Right now @IllFonic @Courier I’d focus heavily on being more transparant about your development proces. I’m just giving a headsup that a lot of long term players I play with are verbally outing a lot of complaints while playing. Two of them are talking about quitting this game permanently because of the state the game is in. This is literally the beginning of the end, if your hardcore fans, feel like it’s becoming hopeless.
Just like CD Projekt there is love to be found in transparant communication, so we - the customers - know there are people working on a product.
Right now nobody knows what is going on and the problems this game is having should not have been there. Period. The bugs in the current state of the game are quite severe even if this was an official Beta. Getting logged out every two hours. Gamebreaking gameplay mechanics on the side that has to face 4 other players.
If I trust my gut you guy’s have to step it up, tenfold. Evolve went downhill very fast and the community is shifting very similarly to Evolve. And Evolve truly had less technical issues and more content.
This community is tight enough for you guy’s to become 90% transparant.
You guy’s can literally say “We are slowing down all DLC and content releases and we will focus 100% on fixing the current issues until we are happy with the state of the game. Our sincere apologies for not living up to the expectations so many of you were having.”.
I would love to recommend this game to friends, but I cannot with 100% honestly recommend this game without saying that there are a lot of bugs and the gameplay can feel very unfair because of Predator mechanics. There is no real endgame gameplay loop that feels rewarding. Experience becomes trivial at max level.
This might sound harsh, but you guy’s should really prepare to pack your bags and shuffle your team if this keeps on going like it has been going.
Matchmaking, the friendlists, crossplay inviting, the sign-outs, the stacking amount of bugs.
How would you rate your favorite game if it randomly disconnects you every 2 hours? How do you think software like Denuvo would be seen if that program logged you out every 2 hours. It would absolutely be bombed. People would be furious.
But right here on this forum? People are sticking with you guys, but it seems very one-sided. My entire teams jokes around that we are Beta testing ‘your’ game, and honestly. It’s not a joke. But unlike a real Beta test, you guy’s went silent. Unlike real beta testing “we” are not feeling like you guys (the creators) are part of the same community. Like you guy’s are guiding this chaotic herd into the community you want to provide for.
I can with 90% certainty say that this community will 100% have your back, if you start to interact with us more. We will have your back when you dare to be honest about the state of the game, and our help getting it done. More than 1 impersonal twitter post, or a video only 2% will ever see.
Evolve died because 2K forced Turtle Rock to uphold their contract. It died because the community lost faith. That peak happened 3 months in and it solidified 6 months in. Right now we are reaching that same timeframe… with a similar tone of voice. I spend hundreds of hours on the Evolve forums trying to help out…
Right now I’m doing the same here because I don’t want to see this game walk into the same footsteps.
And you guy’s… - dear devs - are the only ones capable of doing that. And you NEED us, to make this game a succes. If you fail to keep the community happy? You failed your game. Your time, your passion. Dare to say what you guy’s are working on. Dare to say what mechanics you guy’s are working on. Dare to say why you release DLC while the game isn’t in a stable state.
Explain what is going on to earn (back) respect.
It’s the only way this game will survive.
Good luck!