Why does it feel gamedevs actively hate their playerbase and frequently push updates that make the game objectively worse and less fun?
Sounds like you play shitty games? None of the games I follow get worse with updates. Get taste.
because gamers are scum!
>>735003912gamers are whiny bitches
"I will transition at the ripe young age of 34" lookin ahh profile pic
>>735003912rape alexus with a heated up aluminum pipe
>>735003912Because you're having fun wrong. Stop it.
>red nose artstyle My troondar is beeping
>>735003912swedish mindset
is this a helldivers dev
>>735003912You are autistic and lack a functional theory of mind and thus make leaps in your assumptions about other peoples' intent.
>>735004793This. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
>>735004773He was the head of balance, but was removed from that position after nearly killing the game. He's now just the galactic war's DM.
>>735003912because the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and there's no wheels squeakier than sweaty tourneyfags or the pve equivalent
>>735005056i thought that was joel's job? what's he doing now?
>>735005173Ah shit, got Joel and Alexus merged. Joel is still the DM, Alexus is still on the balance team, just not in change and they try to keep him away from the players when possible.
>>735004793The irony
>>735003912Name 5 games
>>735005383Helldivers IIDark and Darker Path of Exile 1 and 2Battlefield 2042Dota 2Last Epoch Battlebite Remastered
>>735005584What did Last Epoch do?
>>735005319>almost kill a lightning in the bottle game with shit balancing while being in charge of balancing>still get to stay anywhere near balancing afterwardsI bet there's some convoluted swegroid employment laws causing this, there's no other explanation.
>>735003912Past couple weeks have been very eye-opening because their CM and devs literally cannot shut the fuck up like pic related retard that was forced to apologize after spamming "git gud" and "skill issue" posts. Turns out most of the content was just outsourced, including warbonds.
>>735003912because they do and they don't play their own games
>>735003912QRD? who's this tumblr looking fag
>>735006412That's the thing.They don't actually know or understand what made their game popular so now they are sitting there trying to figure out how to stop people from leaving (life service GaaS needs forever play retention, remember) and they are also too smug to try to understand what the unwashed masses are screeching about in addition to not being players of their own game.In their minds, anything that worked around difficulty 6 during their short test playing sessions is fine and everyone else is just being overly dramatic
>>735003912Depends on the dev and their motives, I guess.Hates the playerbase:>can't take criticism and views all negativity as actual no-joke personal attacks>laser focuses on the 3 people irrationally angry instead of the 99999 people sucking their dick>is on HRT and it's fucking up their emotions>is on social media too much and they're constantly mad because TDS, so they take it out on their playerbase, like permabanning anyone not 100000% left-wing>didn't make the billions they expected for their Balatro clone>someone put a sad emoji on their post about Kirk getting shotBad updates:>only takes feedback from an intentionally limited group of testers, like people with a Patreon sub, yes men simps, hyper-sweaty guilds, or their IRL friends>they view criticism as toxic, even if the critiques are legit>dev's running out of money and rushes the update out>dev crashed out and sabotaged it on purpose>the game's one of those "I just downloaded [engine], time to make my dream game despite no prior experience!" games and now they're drowning in spaghetti and new updates break shit>some diversity hire or a friend of the boss got hired and they suck>dev's getting feedback from some braindead focus group, or just a bunch of 3 IQ noobs that don't know what they're doing>dev got a new publisher who wants to change everything or add MTX
>>735007939Don't be rude, he has a disability (being swedish)
>>735005383Blanking on five, but I got one (1) big one.Dauntless.Picture this: company bought out the devs and there's a HUGE update coming for your little free Monster Hunter clone.The previous overhaul sucked, but this one's supposed to be great.You update and ALL of your equipment is gone, the game starts the tutorial. Wiped. You think it's a glitch, but it's not.All you have are like 3 weapons and one set of armor, even 99% of your MTX purchases are all gone.All weapons now have specific builds locked to them, you like high-DPS, high-mobility builds? Your favorite sword's now only for a specific kind of tank and the only weapon that complements your build is a spear, but you hate spears.All your socketables for your equipment? Gone, replaced with hundreds of "loot boxes" so now you have to beg RNGesus and hope you get your shit back. You don't get your shit back, you end up with thousands of the shit you don't like. You only got one of your favorite socketable passive instead of the full set you had before because it's considered "rare" now. Testing a quick build under the new system, you don't like the armor you picked, so you unsocket it and it's just gone, single use now. There's no way to get more of it, just luck, "loot boxes".You ask the devs what's going on, but they're too busy spinning all of this like a good thing. They keep saying to finish the main story (that you did already) to unlock the rest of your equipment.You finish and end up with a total of like 3 weapons per weapon class. (Imagine playing MH and there's ONLY 3 lances in the whole game, that's it, not even one weapon per element.)Again you think there's a glitch or something, but no, the other 95% of the weapons in the game are behind the cash shop (or about 60 days of grinding per weapon.)You pony up the money for a weapon you think you might like, but oops, the build locked into it is one you don't care for, and you don't like its special move. No refunds.
