HoSpanky wrote on Mar 4, 2017, 14:36:
Oh boy! There's ABSOLUTELY no way this is a quick port cash grab! I bet they built it with PC in mind from the beginning! Exclamation points may imply thick sarcasm!

jacobvandy wrote on Jan 16, 2017, 15:25:

Crucifix wrote on Jan 16, 2017, 13:13:
And Project Genom is not any better. Their are hardly ANY people playing anymore (i think about 40 in total), there has not been a single update in MONTHS, there has been a dispute with the main programmer causing Steam the temp. remove in from the store over copyright issues.

Talk about another fail...

Attitudes like that are the other side of the double-edged sword that is Early Access... The game is in early alpha testing, yet people bring expectations the same as they would for any AAA title on full release. I can't speak to anything that happened previously, but it only launched on Steam this past October and there have been multiple news updates outlining what they're working on, which is slated to come in a major update sometime Q1 '17.

A 10-man team doesn't work miracles overnight, I don't think waiting a few months for significant updates is too much to tolerate for that stage of such a project. Don't buy into a game this early if you're looking for something to play 40 hours a week with monthly content updates to keep you interested. Player count peaked when it landed on Steam, and it has steadily tapered off. It will peak again when the update comes, and that seems perfectly normal to me. There's only so much to do for the tourists who aren't actually interested in providing feedback.

As for the copyright issues, there are two sides to the story and it's hard to say which one is more accurate. The guy who complained to Valve is a programmer who created an MMO starter kit for UE4, which he integrated to be used in the game in collaboration with the studio. He claims he was being screwed out of money he was supposed to be paid once they hit Early Access (apparently they didn't have a formal contract), so soon after that was when the DMCA takedown happened.

NeuronHaze has since replaced him, as well as all of the game code he contributed, and claim he wasn't paid because he stopped working a while before they launched on Steam, and when they offered to buy him out in order to keep using his code, he never responded. They also say they're suing him for extortion and damages caused by the takedown (it definitely delayed the work they're doing now and hurt the game's reputation).

I picked it up for $12 from the Humble store sale going on now. I don't care about any drama, all I know is they have some interesting ideas and as of the past few weeks they seem to be on track to start making them happen. I hope they can pull it off, but of course that remains to be seen. If at the very least I can get a decent amount of fun out of it while it's in Early Access, that's still $12 well spent.