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Its entirely possible that Ori & No Rest for the Wicked developer Moon Studios "might not be around anymore in a couple months" if user reviews for No Rest for the Wicked don't improve. Thats according to studio founder Thomas Mahler, who says the game gets unfairly review bombed on Steam.
  • Suppoze@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    How recent is this? The reviews seem to be really good, 75% recommend as of now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1371980/No_Rest_for_the_Wicked/

    But more importantly, it’s early access. Wouldn’t you expect some healthy criticism in the reviews for an unfinished product? I’d even say 75% is exceptionally good for an EA game.

    Or, has the plea for positive reviews already worked? In that case, that would be even closer to review bombing, because you earned those positive reviews by mass appealing to guilt/pity…

  • Maki@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    Unfortunate. Big corporate studios ship unfinished nonsense all the time, for some reason to rave reviews, but indies don’t get the same leniency.

  • Zanathos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    That’s really unfortunate as I bought NRftW at EA launch and love the game. Any EA takes time and they really are putting a lot into it.

    They recently launched a ginormous patch that basically revamped a lot of the combat and performance issues in the game, requiring a new character be made. I was upset when I first heard the news, but after reading the gigantic patch notes released it makes total sense why my old character just won’t work anymore. It’s still playable in a different version too, they didn’t out right delete the character.

    I don’t think multiplayer is available yet which may be a huge gripe for everyone as they said at launch it was their next main objective, but the game plays really well as a single player.

    The only complaint I may have is that loading times are abysmal, but I play primarily on Steam Deck and have to say the latest patch has addressed many performance issues outside of load times that it suffered from on previously. Lots of love going into the game and I suppose it’s time for me to post this on Steam for their support!

  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    111·
    2 days ago

    Well, the more articulated reviews I read on Steam talk about serious issues on several aspects of the game, even if they are exagerating, the issues they talk about are those that would make me not buy it.

    Really sorry for the studio if they end up closing but sadly, we live in an oversaturated market in which, if you are part of a big corpo, it’s always a make or break situation with every single game. Sad state of affairs we are in.