I feel kinda scammed lole

[Machiavelli]

Another EA title bites the dust. Was hoping this gaem was gunna be eve online and space engineers had a baby. but too many poor game designs issues to be successful. and now the devs are abandoning it... what a waste.

game development is so scummy nowadays. they just take the money from ea and run as always lole.

[Oobfiche]

i think its best to just stop searching then, too rare for any games of a specific development culture now. japan's employees dying on the spot. Scandinavia while has good quality, time is something that does not exist. westerners complaining about every tiny little dumb detail of everything to ruin games and devs listen to minorities.

[Jeronimo]

I don't think it's fair to say that. They've been working for years on the game and did not sell so many copies. I'm not sure it's a good financial operation for them and imagine for a sec you work on something for years and it eventually fails. How would you feel? Screaming scam may be fair in some cases but I don't think it's the case here.

[Say10]

Messaggio originale di ExacTed . Jeronimo:

imagine for a sec you work on something for years and it eventually fails. How would you feel?

Why should we? This is a company, not some 3-man developer studio that treat their game as a hobby. Did they imagine how playerbase will feel when they "slowed" development as soon as project stopped paying for itself?

I paid for early access to the game and promise that it will be finished in the future.
Now they are extending "future" for who knows how long, propably forever.
Initial sales were not bad, it's lack of development killed the playerbase, and eventually the game.
9 month's worth of PTU stuff delivered to live server bringed peak concurrent players to like what, 700? That's a joke... And these numbers already started dropping.
Don't forget to add that this is the second time they pulled the stunt called "abandonware" in EA - see Boreal Blade.

[Ex]

I don't think they've advertised it much. I hope (hopefully when and not if) the game leaves alpha or EA, that they do some serious advertising. Though they may need to do some more surveys and crowd source information on what would put off new players. I love the engineering aspect of this game and really want to see physical factories with programmed assembly lines. But even repairing a ship in space and troubleshooting it right now, seems like it would just make new people alt+f4. It could lead to some cool 'fuel rat' gameplay, but with the insane distances and travel time to some places, it likely wouldn't be very fun for either party.

[TheShadowSage]

Messaggio originale di My Lord of Fellington:

Another EA title bites the dust. Was hoping this gaem was gunna be eve online and space engineers had a baby. but too many poor game designs issues to be successful. and now the devs are abandoning it... what a waste.

game development is so scummy nowadays. they just take the money from ea and run as always lole.

One might assume so, I'm gonna ride this one out for as long as I can before ♥♥♥♥ hits the fan. Wanna fly with me and the GSA?

[AgentFisher]

i enjoyed it for like a day or so got hooked then released theres nothing to do if you dont want to buckle down into blender and 3d model ships. (Not really sure where this is going )
Just seems like a ship building and NOTHING to do with STAR BASES

[EnemyDwarf]

I agree....
I highly supported the team, followed all the way through CA-----

Then it went Early Access... they took there £30 from everyone and complacently started to change the direction of the game from what it initially looked like it was in CA...

They then "hired" a bunch of staff to stamp anyone out that decided to talk about what the issues were within the game be it here on these forums or on there official discord, you leave on negative comment a whole swarm of people jump on you with a bunch of excuses as to why its this way or that..

The Devs even started to ban people from the game for "negative" behavior outside of the game its self.....crazy behavior.

We as people tried to talk to these Devs, help in the direction of there game but your met with a few people who say "we dont care people will come back and play" and "funding is no issue" but they simply carried on with no real direction. just randomly adding "stuff" without content.

Then they say "no one brought our game because of the bad reviews" well thats what happens if you dont listen to your customers...you get bad feedback,

so now we get to the point were these so called "DEVS" cannot be bothered to continue and or have no funds to continue and will turn off the servers off a game we cannot even play at all from that point....

i may as well have burned my 30 bucks.....

look at some EA games that have been supported for nearly 10 years......

This barely made a year...
I will never support Frozenbyte as a company i think there blame the customer attitude sucks nearly as bad as there coding skills.

Also this one game did have a strange phenomenon of every single person who decided to defend this game was some how a "game dev" or a "coder" and no one else knew anything....LMAO look at your game "coders"...

I loved the idea and the concept but sadly the makers of 2d side scrolling games did not have the skill or knowledge to pull this one off... now will dump the server make another pos game and expect all to buy it...

This will not be me or anyone that was part of our 200 people company on launch day.

(notice how i didn't even list any issues of the game itself i would not have enough room how ever not being able to build a starbase without all your stuff floating away or vanishing is kinda a big one :D)

[Serenity]

You feel scammed because you were...as thousands of others were, too.

[Fauci]

Frozen Byte has no idea how to develop they ignored their community and focused on adding new content when the game was broken.

Ships exploding for no reason, we had a rotor bug out and someone got flung at least 30,000 km in 10 seconds.

Hours, HOURS of afk flight time like 6+ to get to high tier ore. Who the hell has that kind of time we all have jobs and families. We want to be able to build our ships, mine, and fight. not be AFK logged into the servers so they can say hey investors we have X amount of players give us more spendy bucks.

This was a super ambitious title and I think all of us wanted to succeed.

[JAGIELSKI]

Sorry, but where did you read that they are abandoning it? Tried to look to confirm it, but couldn't, not on the main site, not on the discord, nada. And the last update was on May 26th, with last major update not that far behind.

[TheShadowSage]

Messaggio originale di JAGIELSKI:

Sorry, but where did you read that they are abandoning it? Tried to look to confirm it, but couldn't, not on the main site, not on the discord, nada. And the last update was on May 26th, with last major update not that far behind.

I think it's a little early to assume they'll be dropping the game, as I've said before I'm gonna ride this out with the Armada as much as I can. You guys wanna fly with us and engage in fleet v fleet battles?

[Fauci]

Messaggio originale di JAGIELSKI:

Sorry, but where did you read that they are abandoning it? Tried to look to confirm it, but couldn't, not on the main site, not on the discord, nada. And the last update was on May 26th, with last major update not that far behind.

idk maybe they pulled a bunch of devs off and the average player count is 100 people.

Get off your horse white night I would love to be proved wrong this is not out of hate it is hurt I wanted this game to work, but it is a huge failure currently.

100 people...100 people that is all they can muster. You can stick your head in the sand, but unless something major changes this game is going to stay dead.

Again I hope I am proved wrong only time will tell, I waited 7 months and they had made haphazard progress.

[JAGIELSKI]

Okay, show me where devs said they are abandoning the game and I will believe you. After all, we are interested in the truth here, right?

[FreshHighVoultageGandalf]

Messaggio originale di JAGIELSKI:

Okay, show me where devs said they are abandoning the game and I will believe you. After all, we are interested in the truth here, right?

i believe the passage which tends to bring a little distress here and there is this one here https://steamcommunity.com/games/454120/announcements/detail/3182365494609391781

[JAGIELSKI]

So basically people are making mountains out of anthills. And I've thought I'm on Steam, not Twitter. Le sigh.