The Day Before mods lock down Discord, urge players to refund
The Day Before mods lock down Discord, urge players to refund
The Day Before's Discord mods have closed the server, confirmed that a patch is on the way, and urged unhappy players to refund on Steam.
One would think the gaming industry and consumers learned from the last 35 mistakes where big AAA titles had a dumpster fire launch because it was unfinished, unoptimized or over promised but no. This is gaming now.
Still attacking the devs and borderline creating a witch hunt is a bit too much. Just vote with your wallet. Or if you bought it refund it ffs.
I blame everyone who pre-orders as well. You are part of the problem!
I couldn't disagree more with you.
- There was no preorder
- This was a Kickstarter Project where a lot of people backed
- For years the devs didn't give a lot of information to the backers
- There was a class action lawsuit for scamming against the developers because they just took the money and didn't do anything with it
- Now they published something so they can say "here we did something with all of the money" yet it's obvious that what they developed did not take years.
It's pretty obvious that they only published the game in the current state because of the lawsuit. The game is a total scam and they deserve the hate from the people that invested a lot of money when backing. Backing on Kickstarter has something to do with trust. Of course, the project may never be finished and that's okay. But it's obvious here, that they just took the money and did not use it for the game.
You're both right.
Kickstarter is a separate kind of the same problem: Greedy fucks leveraging systems against us. Any time money is exchanged, there WILL be shitheads trying to get some for nothing.
It becomes a problem when the systems at hand reinforce those shysters. Kickstarter is rife with scams, and capitalism in general is rife with lazy greedy fucks. The problem is, they don't get punished for being lazy greedy fucks.
They have to rip off and harm a bunch of people before anyone will do a damn thing, and even then... If it's a rich person or corp, the government might just shrug and say it'd be too expensive to enforce the laws...
There is a BIG problem, and it's not the consumers.
It was the most wishlisted game on Steam, people are actively ignoring all the red flags and blindly throwing their money at anyone who can produce a half decent video online.
I'm not protecting the devs, the whole story is a huge scam and they straight up lied but again:
Stop pre-ordering, paying on kickstarter or buying stuff in early access unless you are absolutely sure you know who gets your money and what you are getting in exchange.
Yes the devs are scum, but does it really justify the cyber witch hunt? A lot of people just hopped on the hype bandwagon and jumped over the hate bandwagon without even knowing the details.
Just fucking refund or sue the bastards. I will only repeat myself: consumers are part of the problem. Stop buying incomplete buggy shit based on promises and pre-order bonuses.
Watch reviews, performance tests before buying. Everything is fucking digital, they will not run out of keys if you wait an extra day.
and they deserve the hate from the people
No meaningless dev of a meaningless video game is ever worth a witch hunt. As a consumer, you have better things to do with your time. Like in this case, digging around in your nose, watching paint dry, or pouring another coffee. All quality uses of time that aren't the waste that is getting angry at these devs.
Just vote with your wallet
But that is the thing, they do vote with their wallet. They still buy the games.
"Voting with the wallet" goes both ways.
I was like... "How bad could this be?"
Oh ....
I get that it was delivered with bugs and server issues. I get that it wasn't what was promised to the players. But being toxic to the devs? Fucking get a grip. You don't like it? Get a refund. And probably don't preorder in the future.
Won't anyone think of the scammers?
I'm so happy so see this upvoted here. On Reddit people say toxicity is justified if developers do "stupid shit". Or they say the toxicity is their own fault for making a mess, it should be expected, etc. Glad to be gone there
Oh no, the poor scammers, why is everyone so toxic?!
Mods are locking down discord tomorrow?