Positive social interaction was not included in the beta. After many, many people made posts it was finally "clarified" that those interactions were turned off for the beta and would be fully implemented for release. I was fine with that. Hopeful that we'd see some neat behaviors on launch. Now though we are seeing almost nothing. Baby animals consistantly flee their moms as soon as they are born, never to look back, and don't play with each other. Other than that there are very rare, very brief positive social interactions and fights for dominance, and breeding and that is it. No herding behavior, almost no recognition that other animals even exist. It really sucks to spend a long time on an exhibit, make it exactly what your animals want and need, and then watch them wander around aimlessly.
Since release I have seen 2 (possibly 3 but that 3rd may just have been clipping of 2 animals since that happens constantly) non fighting, non breeding interactions. No dev has bothered to reply to anyone concerned about this issue at all. It's too late to get refunds. This is not at all what we were promised and assured was coming.
If you had been transparent that social interactions were not really going to be a thing or you weren't able to implement it as promised back in the beta when people were concerned about it I would have said the game is beautiful but not for me and refunded it. Now I am out a significant amount of money. The fact that we were specifically assured that we just needed to wait for the full release and end up with this...essentially nothing on the social interaction front...leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.
Since release I have seen 2 (possibly 3 but that 3rd may just have been clipping of 2 animals since that happens constantly) non fighting, non breeding interactions. No dev has bothered to reply to anyone concerned about this issue at all. It's too late to get refunds. This is not at all what we were promised and assured was coming.
If you had been transparent that social interactions were not really going to be a thing or you weren't able to implement it as promised back in the beta when people were concerned about it I would have said the game is beautiful but not for me and refunded it. Now I am out a significant amount of money. The fact that we were specifically assured that we just needed to wait for the full release and end up with this...essentially nothing on the social interaction front...leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.