(This thread isn't really about the game, or really worthy of any significant discussion, and I really don't want to start an argument here as seems to happen so often on these forums. Just wanted to give the devs a little moral boost.)
I'm quite a regular visitor to these forums and I've become more and more sympathetic for the devs recently, I'm seen more and more threads labelling the game as "pathetic" or the devs as "incompetent"
IMO this seems to be happening because many people here have been waiting for this game for decades, and all that time they had the image of the perfect game that would be exactly how they wanted it to be, and whenever something isn't to someone's liking people get upset, and vent on these forums, only to be read by the devs who are trying their best.
Having just completed a work experience placement with a game developer, I've realised just how big the scale of game development is, how much there is to do and how painstaking some of the work takes, even the office's network engineer(s) had a job of extremely unappreciated scope, and they aren't even directly involved in development! FD are a small team (relatively speaking) and have made huge progress over the time they've had so far, and are working extremely hard to do so. I remember back in beta there were updates and hotfixes released all night long, like every few hours, that's some serious dedication, that people don't seem to appreciate.
So what I'm trying to say is: You're doing a great job FD, no matter what all of these threads and posts are saying, you've made an incredible game and it's only going to get better, you can't please everyone, and I suspect that the people who come to moan (and by this I mean unconstructive complaining, there is admittedly a lot of helpful criticism which helps the devs) are just the vocal minority. Although there may be some problems, you guys are working at it, these things take time to fix. So keep it up FD, the sound design alone on this game makes it outstanding in my opinion, so just keep doing what your doing
Thanks,
Fred T.A
I'm quite a regular visitor to these forums and I've become more and more sympathetic for the devs recently, I'm seen more and more threads labelling the game as "pathetic" or the devs as "incompetent"
IMO this seems to be happening because many people here have been waiting for this game for decades, and all that time they had the image of the perfect game that would be exactly how they wanted it to be, and whenever something isn't to someone's liking people get upset, and vent on these forums, only to be read by the devs who are trying their best.
Having just completed a work experience placement with a game developer, I've realised just how big the scale of game development is, how much there is to do and how painstaking some of the work takes, even the office's network engineer(s) had a job of extremely unappreciated scope, and they aren't even directly involved in development! FD are a small team (relatively speaking) and have made huge progress over the time they've had so far, and are working extremely hard to do so. I remember back in beta there were updates and hotfixes released all night long, like every few hours, that's some serious dedication, that people don't seem to appreciate.
So what I'm trying to say is: You're doing a great job FD, no matter what all of these threads and posts are saying, you've made an incredible game and it's only going to get better, you can't please everyone, and I suspect that the people who come to moan (and by this I mean unconstructive complaining, there is admittedly a lot of helpful criticism which helps the devs) are just the vocal minority. Although there may be some problems, you guys are working at it, these things take time to fix. So keep it up FD, the sound design alone on this game makes it outstanding in my opinion, so just keep doing what your doing
Thanks,
Fred T.A
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