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There is no such thing as a turnaround. People wait for a game to be released. When you give a release date, you must give one that shows the almost complete st
by lofaszvanitt 7d ago
There is no such thing as a turnaround. People wait for a game to be released. When you give a release date, you must give one that shows the almost complete state of your game. Not something that is half done, not something that will feel completely different 1 year later. When you buy a thing you get an experience. If your game is a different experience 1 year later, well, I couldn't care less about it. I'm not gonna sink another 10+ hours into it, just to see what you have done in one year's time. Imagine you go to the matrix and you get a half movie, bad coloring and the like. Just ridiculous.
Early access, early release, beta, whatever is just an euphemism of becoming a backer. You thought you buy something final, and in the end you become a financier. You lend your money upfront. All this because a group of pampered kids can't keep a deadline. And think that the world is a playground and they can keep their game 5 years in early access. Get a grip.
Sorry. You release your shit, it gets evaluated, end of story. Nobody cares the rest. Gaming space is already half dead because people think that sitting at a game company means you get to have knitting lessons during workhours, and you can daydream and chitchat all day long. Ridiculous.
- Antipode 7d agoI agree with you in principle, but "nobody cares" clearly isn't true given the steam review history.
- lofaszvanitt 7d agoYeah, imagine the reviews if it would've been what was promised from the get go.
- t-writescode 7d agoIt has a Steam Review Score of 84%. What are you talking about?
- lofaszvanitt 7d agoYeah and Star Citizen has half a billion funding, and then WHAT? Also what was it when the game released? It was waaay negative.
- john_strinlai 7d ago>Also what was it when the game released? It was waaay negative. yeah, it was. and now it isn't. this is known as a "turnaround".
- lofaszvanitt 7d agoYeah, but who cares. Most of the people buy a game when it gets released.
- kergonath 6d agoNot necessarily. Both NMS and Minecraft are still selling quite well a decade or more after release. Not to mention things like WoW (22 years and still millions of daily players).
- lofaszvanitt 6d agoYeah, these are essentially online/mmo games. Of course they have a changing audience. I'm talking about games which say oooh we gonna have 1000 planets, all unique. And on release day you they will have 3 unique planets, and 7 more which all feel the same and the features promised nowhere to be found.... but they put it in 2 years later. All this from premiere development studios with 20+ year background and 100+ mln funding.
- kergonath 4d ago[dead]
- shmeeed 7d agoOne billion by May...
- john_strinlai 7d ago>There is no such thing as a turnaround. this is very obviously untrue, as evidenced by no man's sky.
- lofaszvanitt 7d agoDoesn't matter, people move on. Those who stay, who funneled money into the endeavour want it to succeed. That's all.
- ch4s3 7d agoIt keeps selling well by all accounts. New people are buying it and playing it.
- lofaszvanitt 6d agoAnd?
- ch4s3 5d agoThat means people like it.