Extreme Dissapointment with the DRM-free release

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Rather than arguing the merits of DRM-free and Steam’s purpose in life I’m just going to say that you clearly have no understanding of the development process and how long it actually takes to develop a game.

5+ years to make a game is to be expected when the game has the same scope as commercial releases but is only made by a fraction of the staff.

Crate is not a massive company pushing out blockbusters with their 200+ staff. They are very small by comparison, having less than a dozen members, and less than a handful of these are the designated programmers.

People get spoiled by the release schedules of commercial titles and are ignorant to the workings of the industry. Too many demand far too much of Early Access titles, forgetting that big companies like Blizzard or Ubisoft have a veritable fuckload of staff (and funds) to pool from. They don’t have but 4 programmers, they have much more.

It’s one thing to expect so much from developers worth literally billions but to generalize and expect the same thing of everyone is neither fair, reasonable, or at all practical.

Actually, I hate Ubi and Activision and the like and rarely buy AAA titles since they’re usually utter dross. I received a message from medierra that clarified things further, and I feel much more confident in the game now. Communication is key sometimes, say Crate had come out two weeks ago with the news of the delay, it wouldn’t have been nearly as jarring. That he was willing to respond personally says a lot and I greatly appreciate it.