Sorry for this sudden post, but there seems to be a rising concern of the Space Engineers community. Some say that since planets have been released, the updates have been less interesting.
And that’s just the half of it. There’s also signs that the devs are getting lazy and ‘letting the modders go nuts’ in providing content for people.
I sadly agree with both arguments. Instead of doing bug fixing (and I heard Multiplayer is a mess right now), they are truly releasing stupid updates. Such as the one before the last one; adding Cyberdogs to the Earth-like planet.. aka Creepers(but these don’t explode). Why even bother adding more headaches to players, when they should be releasing fixes(especially optimization)? Plus, they seem to be ignoring their community on the main forum now (not Steam, their main Keen Software House forum).
Are these guys going in the same direction as Blizzard? No. Not even close to how far down that company has gone down the shitter(and taking their successful franchise with it). They seem to be getting lazy and ‘handing’ the game over to the modders. Every update video, they showcase the work of modders before they showcase the fixes of their own game. Of course by doing this, it shows the devs care about their modding community.
See what I just said there? It shows the devs are caring for their modding community…, instead of the rest of the community.
Does this mean that Space Engineers is dead? Hell no… unless the devs suddenly stop with their Thursday updates and/or the community gets to the point where they’re fed up and start to boycott the game.
What’s worse, some modders are starting to get frustrated having to make so much content. Keen I dearly hope will someday realize that they can’t ‘depend’ on the modders to provide content that they can’t do which players want in their game. Yet they won’t even work with most of these modders, even hire them, to create content for the game.
Some feel if Keen loves their modding community so much, why don’t they incorporate some of their mods into the game (so players that dislike having to have modded stuff in their game, will be able to enjoy them). Bethesda is an example of a company that NEEDS to do this. Because, no one plays Skyrim in vanilla. 😛
Anyway, maybe this is just a phase, like the free-falling stock market lately, and Keen will push for some actual fixes by next Thursday. Can only hope, anyway. At least, address the concerns of the community to reassure them that they’re making this for them; not for a profit.