A year and a half for this instead of Bandits and story?

[boban]

26 minutes ago, hotpoon said:

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I think the game has gone downhill since A15.

 

It's probably unpopular among general player base and newer players. Among older players I've seen this sentiment expressed very often.

 

28 minutes ago, hotpoon said:

The other day, I fired up the A15 alpha and it was thrilling.

 

I started at A16 and that alpha was the best for me, everything further down the line feels like step backwards (aside from improving graphics and some quality of life changes). I also fired it up a few days ago and it was janky in some ways, but super fun compared to new alpha. But now I'll have to fire up A15 and see how that felt!

[Lasher]

1 hour ago, boban said:

 

A few years ago I would say that being victims of early success made that no market pressure works on them (which is both good and bad). But also, they sold 14M copies. So this strategy (whatever it is) clearly works for them.

 

Indeed - could very well be a large part of the problem.