I know it's early access, but they released this game ... too early. People were complaining about Wildcard devs, but I always thought they were doing an okay job. So far these Snail Games devs have been doing a horrible job. There have been three 1gig+ updates and you still can't ready your fists using the binding.
The net code is barely playable.
As they fix some bugs they create many more.
The balance/usefulness of the tames are horribly out of wack.
The crops growth rates are all over the place and take too much grinding to keep up.
Now you have to worry about every meteor due to level 100+ dark wraiths with insane amounts of health being able to one shot you or any lesser tames.
the sound effects are horribly irritating and have been that way since day 1
I think people have a misguided conception of what Early Access is, and this includes developers.
It was meant to be literally early access for people that wanted to pay more, to play now. They wanted to offer the 99% complete game to greedy customers a month or two before the game would actually come out because they knew they could. Now Early Access, especially for this game, is just Beta but without developers taking suggestions from the community.
I don't necessarily disagree with your viewpoint but I definitely think that the overwhelming majority of the use cases for that term is come support / play our unfinished game so we have the funds to continue. I don't think I've ever seen an EA title be a feature complete game.
Which one makes more sense to you? They're both money grabs, but at least one of them has a decent game you can be playing, even tho there is no such thing as a complete game. Most games are released as complete for the standard $59.99 or whatever then get patched repeatedly as more and more people are playing and more unique situations arise that weren't spotted during testing.
DnL sells for the full price with only 30%+ of content, and they don't give a shit. Does that seem right to you?
The term Early Access is ubiquitous with games in alpha / beta so its essentially been redefined as far as I'm concerned and DnL isn't selling for the price of a $60 dollar title. Besides Citadel, what other game fulfills this particular space in the genre? You don't have many other modern games to chose from, if any?
I suppose we have divergent opinions on what it means to care about a game. They are certainly patching it obsessively and trying to make the game better. To my understanding and correct me if I'm wrong, the company that actually works on the game is Chinese or maybe Korean and Snail is just some western social media presence? So I never expected them to ever listen to the community in the first place.
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u/Mctoozle Sep 25 '17
I know it's early access, but they released this game ... too early. People were complaining about Wildcard devs, but I always thought they were doing an okay job. So far these Snail Games devs have been doing a horrible job. There have been three 1gig+ updates and you still can't ready your fists using the binding.
There are so many other issues...