Filed for a refund.

[Shadow Raider]

Hey I get it, /die was an issue. But much better fixes for the underlying cause woudl have been better than this lives limit crap. Hell, just remove /die and let people choose to spawn as an eve or to a previous family line, problem solved. But nooooo, lets make some asinine limit of respawns. So I get a bad spawn and mom abandons me, or I spawn to an eve that is not prepared adn die. or 20 people spawn, mom gets overwhemlmed, food goes locally extinct and we have 50 hatchets but no rabbit snares, etc etc. And I get pnished for this in the first 2 minutes after spawn, so basically I can play for less than half an hour eachday (worst case, exageration). This is a boon for griefers of course, just rando kill people and run down their respawns. For literally everyone else its a big middle finger. ♥♥♥♥ this game.

[defGaime]

Ah, but see, it's all part of the dev's "vision".

The dev has been throwing halfass ideas into this game for a while now, then turns around and tells players not to give him feedback or suggestions. It's honestly amazing.

Someone on the OHOL forum said it best: "My concern? I didnt buy a video game. I bought a key for server access. Now the parameters of that access are changing? Poor form."

This is why I suggested adding the "early access" tag to this game in my review, because this game isn't finished and doesn't look like it'll ever be finished. Instead of advancing the technology tree, we get war swords and life tokens. So stupid.

[Sweet Tea]

This is becoming a FB game.. Gotta wait til you get your lives back. XD

[Lanigiro]

next will be microtransactions to buy more lives lol.

[Shadow Raider]

Originally posted by eediot:

next will be microtransactions to buy more lives lol.

If you read the patch notes, that was his original intent, $1 one life. Since stema refuses to refund me because the change took place after my 2 hour evaluation period, i am disputing the charge with my CC company, which will take a much dimmer view of the product being non-functional. It's nto an early access game, the dev cant just make arbitray changes that lock people otu of being able to use th eproduct despite whatever retarded "vision" he has.

[Sweet Tea]

Sad, I really loved the concept but this is getting a bit ridiculous. Makes me scared what is to come next after this point.

[Zinnie]

agreed. either remove lives limit or make it refill faster. I'm getting killed by random griefers or mom's who path by and ignoring me all the time. bs patch

[shark attack jack]

I keep losing connection, not sure why but it means I lose life too.

[Shadow Raider]

Yep, the good ole 2 hours one life and no food hacks.
Probably speed hacks as well.

[Snowman1403]

Yeah dev....you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up hugely this patch.

Good game but maybe spend a little more time truly thinking about what affects changes will have.

Than after youv spent time, ask someone else to look too.

Your playing with fire. Few more mistakes and grats! youll be another Sunken game dev who doesnt listen to the community.

[defGaime]

Originally posted by Snowman1403:

Your playing with fire. Few more mistakes and grats! youll be another Sunken game dev who doesnt listen to the community.

The dev already doesn't listen:
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=62202#p62202

You see, after 15+ years of game dev experience and making 19 games (that no one can name off the top of their head), Jason is immune to criticism. Yet he thinks he's on the verge of making a "truly great game" with OHOL.

[Tee]

This update doesen't really effect you unless your a troll or /die all the time. IF you play the game the way your supposed to, you will never run out of lives, your all being cry babies over nothing lol

[Shadow Raider]

3. You're probably not a game designer. This sounds harsh or snobby or something, but it's most likely true. And even if you are a game designer (there are some out there, for sure, playing OHOL), you probably don't have the amount of experience that I have after 15 years of doing this and 19 games. If you do have that much experience, I already know you personally, because if you've been making games that long, we've already crossed paths. I'm probably calling you on the phone for advice directly.

Yes because there are only like 50 people designing games in the world and they all know each other and have each others phone numbers.

I am software engineer in a fairly niche field (artificial intelligence) and I can tell you that even in this niche field there are at least 100,000 people working in it and I can name maybe 5 of them I have actually met and 2 of them that I could contact. Gaming is even worse, there are shady diploma mills like full sail cranking out thousands of new game programmers every day. Games are and shodul be an art form, and while the customer may not have the technical skill to paint, they "know what they like" and it is your responsibility and privledge as a programmer to translate that from human language to computer language.

If you want ot have a hobby game, great, I have several myself, but stop selling it as a fully functional commercia game on steam. Either make it free to play or put it in early access so people have some heads up that the game is not feature complete or even feature stable. But when you make a game that is sold at $20 and its not early access people rightfully exp[ect a complete stable game. Not some hobby project where you make major game wrecking decisions and chastise the community for their feedback. I highly doubt you have made 19 games professionally or have 15 years experience because professional software developers absolutely want feedback from customers so they can make a better product. They dont throw a childish temper tantrum every time the customers sya hey, this change is the worst thing since manual based copy protection.

In short, grow up and listen to the ever shrinking fanbase before your game is just another fly encrusted turd on the dung heap of failed games.

[Shadow Raider]

Originally posted by Tristan:

This update doesen't really effect you unless your a troll or /die all the time. IF you play the game the way your supposed to, you will never run out of lives, your all being cry babies over nothing lol

Or if you p[lay games 12-16 hours a day. Since oon average a life will last maybe 15-20 minutes. If I immediately gear up and abandon the family im born to grabbign all the gear I cna carry, yes I will die of old age. If I try to help them, the burden of doing so will usually have me starving to death around 40-50, when the fodo bar starts to shrink and I cannot travel long distances to gather resources anymore. If I am born into apoor situation, well, its usually over in 5 mintues. And I am born into bad situations far more often than I am born into good situations, mostly because the player base is already so low.

[Ayaka]

You could merely complain without attacking the dev's character, y'know.

[Sweet Tea]

Yeah, griefing is getting worse now.