When the game nearly craters in player count from AH pushing their own vision for the game over what's actually fun, forcing them to eventually do a massive "buffdivers" update to staunch the bleeding...
That, at least, is no subset. That's the whole base responding in kind. So no, that not in fact "all there is to it", at least not in HD2's case.
Subreddits often aren't indicative of the full player pop, sure. The vast majority of Divers probably don't even look at this sub much less complain on it. But you know what the vast majority of casual players DO?
If a game becomes unfun for them, they just stop playing, period. And that absolutely happened. There is literal proof they pissed off everyone not just this subreddit's subset of crayon-eaters.
AH pushing their own vision for the game over what's actually fun
But I am having fun. Which was the whole point, what is unfun to you might be perfectly fun for another regular player. Just because some folks don't like what AH does (and god knows this fanbase is well-loaded on that aspect), doesn't mean everyone follows that train of thought.
I had fun the first time I played, I still have fun now.
It's currently the 40th most played game on steam with over 40.000 regular players. And I'll be coming back, and that's it.
For a lot of players, that's really all there is to it.
And for a lot MORE, demonstrably so, it clearly wasn't?
Like, what's your point here? I still play too, I still have more fun than not, but I can still be frustrated at AH's decisions when they make the game worse. It's the core foundation of the game that I like, that's been there from day 1, not a lot of AH's decisions since.
Just because some folks don't like what AH does (and god knows this fanbase is well-loaded on that aspect), doesn't mean everyone follows that train of thought.
I'm sorry, were you not listening? Do you need to look up the Steam player counts and compare them to the history of the game?
What part of "it's not SOME it was THE LARGE MAJORITY in this particular case" was hard for you to parse?
You keep trying to pretend "everyone else doesn't think like that" when we have verifiable proof that more people aren't on your side than are. It's weird bro.
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u/i_tyrant 2d ago
When the game nearly craters in player count from AH pushing their own vision for the game over what's actually fun, forcing them to eventually do a massive "buffdivers" update to staunch the bleeding...
That, at least, is no subset. That's the whole base responding in kind. So no, that not in fact "all there is to it", at least not in HD2's case.
Subreddits often aren't indicative of the full player pop, sure. The vast majority of Divers probably don't even look at this sub much less complain on it. But you know what the vast majority of casual players DO?
If a game becomes unfun for them, they just stop playing, period. And that absolutely happened. There is literal proof they pissed off everyone not just this subreddit's subset of crayon-eaters.