@theblackbellamy said in Fix your game, Rare.:
@wolfmanbush said:
From a veteran player I don't think it makes much sense at all. At most, players bought the game and then chose to purchase cosmetics they wanted after that. Many players just use gamepass which has been a wild good deal so far. All the content has been free. Frustrations aside all of us veteran players got a very very good deal on this ride.
Got my money's worth back when Arena was around. 60 bucks (or whatever full price was at the time) for the hours I spent in that mode was definitely a deal.
I stopped supporting the game through emporium purchases shortly after they discontinued the mode. And they won't see another dollar from me until I see a change in the right direction. This is such a chronically mismanaged company that I almost want to do a case study to find out why.
I have witnessed mods telling folks to fill support tickets, and support directing people back to the forums with their issues. I've witnessed conflicting PR messaging over their social media. Season after season of issues ignored, now to the point where some folks can't play without crashing. No follow-up from Rare on the matter, but that's not surprising, because communication is abysmal in general. I've witnessed how they utilize Insiders and without violating NDA, I will say I'm disappointed.
When the folks writing the checks say "make a Monkey Island TT," the devs can't come back with "no I'd rather work on fixing bugs instead."
I wish there was a way to fund the devs without funding Rare directly haha. Also art + music team needs a raise.
I like putting clues together and looking for the patterns in general but I have no idea. A big ole mystery to me.
Such a cool experience though, even when something about it is irritating me.
This season has been very frustrating for me but I still love it.
One thing they have been consistent with is commitment to letting people do what they want to do and I very much enjoy that. Doing my own thing, pirates out there sailing around doing their thing. Will they attack? will they go on a stealth mission? Will they cost me my win conditions?
The hunting is still too good and the shenanigans are still too random for me to abandon ship.
Lots of issues that bug me to varying degrees but the organic experience in SoT is as good as gaming gets for me.