For the price, what was there was fine, but it was sold as early access and the later areas were basically empty.
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bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 7 months agoIn an age where everyone rags on live service games that will inevitably lose support, a cheap, fun, well made, feature complete game that gets infrequent updates is “abandoned” and “insultingly barebones”. Classic 2024 gamer moment right there
lorty@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
This is literally the second major update since Mistlands. To call the updates merely infrequent is an understatement.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s not feature complete, though? The store page literally says Early Access, and within that description the devs explain what is missing and their rough estimate for how much time is left before version 1.0…
But, classic 2024 gamer moment, sure.
bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sorry, should say I mean feature complete in a relative sense. Ie, some EA games wre essentially tech demos, and you’re funding a theoretical game when you buy. If those games stopped getting updates, you’re left with a mostly empty unreal engine project, nit a full video game.
Valheim was a full video game on day one. A buddy and I played many hours when it first came out and thoroughly enjoyed it. If no updates came out, I might have felt like there was some unmet potential, but I certainly wouldn’t have been insulted. Bottom line, take away the roadmap, I still see a great game with enough going for it to stand on its own.
brenticus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It sounds like the game’s getting Ashlands plus one more biome, but not much for new features. So depending on your definition of feature complete it’s at least pretty close anyways. From this point on it’s theoretically more of the same.
I’m pretty much on the same page as you, although I started playing a couple months ago with a couple friends. The game is obviously not abandoned, and it’s a pretty full game even with more to come. We finally built a hot tub on the weekend and I don’t know how I’m supposed to expect more from this game than chilling in a tub with your naked viking bros.