Why Did This Game Get Hated On?

[Xyyth]

I don't understand why people are going mental over this game. It seems fun to me! Making ARPGs is terrible difficult and time consuming.

[MrWitz]

Yeah I don't get it either. No, Wolcen isn't a PoE killer. It isn't the next big thing. But it is still a lot of fun, there's a decent amount of the ARPG grind to keep you playing for a while, and then when you're done you're done. It's not a bad game by ANY stretch of the imagination. It's just that it "cool" and "hip" to hate on it.

[Gamerzilla]

Because people that grinded to the cap before lost that grind so have wasted time. Also, people that insist on playing in online mode while the servers have 10,000% more than normal traffic are having a bad time. This is understandable, but honestly, it takes one whole day to get through the story, 2 hours if you had loot saved in your bloodtrail chest, some of which mysteriously lost its level required to equip it XD. There are a bunch of new bugs, but MOST of those don't occur in offline mode.

[Gamerzilla]

Speaking of PoE, its funny how quickly people forgot how PoE was prior to seasons. Years of time where the game was super buggy, laggy, and with constant character wipes. People need to lay off the salt, its bad for your heart!

[Nim]

This game used to be called Umbra and the kickstarter that made it happen and the alpha were completely different. A lot of the backers felt deceived by the change as it used to be an open world game, crafting was much more prominent and there used to be player housing.

[Xyyth]

Originally posted by Nim:

This game used to be called Umbra and the kickstarter that made it happen and the alpha were completely different. A lot of the backers felt deceived by the change as it used to be an open world game, crafting was much more prominent and there used to be player housing.

Oh wow...that, I did not know. No wonder. So, most of the bad reviews are probably Kickstarters that felt they got screwed.

[<W F> Ævil-Blondi-E]

I think that game is "hated" because of bugs and all issues it has. Game has tons of bugs and glitches. It lacks several qol stuffs that should be basic thing in games.

Also there is serious lack of variety in endgame. You run same 5 missions over and over again in exactly same looking maps fighting same enemies in same spots.

All in all i dont think that wolcen is hated. Way i remeber it being advertised was diablo / poe mix with best features taken from both games, but then in the end we got repetitive mediocre arpg with tons of bugs.

[jpr64]

"Hate" is a big word for a game : but let's say that when I bought this game 3 years ago, nowhere it was advetized as "early access" or "beta" or " alpha" version even... And here we go 3 years later, after 2/3 reset of your characters even offline and again a big bag of bugs apparently... (didn't test this version, I'm waiting for the real last final release :) )

JPR out!

[Xyyth]

So, I guess these Russians can't program then? Why all the bugs? What's up?

[Clarimonde]

I recall that much of the skilltree wasn't working on launch as well, or if they were, calculated oddly, as well as summons didn't scale well either, but they seem great nowadays.

[Xyyth]

The starting company was taken over by a Russian game company over a year ago.

Originally posted by nowhere man:

Originally posted by Xyyth:

So, I guess these Russians can't program then? Why all the bugs? What's up?

Russians? What?

The starting company was taken over by a Russian game company over a year ago. The original devs bailed or sold out.

[Gluchacki]

Game got hated on because they promised a lot of stuff in the kickstarter and failed to deliver on that. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wolcenstudio/umbra

[Ghost | Severage]

Originally posted by nowhere man:

Originally posted by Xyyth:

The starting company was taken over by a Russian game company over a year ago.




The starting company was taken over by a Russian game company over a year ago. The original devs bailed or sold out.

Yeah i didnt know of this acquisition but I doubt the developing team changed.

Originaly this game got hated upon because the devs promised a lot of things and end up not delivering what they promised. As the years passed by, they are trying to improve the game and honestly right now, for me it's not bad, just needs to get a lot of bugs fixed and also have some polish passes.

PS> I previously responded to the wrong message. Pardon me, i'm sleepy.

The really sad thing there is, that those bugs exist since the release of the game + all the new bugs and trust me, none of them will ever be fixed.

If the devs actually cared about this game, they would've fixed some of the most gamebreaking bugs by now, but no, absolutely nothing. They are still in the game and 3 times worse in Multiplayer than solo online or offline.

[SlashGeeGee]

there's a lot of reasons really but for me.. who has been here since beta. I've given this game chance after chance after chance.. and they just keep screwing it up. i mean i really want this game to be good. if this game had last epoch's dev team, this game could be a serious contender to the other ARPGs out there.

[Sgt. Magnusson]

You're the fanboy who was defending this game and attacking all the "haters" after playing it just for 2 hours, pretending you knew better than those of us who had played it for 100+ hours. You know full well why this game was poorly received.

[Limp Squirrel]

The bugs mainly. So far into release and still a lot of critical bugs. With the latest patch came a few new ones.