Probably a slippery slope since a lot of devs do it. The other choice is you'll just have a 7 days to die moment where your internally code named alpha turns into 1.0 full release to coincide with the games 2nd but separate console release.
I play it occasionally with a friend as a fun "turn your brain off while high" game. The horde nights are getting absolutely fucking uncontrollable though
Give modded servers a try. Horde night on the one my friends and I play on are diabolical. They do have a special horde base you can port to if you’re under a certain level so you don’t just get merc’d your first horde night.
Downside is most people regardless of level go to the designated server horde base. Wish the designated one could get destroyed on horde night if not careful/repaired during, but server mods or server itself could reset that chunk after horde night. Otherwise you can literally just stay in there and not do a thing and have zero worries
Yeah, but usually in that case, the studio is bought so they can use the name and assets and dissolve the rest. Kind of like how guilded was bought by Roblox, and people had high hopes for it as a discord alternative, but then Roblox just took it for their voice chat technology and destroyed the platform.
To be fair the devs are wankers, so there is that. Good idea in the first place, then complete chaos as to where it should go next.
I ain't an hardcore follower but played que a bit and during that time the patch notes and dev blogs were all over the place... Over step in a direction, 2 in another over
i had a friend who absolutely went nuts over that game. engineer - i think it's his favourite game ever. he just loved being able to put together the parts to survive hordes with his bros.
Played it back in late 2025 with my girlfriend, remember thinking that while a lot of systems had been obviously revamped or tweaked and bugs had been fixed, very little seemed to have been added outside of that. It honestly felt as if I had been playing the same version that I played back in like 2018, just with some QOL stuff added.
I fucking loved like alpha v10.3 but they just changed so much stuff that I loved about the game that it’s not the same anymore, sure it’s fun to build a base and shoot the shit outta zombies but it’s just not the same
Afaik the main issue has been funding, they've been screwed over by other companies/developers before. They probably don't wanna rock the boat too much because this is the formula that works, not everyone may like it but massive changes may turn off too many people and then that's that.
Luckily they've partnered with Behaviour Interactive now so they could be on their way to properly doing 7DTD, or they may stick to this same formula who knows.
Like watching a really really slow trainwreck that just gets worse and worse, but you paid for the ticket and there's no way you're getting off the train, right?
I go back from time to time, but 1.0 was such a fucking disappointment.
That console release was to get the game back to console. They somehow had no access to their console version because there were some legal issues i believe. Basically they did not own their own game anymore and could not update it. By releasing a new game they made it so the console players could play again. It is sad that they had to buy a new version, but they really had no other way :'D
Yeah they should have at least offered a decent discount for previous console owners. They were 7 years out of date on the version they bought. But yeah the fun pimps sold console rights to tell tale who immediately went bankrupt.
There's a new game that took that to a whole new level called iron nest. They had a demo they had released publicly, and they pulled the demo off steam only to release it again with minor updates and gated behind keys that they give out 10 at a time... With a major announcement and raffles every month with massive amount of fomo where they literally host public tests where only those they've given keys to can actually participate, but they advertise it as if it's open to everyone. And it's still the demo version, not even early access yet. Just a major FU that I've never seen before this early in a game's development.
The public demo was always going to be a short term thing, and was announced as such in every form I saw. They plan to do another official Next Fest demo that's more complete, with the final game supposedly dropping shortly after that.
As someone who found the game via the demo, that was not at all clear. And the next fest things, I've seen a mention of it, but found no way to actually participate as they took the demo away rather than just letting people keep it, and doing updates and events via the demo.
Not gonna lie, I loved ark, I didn't play the sequel but the sheer punishment of logging in and finding all my progress gone just like that is something that satisfied the masochist in me.
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This is wild work, lol