Is the game officially abandoned?

[EggTBD]

I've been away a minute playing another drama-filled game called Helldivers 2 and I then check back here and it looks like the C.O. has stopped communicating on a weekly basis and all I see are worse types of complaints and concerns.

Looks like C.O. is nothing but a one-hit wonder.

[Acperience7]

Not abandoned (yet). They're just being quiet. Pretty sure they stated there will no major updates for a while. The failure of the launch of this game pretty much guaranteed that they can't just abandon it without making some kind of announcement. Even if they wanted to do it quietly, with all the layoffs and craziness going on in the industry, they couldn't walk away without someone making a lot of noise about it. One hit wonder? We shall see.

[zaltocleotl[Banned@Paradox]]

No. And not likely to be abandoned soon. They messed up and have a lot of work to do if they ever want to make anything like a profit from it.

[ThingGoBoom]

Lack of communication doesn't mean the game is abandoned. We're getting bigger patches once a month instead of every couple of weeks, and it's not like their communications helped... in many cases they just made the customer perception worse.

[Reikis645]

Patches are coming out kinda slow and there is still lots of things to fix. So its better to consider game abandoned and come back to it in a year or two.

[Simon]

Originally posted by zaltocleotl:

No. And not likely to be abandoned soon. They messed up and have a lot of work to do if they ever want to make anything like a profit from it.

They have their profit already. Sinking money into fixing a game for people who already bought it only eats into that profit. Hence the folly of preordering.

The reasons it doesn’t make sense for them to abandon it are: if they want even a shred of integrity/credibility, to sell anything else in future (including DLC for this game); or to attract any new customers not already turned off by the low ratings, mostly poor feedback and constant criticism.

[Stealthy]

Originally posted by Simon:

They have their profit already. Sinking money into fixing a game for people who already bought it only eats into that profit. Hence the folly of preordering.

The only reason it doesn’t make sense for them to abandon it is if they want even a shred of integrity/credibility and to sell anything in future, including DLC for this game.

Nonsense. Just pure nonsense.

[gosammy1971]

The last update is 2-3 weeks ago.

They already said that they don't release updates in shorter cycles, because its always very time consuming to break the development, consolidate the completed changes and make a release build.

[Stealthy]

Originally posted by gosammy1971:

The last update is 2-3 weeks ago.

They already said that they don't release updates in shorter cycles, because its always very time consuming to break the development, consolidate the completed changes and make a release build.

Yes. In essence, they've moved on to similar cycle than they did with C:S1. Patches come at the same time with DLC release unless there is something needing a hotfix.

Rather have larger updates more rarely than small ones all the time breaking the mods again.

[aelm03]

I agree this is best as well, let them focus on improving the game. Dont micromanage them slowing down their progress

[gosammy1971]

Originally posted by Stealthy:

Originally posted by gosammy1971:

The last update is 2-3 weeks ago.

They already said that they don't release updates in shorter cycles, because its always very time consuming to break the development, consolidate the completed changes and make a release build.

Yes. In essence, they've moved on to similar cycle than they did with C:S1. Patches come at the same time with DLC release unless there is something needing a hotfix.

Rather have larger updates more rarely than small ones all the time breaking the mods again.

I think they go more frequently than with the next DLC, because they postponed most of them to fix the game before. The mods are a good argument for less updates, but it would be good to announce the next update some days before to prepare the mod developers or open a beta channel with updates some days before the official release.

[Stealthy]

Originally posted by gosammy1971:

I think they go more frequently than with the next DLC, because they postponed most of them to fix the game before. The mods are a good argument for less updates, but it would be good to announce the next update some days before to prepare the mod developers or open a beta channel with updates some days before the official release.

Mod developers have early access, just like in C:S1.

[nosh]

Originally posted by Stealthy:

Originally posted by Simon:

They have their profit already. Sinking money into fixing a game for people who already bought it only eats into that profit. Hence the folly of preordering.

The only reason it doesn’t make sense for them to abandon it is if they want even a shred of integrity/credibility and to sell anything in future, including DLC for this game.

Nonsense. Just pure nonsense.

Why? Do you think there are barely any patches and massive problems since release, because it's sooo difficult to take care of them?

[dulany67]

Not until console release. Then all bets are off.

[Stealthy]

Originally posted by nosh:

Originally posted by Stealthy:

Nonsense. Just pure nonsense.

Why? Do you think there are barely any patches and massive problems since release, because it's sooo difficult to take care of them?

Version Date Notes
1.1.2f1 2024-04-25 Hotfix
1.1.1f1 2024-04-02 Hotfix
1.1.0f1 2024-03-25 Modding Wavelet, performance improvements, bug fixes and Beach Properties DLC patch.
1.0.19f1 2024-01-31 Hotfix
1.0.18f1 2023-12-14 Hotfix
1.0.15f1 2023-12-01 Hotfix
1.0.14f1 2023-11-16 Hotfix
1.0.13f1 2023-11-09 Hotfix
1.0.12f1 2023-11-02 Hotfix
1.0.11f1 2023-10-26 Hotfix
1.0.9f1 2023-10-24 Release version

C:S1 on the other hand for similar 7 month period:

1.6.0 2016-11-29 Major patch. Released alongside Natural Disasters and High-Tech Buildings DLC
1.5.2​ 2016-10-18 Minor update to accommodate Stadiums DLC
1.5.1​ 2016-09-01 Minor update to accommodate Art Deco DLC
1.5.0​ 2016-06-09 Major patch. Released alongside free Match Day DLC
1.4.1​ 2016-04-19
1.4.0​ 2016-03-22 Major patch
1.3.2 2016-03-02
1.3.1 2016-02-23
1.3.0 2016-02-18 Major patch. Released alongside Snowfall
1.2.2 2015-11-05 Increase of several in-game limits
1.2.1 2015-10-01 Hotfix
1.2.0 2015-09-24 Major patch. Released alongside After Dark
1.1.1 2015-07-01
1.1.0 2015-05-19 Major patch. Tunnels and European themed buildings and maps added.
1.0.7c 2015-04-07
1.0.7 2015-03-27
1.0.6 2015-03-21
1.0.5 2015-03-10 Release version

To me looks very similar pace for patching.

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

Aren't they selling 3 dlcs for 40 euros each soon?🤔👍🥳