times over because they have no idea how to develope the game. And thus...they have to reoptimize the game every time becasue of it.

And no...the updates are so far and few between. There was a time you got only a single meaningful update per year. The "nightly updates" do not count...because they are ( as pointed out by Chucklefish ) a torrent of of deveoper madness as they just upload every single saved change they do to test out if it works or not. Not actual standard stable releases.

[deadering]

Nothing is wrong with Chucklefish, it's just people complaining because that's what they always do.