DO NOT GIVE A PENNY TO THESE DEVS

[Ronin]

UTTER SCAM ARTISTS.

[Xinister]

Proof?

[Ronin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DagyNvoA9DU

[Xinister]

Originally posted by Ronin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DagyNvoA9DU

And that has what to do with this game?

I can only say Apples and Oranges....

[🐺-Wolferatus-🐺]

seems now they have reopened the culling and abandoned minerva for it, since march no updates and culling was rereleased in may

[Mindcrime]

Thanks for the warning. I was planning on buying this during the winter sale. I just checked and, sure enough, there were updates last November, December, and January, and the most recent update was on March 27 -- 9 months ago. They had planned a summer 2020 launch, and the road map posted in the "Early Access Roadmap" pinned thread showed the map from March through July. Only one of the eleven items on that roadmap has been implemented.

With the massive disruption caused by COVID-19, delays are understandable (and, quite frankly, should be expected). However, the absolute silence from the developers (here and on Twitter), and the lack of updates, certainly suggest that this game has been abandoned.

[mcnichoj]

Don't care about all The Culling nonsense, if this game is decent then you should buy it. Which according to reviews it is, on top of that it's three dollars. If you like twin stick shooters then you can probably get your $3 worth out of this game even if they never continue to develop it.
But if you really want to hurt these devs as much as possible, supposedly they have some type of involvement with the Brawlhalla free to play Smash Bros clone. So I guess you can never play that either.

[Mindcrime]

Originally posted by mcnichoj:

Don't care about all The Culling nonsense, if this game is decent then you should buy it...

I couldn't care less about The Culling. What I do care about is that this game is unfinished and appears to have been abandoned. My decision to not purchase this game has nothing to do with wanting to "hurt" the developers or the price (which is $4.41, not $3) and has everything to do with not wanting to play an incomplete game. If you want to buy it, then go ahead; I won't try to stop you or convince you otherwise. I, however, will not knowingly buy an incomplete game that appears will never be completed.

[🐺-Wolferatus-🐺]

Originally posted by mcnichoj:

Don't care about all The Culling nonsense, if this game is decent then you should buy it. Which according to reviews it is, on top of that it's three dollars. If you like twin stick shooters then you can probably get your $3 worth out of this game even if they never continue to develop it.
But if you really want to hurt these devs as much as possible, supposedly they have some type of involvement with the Brawlhalla free to play Smash Bros clone. So I guess you can never play that either. :balloonicorn:

Yeah right now its 3 dollar but you cant finish this game its unfinished and you have only 9 stages or so right now, you cant complete it, of course reviews are good, look the date they where written. I like this game and it makes fun even in EA but I would not buy it now since no new update since march 2020, all promised things was not done and also devs are silence since then. if they at least would say what they have for plans okay but this way is not okay and its sad that valve still does not care about selling unfinished games you cant even refund. .. yeah even if its only 3 dollar right now. i had much more fun playing a trial or a free demo then with an unfinished game ..

[Arlyeon [Crit Hit]]

Is there not an ending? I know it starts looping up to different difficulties, once you clear it on normal, and I assume hard.

I just figured the actual ending of the game, and more story would unlock as you keep progressing. Hrm.

I'd be curious to know what development plans were from the devs, all given.

P.S. what were the promises they had made?

[aubri]

Not to mention.. there's a game-breaking but, which at the VERY LEAST, needs to be addressed and fixed immediately. I was no-lifeing this game a few weeks ago but had to stop because of this bug. It's a shame, really.

[Nimplex]

clearly dead, also wanted tp buy it, but you see over a year no answer of the devs...

[Nimplex]

what you can do against abandoned games / 'sh itty' "devs":

on the shop page of the game make a usertag (upper right) and type "abandoned" etc.

on the shop page "flag" the game (report to steam, somehwere right in the middle)
--> tell steam it's abandoned / the dev is scum / the game is unplayable / it's a fraud / scam etc. etc.

write a negative review and let others know that the game is abandoned and the devs are creeps in order to warn others to invest their money in them or buy other games from them

'upvote' / 'like' all other negative reviews with "abandoned" etc. in them so they get pushed and you see them already on top

of course if it's not to late refund the game and tell in the reason why (abandoned / scam / sh i tty dev etc.)

(optional: 'bomb the support/contact mail of the devs and/or their FB page with mails regarding their antisocial,... behaviour etc. and - on FB - to warn others)

(optional2: make a vodoo puppet of the devs and curse them :D)


there are sooo many early access or even not ea titles here on steam which are only scam etc. and steam does nothing... badest decision of steam to turn off "greenlight" ever !
now every low "indie" 9cent asset flipper game etc. is here....

BTW you can also make (or search maybe it already exists) a steam group like "abandoned games" / "shi tty dev" / "scammers" / "asset flipper games (<-- there is already a big community against them) and invite tons of people so where a list of all 'creepy' games are etc.

and yea hopefully steam changes their policy.... or theyll lose more and more customers to epic and gog etc.

[Mindcrime]

It would be nice if Steam itself put a warning message on pages of seemingly-abandoned Early Access titles. It wouldn't be difficult. For any game in Early Access, check to see when it was last updated; if it was more than six months ago, put a warning message on the page informing users of exactly how long it has been since the last update. That would seem to be a fair practice and the best compromise for all involved -- it doesn't say the game has been abandoned, but at the same time, it does warn potential purchasers about the lack of updates.

[Nimplex]

yea sure... but here are also games with 5+ years "EA" ... so then steam has to just delete the games or remove the EA from the games (without updates etc.)

[Motoko]

thank you for this thread, I was about to buy it but I saw it is Early acces. Your thread was a red flag for me, so I checkedthe News section and I see there isnt any new update for a year now... definetely another EA scam

and btw Steam guidelines for Early Access CLEARLY STATE that when developer submits his game to Early Access he must be sure he will finish the game no matter how it sells cause EA is NOT A CROWDFUNDING platform.

So if anyone wants to defend scammers releasing games to EA and then never finishing them, you can go STRAIGHT to Steam OFFICIAL GUIDELINES