The whole thing was rigged to fail. There appears to have been almost zero outside input during the development. All the feedback they got were from internal sources or carefully vetted content creators - ones that rarely say anything bad about a game.
They created an echo fart-sniffing chamber.
They released a few updates almost right away which were received positively but it doesn’t appear that the company had the money to ride out a few months of poor microtransactions.
No open beta, no Early Access. They disappeared from social media right after the trailer dropped then, when they returned, all they did was whine.
Thousands of players quit and uninstalled before finishing the required tutorial.
I’m sure a lot of the creatives and devs are capable of creating great things. Management created an environment of groupthink, not of questioning and innovation.
lath@piefed.social 1 day ago
The devs were going to be laid off either way as that is the standard for today’s crappy industry.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 day ago
Even still, having this on your CV doesn’t look great.