TBT Starbound

[kesttang]

Not sure what you're trying to say? Either way, I just mean it's not entirely fair to the devs when people complain about a lack of updates to a game that updates nightly. If it's an issue with the gameplay itself or something yeah, of course you can be upset.

People likes to whine and complain. That's just how the world works. Starbound's devs are incredibly involved with the community. If people said that the devs are "burnt out" or anything about the game being lack of content, then they haven't really been invloued with the community. Lol.

 

[oath2order]

The Winter Update is pretty huge. In combination with opting into the nightly builds no one really has anything to complain about. It's a decent game being run by an active and very dedicated dev. People need to keep in mind what "Early Access" is supposed to mean. Yeah they haven't had a true update in a while, but that's because they're dedicated to ensuring that they don't release an update until it's actually stable. If you want to see progress as it happens and don't mind the instability that comes with it, you can turn on nightly builds and get updates nightly, which is incredibly fast for any game to output any kind of updates.

Excellent dev, excellent work. Give them time. You bought an Alpha, not a full game.

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Referring to the Starbound devs as "burnt out" couldn't be more wrong. How is outputting updates literally daily burnt out? They're one of the most dedicated Early Access teams out there currently, and they really wanted to wait for a big update for everyone instead of releasing tiny, unfinished little tidbits. Buying into an early access game doesn't entitle you to anything from the dev. You buy in knowing that this an incomplete game and you buy in for the privilege of playing it early. I'm not a fan on the trend of buying a game so you can alpha-test it, but I'm even less of a fan of people complaining about solid devs doing their jobs while everyone acts like they're satan because they don't have a concrete update.

Lemon, the Winter Update is huge, yes. But how many other "huge" updates have their been? Like, it's been two years and this is the largest update in well over a year.

Yes, you buy in knowing it's incomplete but you expect updates, decent-sized updates, not waiting roughly a year for anything substantial.

http://pastebin.com/jAWKJnHy

Basically describes why I'm annoyed.

 

[Lemon Loaf]

Not sure where this "2 years" stuff is coming from? The last real update before the Winter update was in March of this year. It's between this March and now that things went dark unless people used nightly builds, and the reason for that was the size of the update and the overhauls they did.

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Ah whatever. I'll quit arguing about it. Some people are never happy, and for all I know I'm playing CF-Defense-Force in other peoples eyes. To each their own. Hopefully everyone can enjoy the winter update regardless of the past

 

[Cirom]

I really don't get how people claim the game "went dark" and the devs abandoned it though - given that before Starbound's release, the developers mostly just communicated via their Dev Blog, posting near-daily updates and also hanging around in the IRC occasionally - and now that the game's released, the developers have mostly been communicating via their Dev Blog, posting near-daily updates and also hanging around in the IRC.

Apparently doing the same thing you've always been doing is "abandoning the game" :U
( Also, Lemon, wasn't the last update in April, not March? ;o Just sayin'. )

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In other news, I've really been enjoying the new Unstable update. So many new features~! Can't wait to see the modding scene build on this! (as unfortunately, something in the update broke all old mods ;<)

 

[oath2order]

Bumping because they have finally updated

 

[oath2order]

Bumping again because the game has actually been uploaded this time after they had issues uploading to steam

 

[Squidward]

I really want this game now that it's out.