Look at the shrinking playerbase. A collapsing playerbase who likely won't return. Speaking only for myself, I haven't played the game in many weeks and I am sure that is true for lots of others too. Due to the many broken promises by the developers and unmet/broken promises for features therein, it's inevitable that people will get bored with a broken game.
The problem is, the game isn't "good enough for release" (and frankly wasn't when it was shoved out the door to as you say make quarterly profits.) CS2 was a cashgrab.
I am hopeful that starts happening on Monday. Because I agree, they need to come clean and set some expectations and preserve the goodwill that remains of the player base. I'm willing to give them time to get this right. But I feel that in return we are owed some real information about the state of the game and the plans going forward, and it would be great if they engaged with the community more. I know discussions here can get heated and I hope they aren't staying away for that reason, I would just say I think the mods do a good job of keeping that element at bay. All that said, the outrage comes from a real place and we should get something for that.
I think it's you who are not understanding. I also work as a Software Engineer at one of the largest and most profitable IT companies on the planet. I can confirm that pretty much nothing gets done in terms of development from the beginning of December to mid January. And what does get done is not released for customer use during this period. Unless there is some emergency that is losing an important customer millions of dollars an hour, no one is going to bother anyone in Engineering for customer facing problems during this time. Even then, many issues can be dealt with by front-line and second-line customer service. This isn't just an informal agreement either. Many processes are setup to support this work pattern. E.g., it is expressly forbidden to have any sort of customer-facing release for most of December specifically to mitigate the risk that there will be a regression that causes an emergency that would need Engineering support to solve during a time that pretty much every team will be at half (or worse) staff.
Games are totally different to software though. I did 10 years as a software developer at a global accounting mega-corp (#5 accounting group in the world). Yes, it's true Dec-Jan was basically "clean up, clean out, clean in". But now I've been 5 years as a game developer. Since December 1, our game has received 3 updates to the Test branch, 2 patches to the Main public version, and we released a new DLC last Thursday. And this is for a game that is in a great position, stable, and selling well. As a company, we care about our players. Not so sure some game development companies do though.
Personally, I am so disgusted with how I've been treated through this release and consequent time period after, that I actually hope this causes financial issues for the two firms. There are clear lies (some call it marketing) told to us to make us pre-order, then more lies (again, some call it marketing) to make us hold on for what was promised until after refund periods expired.
Jesus the way some of you act up and argue in here makes it sound like you just spent thousands of dollars on a car without tires... while working for the top companies in the world
I know this topic here is aggrevating and evokes lots of emotions, but maybe you can get down to our little planet again and just... move on? If people would be engaged with that much passion (if that is even the right word here) on the true challenges of our society, boy would that be an amazing planet to live on!
I realise my comment above contains quite some emotion. However I would like to point out that I am feeling quite at the end of a long journey of disappointments and feelings of being "used" by not just Paradox and its umbrella of companies, but a number of game developers/publishers. The last few years have been (for me at least) a string of disappointing games, cash grab failures, and lots of BS'ing styled as marketing. Take Paradox as one example here (but they are definitely not the only). Most of their recent games have been plagued with launch issues, failures to address major problems in patches, and in one instance the complete dumping of not just the game, but the entire studio and all its staff.Jesus the way some of you act up and argue in here makes it sound like you just spent thousands of dollars on a car without tires... while working for the top companies in the world
I know this topic here is aggrevating and evokes lots of emotions, but maybe you can get down to our little planet again and just... move on? If people would be engaged with that much passion (if that is even the right word here) on the true challenges of our society, boy would that be an amazing planet to live on!
Hmmm, why? I mean I will return even in 10 years if it takes them 10 years to fix and polish everything. Why would anyone think differenty? Not returning just because of a bad start? Is this some ideological or philosophical or political or moral revenge or resistance...? No, I don't think such stubborn resistance is common.
So much angst there, bro. When modding finally shows up the game will change completely, and finally be able to take over from CS1 in every way.
I think they were literally talking about the garbage system, ie the system that manages garbage.
You were fooled with the game from the start and still believe in Santa Claus.
I'm one of those who didn't let myself be influenced by the pre-order hype, but I would buy the game 99.9% of the time if all the nice promises from the Dev Diaries were to become reality one day... which I now have strong doubts about. When I already see how the editor is being scaled back again....
