Annoying trends in PC gaming

[flex wood]

Early Access is starting to bite players now haha. Is there a place where they name and shame EA titles that have been abandoned?

Only one I know of thats been formally Ditched is Towns (which I got on sale so ha ha joke's on me =\)

Starbound and Stomping Ground come to mind. The latter being a complete cash grab that never got updated after release.

[AmishSamurai]

Early Access is starting to bite players now haha. Is there a place where they name and shame EA titles that have been abandoned?

Only one I know of thats been formally Ditched is Towns (which I got on sale so ha ha joke's on me =\)

Starbound and Stomping Ground come to mind. The latter being a complete cash grab that never got updated after release.

Starbound's been abandoned? It was nowhere near as good as Terraria to begin with, but the fact it was ditched surprises me.

[flex wood]

Starbound's been abandoned? It was nowhere near as good as Terraria to begin with, but the fact it was ditched surprises me.

Yea the devs have been whining about people complaining about the game deleting posts and banning people in the forums, you know typical stuff like trying to blame 4chan for all the negative reviews.

You know all the same stuff that happened with Comcept and Mighty No.9. Except they tried to blame all the negativity on sexist male gamers because the community manager was a feminist, which seeing as that is what most game blogs are writing about took off as truth instead of actually reporting on why people were upset and wanted refunds (there seeming to be little to no progress) and she was banning people from the backer forums because they criticized the game. Yea I am going to go ahead and say kickstarter is a huge problem for PC games right now too, but I kind of lump KS games with early access myself since you are putting money down on something that may never get to see the light of day.

They also haven't updated the game since April I believe.

Here's a good quick explanation on Starbound
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/7656 ... ed/211820/

Or is this all just a case of gamer entitlement?

Edit actually screw KS I just saw that they took down the KS for Areal (the "stalker" game). Hell even if it was a scam a didn't even care any chance at I new stalker is something I would throw money at.

[J T]

I think a lot of developers get discouraged by the ruthless hating of the internet populous. I think if you're going to do early access, you need to never read your reviews directly and instead hire someone who can translate internet shit-on-everything-speak into English with constructive criticism.

[Xeogred]

I think a lot of developers get discouraged by the ruthless hating of the internet populous. I think if you're going to do early access, you need to never read your reviews directly and instead hire someone who can translate internet shit-on-everything-speak into English with constructive criticism.

Would be the worst job ever.

[flex wood]

I think a lot of developers get discouraged by the ruthless hating of the internet populous. I think if you're going to do early access, you need to never read your reviews directly and instead hire someone who can translate internet shit-on-everything-speak into English with constructive criticism.

Would be the worst job ever.

I'm pretty sure that is what the community managers are supposed to do.

Also bold for poor Ubisoft.

[marurun]

Poor Ubisoft? They deserve a non-insignificant portion of what they get. Nobody deserves all of it, but they deserve some, and far more than most.

[flex wood]

Poor Ubisoft? They deserve a non-insignificant portion of what they get. Nobody deserves all of it, but they deserve some, and far more than most.

If you are talking about uplay, I agree. If you are referring to the whole kotaku witch hunt of them not having enough female protagonists, which is what I was thinking of when I made that post then no they honestly didn't deserve any of that. Playing as a female character in a video game isn't a civil right.

[Fragems]

Uplay is a abomination and as far as PC launches go they are about as buggy as Bethesda releases on top of usually having pathetically broken Multiplayer . Had pretty piss poor experiences with the Far Cry 3, and Watch Dog launches especially.

[AmishSamurai]

Poor Ubisoft? They deserve a non-insignificant portion of what they get. Nobody deserves all of it, but they deserve some, and far more than most.

If you are talking about uplay, I agree. If you are referring to the whole kotaku witch hunt of them not having enough female protagonists, which is what I was thinking of when I made that post then no they honestly didn't deserve any of that. Playing as a female character in a video game isn't a civil right.

There is very little representation of female characters in video games, and it was more Ubisoft's attitude that adding women was this arduous task and not worth the effort. Because they can say "women are too hard to animate" but they'll still have prostitutes in the game, but can't make a generic female assassin.