State of the game

[Gleitfrosch]

The concept is interesting but the recent posts put me a bit of.

How playable is the game and what are the three India about its future?

[Slainpessimist]

The game is very playable and fun, it also looks pretty good.
maybe a dev can fill you in on it's future, but in three years there's barely been an update.

[Gleitfrosch]

Thats the reason Im holding back. Three years without visual progreess for an EA game is not right.

[Cypher]

It's your classic Early access gamble.
When you rely on EA sales to fund further development, and those sales dry up or slow down as people await the actual release, you get a game stuck in limbo for years. It's a very bad business practice and is why i will not buy EA games again, same with kickstarter and the other "sold sight unseen" projects.
What grinds my gears, is that this is blatantly against the admittedly weak Steam EA policy, where an EA game should be feature complete and just lacking in minor polish. It should not require EA sales to finish the core development, but yet again (and looking at the murkier end of the Steam catalogue,) you can see just how seriously Steam takes its own policies, so why should the devs?

The answer is "Consumer Protection", something that seems to not exist outside of Europe!

[The Bullet]

We have made an announcement explaining the current development situation:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/727130/view/3607977852727515247

[REVENGER]

we don't have the end but still a GREAT game more than 200 hours GREAT !!!!

[Cypher]

Originally posted by REVENGER:

we don't have the end but still a GREAT game more than 200 hours GREAT !!!!

Credit where it's due, it is great so far!

[Slainpessimist]

Originally posted by Gleitfrosch:

Thats the reason Im holding back. Three years without visual progreess for an EA game is not right.

As The Bullet's post, there's still reason to be optimistic, there's a lot of work to be done, but I'm hopeful.
Maybe wait for the next update and then we can tell our friends about the game, because it really has a lot of quality.

[Aivulefey]

Originally posted by The Bullet:

We have made an announcement explaining the current development situation:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/727130/view/3607977852727515247

so why would anyone buy travelers rest if you can't finish between the stars?

[Aivulefey]

like for real finish one project before you start on another or have separate teams for them both

[The Bullet]

Originally posted by Aivulefey:

Originally posted by The Bullet:

We have made an announcement explaining the current development situation:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/727130/view/3607977852727515247

so why would anyone buy travelers rest if you can't finish between the stars?

We are currently working on it, in fact last week we hired an additional dev to work with us on Between the Stars.

[Aivulefey]

Originally posted by The Bullet:

Originally posted by Aivulefey:

so why would anyone buy travelers rest if you can't finish between the stars?

We are currently working on it, in fact last week we hired an additional dev to work with us on Between the Stars.

cool and good on you. but that being said, after years, i'll believe it when i see it.

[kharaa]

Originally posted by Aivulefey:

Originally posted by The Bullet:

We have made an announcement explaining the current development situation:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/727130/view/3607977852727515247

so why would anyone buy travelers rest if you can't finish between the stars?

they explain that in the post. They were basically bankrupt, they underestimated the development time and cost of the game when they ran their initial fund raising. So they had a chance to pick up a game that was less niche and could bring in significant funding to keep the lights on, without them having to pay an upfront cost for the game.

[Aivulefey]

Originally posted by kharaa:

Originally posted by Aivulefey:

so why would anyone buy travelers rest if you can't finish between the stars?

they explain that in the post. They were basically bankrupt, they underestimated the development time and cost of the game when they ran their initial fund raising. So they had a chance to pick up a game that was less niche and could bring in significant funding to keep the lights on, without them having to pay an upfront cost for the game.

that's not a reason to by traverlers rest it's a reason to NOT buy it, because of a track record of not being able to finish ONE.

[Pragmatic Tornado]

After watching several gameplay demos, and it being on sale to boot, I'm taking the chance.

I devour space games, so all that's left is the unfinished ones. And as it turns out, there's quite a lot of those. At least this one has recent dev communications.

[kharaa]

Originally posted by Aivulefey:

Originally posted by kharaa:

they explain that in the post. They were basically bankrupt, they underestimated the development time and cost of the game when they ran their initial fund raising. So they had a chance to pick up a game that was less niche and could bring in significant funding to keep the lights on, without them having to pay an upfront cost for the game.

that's not a reason to by traverlers rest it's a reason to NOT buy it, because of a track record of not being able to finish ONE.

Huh??? Travelers rest is doing great, it's well liked. They didn't have to buy the game, which was the point. They needed extra funding because surprise, the real world has gone through some really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up things since this game was announced.

You know, a global pandemic that destroyed several smaller developers, and caused catastrophic shortages of vital pieces of technology. A massive war in Europe that has caused the price of everything to go up.

The real world isn't so black and white, they felt too ashamed to run a second round of funding for the game, which so so many developers have to do on indie kickstarter projects. So they took over another game that allowed them to bring in vital funds that kept their lights on, their families safe and warm with food in their bellies.