Alright so, Hampa I hope you take into account what I'm about to say.
I have waited ages to see the progress of this game and in this post I may need to drop some knowledge. This is coming from someone who played the goddam demo before it was free.
These updates to the game since 3/3.5 etc have been almost completely useless. Bug fixes and GUI changes? Really?......
"Converted all script in startup.lua to c++ code except require function and hooks" This to me is the most promising venture out of all the listed updates. Now, Just do that with say....they entire game.
Games that become successful are games that listen to the community and actually implement what they want. For example. People have been begging for the ability to have more than 2 players in a single match. Instead they are met with excuses that have run for years. Let me make it clear, if there are restraints - get past the etc. Don't just say nope and then give us (shitty) hats. 0.o Another example would be we have asked for in-game voice chat for ages and the excuse there was "na just use skype". The suggestion board for this game is a complete joke. Just remove it.
This has become a glorified personal project with no ability to expand and no intention of growing or becoming anything serious. (No evidence presented to prove otherwise. So all you butthurt fanboys who are against progression please keep away from commenting on this)
Man up hampa. Get another engine, change servers etc etc and start giving people what they want.
I'm done wasting time and money on this game. Hampa, enjoy the cash flow while you can, and hang on to your outdated code which you so desperately cling to, it will be your downfall.
That's a lot of assumptions tho. I don't disagree with everything you said (especially about hats, gameplay features should be way more important than cosmetic features). But :
- ALL succesful games didn't listen to the ALL the suggestions of their community, that's very recent since it's only a thing with early-access games.
- You're assuming they never tried to find solutions for the 4 players features. They probably tried a lot and yes, it probably requires a new engine to be an actual thing. which would take ages for ONE feature that is far from being the main focus of the game.
- You're assuming everyone wants in-game voice chat, I'd be begging not to have it to be honest. There's no reason to have voice chat as there is no teamplay. People would talk expecting you to hear, but most people play with music, and the other part don't want 11 years old boys screaming in their ears.
- I've seen plenty good suggestions being taken in consideration and becoming actual features (hell one I've even suggested with da fl0wers)
- As said, another engine would take ages to be made, maybe he's even already working on it as a side project ? But would you like everyone to give this one up in the meantime ? no fix, no update, no nothing. It's a viable source of income for multiple persons and it's still being improved and updated, why would they throw it away ?
- Getting new servers and giving people what they want requires money, how would they get money if they throw everything away ?
- I'm a fanboy, and I'm all for progression. But I don't think progression happens how you think it does.
nothing will change, just forget about it, really.
there was an amazing opportunity with steam release and it was wasted, why even bother to post something if we all know the answer?