>>735008396How the fuck did they think they could get away with it
>>735004793It does happen sometimes. I've repeatedly seen multiple devs across various games basically just call everyone an asshole who dares to have a negative opinion of something about the game. I could list a bunch of reasons why it might happen but there are absolutely game devs who become vindictive.
>community is made up of egotistical children who want the game to be easier>devs are lazy and retarded, game breaking bugs still not fixed after TWO FUCKING YEARS>any pushback from the players will get pacified by low effort buff patch that will make the game even more boringThis game is hopeless and you should stop playing it
>>735004664Doesn't steel retain heat better?
>>735004873If a retard with a gun almost blows your head off, do you hand him the gun again? What, then, is the difference between malice and stupidity? Honestly, it's better to assume malice than to risk getting your head blown off.
>>735008829>I've repeatedly seen multiple devs across various games basically just call everyone an asshole who dares to have a negative opinion of something about the game.My favorites are the frogs behind Wargame, especially that one autistic fuck madmatt. At one point they got offended by community pointing out wrong details on their unit models and they said they will ignore such feedback from that point, lmao.
>>735008396 (me)>>735008810Also:>monster parts aren't used for crafting anymore like in MH, you just trade them in for "points" to upgrade your shit so you can just fight whatever and just grind easy monsters>having to redo the ""story"" sucks and killed off like 90% of the returning players alone because it's basically a long unskippable tutorial>compensation for losing all our shit was so bad they had to eventually add more rewards to make up for it and it was still shit>added a shitload more of those "socketables", meaning trying to RNG the shit you WANT is even harder>loadouts still share all the socketables and weapon customization, meaning any equipment shared between two different loadouts will need to have a "generic" build on them so it works in both, or break your socketables and replace them manually if you want to change loadouts>almost all the free shit you used to get is gone>the entire neutral element is completely gone, heavily limiting build flexibility and eliminating all-rounder builds>the neutral element being gone also meant they had to lazily change neutral monsters into having an element>before the buyout, the battle pass(es) had free shit to get too, but after the buyout, more battle passes were made, they gave out less shit, and basically gave out almost nothing for the free tracks>devs are clearly acting like they've got a gun to their heads because they absolutely wont say anything negative about the update, and constantly spun it as good somehow>the actual coding team for the game was the first to get fired, leaving behind some interns at best>100% sure the devs didn't even keep a backup of the old version, they just YOLO'd the update, probably forced to, too>they added the ability to hotswap between two weapons mid-combat, but the way builds work now and how much the element shit was made more important means you have to have both weapons be the same element and probably the same build, making it redundant
>>735007102>give the cucked Swedes a lil bit of power>they start being complete shitheads to make up for being so utterly cucked
>>735007102I don't play what that game is, but context clues make me happy to imagine that faggot getting bitch slapped by his bosses.
>>735003912All liberals/progressives (any gays) live in a constructed reality where they're still fighting Hitlet by attacking straight white males or the ghosts of them in every form and manifestation
>>735009840Helldivers 2Recently people found out most of their shit was outsourced so the devs actually really have no idea about their game. There's even a photo of the former CEO wiping to Medium(3rd lowest difficulty in the game).
